I have a champion juicer and it’s a pretty cool piece of machinery. The key is to experiment and you will find something you like. Yes, while you will lose some of the fiber from juicing, you will get some of it from the pulp. Juicing is a great, easy, and time saving way to get your veggies and fruits in. The champion and even the Jack Lalane one are easy to clean up. Yes, you will have to quarter your apples and such (the Jack Lalane one you don’t) but it’s a small price to pay for the benefits of vegetables.
Somethings that go great together are carrot, apple, and orange
carrot, apple, ginger
celery, lime, apple, ginger
carrot, parsley, lime
etc etc etc
There are also a lot of good books out there on different juicing recipies and ideas.
You would also benefit from a whole greens mix or whole food multi-vitamin that contains things such as wheat grass, spirulina, bee pollen, etc
You might take a minute or two and visit your local health food store where the staff is usually educated on the products and can get you what you need.
Don’t forget to stop by the juice bar and get a shot of wheat grass.
I always feel good when I eat a lb bag of mixed vegetables. It comes in around 50 g of carbs, and is pretty yummy and easy to make to boot. I just microwave them till they are hot and add salt and pepper. If I want to, I add some kind of fat topping (butter, evoo, hollandaise, cheese), but I don’t do that very often.
I think your first step is to carefully read the posts on this thread, since you obviously missed my short list of veggie/fruit properties that ANIMAL products DO NOT contain.
Now, if you want to replace say the fiber in vegetables with a fiber supplement, that’s different. You didn’t specify that - you said all you needed was animal products. So, sure you could replace fiber, phytonutrients, vitamins and minerals, probiotics and enzymes with a multitude of supplments. But you said ONLY animal products were necessary to be healthy, which couldn’t be more wrong.
Again, you failed to give us any SPECIFIC examples to back your argument, so until then you are still full of it. We already have a nation of mostly meat/dairy eaters. Consequently we are the unhealthiest, most disease ridden nation on earth!
Just to be nice, I’ll wish you a Happy Holiday’s (if you aren’t Muslim or Hindu).
Top Sirloin wrote:
“you obviously missed my short list of veggie/fruit properties that ANIMAL products DO NOT contain.”
I asked a simple question, what makes them essential? I didn’t see anything in your list that can’t be replaced with fruits, oats, nuts , grains…
“But you said ONLY animal products were necessary to be healthy, which couldn’t be more wrong.”
Not so,I just said that vegetables aren’t necessary. Because you shouldn’t worry as much about vegetables as you should about quality meats and eggs(milk is just way too processed to be of any benefit). Then immediatly in the same post I said that the solution I use is that I buy the bag of mixed vegetables which lasts me for a couple of days.
I’m not against vegetables and I eat them just about every day. But vegetables are a small fraction, a supplemental food, not the main course. I didn’t say that one should only live on meat, eggs and rocks never eating anything plant-bourne. That’s not my point. It’s that eating a bowl of mixed veggies a day should be enough and that one needn’t worry about vegetables as say about quality protein, carbs and avoiding junk. It’s like with supplements. A supplement isn’t going to make you or break you. Before blaming your halted progress on TeraMax 3000, it would be wise to overlook training, diet and lifestyle - the 95% cause of your gains. And only then worry about the supplements.
“We already have a nation of mostly meat/dairy eaters. Consequently we are the unhealthiest, most disease ridden nation on earth!”
I would partially disagree. First of all America suffers way more due to processed foods that contain empty calories without much nutritional value. Just check out any packaged food. White flour, white shugar, pesticide, posteurisation, preservatives - they aren’t hurting us because they’re bad, but they are hurting us because there’s barely any nutrients in these foods. Then there’s the deep-fried trash. It’s not becasue we eat meat or drink milk, it’s because we’ve turned just about every good food into synthetic empty calories. Add to that the lack of education on the subject of the common folk and the completely wrong messages from the TV screen and you have a national dissaster.
“Just to be nice, I’ll wish you a Happy Holiday’s (if you aren’t Muslim or Hindu).”
How DARE YOU mention Muslims?? Ha-ha Just kidding, happy hollidays!
I used to not care for veggies, but I now eat a bag of fresh greens or a pound of frozen veggies almost everyday, usually both on weekends.
Here are my tips:
Be persistent and eat them anyway: They ARE very good for you and your brain/body should develop an appetite for them if you keep eating them. Spending 15 minutes eating fresh spinach was very strange at first, but now I enjoy eating fresh greens and start feeling like something is wrong if I don’t get any for a few days. Same principle as most people hating exercise, but those who decide to exercise anyway soon can’t stand not to.
Eat them as the first part of your meal. Veggies arne’t very appetizing if you’ve just eaten higher carb foods.
There’s nothing wrong with eating them with scrambeled eggs, butter, dressings, nut butters, whatever you can fit in your diet.
Finally, I bought a juicer because of the promises of convenience and not having to actually chew the vegetables. The preparation and cleaning involved was certainly not more convenient than just eating them in first place. I can’t keep vegetable juice down half the time anyway. Way too overpowering.
