Got to prove to my DH that I'll use the juicer I bought at the weekend - need recipes!!!

[Hopeitwontbebig]

Hi all, I bought myself a nice new juicer at the weekend, my DH is convinced that it'll end up in the back of a kitchen cupboard. I MUST PROVE HIM WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOOOOOOOOOO, does anyone have any good pregnancy safe recipes??

I made one at the weekend and just kept adding and adding, it ended up with:

Carrots
Apples
Oranges
A Lemon
Strawberries
Grapes

Was lovely, think I'd use just half a lemon next time though, was a bit tart!

[gscrym]

Get a piece of root ginger. Break off a little. Shove it in with 5 or 6 apples and a lemon. It makes a nice lemonadey/sherbert drink.

[bran]

Your dh is right - it will end up at the back of the cupboard.

In the meantime, I recommend mango and lime, it'll be a bit thick so you could thin it with come cooled green tea.

[betsycoe]

Mines at the back of the cupboard as I got fed up of cleaning the mesh!

Before this I loved apple with Orange pepper. Dispite how it sounds it tastes great.

[Pruni]

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[Lullabyloo]

juicers are fab...but a faff to clean...soak parts as soon as you've finished juicing!

carrot
apple
ginger


pear
apple
strawberries

carrot
celery
cucumber
mint

pineapple

[JackieNo]

Absolutely - second both the Nigel Slater book and running a sink full of hot soapy water before you start, into which you fling the whole thing (well, all the washable bits) as soon as you've finished - even if you don't actually wash them until you've drunk the juice. Don't leave it to dry out AT ALL, as it makes it much more difficult to clean.

[Hopeitwontbebig]

Thanks for the cleaning tips. I have to say I did leave it an hour or so before sticking it in the dishwasher, then only turned on an hour or so later. My DH showed me the mesh in the morning and said, this is why it'll end up in the back of the cupboard!!!!!! It was covered in mush still!!!!

Right straight in the sink next time.

Great ideas for recipes, thanks

x x

[3andnomore]

Lol,
I started a thread yesterday, too, about juicing....as I also have just bought a juicer (well, haven't got it yet)...I bought the Jack Lalanne Power Juicer Express, as it had really good reviews, and it does say it's easy to clean, lol...however, I do realise this is probably NOT true.
I have read somewhere to just rinse it off straightaway, but I suppose soaking the lot straightaway will have the same effect, right!
I also bought a Jason Vale book with Juice recipes (the fast food one), althought, there is one in with the Juicer anyway.
I also looked around for websites with info and recipes, and tehre are a fair few out there. These are the ones I added to my favourites for future reference

get juicing.com
fruit-juicer recipes
best juicers recipes
Juicemaster recipes
Juicemaster wright stuff recipes
everything kitchen juicer recipes
happy juicer
the bodymindandsoul site
juiceland

[albertson]

Just be warned and calm down on juices when baby arrives if you bf, we juiced crazily during my pregnancy and it kept me very healthy but my dd had appalling colic which stopped miraculously when I stopped the juices

[Hopeitwontbebig]

thanks for the warning albertson!!