To buy a fruit n veg juicer on my credit card for £320

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It's the best one as far as I can tell and I know we will use it a lot, I really want to kick start my health plan.
AIBU though? Has anyone got any experience of good ones that don't cost the earth?

and can juice ginger, whole lemons etc?

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buy a big pot and make your veggies into soups. fat free, low in calories and keep the skins on (even tomatos) and it is really good for you. save the £320 to buy fab new clothes/underwear when you reach your target weight. the only thing losing weight if you buy this will be your purse.

you can get a perfectly good one for £30 in Argos, does the same job.

We use a handheld blender that cost about 25 quid to make fruit smoothies at the weekend. It's a great way of using up fruit that is getting a bit old.

Nooooooo. Get a Waring Juice Pro for about £250. They last for donkeys (the cheaper plasticy ones break if you are doing veg too) and keep working very well (again, the cheaper ones yield less and less juice over their working lives until you are juicing a bag of apples for a drip of juice). I've had mine for about ten tears now, constant hard use!

I bought a juicer for under £20 from Argos about 18 months ago, it works fine and I use it all the time. Round my area there're plenty of 'pound a bowl' markets selling cheap fruit which is often on the turn/low quality but great for juicing.

A real PITA to clean though.

I think it depends what you juice. We do lots of hard veg, but it's very easy to clean.

My juicer was about £50 (which I thought was a lot). We use it all the time - celery and carrots included) and it's fine. A faff to clean though. You don't need to spend that much - particularly on a credit card.

We killed about three cheaper ones. Including the Anthony Warrell doodah one. I do carrots and Beetroot!

For £320 you can buy a lot of innocent smoothies without a whole load of hassle!

Don't do it - juicers are interesting for about 5 minutes, until you realise it takes a week's worth of fruit and veg shopping to make one glass of juice, and the bin is so full of pulp it is breeding fruit flies.

Only buy one if you have an excess of garden produce to use up every year, a compost bin for the waste, and a very can do attitude to cleaning.

I've got a really old version of one of these

does the job!

my rule is I MUST CLEAN THE JUICER BEFORE DRINKING THE JUICE!!

That is a huge amount of money, imho. I do have a juicer, it is about 15 years old and gets used ... hardly ever . I think I have used it twice in 10 years!!!

It is a nice piece of kitchen equipment to have (if you have the space etc) but they are not essential. If you are trying to be healthy then you should eat the whole fruit and veggies and not juice them. Juice causes a spike in bloody sugar and raised insulin production. Juicing fruit and veg removes most/all of the fibre and what you are left with is the fructose-laden liqiud.

Also, as noinspiration says, they take whole load of fruit to make a little juice. Not cost effective to use at all.

Oh yes, hiphop has just reminded me ... they can be a pain to clean ...

I know someone who juices all the time and loves it.
But you need to figure out if you actually will.
Why don't you spend some money buying veggie juices for a few weeks. If you drink them every day, incorporate them into your diet and generally feel fab then buy a juicer.
If after two weeks you are bored, don't.

We use ours almost every day. All of us drink the fruit and veg juice and we geta lot of juice out of it. It gets to be a havit and because I have my morning vits, I can eat chocolate and crisps all dayB

We've been juicing almost every day for 2 1/2 years polishes halo so it has very much become a habit which I miss if I go without. We use mainly veg: cucumber, celery, spinach, courgettes, carrots, kale, etc., in fact anything that's lying around, and then blitz it in a blender with avocado. Adding some apple or pineapple sweetens it making it really tasty, honestly! It is a great way of getting a very concentrated amount of fresh vitamins and enzymes into the body which would be difficult to do by eating the same quantity of veg whole and is so much better and cheaper than anything you can buy in the shops which is pastuerized rubbish anyway.

However, I wouldn't recommend spending that amount on a juicer until you are sure you will use it regularly as there are loads of good cheaper ones available. We use one by philips costing about £100 which is fine and quite easy to clean.

My friend got a super dooper juicer and tbh it was pathetic was a piddly wee bit of juice in a glass i did laugh when she made me some , save you money and blitz the fruit i assume you have a blender or food processor does the same job , YABU to put in on a credit card

I've got a Jack Lalanne power juicer, it cost £150 five years ago, its good, but the novelty wore off after a month, have a look on eBay, I would bet they're about 35p now

I bought a great Magimix juicer for about £100 a few years ago which I used religiously for about a month until I was sick of the hassle of washing it out. It's now collecting dust at the back of my cupboard and will be on eBay soon.

I use my cheap liquidiser to make smoothies, which imo are much nicer than juice and the kids love the smoothies.

£320 is a ridiculous amount to pay for a juicer and I suspect you just want one that looks great on your worksurface.

ILoveApples Thanks I borrowed a green power juicer from a friend a few months ago and have never felt more healthy in my life but when it came to giving it back I was actually craving my celery and carrot juices!
Ive just bought one today for 100 quid it's a Phillips like yours and it's actually better than the £320 green power so Im feeling very happy after my celery carrot apple and ginger juice Thanks everyone!

Buy yourself a gym membership instead. Far more effective.

Thats the next step

We had a juicer years ago - we used it about a hundred times in the first couple of weeks, juiced everything we could think of, it was great.

Then the novelty wore off. It ended up going a bit icky and mouldy because the damn things are so difficult to clean! We don't have a juicer anymore.

Good luck