Juice - April 20th breakfast

I had planned on having another apple and spinach juice this morning but ate my one remaining apple last night. All I had in the fridge was a load spinach, a cucumber and a carrot. Not the most appetising but I wanted to have my morning juice.

Ingredients:

1 carrot
1 cucumber
9 stalks spinach

This produced a reasonable amount of juice. The juice was quite light but the taste wasn't all that great. Not bad, but making juice with spinach without something sweet like an apple is a little too extreme for me at the moment.

I'm all for green goodness but want to really enjoy the taste of the juices I make too.

Juice - April 18th breakfast

Still feeling sketchy when I woke up I knew that making juice was the order of the day. I found a host of vegetables from my week's juicing that needed eaten, or drunk, soon. This juice is all about using up all the vegetables loosing their freshness in my fridge.

I wasn't overly concerned with the taste of the juice I was to make. Rather I wanted to make juice full of a variety of vegetable goodness and have a lot of juice to drink.

Ingredients:
1/8 cabbage
1/4 lettuce
1 cucumber
6 stalks spinach
1 lemon

Making juice with the above ingredients produced about a pint of juice. Some of this was the water that I had rinsed the lettuce and cabbage with for sure.

The taste was okay. Quite watery with a bit, but not too much, lemon tang.

Drinking juice to cure a hangover does, in my experience, work!

Juice - April 14th breakfast

For breakfast this morning I wanted to get through some of the green vegetables that I bought over the weekend. Making juice from fresh vegetables is optimum and I think I slightly over bought on Saturday.

Ingredients:

6 stalks spinach
1/8 cabbage
1/4 lettuce
1 cucumber
1 stalk parsley
twist of lemon

This drink was similar to water in consistency and had a dark green colour. Taste-wise it wasn't bad but at the same time not great. As green juices go though it was easy to drink.

Juice - April 11th evening

I had a roll with rasins and cranberries and a vegetable juice drink for my dinner. Is it really enough calories? Not too sure. The juice I made was surprisingly nice considering the ingredients. It's the first time I've ever juiced cabbage!

Ingredients:

1/4 cabbage
1 cucumber
1/2 apple
1 stalk parsley

These ingredients produced a surprising amount of liquid. This may have been the result of water being retained by the cabbage when I rinsed it. The juice was sweet (apple) and had a bit of a tang (cabbage). I enjoyed drinking this juice and think it will be interesting to see what other juices I can make that include cabbage.

EDIT: It wasn't enough for dinner! I ended up having some chicken and eggs...

Juice - April 10th evening

Fresh from my sucessful juice making in the morning I wanted to try something a bit more hardcore. I wanted green vegetable goodness.

Ingredients:
1 cucumber (20 cm)
half stalk (inc leaves) celery
15 stalks komatsuma
1 stalk parsley

This vegetable juice was such a dark green it was almost black. It smelt a bit like freshly cut grass. I feared the worst!

Surprisingly it was easy to drink. It actually tasted quite watery which I assume was due to the cucumber and celery. It also seemed very mildly astringent.

About half an hour after drinking the vegetable juice I began to feel euphoric, almost like I was high on veg!

Is it possible to get addicted to making juice?