Location, Location, Location

Putting your juicer in a place that is easy to get to, especially close to your kitchen sink, is important. I've had to move my juicer temporarily to an inconvenient location in my kitchen, and have actually been juicing less because it's not as easy and quick as having everything in the perfect spot. I'm really busy, so having the cutting board and prep on one side of the sink, with the juicer on the other, and easy clean-up right there, is essential.

One could argue that being really serious about juicing means making it work regardless of environmental circumstances, but the reality is that it's just easier and more likely to happen when all of the variables are ideal.

The cold-buster

I hate being sick. Almost as much as I hate being sick, I hate it when people tell me to drink orange juice. Orange juice usually makes me feel worse, and it doesn't even have that much vitamin C in it — just a lot of sugar.

I made a typical combination juice with beet, red bell pepper, carrot and apple and a couple other things, but added twice as much ginger root and lemon as I normally would. Lemons are a decent source of vitamin C, and ginger root is a natural antiseptic: perfect for my throat after my sinuses/drained down it all night long.



This combination has approximately 494% of the recommended daily amount of vitamin C. Way more than a glass of orange juice. It's also readily absorbed and put to use by the body and therefore better than a vitamin C supplement, in my opinion.