So you want to join us and do the Juice/Smoothie Challenge but you're a bit apprehensive because you don't have a juicer? Well this is for you! I always post my juice/smoothie recipes with 2 explicit ways to make your juice. One way, through the juicer (obviously)...The second way through the Vitamix! That's right you can make juice through your Vitamix! Now...before I get started telling you how to do this...let me just say, if you don't have or can't afford a Vitamix or any high powered-industrial kitchen blender...don't fret! You can use any blender, it just might take a little longer to blend everything up.
Here's what you need:
- Nut Milk Bag or Paint Strainer Bag
- Big Bowl
- Blender
- and of course the ingredients to whatever juice you're making
TIPS:
(a) A nut milk bag and a paint strainer bag both work the same. However, the paint strainer
bag is less expensive. I bought 4 from Ace Hardware for $2.99. I think
the average nut milk bag is about $10.00 or so.
(b) Wash them and reuse them.
Here's the steps for making juice in your blender...
(1) Put your ingredients in the blender. Tip: Always add at least 1 cup of water.
Here's the steps for making juice in your blender...
(1) Put your ingredients in the blender. Tip: Always add at least 1 cup of water.
(2) Blend like crazy until everything is emulsified...kind of smoothie(ish).
(3)Wrap the elastic top of the paint strainer bag around the top of the blender.
(4) Pour the blended mixture, with the bag on top of the blender, in the bag-inside of the bowl.
(5) Take the bag with the smoothie remains and milk it like you would a cow. Sounds silly, but its the best way to describe it. I usually twist the top of the bag real tight so no pulp leaks out...then I get to squishing the bag until there's nothing left to squish.
And Voila! You now have juice! Pour it into your glass or containers to drink throughout the day. It's much simpler when you actually do it. When I first discovered how to do this, I stopped using my juicer because it was less clean up and much faster doing it this way.
TIP: Put your pulp in a freezer baggie and throw it in the freezer and make crackers, cakes, cookies, veggie burgers, etc from it.
Just in case you need a visual of what I explained above. I found a video that someone did that shows you how to do exactly what I've been saying for all these months...hope this helps.
And Voila! You now have juice! Pour it into your glass or containers to drink throughout the day. It's much simpler when you actually do it. When I first discovered how to do this, I stopped using my juicer because it was less clean up and much faster doing it this way.
TIP: Put your pulp in a freezer baggie and throw it in the freezer and make crackers, cakes, cookies, veggie burgers, etc from it.
Just in case you need a visual of what I explained above. I found a video that someone did that shows you how to do exactly what I've been saying for all these months...hope this helps.
Please Note: Veg Vivaciously is not affiliated in anyway with the person in the video and do not have rights to this video in any way.
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