My Proven System for Simple Juicing Hacks
Why create a simple system for simple juicing?
Incorporating healthy juices, particularly green juices, is a great way to get micronutrients into your diet, regain energy, and super-charge your health!
Jumping onto the juicing path…only to fall flat
After watching the documentary film, Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead by Joe Cross, I was inspired to juice my way to better health. The movie follows Joe, a charismatic Aussie chap, on a personal juice fast journey for 60 days. Joe loses over 80 lbs while regaining his health after years of suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, urticaria.
However…my all or nothing approach quickly landed me into trouble by Day 3 of an intended 30-day juice fast.
I should have known better. I make better progress with baby steps and an added element of fun to keep motivated.
My 30-Day Daily Green Juice Challenge Game
Keep it simple – 1 daily green juice a day, no other food changes necessary.
Make it motivating – figure out an easier system to actually succeed.
Infuse positivity – become a juicing hacker to help others.
I use Mean Green Juice by Joe Cross as my foundation recipe.
My recipe modification hacks:
Jul’s Keen Green Juice
- 2 apples instead of 4
- Keep 1/2 of peel on lemon
- 1 cucumber instead of 2
- Parsley (small bunch)
- Alfalfa sprouts (optional – half container)
- Carrots (optional 1 or 2)
- Romaine leaves (about 8)
- Coconut water (to top off juice for storing)
*I add to already finished juice:
- 1tbs chia seeds and/or hemp seeds (presoaked together in a bowl during the 10 mins of making the juice)
- 1tbs fresh ground flax seeds and/or 1 scoop of pea protein powder and/or 1 tbs hemp protein powder
*Start with a little of any of these ingredients to allow your digestive system time to adjust and drink plenty of water
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Jul’s’ Simple Juicing Hacks – Preparation
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- Prepare veggies ahead
- Fill sink with water to wash leafy greens.
- Use a salad spinner to spin dry, then layer between paper towels – air dry paper towels and reuse for next veggie prep another day.
- Use vegetable cleaner to wash lemons, apples and cucumbers.
- Store veggies in preserving Green Bags ready for juicing.
- Drink a fresh juice right away.
- Store two juices in the refrigerator in pint Mason jars topped off with coconut water – juice will keep for 48 hours losing little of it’s nutrients if airtight. Keep each jar in a brown lunch bag in fridge, reusing the bags for the next juices.
- Clean your juicer as you sip your juice through a straw.
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Make enough juice for three days – my biggest hack note
Disclaimer: I’m not a doctor nor trained in the health and wellness field. My ideas about organizing health are my own, and I’m simply sharing what’s worked for me, so consult your doctor before adopting any of my suggestions for better health.
I hope this post of simple juicing hacks helps you try or stick to juicing. Hey, do me a juicy favor and share my post by clicking my social media icons at the bottom! Leave me your comments of how you keep healthy without perfection or rigid rules.
Here’s to organizing your health!
Some great ideas. I have stopped juicing for some time due to travel, but I’m looking forward to getting back in and will bookmark your suggestions. Very helpful as always Jul’s!
So glad my post is helpful for you Reena! Happy Juicing!
Great tips! Cleaning greens as you go can be SO time consuming! Doing it all at once is a much better idea, as is just making one batch for a couple of servings (guilty!). Thanks Jul’s!
My pleasure! Love helping others to streamline with little systems, little hacks, so they keep on their path of a more calm yet energized life!
Great timing! I just started juicing and was surprised how much time it was taking me!
So glad I was able to help! Happy Juicing!
Jul’s, as always you deliver ridiculously clever tips that leave me wondering, “why didn’t I think of that?” I love juicing, or rather, I love drinking the juice from juicing, but the prep and clean-up often leave me putting it off. Your tips have changed this for me, thus paving the way for a healthier me! Thank you so much for imparting your wisdom, yet again!!
April, your juice hack happiness is my juice hack happiness! To your health!
Yes yes yes! I love these tips. I’ve been juicing for 15 years (well before it was “sexy”, lol) and too often I hear people complain about how hard it is to keep up with it, mostly because it’s hard to have a system they can follow. These tips are amazing. I’m going to share with my community now!
Yes! There has to be some ease or it’s too hard to keep up. Love that you’ve been juicing way before it was “hot”!
i love your idea of just adding the green juice – no other changes required! (i rarely take the all-or-nothing approach to anything.) i’ve been adding in green (or otherwise nutritious) smoothies about 3X per week. the smoothie and a few pieces of fruit become my lunch, and then i have a normal dinner. it’s healthy and it works for me! win-win.
Win-Win! Love it…what a great idea…a green and/or nutritious lunch smoothie. Yep, one baby step at a time seems to work for me as well because I can actually sustain it.
I love how you turned this challenge into a game Jul’s.
For me, that’s the best way to get me to stick to something, is to make it as easy and fun as possible and to make changes gradually.
it’s also great that you adapted the recipes so they really worked for you.
Happy juicing 🙂
Making it fun motivated me to stick with it!