Don't eat fruit at all so I figured I had best do something about it before I start looking like I work in Macdonald's, always been healthy minded weary of the crap they put in food and so on but never took it seriously so I got myself a Juicer. The things are amazing have been throwing all sorts at it, stuff I wouldn't normally go near something about eating fruit just puts me off but when its all squashed and grinded down in a machine until its completely unrecognizable its not so bad.

Anyway, was wondering if anyone else had a Juicer or Smoothie maker and had some recipes they wouldn't mind sharing, so far I've been copying the supermarket ones... never tastes the same, its all about proportions too much of one or the other and it tastes off.

Anyone else got one?

Peace
B.L

I don't have a recipe as such, but I juice all kinds of fruits: papayas, red grapes, watermelon, oranges, kiwis, mango etc. The only vegetable I juice is carrot but I never have it on it's own.

Those damn near £5 a glass smoothies you get in shopping centres are ripoffs, because you can go to market and can get a big bag of fruit for £1.

I hear you on not being sure about the ingredients of McD's check this out

YouTube - Super Size Me - Fastfood Test

I now use a juicer and blender more for all kinds of drinks. Some of my latest experiements are.

Detox
Ingredients

• 1/4 wedge of Galia melon
• 4oz of blackberries
• 3/4 cup of apple juice

Blend melons, blackberries and apple juice together and drink. You can use raspberries too if you want a lighter drink. It tastes quite plain but nice - works too by the way. Have it in the evening and by morning you should get results LOL.

Blemish Buster
Ingredients

• 2 large carrots
• 1 parsnip
• 1 avocado
• 1/2/ lemon

Juice the carrots and parsnip. Blend the avocado. Add the juice you made above and squeeze the lemon juice into the mix. Blend together and drink up. Tastes quite nice even if it sound yuck.

Memory Master
Ingredients

• 2 fresh dates
• 4 dried apricots - stoned and chopped
• 2 tbsp seedless raisins
• 8floz f natural plain yogurt
• 1-2 tsp brewers yeast

Blend the dates, apricots and raisins with 6 tbsp of water until smooth. Add the yogurt and brewers yeast and blend again. Haven't tried this one but knowing how your mind run on all kinda tings I reckoned memory is one you'd want to keep up with. If you try this one let us know how it tastes.

I got a whole book on smoothies so let me know what kind of things you want to build up or get rid of and I'll see if I have a recipe.