Juicing Organic v Non-Organic

Today the milkman delivered: • 5 potatoes • 4 raw beetroot • 3 huge mushrooms • 3 onions • 3 carrots • Fennel • Cabbage
The odd shapes and sizes of the beetroot remind me of the Evolution of Man diagram. But it doesn’t matter what they look like because this bunch is destined for the [...]

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Carrot and Pineapple Juice

I’ve always loved raw carrots, but even I’m a bit carrotted out. This is the seventh week of having a veg box and each week there has been 500g of carrots to munch through. Faced with another bag of carrots, I decide to get the juicer out.
Carrot juice is really sweet, especially if the carrots [...]

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Bendy Celery and Chocolate Beetroot Cake

Celery, apple and garlic juice
The celery is bendable, it isn’t the crunchiest and the weather’s a little too cold for salad, so I decide that this bunch is destined for the juicer. Half a bunch of celery, three apples and two cloves of garlic later I have a juice that may look like a urine [...]

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Beetroot Juice – a Drink That’s Good for the Blood

I am more than half way through my veg box week and there’s much more than half the veg still left. I think it takes a little time to get used to changing the way you eat.
Beetroot Juice
The raw beetroot was always destined for the juicer, so I grab a few more ingredients – [...]

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