Preparations

Yesterday was a great day. No headache. Lots of energy. Good juices. I ma slowly eliminating everything from my celery juice except celery. Just a little bit of apple. and maybe one carrot. The carrot mainly helps push the pulp through the juicer. Which brings up my juice method.

I use a Champion juicer - mainly because that is what I have and what I don't have is the $600 for a Vita-mix. I start with celery - mainly because the celery is very fibrous and the long strands can clog the juicer after a bit. Apple and carrot will kind of cleanse it but I always end up doing a quick clean out before I start the next veggie. I pre-chop up all my leafy greens before putting them through the hopper. This makes it a lot easier. After the greens I'll do carrots and what ever apples I have left over. Generally I do one whole head of celery, 2 lbs. of green leafys, 6 apples, an inch or so of ginger, a 5lbs. of carrots. I strain everything through a wire strainer. I also will run the pulp through a second time to get that little bit extra.

I think I have the going away problem fixed for now. Yesterday I went to Target and bought a Juiceman Jr. - it's more self contained than the Champion. It has a separate container for the pulp and for the juice. I figure I'll be able to juice in my hotel room. I'm bring about a days worth of veggies with me so all I'll need is to find either more veggies in Palm Springs (can you say Farmers Market?) or find a place that will juice for me. We shall see. If this works it will take a great deal of apprehension away from me when it comes to traveling.