Veg Juicing breakfast

[Andy Collins]

As a person without a colon, I find it difficult to eat a nutritious recommended 5 a day as part of a balanced diet. Yes I can eat tinned veg, frozen veg, or fresh veg that have all the goodness boiled out of them, but they hardly meet the criteria for a healthy lifestyle. I hadn't considered a juicer, in fact I'm very surprised that my dietician hasn't at any time recommended this either. I don't require a huge amount of fibre in my diet, so I don't need to scour my innards, so the fibre in porridge or cereals is adequate. I shall enquire as to the worth of using a juicer, sounds good so far.

[Hodge]

As a person without a colon, I find it difficult to eat a nutritious recommended 5 a day as part of a balanced diet. Yes I can eat tinned veg, frozen veg, or fresh veg that have all the goodness boiled out of them, but they hardly meet the criteria for a healthy lifestyle. I hadn't considered a juicer, in fact I'm very surprised that my dietician hasn't at any time recommended this either. I don't require a huge amount of fibre in my diet, so I don't need to scour my innards, so the fibre in porridge or cereals is adequate. I shall enquire as to the worth of using a juicer, sounds good so far.

 

 

Andy, I know someone in the same situation as you and he juices and said its really helped getting vitamins etc, you can add stuff like spirilina algae which is really good for you or for those needing fibre you can add psyllium husks.

[TurtleWoods72]

As a person without a colon, I find it difficult to eat a nutritious recommended 5 a day as part of a balanced diet. Yes I can eat tinned veg, frozen veg, or fresh veg that have all the goodness boiled out of them, but they hardly meet the criteria for a healthy lifestyle. I hadn't considered a juicer, in fact I'm very surprised that my dietician hasn't at any time recommended this either. I don't require a huge amount of fibre in my diet, so I don't need to scour my innards, so the fibre in porridge or cereals is adequate. I shall enquire as to the worth of using a juicer, sounds good so far.

 

We have our first convert!

 

Go for it Andy, you won't look back!

[Isabelle68]

I,m thinking of giving this a go, i desperateley need a kick up the arse in a morning at the minute and its got to be better than my usual two coffees a flapjack 2 glucosamine tablets and a cod liver oil capsule!!! Failing that i,m gonna buy meself a tin of easy start!!

[avio]

Got one of these just before Christmas and can't fault it.

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[Tom D]

Not being a kill joy, I like a juice myself, but its worth remembering that by juicing stuff you are throwing away all the fibre and concentrating the sugars to the point that some juices contain more than full fat coke!

 

You wouldn't sit down and eat 5 oranges, but you could easily juice and drink them. Do some googling and you might find that you are eating way more sugars than you think.

 

Fibre protects you from bowel cancer and the latest evidence suggests it may slow down fat absorption too.

 

So the healthy option may be just eat the veg and the fruit whole and have less of it.

 

Having said that some of the recipes in this thread sound delicious, especially the lemon and ginger, I fancy adding a shot of vodka to that one, I reckon it would be a winner!

[Peasgood]

I think if you are going to the trouble of making juice rather than just buying squash your diet is probably pretty good anyway.

Owning and using a juicer is not likely to make you more likely to get cancer though I do take your point.

[avio]

A lot of them aren't really juicers as they don't extract anything just pulverise it. I normally start off with Spinach and Kale, then some fruit and a few nuts and seeds. Add a bit of crushed ice and top up with water.

[gensetsteve]

Not being a kill joy, I like a juice myself, but its worth remembering that by juicing stuff you are throwing away all the fibre and concentrating the sugars to the point that some juices contain more than full fat coke!

 

You wouldn't sit down and eat 5 oranges, but you could easily juice and drink them. Do some googling and you might find that you are eating way more sugars than you think.

 

Fibre protects you from bowel cancer and the latest evidence suggests it may slow down fat absorption too.

 

So the healthy option may be just eat the veg and the fruit whole and have less of it.

 

Having said that some of the recipes in this thread sound delicious, especially the lemon and ginger, I fancy adding a shot of vodka to that one, I reckon it would be a winner!

 

 

 

I have given up drink for four months and do at least 6k on a rowing machine 4 times a week. But the vodka shot in juice sounds great to me I am converted the juice idea sounds better than 4 hours of torture a week:biggrin:

[Andy Collins]

Hear your points Tom, but in my case raw fruit and veg can create some real serious issues, in their whole form. Juicing them would get me the nutritious content without the digestive issues. Fibre for me is not an essential, in fact can be seriously detrimental if I have too much, so again juicing is a sensible alternative. I have spoken to my specialist nurse about this and it's not something they've recommended, because every patient is completely different, but her take on it is it's worth a try, a little to start, then build it up. As for sugars, well I used to eat a lot of chocolate, like a huge galaxy bar a day, I don't eat chocolate any more, I don't drink alcohol any more and I don't smoke, hell I want something in life that's a bit exciting