Home » Great Tips for Following Juicing Recipes Cheaply

Although making freshly squeezed juice is, without doubt, the quickest, easiest and most effic ient way to benefit from all the natural vitamins, minerals and nutrients found in fresh fruit and vegetables, until you are familiar with how to blend different juices so that one flavour does not overpower the rest, it is a good idea to use tried and tested juicing recipes, and with a little practice is possible to create those juicing recipes cheaply.

Most large supermarkets offer a vast array of fruits and vegetables, many of which are imported from all over the world. Usually they travel under refrigerated conditions and are displayed in chilled cabinets once they reach the supermarket in order to maintain a fresh appearance until their 'sell by' date. Such fruits and vegetables can be quite expensive and under-ripe, never really reaching their best condition. Of course, supermarkets do have special offers, but there are alternatives to the supermarkets.

Buying fruits that are in season locally is one way to provide ingredients for juicing recipes cheaply. Picking your own strawberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries, plums, apples, and salad vegetables to name but a few, means that every item you choose to put into your carton or bag is fresh, ripe and in the best condition for juicing or eating. Local farmers and growers often advertise in newspapers, nearby village shop windows or on country road-side boards and signs.

Market stalls are another good place to buy ingredients for juicing recipes cheaply. There is a fruit stall in our local village that has Wednesdays and Sundays off. Tuesday and Saturday afternoons are always a good time to visit as you can pick up whole trays of vegetables and large bags of fruit such as oranges, grapefruits, melons, pineapples, grapes, raspberries and strawberries at less than half the normal price.

Much has been written about the superiority of using organically grown ingredients, and while this is an ideal to aim for, it is not a way to follow juicing recipes cheaply, as organic fruits and vegetables are more expensive to buy. Of course, those who enjoy gardening can grow many of their own juicing ingredients.

If you shop in an area where there are different ethnic communities, such as Chinese, Indian and Caribbean, exotic fruits and vegetables like mangos, limes, papayas, yams and sweet potatoes, to mention but a few, can be bought at a fraction of the price of those sold by supermarkets, as can ginger, garlic, various nuts, fresh herbs and bean sprouts. And then there is the free stuff, such as blackberries, dandelion leaves and horseradish.

I received a juicing machine as a present a couple of years ago, and have been following and creating my own juicing recipes cheaply ever since.