Citrus Juicer:

Having a citrus juicer is not needed, but can be nice. It can be used to juice oranges, grapefruit, lemons, and limes.


I have used mine to make fresh squeeze orange juice, whether I drank it or used it for a recipe. I have made fresh squeeze grapefruit juice to add to my carrot juice. When recipes call for lemon juice I sometimes use the store bought lemon juice and other times I use my citrus juicer. I bought mine at Walmart for around $20.00.


Here is another idea: If you want to stock up on smoothies you can keep them up to about 3 days in the refrigerator. Smoothies are a great way to get your greens in. For the liquid you can use water, almond milk, rice milk, coconut milk. I normally use water or almond milk. To that you add some greens - spinach, kale, or other greens. Just make sure you don't add too much esp. if you aren't used to it. Then you add some fruit - I always add a banana and other fruit such as pinapple, blueberries, strawberries, mangos, peaches, oranges, pineapple, and whatever else you decide would be good. You can also add in some avocado. To make it thick, use more frozen fruit or even add some ice and that way it will make it more pudding/ ice-cream type texture. Adding fresh will make it thinner for you to drink.
I like to make several, label them, and keep them in my refrigerator so throughout the day when I feel like a smoothie I can just grab one.


You can use canning jars to store them in the refrigerator. I use two kinds, the glass with white lids and the plastic with green lids. The plastic can also be used in the freezer. You can find both kinds at Walmart in the canning isle (normally close to the storage containers, pots & pans isle)