Grace was feeling sick on Sunday. I got a box of oranges at Safeway and one of those manual juicers from Longs. I came home and started juicing. It was a fun experience at first until my wriests started to get really sored.
It turns out that a box of oranges at $5 produces about 2.5 liters of fresh juice (with lots of pulp though, but we like it that way; also, give or take a few ounces because I added two grapefruits for flavor). I used to think those 2.5-liter “not from concentrate” cartons of juice were expensive at $3. But the economy of scale really demonstrated itself in this simple juicing experiment.
But I guess I really can’t buy the notion of “freshness” straight from my own kitchen… Maybe this whole excercise would be more worthwhile if the oranges were organic or something when Bryan is old enough to drink orange juice…