© www.ingekathleen.com/blog, cucumbers, budget juicing, juicing in south korea, reboot with joe cross, health in korea, juicing cleanse. Cost Saving Tip of the Day: How do you save money when you juice? Look for sales! When something is on sale, just go crazy and buy, buy, buy, buy! And don't worry if the clerk lady in the supermarket thinks you're nuts for buying 50 cucumbers at a time. It's a free country. (Well, I hope so!) Also choose the produce that is in season and available in your area/country.In Korea we don't have the variety of vegetable/fruit options like the USA or the Dominican Republic. We have to work at buying smarter, but if we buy in the street market and buy the vegetables that are in season, we can stretch our dollar (won) super far. And the street market people will give you a nice discount too, if you woo them enough with your foreign charms and a few nice Korean phrases. ~ buying a lot and being a regular customer helps too. ;-)Story of Day Four : Today I set out to find what we spend in a day for juicing. It is cheaper or more expensive than a regular day of eating for us? Today we had a variety of Juices. Here is the run down of the day with produce cost attached.Green Pepper Carrot Tomato Juice = 2 Green Peppers, 6 Carrots, 4 Med Tomatoes $3 = 24oz of juiceMean Green Juice = 10 cucumbers, 4 apples, 2 lemons, a ginger knuckle, 25 leaves of Spinach, 25 leaves of lettuce = $7.5 = 78 oz of juiceJuan's Special Juice = 3 kiwis, 1 bag of spinach, 4 cucumbers, 2 apples, 1 small peach, 3 bananas = $5.50 = 40 ozPumpkin Cucumber Juice = 10 cucumbers, 1/2 Korean pumpkin, 1 carrot, 2 apples, 1 banana, ginger, 1/2 spinach, 1/2 lemon = $6 = 65 ozTomato Spinach Juice = 2 handfuls of spinach, 4-5 medium tomatoes, 3 green peppers = $2.50 = 20ozToday's Total = $24.50 = 227 oz of juice or 1.8 gallons of juice$24.50 for two people to drink juice isn't bad. If you're single only about 12-15$ a day., very doable. I think that this is a bit more than when we eat only at home, but less than days that we go out to eat. Also we are getting many more nutrients and fresh foods then in a normal day. The key to juicing on a budget is to know what fruits and vegetables are available in your area. In Korea, you can't go out and buy cilantro or celery or green apples here unless we travel far and/or spending a lot of money, but we can buy romaine lettuce and spinach and Pumpkin Leaves easily. There are almost always nutrition substitutes. You just have to look for them.Juicing Resource : Here is a great resource I found today from Reboot with Joe Cross. It is detailed plan for a juice cleanses from 3-15 days, with shopping lists attached. Modify to fit your produce availability and budget. Juicing Plan More Budget Juicing Ideas:http://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-5780/How-to-Juice-on-a-Budget.html http://www.thesweeterthejuice.com/top-ten-ways-to-juice-on-a-budget/http://juicefast.com/juice-fasting-on-a-budget/Juan's Opinion of Day 4 : "I am less hungry."Inge's Opinion of Day 4: "It's 8:30 and I'm tired. I want to sleep. ^^"Stats of the Day: Inge Stats --- Juice: 2.5 Liters / Water: 1.5 liters ^^ Weight: 1.2 pounds less than the start Energy: Medium, but pretty consistent, much like yesterday. I got tired early in the nigh, though. I've been having lots of dreams which is affecting the quality of my sleep. Mood: It was good. I stressed myself out in the morning a bit, but it was no big deal. Hunger: It wasn't too bad today, except for right now, I'm really hungry and thirsty and right now someone is eating potatoes and ketchup. The smell is coming into my window right now. Not cool, not cool. Cheats: I was pretty good today.. Oh.. except for a bit of honey and cinnamon.. I can't escape it. It's soooo good. Cravings: I wanted chocolate today. Hot Chocolate, and a hot salty broth. That would be nice.Juan's Stats --- Juice: 4 Liters Water: .5 liters or less Weight: 2.4 pounds less than start Energy: Good Mood: Good Hunger: It was better than yesterday, especially at night time. Fell asleep at 11 pm instead of 3am, like the night before. Detox Symptoms: Sneezy, Mucus, Flu-Like Symptoms / Weird Food Dreams Again Cravings: Doesn't want to tell me the food that he craves, because then he'll crave it more.Favorite Juice(s) of the Day: Juan's Fruit/Spinach Juice.. It was amazing :-) It didn't follow the 80% vegetable/20% fruit juice rule, but it was amazing and worth the rule breaking. And I think that we needed a wee vacation from our usual green juice.Our Improvements So Far: Same like yesterday a more consistent energy. Though I don't think that my body likes the banana in the juice. It's probably too sugary and my energy levels aren't as consistent as yesterday. I guess I'll have to return to green juice. Tomorrow I'll be hardcore, no weak fruit juices. Promise! I'll go green tomorrow. :-)Goals for Tomorrow: Drink primarily green juices and drink more water. I think this will increase the detox and boost my energy more. Also I will drink more water, and have hot water and lemon every morning.

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