"A healthy outside starts from the inside."

Its always nice to see that the lifestyle change that me and Mrs M have made is rubbing off onto the boys. Juicing has become such a big part of our days and Opeie's love of green vegetable and fruit juice or hulk juice as he likes to call It is great. It's so good for him and because it's something me a Mrs M have most days, to the boys there's nothing odd about it.

Yesterday Opeie ran into the kitchen and informed me that swiper the fox and little brown mouse needed a hulk juice, so I pulled up a chair for him to stand on and we went through the fridge looking for ingredients. Spinach, kale, celery, kiwi, apple, lime and a little touch of ginger, Lush.

  

As with everything we do together I explained what we were doing as we were chopped up the veg and fed it to the machine. Opeie loves putting things in the juicer and watching the pulp come out. It's a little like a grown ups play doh factory.

 

Swiper and little brown mouse were happy to get involved and in no time at all there were two great vegetable juices ready for consumption. Hulk was close by lurking in the shadows though making sure that his name wasn't being used for any unhealthy produce.

"The fruit derived from labour is the sweetest of pleasures"

Never before have i fallen in love with a piece of machinery, I'm not the sort of person thats ever bothered about 'stuff' and the things that we own. I don't tend to get attached to items like people do to their phones or computers but i would be gutted if anything happened to our new juicer. As we had been using our old one so much we thought it would be a good idea to invest in an industrial one as i don't think we were fully getting the benefits out of our centrifugal juicer.

Its a lot bulkier and doesn't really fit in with the kitchen aesthetics but since having it we've realise we had been slumming it with our old juicer as this beast can take on anything you shove down its chute. The boys are getting in to fruit and vegetable juice more now too which is great for their five a day not to mention all the health benefits that come with it. Seth likes to play a game where I make a fruit juice and sneak a vegetable or two in there for him to guess. Who'd have thought vegetables could be so fun.

There's even attachments for using it to make pasta, pretzels and bread sticks but most importantly for Mrs M is that we've already used it to make ice cream. (although I can't eat it due to not being able to eat banana's, rubbish!). Our healthy lifestyle continues with the help of our new juicy friend.