Drink number one - It begins

Well, John and I have just finished drink number one.  I promised to tell the real story through every step of this journey, so here goes.

First, what we made.  Keep in mind that we're juicing for two, so if you try this recipe you'll have to cut it in half.  This is the Mean Green juice that Phil drinks if you watch the documentary Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead.

Mean Green for 2

8 stalks of Celery
8 Kale leaves (the recipe calls for more but our Kroger only had one bunch)
4 medium Green Apples
2 Cucumbers
1 Lemon
1 small piece of Ginger

We were eager to know how well our juicer would work.  We got 1.5 quarts from this recipe, which I think is quite good considering we didn't get much from the kale or the apples.  I didn't expect much from the Kale, since an auger juicer is much better for leafy greens but we couldn't afford that type.  I'm not sure about the apples.  They were small, and we have some larger ones to use next time. So we got about 3 servings, which I think is quite good.  Once we were finished running everything through the juicer, we got greedy and decided to try to run the pulp through again.  Don't do that.  Nothing broke, nothing went horribly wrong, but we ended up getting a lot of mushy crap in our juice.

Once we poured our drinks, I took a sip and nearly threw up.  I got a stringy piece of something and while I'm not a super squeamish person, weird texture is the one thing I can't deal with.  So I ran downstairs and strained my juice.  It was much easier to stomach the rest after that.  Don't get me wrong, it was still bad.  It was quite awful, actually.  I don't like vegetables. I just don't. I wasn't raised eating any fresh veggies and the ones I was forced to eat gagged me.  I like carrots, peas, and corn.  But in liquid form? Ugh.  But we both got the nastiness down and did a nice little fist pump to celebrate.  Now we're just sitting here waiting to see if it stays down.  I'm not so sure.

I can tell you I've never been so happy to brush my teeth.  I wanted that taste out of my mouth pronto.  I will probably be brushing a LOT.  We are definitely having a more fruit heavy drink next.  And I don't know if we'll be able to continue using kale.  For one thing, we bought our grocery store out of it and have used it all already.  Also, our machine didn't get much from it.  Third, it's horrible.  I expected it to be bad but it's really really nasty.  We'll be using spinach for our next green drink.

I'll check in later today with more news and to see how we fared throughout the day.  All I can say right now is that I'm thankful to have been a phenomenal beer chugger in my younger days, because that's the only way I got this one down.