Fresh Orange Juice
I love fresh squeezed orange juice. It tastes nothing like what comes in the bottle from the store. In fact, it is ten times better! And because it is fresh with no preservatives it is much healthier. The only sad part is we hardly ever get to make any. Because fresh fruit cost so much, we limit ourselves to one piece per day. Not really conducive to drinking a cup of fresh squeezed OJ everyday.
It was such a great surprise when hubby came back from the store last night with a whole bag of oranges!! The store was trying to get rid of them, so they bagged them up and were selling them for $1.50/bag! So this afternoon Sweet Pea and I got out the juicer and started squeezing oranges.
Four oranges and fifteen minutes later we had ourselves a small cup of OJ. You can see how this could get expensive. For each of us to have a small cup everyday we would need 12 oranges daily! Not really doable. So it was such a treat to have this cup. Sweet Pea tried it and didn’t really like it. I think it was to tangy for him.
Hopefully the store will have the oranges on sale more often to we can have a wonderful treat!
That actually sounds very good right about now. I’ve never done fresh squeezed myself.
:–) Nell
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I honestly don’t think I’ve had fresh orange juice before! But if it’s anything like fresh lemonade, you had quite a treat!
I loved freshly aqueezed oj!! It is so good and what a good price Daddy found those for!
Cool. An old school juicer. Like it. Unfortunately, I often don’t have the time to have freshly squeezed orange juice everyday. But I found that there are some decent orange juices out there.
For instance i’ve put a link below that shows a list of preservative free orange juices…you can also see that many of them are also color free and low sugar. But you have to be careful of the low sugar ones as they often have HFCS instead which you may want to avoid – particularly if you have an allergy to corn. Check it out:
http://foodessentials.com/compare/Preservative_Free_Juice_or_Drink_-_Orange_Juice/121999/0
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