One evening my husband came home Chocolate Maker his mom's and talked about a juicing machine that his sister had given to his parents as a gift. He told me how his mom was using it every day. His mom suffers from diabetes and can't have too much sugar and tends to be fairly inactive, so I was really surprised to hear how she was now walking every morning with elderly friends and had joined a yoga group! My husband was so impressed with all this that he called his sister and got the name of the juice making machine and then the next day - he ordered it online when he was at work.

That was the beginning of a transformation in our whole family! Looking back it seems incredible now that we were so ignorant about what we ate and how little effort we made as parents to instigate good healthy eating habits in our children and in one another. The juice machine that we bought and that we use every single day is the Breville BJE200XL 700 watt compact juice fountain. All my preconceptions about difficulty of cutting up piles of fruit and peeling great mounds of vegetables were shown to be completely unfounded! Nothing could be easier because with this machine - it is so powerful and it filters the juice so effectively that you can throw in whole limes (unpeeled), whole apples (unpeeled), carrots (unpeeled) - the BJE200XL can give you pineapple juice without peeling it first!!

We juice mixtures of vegetables and fruit or fruit on its own or vegetables and citrus fruits - they are all delicious. I have lost weight because I often substitute a juice for the sandwich I would normally have for lunch, it fills me up but doesn't sap my energy. On the contrary, these days all of us have 10 times the energy we used to have - probably not all due to the juicing! but the fact that we started to make juice started the awareness of nutrition and marked the beginning of a change in our diets and in our lifestyle. Making juice is almost effortless with the Breville BJE200XL compact juice fountain - it is quiet and powerful, easy to clean - just rinse under the tap and all the bits can go in the dishwasher. The best thing is it's speed it can actually produce and eight ounce glass of juice in five seconds!
I believe that is one of the key reasons that we embraced the habit of juicing and have continued with it - because making juice is so easy. If the process had been difficult we would have given up - if the machine had been difficult to wash up or if the preparation of the vegetables and fruits labor intensive or time-consuming - we would not have persisted. But modern technology allows new juicing machines to be very powerful and economical, every last drop of juice is extracted from the pulp with very high- tech extraction techniques used in the Breville BJE200XL compact juice fountain. So if you want to change your family's eating habits like I did get the Breville and do it with no effort!