Miracle Drink For Cancer Prevention and Healing ? Carrot, Apple & Beetroot...

Vic · Guru

Miracle Drink For Cancer Prevention and Healing ? Carrot, Apple & Beetroot...

Happywanderer · The Master

I have a juicer and often make a juice up of celery, apple and carrot. Its yummy, but don't like the waste of leftovers from it. You wonder how much goodness must go out in the bin.

Vic · Guru

Does anyone know if you use the beetroot raw or cooked? I think it would be raw like the apples and carrots, but just want to make sure......

Late edit: It's ok I found the info I needed.....raw beetroot !!!

-- Edited by Vic on Sunday 26th of February 2012 02:27:56 AM

Vic · Guru

Anyway you could make a soup out of the leftovers HW? Freeze them for when you can?

Happywanderer · The Master

You're a genius Vic.
I've usually taken them out and dug them into the garden for compost.

Gerty Dancer · Guru

I have actually tried that soup idea, and it was awful... all the flavour is in the juice. Its really yummy, the beetroot has a sort of earthy taste and stains everything a pretty pink! Easy enough to wash up though.
It couldnt be bad for you but I wouldnt claim "miracles".

Vic · Guru

Hmmm....so maybe not soup then!! Talking of beetroot I opened a full tin yesterday and dropped it, beetroot everywhere, wasn't a happy chappy !! furious

Cruising Granny · Guru

I think it would be more useful as compost. Marj has a handle on it.
I bought a bottle of beetroot and apple juice to try. It's an acquired taste and I did get used to it. There's warning on the bottle about the colour of any water which leaves the body.
They were right. It went pink. Quite weird really.
If we did everything everyone claimed to cure everything that ailed us we'd pee pink one day and green the next from that wheat grass. Now that's something gross.
Going back to nature is a good thing. Everything we buy is over-processed, but have you tried reading all those labels when you go shopping? It's worse than going to the library.
Not everything is organic or bionic or whatever, but if we choose wisely we should stay relatively healthy.
Or, it's back to the farm and grow our own.

Happywanderer · The Master

And if we stopped eating everything they warn us against CG, we would have nothing left to eat.
Stick to the basics is my motto and stay away from processed food.

Ma · Guru

Cruising Granny wrote:

Or, it's back to the farm and grow our own.

It was a much harder physical life but it was so much more simple and we were all a lot healthier even if we did drink milk straight from the cow and use salted butter, not this plastic stuff they call margarine, and have proper rolled oats for breakfast, not the flavour sachet type ones that are around now.

I'd go back to those days anytime if I had the choice.

Gerty Dancer · Guru

I have several food allergies and find myself cooking most meals from the beginning to avoid the flavours and preservatives in so many things nowadays. We are so used to home-cooked food, couldnt face a meat pie or shop-bought cake anymore.
Ma, its easy to make old-fashioned porridge, and much cheaper too. If you soak it overnight, it cooks just as quick in the morning as the instant type. Add some raisins for flavour.
Mind you I often think how much easier it would be just to use a packet of something when we are travelling.

Happywanderer · The Master

I only ever buy the real rolled oats and make my own porridge. You don't have to soak it over night, couple minutes in the microwave and its done.
Actually I do two minutes, give it a stir, then two more minutes.

Gerty Dancer · Guru

For juice, raw is the go. I like beetroot as a hot veg, but it takes nearly an hour to cook, so I boil up a whole bunch (with skin on) at a time. Keep them in the fridge and peel and heat in m/wave ready for dinner. Yum!

lilly31 · Guru

You can also baked beetroot just like you baked all other vegies ..They are nice like that too ....

Vic · Guru

Sounds good....thanks Lilly & Gerty.. smile

Gerty Dancer · Guru

When baking them Vic, cut into half or quarters, but leave the skin and (trimmed) tops on! Its easy to take the skin off on your plate. YUM!

Vic · Guru

Gerty Dancer wrote:
When baking them Vic, cut into half or quarters, but leave the skin and (trimmed) tops on! Its easy to take the skin off on your plate. YUM!

Thanks Gerty.....now your making me hungry.....will try that sometime when I'm in a cooking mood.... smile

Elle on Wheels · Guru

I love raw beetroot juice based drinks. I've tried the bottled stuff but not the same so whenever I'm near a fresh juice place will always but a large one - apple carrot celery and beetroot is my favourite. Raw grated beetroot on salads is wonderful as is baked beetroot. Another brilliantly healthy veg is Jerusalem artichoke and that is lovely baked also. Another good body revitaliser is black grapejuice however with all the genetic engineering these days I think grapes have lost a lot of their nutritional properties.

Vic · Guru

I had the apple, carrot, celery and beetroot one the other day Elle, was very nice too ! smile

Clyde Camel · Veteran Member

I often wonder about vegetable juice, not because I doubt its value. But I wonder why not just eat the vegetables instead of throwing out all that food? You still get the juice, but you also get the rest of it as well.

My father was a farming camel and grew all that stuff. I love chomping on a carrot.

-- Edited by Clyde Camel on Wednesday 4th of April 2012 11:24:10 AM

03_troopy · Guru

You'd be pretty hard pressed to eat a couple of beetroot, a bunch of celery and 3 or 4 apples in one sitting though. With the juice, you get most of the value from that much in one glass.