Comments on: Plastic Challenge: yaga and Trev, Week 1

By: Beth Terry

Beth Terry — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:48:02 +0000

Hi Yaga. If you can’t find it and you really like orange juice, how about squeezing your own? It only takes a minute or less to do a glassfull. There are completely plastic-free manual juicers out there. Here is a stainless steel one:

http://www.amazon.com/Stainless-Steel-Citrus-Juicer-Cuisinox/dp/B000H70D6C/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1296243659&sr=8-6

Here is one that presses instead of twisting:

http://www.amazon.com/Norpro-Stainless-Steel-Citrus-Juice-Press/dp/B0002IBOAK/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1296243659&sr=8-8

Here is ceramic:

http://www.amazon.com/Kai-DH3017ENG-Select-Grapefruit-Squeezer/dp/B0009WCILS/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1296243949&sr=8-10

Here is glass:

http://www.amazon.com/SCI-Scandicrafts-Inc-Citrus-Juicer/dp/B0000DE7OY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1296244002&sr=8-1

Anyway, it’s just a thought. That way, your juice will be absolutely fresh each morning. And you can make just as much as you will drink.

By: yaga

yaga — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:01:17 +0000

Hey people,
thanks so much for your suggestions. I love oranges and eat them all the time. But in the morning I need something sweet and quick to wake up, o-juice is basically my coffee. and since i don’t eat that much dairy i sometimes use fruitjuice for making muesli. So i would like to keep having it if there is a possibility. we can actually get organic, non-pasteurized juice at our supermarket, so that’s not the problem.
we discussed the point yesterday and thought we’d try out one of the bigger organic stores in town, and if we can’t find o-juice, applejuice is easier to get in glass and i think we could get used to that.
Apparently the vending machine at the farm is closed, but there might be a possibility to get the milk anyways, and we’re also ready to pay the slightly higher price for the fresh milk at the organic store which comes in glass bottles that are returned to the store and reused without recycling.
love
yaga

By: marie

marie — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:56:22 +0000

if you need more incentive to go without orange juice, do some research online about how processed it is. “flavor packets” are added because processing strips all flavor. They don’t need to specify ingredients in the packets.

By: Pheas

Pheas — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:09:43 +0000

Beth just posted my suggestion. I only have orange juice on special occasions after hearing a nurse explain how high in sugar it is. Putting that much sugar right into the bloodstream is a pretty drastic thing to do to the body—there’s a reason folks call for orange juice when someone is having a diabetic crisis. Of course, I don’t know about the carbon footprint of oranges in Switzerland, but perhaps another fruit would be just as good.

By: Marisa

Marisa — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:55:56 +0000

I was going to suggest the same thing as Beth: eat oranges and skip the juice :-)
In addition to what she’s already said, orange juice (or any industrialized juice) is pasteurized, even if available in the refrigerated shelves in the supermarket. Pasteurization arguably destroys nutrients, so why not eat the orange instead?
There’s a good book investigating the orange juice industry, Squeezed: What you don’t know about orange juice, by Alissa Hamilton.

By: Beth Terry

Beth Terry — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:36:06 +0000

I love that you are both working together on reducing your plastic consumption. Please let us know how it works out at the farm.

Have you considered simply eating oranges and skipping the juice? (I’m eating an orange right now, in fact.) :-) I actually stopped drinking juice a long time ago because I felt like I was getting the sugar without the fiber to slow down the metabolism of it. It had nothing to do with plastic.

Looking forward to hearing about your progress.