I am so excited about this giveaway.
I have a tendency to exaggerate nearly everything. When I write my blog, I try to resist this proclivity toward hyperbole; after all, if I tell you guys that everything’s delicious and amazing, you’ll start to wonder (and rightly so) whether I’m being overly charitable. When it comes to fruit and vegetable juice, however, I have no problem whatsoever pulling out my most over-the-top praise. Fresh fruit and vegetable juice is amazing, and today, I’m giving you a chance to make it at home with your very own Breville Juice Fountain plus–a giveaway courtesy of the amazing folks at PunchTab!!
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ve seen some of my favorite juice creations, and heard all about how much I value these glasses of liquid nutrition.
I discovered juicing shortly after I discovered raw foods. I was already eating a nutrient dense, vegetable-rich diet. But, after years of food restriction, IBS-C, and sluggish elimination, the flood of hydration and nutrition that came along with fresh green juices was nothing short of transformative for me. I felt a tremendous change when I started juicing: more energy, better digestion, and–though there’s absolutely no way to validate this–a number of people started to comment on my cheeks being rosier. Beyond all that, I just loved the taste of fruit and vegetable juices, and soon found myself craving them nearly all the time!
Today, I have a lot less time to make juice (thank goodness for Sweetpress!), but my love affair with fresh juices continues. No, I don’t think that juice is a suitable or sustainable replacement for food, which is why I don’t fast (or personally recommend fasting). But I do turn to juices whenever I feel that I need a boost, a pick-me-up, or a little flood of micronutrients. I think of juices as a kind of liquid supplement, and a delicious supplement at that.
I’m constantly asked about what kind of juicer I own. Truth is, I’ve had the same juicer for about five years, and it’s still giving me delicious elixirs. It’s the Breville Juice Fountain plus–a simple, two speed centrifugal juicer–and I absolutely love it. It’s not the fanciest juicer on the market, but it’s ideal for the average home juice lover. Fruits and vegetables go through seamlessly, and greens are fine if you bunch them up a bit! It’s efficient, easy to clean, and easy to use.
Which is why I am so delighted that the folks at PunchTab–a loyalty platform dedicated to giving blog readers rewards in the form of giveaways and promotions–are offering one lucky Choosing Raw reader his or her very own Breville Juicer. Punchtab contacted me last week asking if I’d be interested in reviewing a product. I said I’d be thrilled! When they asked what product came to mind, I immediately thought of a juicer: what better gift to share with CR readers than an item I use so often myself! The PunchTab company agreed, walked me through the giveaway process, and today, I’m pleased to share a chance to win with you. Of all the giveaways I’ve hosted, this one feels really special to me: it’s a way to show you all exactly how beneficial and life changing the gift of green juice can be.
To enter this giveaway, you’ll use the PunchTab entry box below! You can sign in via email or Facebook, and as you’ll see, you get individual extra entries for following me on Twitter, liking CR on Facebook, tweeting the giveaway, visiting my Pinterest page, and commenting on this post to let me know what the first juice you hope to make with your new juicer will be!! If you don’t see the entry box, it simply means that the PunchTab server is momentarily busy; visit back in a second!
I sincerely look forward to giving one of my readers the gift of juice. Good luck to you all! Now, ready, set…Punch!
Giveaway Disclosure: I own a Breville Juice Fountain Plus that was not provided to be by the provider of this giveaway, Punchtab. Punchtab is not compensating me for this giveaway. I am not employed by the provider, Punchtab, and have been offered the item for giveaway on a one time basis only.
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Oops! I accidentally put my comment as a reply to someone else’s and put my old website address! Oh, the confusion. I must need more green juice in my life. Por ejemplo: kale, apple, basil, cilantro, ginger, lime – yum! LOVE this giveaway. Divinely inspired!
I can’t wait to juice spinach, mango and ginger!
I’ve never juiced before, but I think I’d start with carrot-orange-ginger!
It is amazing! It is different at first and it will take some trial and error to find the recipes that you really like. I am excited for you!
~Garret (Juicing Blogger @ Juicingpedia)
I’d like to try juicing with kale and some fruits to make it sweet.
chard, kale, carrots, ginger & cucumber
Hm I’d love an all fruit juice as my first one
I’m going to make the greenest green juice! Lots of kale, pineapple, and ginger!
Mango, carrot, kale, and ginger.
Not sure what I want my first juice to be, but I’m sure it will be with cucumbers and apples!!
Cucumber, spinach, apple and…….I don’t know exactly – but it will be fun playing!
My first one would have to be carrot, apple, spinach and cucumber.
First juice…hmmm maybe carrot I’ve been craving carrot juice for a while…
I guess I am going to make a nice Banana-Apple-Orange Juice with a hint of ginger.
Plain Carrot :0)
Cucumber and kiwi
Spinach, lime and strawberry?
Beet! We have a lot of beets in the fridge right now. Maybe beet, carrot, spinach?
My first juice will be pineapple, apple, celery, carrot and kale!
Not entirely sure, but I bet it’ll have kale in it.
I would make apple juice!! And then I’m sure I’d just start juicing everything in my fridge.
It would have to be my favorite apple-carrot-beet & ginger!
I’d juice one of my favs: Kale, Celery, Apple, Ginger
Maybe pineapple and kale, or fresh apple juice!
Awesome, Gena, thanks! I love cucumber, carrot, beet, and kale. Maybe with a little apple, too.
Maybe apples, mangoes, and bananas!
Probably orange juice!
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Carrot-apple-peach!
orange strawberry
GREEN DREAM: Apples, cucumber, lime, and wheatgrass.
I’m CSA-overloaded right now and just want to juice everything! Probably beets, carrots, greens, ginger, and some fruit to tie it all together.
A refreshing green juice – cucumber, romaine, kale, parsley or maybe pineapple with mint!
Carrot/apple/fresh ginger/Italian parsley juice. My favorite juice combo at a juice bar. I can’t wait to try it myself!
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i think i’d start with some leafy greens, parsley, and cucumber!
I’d go for cucumber, ginger, and green apple.
I’ve never juiced thats why I got plenty of juicing recipes handy in preparation for a juicer
)) But I’ll start of with carrots, ginger, beets, lime juice, pomegrante, and apple and then go on from there:D
Love to be able to incorporate more leafy greens
I’ve never juiced, but can’t wait to give it a try!
I’d love to try my own cranberry juice with less sugar then what you can buy in the store.
I would make… a juice that I’ve had at “Thrive” in Seattle= apples+ginger+basil+cilantro+lime. Whoah.
Pomegranate juice would be perfect!
kale and apple!
I’m going to do watermelon, celery, kale and spinach!
Avocado, mango, pomegranate and carrot…. Yum!
I can’t wait to try a kale, spinach, green apple, and ginger juice.
I don’t own a juicer. I love my Vita-mix, but sometimes you just want a clear juice, with no pulp. I really want to try some kind of concoction with beets. I know I will scope out all of your previous juice recipes and try them all. What a great giveaway.
Kale, parsley, apple, and orange!!!
Never juiced before but a melon ginger juice sounds like it’d be pretty great in light of the DC heat!
Carrot juice…maybe with apples and beets!
Spinach, cucumber, apple.
I’ve never actually juiced before, but I think something with papaya, pineapple, strawberries, and kale would be delicious!
I would love to do a ginger-peach juice.
Carrot, for sure!
I would make carrot, beet, and celery juice to start with then the kale, cucumber, and apple. YUM!
It would definitely be carrots. Possibly coupled with pineapple.
yummy carrot ginger juice
Hi.
I just had the worst Crohn’s disease flare up of my life. On Tuesday, I’ll be two weeks out of the hospital. I spent a week there, getting nutrition through an IV, barely being able to eat, just incredibly sick. I’m 21 years old. At the time things spiraled, I was interning in NYC (I go to NYU) at a magazine, I dropped everything and moved back home to Phoenix for the rest of the summer. I’m committed to being healthy again, and I feel like I’ve lost a lot- most of my strength (going to the gym every day). And, as you know, the post-sick diet really sucks with Crohn’s. I miss veggies, but can’t really eat them because they’re so high fiber. A friend suggested I juice, to get the nutrients. I want to do that. We don’t have a juicer. So. I would juice the hell out of this juicer. I will be the juiciest juicer- I want to juice every single veggie I miss so much. Fruits too!
THE VERY FIRST THING I would do with this juicer is REJOICE! I used to have this exact model and had to sell it due to economic hardship. I miss it SO much. My favorite juice that I would make would be a classic green ginger lemonade I love with romaine lettuce, kale, 1 lemon, 1 knob of ginger and a stalk of celery. YUM!:) I would love so much to win that I would also post this on my blog, which id dedicated to my nutrition passion, The Soulful Spoon Blog ( http://www.soulfulspoon.blogspot.com) . Thank Gena! I’ve been a fan for years<3
Greens greens greens !!
I can’t wait to juice kale,beets, spinach,celery,cucumber,carrot and green apple!!
I would be ecstatic to win this juicer!
First juice would be my classic green lemonade with kale, romaine, lemon, apple and ginger. Second would be beet, carrots and cayenne pepper
OH Gee-Whiz!! I would be SO excited if I got this….hmmm….I think I would have to make orange, ginger, celery, carrot, apple, kale….delicious!!!!
I’d love to do carrot, apple, beet
I think I’d have to recreate the Hydrate Sweetpress creation (especially as the commute from Brighton, UK to DC isn’t too viable!). Cucumber, pineapple, coconut water, pear, and lime: h-h-holy yum!
My first juice would be an invigorating celery, green apple, ginger and lemon- and then, who knows??!?
My daughter would love to try juicing with kale, but I would be more interested in using fruits.
My first juice EVER! Probably apple, kale, parsley, ginger juice.
carrot juice using carrots from my dad’s garden
I will likely make some sort of fruit juice with a carrot – maybe strawberries, carrots, apples?
I always have tons of fresh veggies in my frig, so basically, whatever I have on hand. Chances are it will be carrots, celery, cucumber, parsnip, kale or spinach or collards, apple, lemon. Yum!!!!
I can’t wait to make raw lemonade. I love juicing and so does my tummy!
I will make a combo of spinach, carrots and beets that we are growing in our garden
The first time I’d make a green juice, kiwi, kale, cucumber, celery, spinach
I would try making something I just saw on ZestyCook called the “Red Racer”:
1 Cup raspberries
1 Cup Strawberries
2 Oranges
2 Apples
It sounds delicious!!
Strawberry/mango/banana! Mmmmm! This would help out with my new diet!
I’m going to make a kale, ginger, lemon, and all around luscious green smoothie!
First up: a big ol’ greeeeeeeen juice!
I’d probably toss in a variety of whatever is in my fridge at the time. The resulting juice would definitely be green
kale, carrot, and beet
I think I would have to make Pomegranate Cherry juice first
I would make orange juice.
I would make a berry, ginger, apple juice first in my juicer!
APPLE, I can think of so many things to make,
apple kale spinach!
Fresh squeezed orange!
Carrots and anything that goes good with them!
make a nutritious energizing juice that combines fruits and veggies.
I would juice leafy greens w/ some apple.
spinach, celery, mango and apple ginger and lemon mmmmmmmmmmmm
Carrots, apples, oranges, and lemons
green lemonade because the greens will actually juice in this thing!
The first juice I would make would be any of the Sweetpress juice combinations – I thought all of them sounded delicious!!
I’d make a kale and orange juice mix. Yum!
My first juice would be: Kale, watercress and lemon! My favorite until my juicer died…. bummer
I am going to make cucumber pineapple juice!
The first juice I will make will be beet juice with carrot and apple. I read that there is something in beets that helps athletic performance!
Fresh Summer Fruit!
Many thanks, Cindi
I want to juice mango and pineapples!
Pineapple and Mango
I’ve never used a juicer, so maybe I’ll start with carrotts!
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