First, we need to assess how much vegetable juicing we want to do.  For now, I’ll assume you are the average person wanting to make one glass of juice most days of the week – let’s say 5 days.  Next, we need to choose which vegetable juicing recipes we want to make.  It is important that you MIX IT UP! You do not want to stick with the same juicing recipes and get accustomed to a specific diet.  Besides, it’s good to be open-minded, so try new juicing recipes.  At the very least, you can use two, but we’re planning for 5 days, so aim for 5 different juicing recipes.

Now let’s sort out and list what vegetables we need.  I find it easiest to start with one juicing recipe, list the ingredients, and tally them.  Go to the second vegetable juicing recipes.  Add any new ingredients to the list, while adding tally marks to shared produce.  Do this with all the recipes.  When done, add any fresh vegetables you normally buy for dinner, salads, etc, though you should be able to reduce the amount you normally buy since you will get most of it through vegetable juicing.

With our list in hand, grocery shopping is as easy as finding the produce in the store.  Some of the produce you can buy comes in bundles, so you must account for that.  Also, you can choose between fresh produce on display or pre-packaged.  The quality is usually the same, but there may be differences in price and whether it’s organic or not.  Nothing you can’t handle.  Check this list of foods to buy organic to get a good idea of what produce is likely to contain pesticides if not organic.

Do NOT treat vegetable juicing as an exact science. The produce from store to store will vary in size and quality.  A green pepper from my supermarket will not be the same as a green pepper from yours, and this will affect your vegetable juicing recipes.  You can only learn by doing, so it is essential that you experiment…