What can I use the fruit/vegetable stuff for that's left over when doing a juice fast?

Question

I'm doing a month-long detox program, that includes one week of a liquid-juice fast, as well as drinking fresh juices everyday for a month. I'm also trying to go as organic as possible, which means that for each glass of juice I make, I've got a cup or more of the left-over fibrous vegetable matter in the juicer...relatively expensive vegetable matter since it's all supposed to be organic! I've never been one to just throw out useful things, so I'm wondering if there is anything I can do with this stuff! I know I can use the applesauce to substitute in baking, but what about carrots, spinach, beets, oranges, tomatoes, etc? My mom suggested that I make soup, but it ends up acting like a thickening agent, and regardless, if I made it all into soup, I'd have a cupboard full of it!

Answer 1

For carrots I like to make it into a carrot cake, or even a carrot bread, If you do a zuchinni you could also make that into bread. Really any fruit or veg you can make into a bread.

Soup is a great idea. And it would be tastey too.

You could also put the left over grounds into a compost pile and use it to fertalize your garden. You arent eating it, but at least you would be putting it to use.

Answer 2

Well with the carrots, you can make carrot cake. Tomatoes you can use to make paste, and use in sauces. Mostly baking stuff for the fruits and cooking for the veggies.

Answer 3

Try a pasta with it. Or a jambalaya, just add rice and whatever else you want with the veggies. Try making a pizza out of it, or bake it add cover with cheese or something.

Answer 4

For the fruit pulp:
- freeze it to make sorbet
- put it on top of your cereal when you can eat salads again
- make vinagrette salad dressings
- sweeten breads, muffins and cakes

For veggie pulp:
- give it to people who eat meatloaf...it's supposedly good
- start a compost
(sorry...I'm at a loss for the veggie suggestions!)

Answer 5

Are there any babies in the family. Maybe you could give it to them as a baby food.