Is A Juicer A Good Investment?

Is a juicer a good investment or are juicers a waste of money? The short answer is that it depends on the person and more importantly, the juicer.

There are some juicers that are not a good investment. But does that mean that all juicers are a waste of money? No.

What I want to do here is walk you though a series of questions that will hopfeully answer the question once and for all.

 

What Would Make A Juicer A Good Investment?

This is going to be different for everyone. Some people look at a juicer as an item to make things like orange juice or apple juice or the random green or vegetable juice. If you’re someone who never buys “healhy juice” and are content with buying pasturized juices or even bottled juices like V8 that are essentially “dead” juices…then there is no real reason to buy a juicer.

However, most people who visit my blog are into their health. They want to drink healthy juice and they see the food they buy and the foods that they put into their body as an investment.

If you’re someone who doesn’t buy pasturized orange juice or apple juice that’s been sitting on a shelf in a carton for months, and are intstead someone who buys pseudo “healthy” juices like the ones from Bolthouse farms or other “fresh” juices that are sold in the supermarkets and health food stores, then a juicer is a good investment.

Not only are you going to save money, but you will get much better juice. You can make yourself raw juice that doesn’t need to be pasturized or have any addidites addeded to it.

The investment in a juicer, be it one of the pricey ones like a Greenstar or a top of the line Omega, is certainly worth it. These juicers let you make juice from scratch from almost anything. And they last for years in most cases (I’ve been using an Omega for over a decade and it’s still working like new).

How Commited To Juicing Are You?

That said, before you go ahead and buy a juicer it’s a good idea to deteremine how commited you are to juicing. Because, no matter how well made a juicer is and how good an investment it is, it’s not worth anything if it sits on a shelf and never gets used.

So, be realistic with yourself and decide if you are someone who is going to make juice.

Now, you don’t have to make a fresh juice everday in order for a juicer to be a good investment. On the contrary. Even if you only make a fresh juice once a week, I’d argue that you have made a great choice and that juicer is a good investment.

Let’s crunch some numbers:

F0r this example, I’m using the numbers for a fresh juice at a place like Juice Generation (you can swap in Juice Press or any other populalr fresh juice chain).

A standard fresh juice at one of these places is around $8 bucks.

If we were to make the same type of juice, let’s examine how much it would be.

Take a popular combo of Kale, Lemon and Apples. The juice bars charge around $ 8 bucks for that. Here’s how much it costs me:

• 1 bag of Organic Kale (or Super Greens if I’m buying at Costco or BJs)= $3 or 5 dollars.
• 1 Organic Apple = $2.99 lbs (figure 99 cents)
• 1 Organic Lemon = $.99 cents.

Not that the lemon can be halfed, and the kale will be enough for at least three juices. So, my total cost for an organic juice is around 2 dollars.

That’s a huge savings!

Even if you only juice once a week, you’re saving around 6 dollars at a time. If you have two juices a week, you’re saving $12 dollars. At that rate, you would pay for your juicer in less than 3 months.

Have You Ever Had Fresh Juice Before?

Obviously I would not suggest buying a juicer if you’ve never had fresh juice before. I actually did buy a juicer before ever having fresh juice (except for pressed citrus juice) beause there were not many stores that sold fresh juice years ago.

But if you are someone who has only ever had store brought apple juice or orange juice, then I would suggest making sure you are ok with fresh juice before buying a juicer.

Why do I say that? Does that mean that they juicer would be a bad investment? No, not at all.

The reason I suggest that you try out fresh juice first is that for many people, fresh juice is a big change. It’s not a clean clear filtered drink like apple juice from Motts or orange juice that’s been tripple filtered. But if you have had juice with the pulp left in, then you do have a bit of an idea.

 

What’s You Reason For Buying A Juicer?

Again, this is where the decision and the question becomes personal. Why are you looking to buy a juicer and what are your reasons for spending money on it.

Visit SiteThere are two main reasons that I think are good enough to warrent buying a juicer and make a juicer a good investment: Health and Versitility.

First, a juicer is perhaps the best appliance you can own if you’re looking to improve your health. If you want to get as many nutrients into your body as possible, then a juicer is the only appliance for you. Nothing else will suffice. You can’t eat a cup of kale, 5 stalks of celery, raw giner, raw turmeric, and a whole oraanic lemon for breakfast. But you can easily juice it into a single glass.

The second reason to buy a juicer that I think qualifies it as a good purchase is it’s versitlilty. It allows you to do so much in the kitchen.

If you’re buying a juicer that is a cold press juicer, then you are also getting a juicer that has attachments to make pasta, puree fruit and make nut butter. You can even make a smoothie if you get a smoothie/juicer combo. (As an aside, I cover this in my article Can You Make Smoothies With A  Juicer…suprisingly, you can).

So, with a juicer, you can do the following:

• Make Vegetable Juice like V8
• Make Apple, Orange, and Grapefruit Juice for Breakfast
• Make Health Green Juices Full of Vitamins
• Make Nut Butter
• Make Pasta
• Make Frozen Fruit Desserts

All of the above are reasons that I consider a juicer a good investment.

Do You Consider A Juicer An Investment For Your Health?

The best way to determine if a juicer is a good investment is to ask yourself if you consider your health an investment? Do you bother spending money or time or energy in trying to improve your health and your well being?

If you’re type of person who pays for a gym membership, or if you buy vitamins, or if you spend time trying to eat healthy…then you are someone who considers your health an investment. And in that same vein, a juicer is a good investment.

It’s something that will help you acomplish your goals and can not only help you health wise, it can help you fiscally. A juicer can help you develop habbits that prevent illness and prevent you from having to head to the doctor. As has been mentioned again and again in the news media, health food saves you money in the long run by keeping you health and less likely to get sick.

Imagine switching from drinking soda and sugarry drinks from Dunkin Donuts or Starbucks and instead drinking a fresh juice in the morning. That will remove tons of unhealth sugars from your diet. A surefire way to lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes and other health problems that will cost you in the long run.

How Do You Measure A Return On Investment?

I covered this above where I outlined the cost of a glass of homemade oragnic juice made from a juicer. When compared to what you spend when you buy a fresh juice from a juice bar or even buy a “freshly made” juice from a supermarket, it’s obvious. Your juice is a good investment because you don’t even have to use it that much to see returns!

A return on investment (otherwise known as an ROI in business speak) is how much money you will get from your initial invesment. When we are discussing juicers and if they are a good investment, the proper way to think of this is to consider how much you won’t spend. Not spending, is equivilant to saving, which is akin to making money.

The money you don’t spend on expensive store brought juices is money in your pocket!

A juicer that costs a hundred dollars will pay for itself in 6 months if you have one juice a week. If you juice three times a week, it will pay for itself in 3 months!

If your someone who drinks juice everyday, that juicer will end up paying for itself in a matter of weeks!

Not only that, but these juicers, especially the Omega, Hurom, Greenstar and Kuvings, last for years. You will save yourself hundreds if not thousands of dollars.

It’s really not up for discussion. The only way a juicer is not a good investment is if you buy it, put it in the closet and never use it. Even in those cases, the juicers hold their worth. You can always sell them secondhand and get a decent price.

Just keep the box that the juicer came in and the paperwork. It’s like a car, if you buy an Omega juicer and eventually want to sell it and move up to a more expensive model like the Greenstar, then you can sell it used. Many people will buy them and refurbish them and sell them to stores and even individuals.