Mr. and Mrs. Clause delivered a Jack LaLanne Power Juicer Deluxe to me this December. I was so excited. I love infomercial products (Miracle Blades, Magic Bullet, ShamWow, etc.) but rarely get to own such items. I look forward to Bloomsday each year, not just so I can walk/run with ~30,000 other people but so I can go to the Bloomsday trade show. The trade show attracts all sorts of As Seen on TV vendors, and I get excited seeing the mini-infomercial productions come to life in Spokane.

Jack LaLanne, what a man. His juicer is great, and it’s the perfect solution to slimy vegetables, a problem many face.

My New Year’s Day involved a lot of juicing. Apples, oranges, cucumbers, spinach, carrots, pears, and cactus. I do not recommend juicing cactus. It gets quite slimy and gooey, but it does make a great prickly pear juice—if you like those.

The down side of the Jack LaLanne Power Juicer Deluxe is, of course, the size and weight of the machine. Yet those are also the qualities that make it so great. You really can put whole pears, apples, and oranges in the machine. I woke up to a text message this morning notifying me Rosauers is having a big sale on oranges and all other produce today. (There are also rumors that Rosauers will set aside produce for people to juice and sell it extremely discounted.)

I guess that means fresh orange juice for breakfast and screwdrivers for dinner.