By Kara Lawson
After hearing/reading/thinking about juice cleanses over the past year. Damien and I decided we would take the plunge and try one. A 3 Day Cleanse is usually the shortest type available, but you can really choose any length that works for you. Some people do 1 day cleanses, some go up to 6 weeks. We’re just dipping our toes in the water. So what type of juice should you drink and how frequent should you consume them? If you google “juice cleanse” you will get a ton of information back. Sifting through it all we decided to follow the Blueprint Excavation Cleanse.
The cost of these cleanses range anywhere from $50 to $100 per day when you include cost of the juice and delivery. All you have to do, is put the juice in the fridge and follow the numbers on the bottles each day. That was a little pricey for us. Since we juice twice a week already, we decided to make all of the juice for the 3 Day Cleanse ourselves. It was quite the undertaking 
Heather and Mica decided to join in on the fun as well, so we had to purchase a ton of produce. Damien went to Whole Foods and purchased everything we needed. Yes, that is a 15lb box of Kale; along with 24 cucumbers, 20 lemons, and 16 apples.
Heather juices regularly also and brought her juicer over. Twice the fun. In all, it took us about 4.5 hours to run through everything and magically change all of the produce into THIS!
We’ll keep you posted on our progress.
Good luck Kara! I need to do the same as I have somehow become addicted to sugar the past few weeks. Ugh.
this is great but don’t you loose enzymes and nutrition by juicing like this. verses making juices everyday and when needed.
Some vegetables can lose enzymes as soon as they are exposed to air. Thankfully, most green vegetables don’t do that (kale, spinach, ect). You have a very small window. 2 days is the longest we go for preparing juice in advance. We’re told, because we use a slow juicer, our juice will stay fresher longer. We still won’t do anything over 3 days.