To go along with yesterday’s post about giving up all canned beverages, today I’m also going to be giving up all those pre-packaged juices, including both the bottled and boxed variety (On a side note: if you’re looking for an amusing form of procrastination, enter the search term “drink box” at Flickr.com and you’ll find a lot of pictures of people either drunk and boxing, drunk and in a box, or drunk with a box on their head).
Almost all such juices are full of high fructose corn syrup and other artificial sweeteners, with next to no real juice in them at all unless it’s from concentrate. And even the ones that do seem healthy still come in plastic or glass — which, yes, can be recycled, but it’s much more environmentally friendly to simply buy some fruit and eat it.
The only juices I ever really buy anyway are those green ones with spirulina and added vitamins and lots of other stuff I’d never actually purchase on its own. But if I’m really craving that, I can always walk next door to Fresh with my own glass and get them to make one for me.
Photo courtesy of Kyler Storm on Flickr
Posted by Vanessa Farquharson 
