Matt's cousins that live in Mesa have 5 fruit trees in their backyard. A couple months ago we went over and picked a bunch of fruit. Last week we finally ran out of the fruit we picked. It just so happened they were ready to pick the rest of the fruit off the trees. We went over to help them pick all their fruit. We pulled at least 80 grapefruit and a bunch of oranges and tangelos as well. 80 grapefruit goes a long ways. We took a few bags and left the rest for them. Even though we love grapefruit, we had enough to last us until September. We decided since we love the way it tastes we should drink it, too! So after church we headed over to my grandparents to borrow their juicer.
Matt sliced the fruit and I juiced.
We filled the 2 quart pitcher. Time to upgrade to the gallon!
We quadruple strained it. There was still some leftover pulp, but it was much better than it would have been without our intense straining effort.
Here is what our efforts produced. That is straight grapefruit juice in there! We added some water and a little Splenda and had over a gallon. We have been drinking it sparingly and it has lasted us a week already. If I let Matt drink as much as he wanted, it would have been gone on Monday night. We also made some orange/tangelo juice which was a nice change to my breakfast routine this past week. Can't wait until next citrus season! Thanks for reading :)
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