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| - My Jack Lalanne juicer that I stole from my parents in 2003 finally broke :( and instead of investing in a new one, I'm blowing all my money on the high mark up fresh juice at various valley juice bars. Probably not smart, but it is fun to enjoy the drink without the major cleanup!
I am a fan of Nektar juice bar. I have been here a couple times to get fresh juice and one time I got crazy and purchased their one-day cleanse pack. My first drink, "The glow" consisted of carrots, parsley, kale, spinach, celery, lemon and ginger. From my own juicing experience, I knew carrots would make the drink on the sweeter side without the high amounts of sugar from fruit and thus my first obvious drink of choice. I wasn't wrong, this refreshing drink is always on my mind when I walk into Nektar, but I wanted to try their Toxin Flush (parsley, spinach, apples, lemon, and ginger) on my second visit so that's what I did, and it was on the bitter side even with the apples so I'm not sure if I would order this one again unless I was partaking in a juice fast which leads me into my one-day clean pack. This pack comes pre-assembled with six juices either from the Advanced Cleanse menu or the Classic Cleanse Menu with the major difference being more veggies and less fruit in the Advanced, which was what I opted for. These one packs cost are around $50 + (after tax), but when I walked into this store that were have a Flash sale which essentially saved me $10 of retail so I went for it. You get about 990 calories out of the six drinks which consists of two "green" drinks, two lemonades (one with just ginger and lemon, the other with cayenne added), one beet drink, and the last drink is the yummiest which is made up of raw cashew milk! All the cleanse packs come in a cute little cooler and other cleanse packs include a two day, three day, and five day, but I can't afford those!
You can also buy single bottled juice drinks in their refrigerator for about $8 and sometimes those are marked 50% off depending on expiration date.In addition to fresh or bottles juice, you can also purchase smoothies, wheat grass or ginger shots, and food (well, acai bowls or pitaya bowls and some prepackaged organic snacks in the refrigerator). The staff have always been very friendly, polite, and helpful with the questions that I ask, even when there is a line.
I will be back because I really, really want to try their Date Nut smoothie because I love Dateland's date milkshake, but don't want to drive that far. Instead of ice cream Nektar's Date Smoothie is made of cashew nut milk and a banana which I think will blow Dateland's shake out of the water!
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