Fresh, Homemade Orange Juice (without a juicer)

The other day I had the random urge to make my own orange juice.

I don't really love orange juice.. but I drink a glass each morning to mix in my probiotics and chase my fermented cod liver oil.

It turns out it's kind of fun to make - not to mention getting to avoid any added sugars/preservatives in store bought OJ. If you have a juicer - you're way cooler than me. Although there are times where I'd love to have one, it's pretty far down on my list of "wants"... but it would be about 4 times easier than doing it this way.

Fresh Homemade Orange Juice

You will need:

• 6-8 oranges
• Citrus Juice Squeezer (when I was googling to try and figure out what this is called I found these ones which would be AWESOME... so I may upgrade my dollar store one to this soon!)
• Measuring cup or bowl (to squeezer over)
• Knife (to half the oranges)
• Water

Roll the oranges between your hands or on the counter to soften them up. This gets the juices running, it will be noticeable softer! It's okay the bang it a little. I actually handed Will and few to chuck a crossed the kitchen while I was squeezing some...

Halve your soften oranges and rotate them on your juice squeezer thingy. I juiced them into a 2 cup Pyrex measuring cup because it had a wide top and spout to pour. But you could use a bowl too.

Repeat for all the oranges, take break and eat some trail mix if you have weak forearm muscles like I do.

All the pulp will be caught in your squeezer if you aren't a pulp person. If you are, just add it in! If you like extra pulp, you could scrap it out of the squeezed oranges. I am not a pulp person, but I added what the squeezer caught because I don't like wasting...

I got just over 2 cups of juice from 8 oranges. Now you can either enjoy the juice as-is (it is SUPER sweet) or dilute it with equal parts water. I diluted it because I don't prefer the smack-you-in-the-face-with-sugar-taste. And then it goes twice as far!

Have you ever made your own orange juice? 

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