[corndancer]

Originally Posted by dandelion

A plain electric coffee grinder is one thing we could not do without. It will help to grind some seeds, like flax seed and sesame seed for example, which are super for salad dressings. My favorite food is raw broccoli with ground sesame seeds! We also use it to grind dried chili peppers, although not so much lately.

A juicer would be great. You can go for the best one, but I would suggest to start out with a cheap one, then you can decide if you like it or not. People are against centrifugal juicers, but I have cured my (chicken egg large) goitre with centrifugal juices, so that was not too bad. We moved on to the best one available, but you don't need to start that way! You can even grate vegetables and squeeze juice with your hands as one of my patients has done effectively.

A blender is great, especially for green smoothies, if you can afford one, but a simple food processor also goes a long way. We have a type with a small container which works almost like a blender, and it was pretty cheap (second hand).

A food processor will save you a lot of work obviously when you are going to do a lot of salads.

Initially my husband built our own dehydrator with about 10 trays. But to be honest, we now hardly ever use it, except for making dried banana chips for our daughter and for drying herbs and that kind of thing! I just feel that dehydrated foods is not the way to go. Initially we did a lot of potato chips and that kind of thing, but we have grown out of that....

Just our experiences....

thank you so much for all the information, I will buy a food processor and a blender but does it need to be a Vita Mix or an expensive one?
ah ho!
corndancer