I have been wanting to make more of the things my family needs instead of going to the grocery store. And because we have three little mouths in our house, we go through a ton of juice.

Something has never sat right with me. Number one, we are spending so much money on juice. But number two, what that juice actually is. It’s not juice in most cases—at least not the kind we’re buying from the conventional grocery store.

Here’s the thing that got me: my plate is so busy. I work multiple jobs, and I don’t say that in a “feel sorry for me” way. I just mean I have my full-time job and I also have my own business as a creator. So convenience is targeted to people like me. I am probably that marketing team’s ideal avatar. I am busy. I am a wife. I am a mother. I have multiple children. I am working overtime.

So the idea of being able to buy this beautiful red juice at the grocery store in a fraction of the time? Pretty appealing.

But the more I watched my children drink this stuff, the more I realized I don’t want them drinking this. I believe they deserve better.

Why Make Juice At Home

I started juicing with a cold press juicer, and it was really nice. I love juice. But it just takes a lot of time, and the cleanup is pretty intense.

So I’d been eyeing a steam juicer. My husband ended up buying me one for Christmas, and I immediately got to work.

I have spent the last several weeks just making juice, and it’s become this thing that helps me decompress. I feel amazing making juice because I know my family benefits from it. And I know exactly what is going into that juice—just the fruit I’ve put in there.

Grapes. Apples. Even though they tell you you should destem your fruit, I don’t. I just put a cluster of grapes in there, or I might barely chop an apple and put the whole thing in. And it has made the most delicious juice that tastes like—it tastes like a cluster of grapes, stem and all. It tastes like what you see in the cartoons where they just swallow an entire cluster of grapes. It’s phenomenal.

It has also given me a much deeper appreciation for different varieties of fruits, like grapes and apples, because it renders such a radically different taste in your juice.

What You Need To Make Homemade Juice

You need a steam juicer and the fruit you’re going to juice. That’s it.

[I’ll link to the steam juicer I use here]—and if you do get a steam juicer, I recommend the one I’m linking to specifically. It’s larger, and you’re going to want to make a lot of juice, not have a smaller pot just because it costs a little bit less. It’s not going to work out.

Now you might be thinking, “I don’t want to buy so many pounds of grapes.” But if you’ve followed my content long enough, you know I always encourage you to buy base ingredients in bulk.

When you’re buying grapes, buy your grapes in bulk. Don’t go to a regular store like Kroger. I encourage you to go at least to a bulk supplier like Costco, or if you live near a farm, they can serve it to you 20 pounds at a time at a much, much lower rate.

What I’ve been doing is I make my juice, and then I actually can it so I can preserve it, and then we put it in the pantry. All in all, I’ve made probably six months’ worth of juice since I got the steamer, and it just sits in our pantry.

So instead of us going to the grocery store to buy conventional “supposed juice,” we are going to our pantry and grabbing the juice that I juiced—that has been preserved in our pantry just a few steps away.

This is What Self-Sufficiency Looks Like

I will say this is one of those areas where we love the idea of self-sufficiency because it sounds like rolling acreage with cows and all of the fancy things. And I love that as well. But self-sufficiency? It’s also in these simple things.

Like, I get to serve my children juice that does not give me concern. I know what it is. I know where the fruit has come from.

We have an orchard in the country that is still maturing. But one day, I know I’m going to go out to a fruit tree and pull off so many pounds of produce and be able to turn that into juice in a single afternoon for my family.

Nothing beats that.

If you’re ready to start building this kind of independence in your own life—not just with juice, but with food, water, health, and energy—I’d love for you to check out my Sovereignty Blueprint course. This is where we go deep into practical skills that give you real options outside of the conventional system, starting exactly where you are.

And if you’re thinking, “Okay, but where do I even start?”—start with one thing. Making juice is one thing. But when you build skills across multiple areas of your life, you’re building a foundation of true family sovereignty. That’s what we teach inside Sovereignty Blueprint, and I think you’re going to love it.