Juice is great now and then, but I'd rather eat my calories most of the time.

Nope. It's lovely as a treat on vacation, but it's too caloric for my daily intake. I'd rather have the whole piece of fruit with all of its benefits.

I agree, its a bit too acidic for me in the morning. It's nice on holiday though (probably because that's usually brunch!).

Not that fussed about the calories but its a shame to miss out on most of the fibre that the whole piece of fruit has - I don't think its as healthy as people think.

I agree with akay. My liquid intake mainly consists of water because I want to use my calories for food!

Also, I just really don't like juice all that much, save for fruity cocktails :-)

I used to drink a small glass of orange juice every day. Since I'm watching my calories, I now dilute it by half with water. But I still love the sweetness of the juice in the mornings!

HAVE to have a glass of grapefruit juice first thing every morning -- before my coffee -- before my shower. I've even gone to the store at 10 pm if I've noticed I'm low for the morning. And no, I don't live in Florida. I just buy the Simply Grapefruit or Tropicana in the refrigerated section in my grocery store.

Probably 4 out of 7 mornings each week, I drink a 50-50 combination of pure unsweetened cranberry juice mixed with either no-sugar-added pineapple or apple juice. I have to have the cranberry juice (I am super prone to UTI) but there is no way I can drink it straight (if you've never had pure unsweetened cranberry juice, suffice to say it makes Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice Cocktail taste like KoolAid) so I mix it with something that also offers some other health benefits as well.

Can the juice have booze in it? No?

I don't like juice unless its a cocktail or mocktail or smoothie. I think it goes back to the fact that when I was growing up in the 80s, the pediatricians didn't want parents giving babies juice because of the sugar content, when they could be getting the sugar elsewhere, and not in bottle form (apparently rots teeth faster? idk). So I very rarely had juice, and only apple juice.

I drink tons of water now, and the occasional cranberry juice watered down with plain selzter.

I drink a glass of oj every single morning, along with a glass of water. I know it's not as healthy as the actual fruit, but I love it and truly, there are worse things that I drink - and eat! I'm a Midwesterner, too, btw, but I'm pretty sure that has nothing to do with it!

I can't even tell you the last time I had juice of any form in my fridge. I would blame my parents for my lack of juice drinking, but to tell the truth my mom usually has at least cranberry juice hanging around somewhere. However I did notice once I hit college, that almost everyone I met, drank orange juice every morning, no matter what. I always felt odd not having grown up with that tradition at breakfast. Don't get me wrong, I love fruit and eat a lot of it, just not juice, I'm like some of the people above, I would rather eat my calories than drink them I guess.

Huh, I thought everyone started their day with orange juice because "a day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine!" Anyway, I personally feel like I'm missing something if I don't have my oj.

I grew up drinking a small glass of tropicana every morning with breakfast. It turned me into a bit of a juice snob. Now that I'm on my own and can't actually afford tropicana I no longer drink juice. But if it's on sale I'll treat myself and have a small glass every morning

First thing, every day, I have a small glass of OJ. I think that wakes me up more than coffee. Then I have a cup of coffee and after that I drink water for the rest of the day.

Also, I don't really think of juice as replacing my fruit intake for the day. I still have a variety of fruits every day.

I love juice in the am! I have it pretty regularly, orange, apple, cranberry or whatever. I love having it and making my breakfast a 'meal'.

What I've never been able to understand is how other people drink so LITTLE juice. I would drink gallons of it every day, if I could afford it (physically and financially). I always thought that those little diner glasses were somewhere between a tease and a joke.

meh, not really. i like orange juice in smoothies if i make one for breakfast, but i tend not to buy it much. it goes bad WAY before i get through a half gallon.

I love juice but I very rarely drink it. My doctor told me it's no better than drinking a glass of sugar water at breakfast. I indulge on holidays, though, because it really does "make" breakfast doesn't it?

I also have to check my daily calories but twice a week I indulge in a small glass of fruit juice. At weekends I tend to make homemade smoothies. I avoid alcohol and soft drinks so the occasional glass of oj or mixed juice (without added sugar) is fine for me.

I would love to have the juice in the photo everyday!

I grew up drinking juice since drinking homemade and natural fruit juices is in my culture. (My grandmother can make juice out of anything and comes up with these amazing combinations!) But the juice drinking I experienced growing up in this country was not the kind I would've been exposed to had I grown up in my birth country. The only time we had "native" juices were when we went to our ethnic market or casual homey restaurants.

Instead we grew up on Tropicana and other store-bought apple juice, berry combinations, juice boxes, et cetera. Now that I'm more aware of the highly processed foods (and beverages) available in supermarkets, I don't drink juice anymore. I don't keep it in my fridge or in the pantry. I don't even like it anymore. I find them to be too sweet. Plus, I've always had a problem with the fruit on the label not being included in the ingredient list. Doesn't even taste like the fruit!

Having said that, the only exception is when we have parties. We'll buy cranberry and orange for mixed drinks and the Sweet Tea brand of iced tea (because I like the taste) for those not drinking. And of course, when I visit my grandparents or go to my ethnic restaurants/markets.

Oh, but I will have smoothies 2-3 times a week and drink all 24 oz. by myself in a span of 4 hours. Love them!

Not a juice gal either as I'd rather save the calories for food first thing in the morning.

I don't really do the juice thing in the morning either, though my boyfriend can go through a carton in a day! I always saw it as an a.m. pick-me-up, considering the amount of sugar. Which is exactly why it's too sweet first thing for me. I do have a juicer and occasionally will make a juice of oranges, apples and greens, though. But that's rarely in the morning. I have a feeling it's based a lot on how you grew up.

I grew up drinking tons of juice. It petered out somewhere towards the end of high school, and now I drink mostly water, but I still usually keep some kind of juice on hand. Drinking a small glass of fresh-pressed apple juice (not from concentrate) is a great way for me to feel like I'm getting something sweet mid-afternoon, without actually chowing down on junk.

I grew up drinking juice for breakfast, but stopped that habit as an adult. It was one area where we could cut our grocery budget, and now that we have children I'd rather them have a glass of milk or water to start the day. Me - I have a cup or 2 of coffee.

A few days a week I'll pull out the juicer and make my family a beet/carrot/apple/kiwi/kale/ginger juice. Very tasty.

Drank TONS of juice as a child, but now that I'm out on my own I think it's been years since I've bought juice! Not that I don't enjoy it--sometimes I'll have a glass of grapefruit juice at the diner, but otherwise I'd just rather have water or coffee in the morning.

I am not a breakfast person: but I realize that getting some calories when you wake up is important to wake up your metabolism as well. So I have become a juice, or smoothie, drinker in the morning. A small glass of OJ (Tropicana only please...) strawberry, or grapefruit juice is usually my breakfast. Only if I have a leisurely morning will I make a smoothie.

I'm not sure on the health benefits of juice on the whole though. I mean, if you are drinking your calories because you can't stomach solid food when you first wake up (or for a good number of hours after waking) then certainly it's better than nothing. However I don't drink juice otherwise, when I do it's almost always as liquid food.

I stopped drinking soda...I gave up fast food...I limit my alcohol intake...and I avoid overly processed/excessively packaged foods whenever possible. But damnit, I LOVE me some orange juice, and I just can't give it up! I am also a petite gal who gets rather faint if I don't eat something every few hours, and if no healthy snacks are available, I gulp a cup of juice and magically revive.

Seriously, I'd rather have juice than candy. MMMmmmMMMMmmm...

I don't like drinking calories unless i'm sick.

I grew up always having some kind of juice in the fridge. I like it fine, just not enough to buy it on my own most of the time.

When I do, it's usually something I can mix with vodka. :)

No, I don't think juice is particularly healthy and we don't buy it. Our kids don't drink it.

I enjoy freshly squeezed juice or cocktails with it on a rare occasion. I think "juice" like Tropicana is gross. It tastes nothing like fresh squeezed juice.

Love fresh squeezed juice! Since our home in located in an old citrus grove, we have lemon, orange and grapefruit trees in our backyard. My son and I bring in a basket full of citrus, and I juice it for breakfast. I put the remaining juice in a glass jar for later in the week. I put little ziplocs in the freezer full of lemon juice to use throughout the year. We have plenty of citrus to go around, and give a good portion to friends and family. Citrus Anyone?? :)

I always thought I was one of the few people who doesn't really drink juice. I could go through gallons of seltzer, and might even put a scant ounce of juice in a big glass of seltzer if my husband has bought some, but that's it. (Unless it's alcoholic....)

I have never been much of one for juice in the mornings, although I think it's a nice treat in the afternoon or evening. My tastes have slowly gotten less sweet: I used to drink sweetened juice (like ocean spray blends) as a kid, and then when I was in college I started buying 100% juice only.
When my partner and I started living together, we'd buy pineapple or mango juice and seltzer and drink them half-and-half with each other a few times a week. Even then, I'd maybe only have 4-6 ounces of juice a day maximum, with water making up most of what I drank.
Now that I make my own kombucha, it's replaced juice as my go-to treat during the day. I was thinking today that I missed having pineapple juice and seltzer, so I may pick that habit up again. But I think for the most part juice is a little too sweet for me and not something I crave often.

An enormous glass of diluted OJ (40%H2O/60%OJ) every morning for me!

I would seriously like to be informed on the logic behind the idea that fruit juice is not healthy. How is a bunch of vitamins, water and natural sugars not healthy? Unless by juice you mean Kool Aid...

I would also like an explanation on wanting to eat your calories rather than drink them. So, it makes more sense to have eggs and bacon than to have juice?

Anyway, I love juice (the real stuff, mind you, not the sugar, artifical flavour and artificial colouring in water that pretends to be juice) at any time of the day. I usually have a glass with breakfast. I don't know why, but I am crazy about carrot juice, it is the most delicious of juices to me. I have to watch it though because it is extremely concentrated in vitamin A, one of those rare vitamins an overdose of which can lead to serious health problems, not to mention that half a glass a day can give a fair skinned person a yellowish sheen, and larger quantities can discolor any person's skin. A word of advice: when your skin changes colour from drinking carrot juice, it is usually the beginning of a vitamin overdose.

I've never been much of a fruit or vegetable eater, but I bought a juicer 2 years ago and LOVE it. I juice something every morning and feel better for it all day. I wish I was diligent about calories/fiber, but I'm not. And yes, it takes a minute to clean but all the pulp (except citrus) goes in my compost. I couldn't start my day without juice!

A glass of it every morning. I can feel the cells in my body becoming hydrated and happy.

I love juice and grew up with it, but I just can't ever have that much sugar in one day, and the sugar-free juice options are just nasty, so I don't have juice.

The only juice I've never really liked is OJ. It gives me HORRIBLE heartburn if I drink it. So, we've never been friends. But if I could drink juice with my breakfast, I would do it in a heartbeat, regardless of calories.

I have a juicer ^_^ And am still in the process of juicing the 15 lbs of grapefruit I bought for 5 bucks. That's a LOT of juice as one grapefruit makes about a cup of juice.

I stick to coffee, water, and tea. I remember when I was a kid and how I loved breakfast at my grandparents' because we were given a tiny glass of grape juice. I can still remember that cold, sweet glass of juice.

my morning starts with coffe nd evening with tea,..so juice is very rare,..mostly when its too hot,.:;-)

I love juice, but I'm a slave to the coffee and cannot imagine changing my morning ritual. I buy juice more as a treat, or a special snack, than as a staple. Not for any particular reason--probably because I grew up in a household where we didn't really purchase juice that often.

Until about 18 years ago I would go without breakfast because my stomach just didn't like heavy breakfast food like eggs, cereal or toast first thing in the morning. That practice meant I often had a headache before lunch and over ate the rest of the day.
I then began with a glass of juice when I got up and as the morning wore on allowed myself as much fruit as I could eat until 30 -45 minutes prior to lunch time. It was a solution to missing a meal. My stomach never had issue with the juice or fruit. For the record I don't drink anything made from concentrated fruit juice.

It works for me.

I need a huge glass of water in the morning, no juice, no coffee, no tea, water.

I used to squeeze orange and/or grapefruit every morning but, more and more, I find oranges to be so grossly sweet and grapefruit has become fructus non grata for medical reasons.

If, on occasion, I have had too much to drink the night before, 2 oranges and 1 lemon juiced does wonders.