Amazing Find from the Opportunity Store - Part 3

Every so often, the maintenance people take off with a big box truck to pick up food from God's Pantry for the food pantry here at Henderson Settlement. The non-perishable items are unloaded into the food pantry, but things like potatoes and onions and grapefruit are put in or near the Opportunity Store so that community members can pick them up before they spoil.

That's how we ended up with this giant bag of oranges: (Yes, I know that the bag says that they're onions, but they are definitely oranges.)

As soon as I brought them into the apartment, Eric said, "What the heck are we going to do with so many oranges?" I said, " Well, I'll eat a few...." After thinking a little while, Eric came up with the brilliant idea that we should make juice!

Fast-forward to Saturday afternoon. With only half an hour left of Opportunity Store open hours, we headed up the hill, hopeful (but not terribly optimistic) that we'd find a juicer. As we looked at the shelf of kitchen wares, we found a plastic man-powered juicer--mission accomplished! But since we had time to spare, we started wandering around. Eric ended up near the small appliances, and, lo and behold, he found an electric juicer named "Juicit"! We tested it out, it worked, and we gave up on the man-powered one.

After paying our 99 cents (plus tax) for the Juicit, we headed down the hill to try it out! Here's an action shot:

Suffice it to say that we were more than pleased with the results. We had fresh-squeezed orange juice to drink both days this weekend. Amazing.