Plan on spending about 2-5 dollars for a juice that taste great and that is very good for you. If you think of it as a meal it makes much more sense. I can make a great drink for 3.00, but if I went to Wendy's and ate at the 99 cent value menu, it would take at least 3.00 to fill me up. Juicing is better all the way! Heck, I am on my second year of making juice dude! It's only expensive if you are not researching/using all your items. Do the math and the health benifit is much greater than eating a f*ing hamburger - duh! READ EVERYTHING YOU CAN/GOOGLE ALL WORDS I am teaching my 5 year old to read. Maybe she will be a juice faster too!