Had it for two years - love it! :)

My dad got us into "juicing" with his carrot/apple juice that he made. I gave up on the horrible Hamilton Beach type juicers you can buy on the shelf at Walmart, and went to work on some research. After a lot of reading, I settled on an Omega 4000 and it was worth every penny. I absolutely love it. It yields a thin juice that is not filled with pulp like the cheaper juicers. If you really want a juicer, it's a waste of money to purchase a cheap juicer, because you'll make it up in produce costs. With a better juicer, you get more juice for your money. With my cheap Hamilton Beach one, I'd have to try to put the pulp back through the juicer because so much juice was wasted.

I drank beet, carrot and spinach juice combined with fruits all during the third trimester of my last pregnancy. As a result, my daughter refused cereals as a first food and settled on green vegetables instead. She is now 19 months old and eats salads and most especially, carrots, which are her favorite snack and dinner food. I haven't had much time of late to do much juicing, but she definitely prefers to eat salad and greens over Teddy Grahams - her doctor thinks she's weird! :)

There are many books on the benefits of juicing and the right juice can even be curative for certain problems. During my pregnancy, I brought down my blood pressure naturally by juicing dandelion greens from my own property (yuck - have to mix them with something sweet!)

My only complaint is that I wish the insertion tube was wider. You have to really cut your carrots and apples, etc., small to fit down there.

Definitely go the distance and don't compromise on a cheap juicer if you really want the benefits of juice with a decent consistency, and don't want a lot of waste!