The Vitamix  500 Blender has been a real gift to me.  There is just so much you can do with it.  I have had so many blenders over the years and this one is so much better than all the others.  There a multiple speeds on this blender and it comes in several colors.  I have it in black and Ithink it comes in white and red also.  I use it for making smoothies and juices.  I was really curious about how well it did juices.  I make a fresh vegetable juice every day and I make it in this blender.  It works somuch better than a juicer because it is so clean and so few parts that it is really...