Green Smoothies!
A super easy and delicious way to get the bulk of your vitamins and nutrients for the day is to start adding a green smoothie into your daily diet.
Green smoothies have been around for a long time, but they have recently been popularized by and generally given credit to raw foodist Victoria Boutenka.
So what exactly is a green smoothie?
Basically it's 1/3 bananas, 1/3 leafy green vegetables, and 1/3 juicy, sweet fruit and water.
One of the best things about this is that you can design them to suit your own particular tastes!
Green smoothies have been around for a long time, but they have recently been popularized by and generally given credit to raw foodist Victoria Boutenka.
So what exactly is a green smoothie?
Basically it's 1/3 bananas, 1/3 leafy green vegetables, and 1/3 juicy, sweet fruit and water.
One of the best things about this is that you can design them to suit your own particular tastes!
Suggestions for the leafy green vegetable portion are:
kale
Romaine lettuce
parsley
spinach
swiss chard
Suggestions for fruits include:
peaches
nectarines
mango
kiwi
strawberries
blueberries
apples
raspberries
pineapple
The benefits to adding a quart of green smoothie to your daily diet are many.
To start with, you can get all the nutrients from all the individual fruits and vegetables without having to sit and chew for an hour.
Your body can process all the vitamins and minerals much faster than if you were to sit and chew everything individually.
You can easily bring a quart of green smothie with you to work or while traveling, and know that you are getting your nourishment.
To start with, you can get all the nutrients from all the individual fruits and vegetables without having to sit and chew for an hour.
Your body can process all the vitamins and minerals much faster than if you were to sit and chew everything individually.
You can easily bring a quart of green smothie with you to work or while traveling, and know that you are getting your nourishment.
It will fill you up and satisfy your sweet tooth at the same time.
As far as quantity to put in, go by the size of whatever your blender will safely hold, and divide that into thirds. Then add maybe a quart of distilled water, depending on the size of your blender, again, and also how thick or thin you want it to be.
To get you started, use any kind of a blender from Wal-mart or wherever. You will most likely find that it will not stand up to daily use, though, for very long. Hopefully that will not be the case!
I recommend the Vita-Mix very highly, as it is the very best and most powerful blender around. I have had mine for over 10 years, and I use it nearly every day. It can handle frozen bananas, frozen fruits, even ice cubes with ease.
The Vita-Mix breaks down the foods better than any other blender, into a form even smaller than how our own teeth can chew it, so your body will assimilate more of the nutrients. Click here for more information on that.
I recently purchased a K-Tec blender just to compare, and to me there was just no comparison. I didn't even want the K-tec as a back-up! That said, however, there are many people that are satisfied with a K-Tec, but I cannot personally recommend them.
My favorite combination is bananas, peaches, kale and parsley. Yum!
Anyway, experiment with your own favorite combinations of green, leafy vegetables and sweet, juicy fruits and find your own favorite!
As far as quantity to put in, go by the size of whatever your blender will safely hold, and divide that into thirds. Then add maybe a quart of distilled water, depending on the size of your blender, again, and also how thick or thin you want it to be.
To get you started, use any kind of a blender from Wal-mart or wherever. You will most likely find that it will not stand up to daily use, though, for very long. Hopefully that will not be the case!
I recommend the Vita-Mix very highly, as it is the very best and most powerful blender around. I have had mine for over 10 years, and I use it nearly every day. It can handle frozen bananas, frozen fruits, even ice cubes with ease.
The Vita-Mix breaks down the foods better than any other blender, into a form even smaller than how our own teeth can chew it, so your body will assimilate more of the nutrients. Click here for more information on that.
I recently purchased a K-Tec blender just to compare, and to me there was just no comparison. I didn't even want the K-tec as a back-up! That said, however, there are many people that are satisfied with a K-Tec, but I cannot personally recommend them.
My favorite combination is bananas, peaches, kale and parsley. Yum!
Anyway, experiment with your own favorite combinations of green, leafy vegetables and sweet, juicy fruits and find your own favorite!
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1 comment:
Its simply amazing!
Thank you so much!!
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