Green Smoothie

Editgrl

A bit off topic, but I have been looking for a really tasty green smoothie recipe to incorporate into my diet.  Maybe it's just me, but most of them I can just barely choke down.  I do combine some greens with berries and other fruit, but I'd love to find a true green smoothie that I like.  Anybody got a favorite recipe they can share?

Diya

Try this one

Greens + half banana + 2 dates + berries + aloe vera

rcdeman

1 cup unsweetened almond or

• 1 cup unsweetened almond or soy milk, can also use prune juice or other juice (if you want more sweetness)
• 1-2 handfuls of spinach
• 1-2 handfuls of kale
• 1-2 frozen bananas
• 2-4 soft pitted dates
• 2 tbsp hemp hearts
• 1 tbsp natural peanut butter
• 2 ice cubes
• 1 tbsp flax seed
• 2 ice cubes
• 1/2 avocado
• optional: berries
• optional: other greens

Editgrl

Thanks.

I'll try these.  Interesting that they both use dates, something I seldom have around the house.

daylady

Here's ours..

This makes enough for two because my husband drinks them too... you can cut it half for one...

1 c ice cubes

1 cup water, or unsweetened almond milk

1-3 kale leaves broken into small pieces w/stalk removed

1/2 cucumber unpeeled cut up

1 apple, peeled and cut into chunks

(also add a 1/2 banana OR 1/4-1/2 c blueberries ore strawberries, OR some cut up cantelope)

a little fresh, cut up ginger

dash of cinammon

I also add a scoop of Vega Vanilla Protein powder and an envelope of Orac-Energy Greens but this is optional.

Hugs! - Helen

Editgrl

That sounds yummy, Helen

I think it was you who recently mentioned your morning green smoothie.  Love that it has the cinnamon in it.  So glad to get everyone's favorites.

artist49

smoothie recipe

This makes 2 smoothies. I drink one and save second for the next day.

half lb. berries(I use black raspberries preground in vitamix 5 minutes so seeds are crushed)

two thirds of an avocado

cinammon to taste

3 apple cores w seeds intact

one half purple carrot cut in thin slices

mint leaves

kale leaves with stems included  (or other greens)

half of an organic lemon cut into little pieces (peel,pits and all)

flaxseed

green tea powder

raw cacao powder

one quarter tsp liquid natures answer stevia

piece of raw turmeric root if you can find it

water

I have been drinking this since end of treatment in Feb 2011.  I am now 5 and a half years in remission from UPSC stage 4B grade 3 with

widespread lymph involvement. Could it be helping? Who knows?

 

 

Double Whammy

Yuck

I love most of the ingredients in these smoothies, but I have yet to acquire a taste for green smoothies.  But I love kale (really) and most of the ingredients individually.  Do you think the ingredients really have to be blended?  They sound good and healthy regardless.

Suzanne

Editgrl

Double Whammy said:

Yuck

I love most of the ingredients in these smoothies, but I have yet to acquire a taste for green smoothies.  But I love kale (really) and most of the ingredients individually.  Do you think the ingredients really have to be blended?  They sound good and healthy regardless.

Suzanne

Like you, I've yet to find a

Like you, I've yet to find a green smoothie I really like.  That's why I started the thread.  I do eat a lot of greens, chard, kale, etc. and always have a huge mixed salad with dinner, but I've read so much about the benefits of green smoothies, I'd like to find one that I can put in my rotation with my other non-green ones.

artist49

Double Whammy said:

Yuck

I love most of the ingredients in these smoothies, but I have yet to acquire a taste for green smoothies.  But I love kale (really) and most of the ingredients individually.  Do you think the ingredients really have to be blended?  They sound good and healthy regardless.

Suzanne

taste of smoothies

my smoothie tastes really good despite the diversity of the ingredients. I would not be able to drink it

for so many years if it didn't. I am sure the other smoothies taste good too because a blender can  really combine 

things in new and  interesting ways   if we are just willing to experiment.

MAbound

rcdeman said:

1 cup unsweetened almond or

• 1 cup unsweetened almond or soy milk, can also use prune juice or other juice (if you want more sweetness)
• 1-2 handfuls of spinach
• 1-2 handfuls of kale
• 1-2 frozen bananas
• 2-4 soft pitted dates
• 2 tbsp hemp hearts
• 1 tbsp natural peanut butter
• 2 ice cubes
• 1 tbsp flax seed
• 2 ice cubes
• 1/2 avocado
• optional: berries
• optional: other greens

ice cubes

did you mean to type 2 ice cubes twice?