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Vitamix websiteTexas_wedge said:Vitamix
Thanks for the info Mike. I must say i like 'the real stuff'. I hate the sort of very strongly flavoured sorbets and water ices popular in Europe. Fortunately in Scotland we have a great tradition of Italo-Scots fish and chip shops and ice-cream parlours. Locally we have a family who have both in adjacent premises with a very inventive spectrum of flavours of the real stuff.
The Vitamix will do the job for you and you'll find ways of packing in the good veggies in a palatable way with fruits, nuts and seeds if you choose to. By the way, you may not know that you can also use it to make your own ice-cream. How about a lovely green spinach ice-cream?
If you are interested in some Vitamix recipes and watching some videos, sign up for VitaMix lady website. She is a demonstrator and has some wonderful videos and her website has many good recipes. You do have to adjust the recipes somewhat because they are higher in calories than I like. Very informative website. Enjoy.0 -
PeasMikeK703 said:Sounds delicious
Tex, that smoothie sounds delicious ... if we get rid of that last ingredient.
One evening during dinner, about 55 years ago, I sneaked the canned spinach (yecch!) from my plate and put it in some tissues and put that in my pocket. (My mother used to let me eat in front of the TV to watch the Mickey Mouse Club so it was easy to do.) I planned to flush it right after dinner. It was an old trick that had worked for me many times before. This time, however, my father was spending too much time in the john and my pocket was bulging. I panicked and and tossed it into the top shelf of my parents' bedroom closet. Two years later my mother found it. She called me into the room and asked me what it was. I said, "It looks like spinach." "How did it get there?" she asked. I answered, "Maybe it was there when we moved in." She laughed and I got off scot free. But I wouldn't hesitate to do that again if my wife ever made me spinach.
Peas! Yuck!!! Mike, I have the same story except it was peas (which have always made me gag) and that tissue wad found its way between the couch cushions at my friend's house, where I forgot it. Must've been quite a discovery ;-).0 -
My First Smoothie
Well, my Vitamix arrived a few days ago and in place of my normal peanut butter sandwich for lunch, I made my first smoothie -- a receipe from the book that included fresh spinach, cucumber and frozen strawberries. While I wouldn't describe it as "delicious," at least it wasn't awful. After mixing, I added some hot black pepper and a dash of salt to help the taste a bit. I chug-a-lugged it and it was so cold from the frozen strawberries that I got one of the "ice cream headaches." Thank God, the strawberries were strong enough to camouflage the cucumber and spinach. My first "healthy" drink. I feel like a real grown-up! Now if I can only keep up with it.
Mike0 -
SmoothieMikeK703 said:My First Smoothie
Well, my Vitamix arrived a few days ago and in place of my normal peanut butter sandwich for lunch, I made my first smoothie -- a receipe from the book that included fresh spinach, cucumber and frozen strawberries. While I wouldn't describe it as "delicious," at least it wasn't awful. After mixing, I added some hot black pepper and a dash of salt to help the taste a bit. I chug-a-lugged it and it was so cold from the frozen strawberries that I got one of the "ice cream headaches." Thank God, the strawberries were strong enough to camouflage the cucumber and spinach. My first "healthy" drink. I feel like a real grown-up! Now if I can only keep up with it.
Mike
Disappointed it wasn't delicious, Mike. You maybe didn't use enough spinach?
Most commercial smoothies and many home recipes are based around apple and banana and those would also mask the flavour of most items that you might want to include but not to taste. They're good foods that give plenty of bulk at fairly low cost.
I've just made my first smoothie of the day with a granny smith apple, a small banana, 1/4 cantaloupe, fresh strawberries, fresh blueberries, a chunk of peeled fresh ginger and a large handful of curly kale, plus a mug full of ice - not bad at all. The ginger predominates but I'll enjoy 4 large glasses of it over the next hour or so.0 -
PeasOne Lucky Girl said:Peas
Peas! Yuck!!! Mike, I have the same story except it was peas (which have always made me gag) and that tissue wad found its way between the couch cushions at my friend's house, where I forgot it. Must've been quite a discovery ;-).
Lucky Girl,
I'd feel sorry for anybody who invited you and me to dinner. who knows where they would find the food?
Peas. The second worst tasting vegetable.0 -
Peas please!MikeK703 said:Peas
Lucky Girl,
I'd feel sorry for anybody who invited you and me to dinner. who knows where they would find the food?
Peas. The second worst tasting vegetable.
Peas do seem to divide opinion a bit sharply. I love them but my Wife can't stand them, except for fresh garden peas which she actually enjoys eating raw, so long as they're freshly shucked (by me
). OK then, Mike, I won't bother to let you have a lovely recipe calling for yogurt with cucumber, spinach and peas.
Since you're even newer to Vitamix culture than I am, I feel I must warn you of a smoothie hazard I've learnt the hard way. Depending on the constituents and how long you leave your masterpiece to stand, some of the constituents can start to settle out. I've had the experience of taking a sip, finding a thick top layer has formed with hidden, rather more liquid levels below, and tipping my glass more steeply - danger, danger, danger - the runnier lower levels then burst through the stiffer top layer and your lovely smoothie descends down the outside of your body rather than the intended inside of your body!! Fruit juices are often bad staining agents too, so a rapid striptease may be called for. Be warned.0 -
Quite the trioTexas_wedge said:Peas please!
Peas do seem to divide opinion a bit sharply. I love them but my Wife can't stand them, except for fresh garden peas which she actually enjoys eating raw, so long as they're freshly shucked (by me ). OK then, Mike, I won't bother to let you have a lovely recipe calling for yogurt with cucumber, spinach and peas.
Since you're even newer to Vitamix culture than I am, I feel I must warn you of a smoothie hazard I've learnt the hard way. Depending on the constituents and how long you leave your masterpiece to stand, some of the constituents can start to settle out. I've had the experience of taking a sip, finding a thick top layer has formed with hidden, rather more liquid levels below, and tipping my glass more steeply - danger, danger, danger - the runnier lower levels then burst through the stiffer top layer and your lovely smoothie descends down the outside of your body rather than the intended inside of your body!! Fruit juices are often bad staining agents too, so a rapid striptease may be called for. Be warned.
Well wouldn't we be just quite the trio! Little bits of rotting food hidden around (maybe to be found during an Easter-egg hunt?) and Tex with drooly smoothie down his shirt :-). And here I was thinking of myself as rather elegant ;-).0 -
Quite the trioOne Lucky Girl said:Quite the trio
Well wouldn't we be just quite the trio! Little bits of rotting food hidden around (maybe to be found during an Easter-egg hunt?) and Tex with drooly smoothie down his shirt :-). And here I was thinking of myself as rather elegant ;-).
Yes, and anyone coming to this forum fearful of finding it just too gruesome would hereby find their worst fears realised!!
However, Billy Girl, I always picture you as elegance incarnate and it reminds me of a question that I hope you might be able to help me with, given your pursuit of physical perfection. I think Fox may also be well-placed to pass expert comment. I've been dabbling in some basic tai chi movements recently and it strikes me that quite a few moves are essentially the same as I perform with dumbbells, including the breathing patterns. My question is: wherein lies the benefit of the slow, gentle, graceful, flowing tai chi moves when I could be doing much the same with weights, thereby gaining much more in the way of strength and endurance?
Perhaps the comparison is specious but i liken it to the contrast between the incredibly gentle massage I've been directed to and benefited from at the hands of a physio and the benefit I've also derived from a swedish massage that had me just about screaming with pain.
[If anyone else here who's got relevant expertise can give me an educated answer on this I'd be grateful.]0 -
anti-angiogenic dietTexas_wedge said:Smoothie
Disappointed it wasn't delicious, Mike. You maybe didn't use enough spinach?
Most commercial smoothies and many home recipes are based around apple and banana and those would also mask the flavour of most items that you might want to include but not to taste. They're good foods that give plenty of bulk at fairly low cost.
I've just made my first smoothie of the day with a granny smith apple, a small banana, 1/4 cantaloupe, fresh strawberries, fresh blueberries, a chunk of peeled fresh ginger and a large handful of curly kale, plus a mug full of ice - not bad at all. The ginger predominates but I'll enjoy 4 large glasses of it over the next hour or so.
For anyone wanting to get up to speed on the topic of dietary combat against cancer, you could do a lot worse than watch this very lucid and impressive video by William Li.
http://www.ted.com/talks/william_li.html?quote=724
I found his presentation very persuasive and brilliantly delivered. During the lecture, he showed a list of valuable foods. Below is the list. (By the way, very unusually, tomatoes are of greater value to us cooked than raw - I can't think of another food of which this is true, though there may be others?)
Angiogenesis inhibiting foods:
Green Tea
Strawberries
Blackberries
Raspberries
Blueberries
Oranges
Grapefruit
Lemons
Apples
Pineapple
Cherries
Red Grapes
Red Wine
Bok Choy
Kale
Soy Beans
Ginseng
Maitake Mushroom
Licorice
Tumeric
Nutmeg
Artichokes
Lavender
Pumkin
Sea Cucumber
Tuna
Parsley
Garlic
Tomato
Olive Oil
Grape Seed Oil
Dark Chocolate
Earl Grey Tea
Blend of Dragon Pearl Jasmine and Senchai (ie, a synergetic effect of food compounds exists)
Vitamin E
This thread seems to me to be a good spot to air this information since so many of the above foods are naturals for incorporation in smoothies [but where's the spinach, I ask myself]. It's notable how many of the foods listed are fruits. I was happy to see that most of them are elements of my own diet. I can't resist highlighting green tea, Earl Grey tea and red wine!0 -
Food listTexas_wedge said:anti-angiogenic diet
For anyone wanting to get up to speed on the topic of dietary combat against cancer, you could do a lot worse than watch this very lucid and impressive video by William Li.
http://www.ted.com/talks/william_li.html?quote=724
I found his presentation very persuasive and brilliantly delivered. During the lecture, he showed a list of valuable foods. Below is the list. (By the way, very unusually, tomatoes are of greater value to us cooked than raw - I can't think of another food of which this is true, though there may be others?)
Angiogenesis inhibiting foods:
Green Tea
Strawberries
Blackberries
Raspberries
Blueberries
Oranges
Grapefruit
Lemons
Apples
Pineapple
Cherries
Red Grapes
Red Wine
Bok Choy
Kale
Soy Beans
Ginseng
Maitake Mushroom
Licorice
Tumeric
Nutmeg
Artichokes
Lavender
Pumkin
Sea Cucumber
Tuna
Parsley
Garlic
Tomato
Olive Oil
Grape Seed Oil
Dark Chocolate
Earl Grey Tea
Blend of Dragon Pearl Jasmine and Senchai (ie, a synergetic effect of food compounds exists)
Vitamin E
This thread seems to me to be a good spot to air this information since so many of the above foods are naturals for incorporation in smoothies [but where's the spinach, I ask myself]. It's notable how many of the foods listed are fruits. I was happy to see that most of them are elements of my own diet. I can't resist highlighting green tea, Earl Grey tea and red wine!
Tex,
I would add walnuts to that list.
And by the way, I've spoken to the men in the white coats about your spinach obsession and they should arrive shortly to chauffeur you to the place with the iron fence so you can enjoy the company of other disturbed folks.
Mike0 -
V8...MikeK703 said:Food list
Tex,
I would add walnuts to that list.
And by the way, I've spoken to the men in the white coats about your spinach obsession and they should arrive shortly to chauffeur you to the place with the iron fence so you can enjoy the company of other disturbed folks.
Mike
Hey... I haven't bought a Vitamix yet, but I did start drinking low sodium V8
It needs salt!0 -
NutsMikeK703 said:Food list
Tex,
I would add walnuts to that list.
And by the way, I've spoken to the men in the white coats about your spinach obsession and they should arrive shortly to chauffeur you to the place with the iron fence so you can enjoy the company of other disturbed folks.
Mike
Agreed Mike, also almonds and two of my great favourites pistachios and brazils (despite their radioactivity level).
Have you tried walnut and spinach curry - so delectable! They know the value of spinach on the Subcontinent - I'm just about to eat a saag masala over saffron rice for my main course.
I'm not sure whether I've just heard the first cuckoo of spring but the men in the van probably frightened it off.0 -
V8garym said:V8...
Hey... I haven't bought a Vitamix yet, but I did start drinking low sodium V8
It needs salt!
In a few days you won't notice that it needs salt. I tasted regular V8 the other day and I said to myself, this has too much salt.
If you'll notice, it's a bit thinner too. More watery it seems. Gotta shake it up real good, but it's hard to do that when the bottle is full. So when I first open a bottle, I usually pore out a glassful, then shake the bottle to give it a good mix and then pore a separate glassful which I drink and then pore the first glass back for the second shake later on. I should have been a rocket scientist.0 -
SpinachTexas_wedge said:Nuts
Agreed Mike, also almonds and two of my great favourites pistachios and brazils (despite their radioactivity level).
Have you tried walnut and spinach curry - so delectable! They know the value of spinach on the Subcontinent - I'm just about to eat a saag masala over saffron rice for my main course.
I'm not sure whether I've just heard the first cuckoo of spring but the men in the van probably frightened it off.
Walnut and spinach curry? That's ungodly. I think if God wanted us to eat spinach he wouldn't have created pizza with pepperoni.0 -
Anti-cancer veggiesTexas_wedge said:anti-angiogenic diet
For anyone wanting to get up to speed on the topic of dietary combat against cancer, you could do a lot worse than watch this very lucid and impressive video by William Li.
http://www.ted.com/talks/william_li.html?quote=724
I found his presentation very persuasive and brilliantly delivered. During the lecture, he showed a list of valuable foods. Below is the list. (By the way, very unusually, tomatoes are of greater value to us cooked than raw - I can't think of another food of which this is true, though there may be others?)
Angiogenesis inhibiting foods:
Green Tea
Strawberries
Blackberries
Raspberries
Blueberries
Oranges
Grapefruit
Lemons
Apples
Pineapple
Cherries
Red Grapes
Red Wine
Bok Choy
Kale
Soy Beans
Ginseng
Maitake Mushroom
Licorice
Tumeric
Nutmeg
Artichokes
Lavender
Pumkin
Sea Cucumber
Tuna
Parsley
Garlic
Tomato
Olive Oil
Grape Seed Oil
Dark Chocolate
Earl Grey Tea
Blend of Dragon Pearl Jasmine and Senchai (ie, a synergetic effect of food compounds exists)
Vitamin E
This thread seems to me to be a good spot to air this information since so many of the above foods are naturals for incorporation in smoothies [but where's the spinach, I ask myself]. It's notable how many of the foods listed are fruits. I was happy to see that most of them are elements of my own diet. I can't resist highlighting green tea, Earl Grey tea and red wine!
I've posted this video before, but it's worth a re-post. Kidney cancer is discussed, so we can single out the most important veggies to get in our diets....
http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/1-anticancer-vegetable/
Now, how can we get leeks into our smoothies? 0 -
Tai ChiTexas_wedge said:Quite the trio
Yes, and anyone coming to this forum fearful of finding it just too gruesome would hereby find their worst fears realised!!
However, Billy Girl, I always picture you as elegance incarnate and it reminds me of a question that I hope you might be able to help me with, given your pursuit of physical perfection. I think Fox may also be well-placed to pass expert comment. I've been dabbling in some basic tai chi movements recently and it strikes me that quite a few moves are essentially the same as I perform with dumbbells, including the breathing patterns. My question is: wherein lies the benefit of the slow, gentle, graceful, flowing tai chi moves when I could be doing much the same with weights, thereby gaining much more in the way of strength and endurance?
Perhaps the comparison is specious but i liken it to the contrast between the incredibly gentle massage I've been directed to and benefited from at the hands of a physio and the benefit I've also derived from a swedish massage that had me just about screaming with pain.
[If anyone else here who's got relevant expertise can give me an educated answer on this I'd be grateful.]
Hi Tex,
I myself have never tried tai chi, but I believe as an exercise form it has many benefits:
http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletters/Harvard_Womens_Health_Watch/2009/May/The-health-benefits-of-tai-chi
In this article they mention that tai chi can be helpful in recovering from surgery. That makes sense, since it offers the opportunity to get the body moving without straining. Kind of wish I'd thought of it in the past few weeks. Perhaps tai chi could help you regain muscle tone and range of movement following your upcoming surgery once you are strong enough. Maybe it could even help get you back out on the links sooner. :-)
And do tai chi and weight training have to be mutually exclusive or could one practice tai chi on one day and do weight training on another for a cross-training benefit?
I think when it comes to exercise that we should choose a form that complements our current health situation and lifestyle. It is also important to choose fitness activities we enjoy and can fit into our daily routines. I myself have engaged in many types of fitness over the years: I was a swimming instructor/lifeguard as a teenager. In university I got my brown belt in karate. I have since traded karate bruises for power yoga -- my most strenuous workout of the week. Power yoga requires more strength and endurance than weight-lifting alone -- particularly as it challenges all of the muscles in my body to hold various poses and maintain balance.
I like participating in exercise classes for the social aspects, so my weekly routine consists of power yoga, step and dance aerobics and Pilates. I combine this with an active lifestyle that involves daily dog walking and hiking or skiing on sunny weekends. I wasn't always this physically active, but I discovered a passion for moving and simply 'feeling alive'. I will be starting back to aerobics tomorrow for the first time since my surgery 6 weeks ago and will try skiing next week (I have been walking every day since my 5th day post-op). I hope this all goes well and that my energy level doesn't fail me.
So... that's the best answer I can give without enrolling in tai chi! Perhaps there's someone on this board with more experience in the art.0 -
Any advice on the Vitamix model seriesjam66 said:Anti-cancer veggies
I've posted this video before, but it's worth a re-post. Kidney cancer is discussed, so we can single out the most important veggies to get in our diets....
http://nutritionfacts.org/videos/1-anticancer-vegetable/
Now, how can we get leeks into our smoothies?
All, I read this post and found the product of Vitamix pretty good and easy for my daily life once I get back to work. However, there are so many model and series, which one is good enough? Any advice?
Thank you.0 -
Vitamix modelsBeingbless said:Any advice on the Vitamix model series
All, I read this post and found the product of Vitamix pretty good and easy for my daily life once I get back to work. However, there are so many model and series, which one is good enough? Any advice?
Thank you.
I'm too new to it all to make recommendations. I bought the Creations II model, a 48-oz. vs. the 64 oz. Creation model. I'd recommend going to Amazon.com and searching for Vitamix and read the reviews of the different models. I bought directly from the manufacturer, spending a bit more, because Amazon didn't carry this model and QVC didn't have any in stock and didn't know when they would.
Mike0 -
Vitamix modelsMikeK703 said:Vitamix models
I'm too new to it all to make recommendations. I bought the Creations II model, a 48-oz. vs. the 64 oz. Creation model. I'd recommend going to Amazon.com and searching for Vitamix and read the reviews of the different models. I bought directly from the manufacturer, spending a bit more, because Amazon didn't carry this model and QVC didn't have any in stock and didn't know when they would.
Mike
I don't own one, but the discussion here made me notice a reconditioned model was mentioned today on the slickdeals.net site. It's sold by Vitamix with a 5 year warranty.
https://secure.vitamix.com/reconditioned-blender-64oz-5yr-warranty.aspx
--David0 -
thank you so muchDMike said:Vitamix models
I don't own one, but the discussion here made me notice a reconditioned model was mentioned today on the slickdeals.net site. It's sold by Vitamix with a 5 year warranty.
https://secure.vitamix.com/reconditioned-blender-64oz-5yr-warranty.aspx
--David
Hi Mike and David, thanks for the info, I will check it out.
Thanks.0
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