Building a Green Smoothie
I recently became hooked on green smoothies as a delicious and efficient way to eat raw greens. Greens provide so many essential nutrients for every part of the body, they can even help to remineralize your teeth and reverse tooth decay. It hasn’t always been easy to consume the recommended daily amount, especially if you are trying to get your kids to eat them. Well, it can be easy – enter the Green Smoothie. When I started making these smoothies for my family life became easier, my children got healthier and I felt good about the level of nutrition my children were getting.
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What is a green smoothie? A green smoothie is really any frozen blended fruit beverage that you add greens to and no, it isn’t necessarily green in color. It is also a great place to hide other superfoods like chia. There are hundreds, probably even thousands of combinations out there that you can suit to your own tastes, but I have a very basic recipe that I work from most of the time.
1 c frozen blueberries
1 banana
1 c plain yogurt
1 c fresh or frozen strawberries (mango, peaches, blackberries, raspberries all work great too – don’t be afraid to experiment)
3 hearty handfuls of fresh greens (i often use baby spinach, mesculin greens, kale, it’s best to rotate through your greens so you’re getting a good variety)
1/4 c chia seeds (you can also use flax if you have a powerful blender)
2-3 c orange juice (again here you can mix it up, I sometimes use pomegranate or cranberry, really whatever I have in the house)
The measurements are all approximations as I usually just dump them in and eyeball the amounts.
Ready to Blend
Throw everything into your blender (I swear by this blendtec) blend it up until smooth and you’ve got a megadose of delicious nutrients ready to go. There is something so satisfying about drinking my smoothies through a straw that makes it almost a requirement – so keep that in mind.
