My Favorite Green Smoothies

A green smoothie is a delicious drink made with green leafy vegetables and fruit. With one green smoothie you can consume 5-8 servings of fruits and vegetables!

The best Green Smoothies are made with 60% fruit and 40% veggies.  The fruit mask the taste of the greens. This creates a vibrant green smoothie that’s surprising tasty, and
extremely good for you.

I drink at least a quart a day. My favorite are made with frozen pineapple, mango, peaches, kale, spinach and parsley.

Did you know you if you consume 5 servings of fruits and 3 vegetables each day you cut your chance of heart disease and cancer by a whopping 75%!!

Typical Breakfast Smoothie

• 1 banana
• 1 cup frozen strawberries or blueberries or mixed berries
• 2 cups organic orange juice
• 1 cup kale (stems removed) or romaine lettuce, or spinach
• 1 handful of parsley
• 1/8 head purple cabbage
• 1/2 to 1 cup ice

If I have broccoli or asparagus I add them too.

FCA Friends Favorite

I make this one for the teaching staff and my daughter’s school– Family Christian Academy. They beg me to make more.

• 1/2 bag frozen  mango chunks
• 2- 3 cups frozen strawberries
• 1 cup pineapple
• 1 banana
• 1 cup spinach
• 2 cups kale
• 1/2 cup parsley
• 2 cups almond milk
• 1 cup ice

Red Green Smoothie

Beets are amazingly sweet. I never need to add steeva when I use beets. Note the beet tops have more nutrients than the root.

• 1 Beet and tops
• 1 cup frozen strawberries
• 5 leaves kale, stems removed
• 1 handful spinach
• 1/2 to 1 cup ice

Limey Love Shake Recipe

This recipe and video is from PHMiracleLiving.com

• 3 Limes (I only use 1!)
• Baby Spinach
• Mache Greens
• Butter leaf lettuce or Romaine
• Half and Avocado
• English cucumber
• Ice cubes
• Raw green stevia

When I’m out of avocados I use a banana instead.

Tropical Green Smoothie Treat

• 1/2 Apple, Fuji
• 1/2 Banana
• 1/2 Pineapple, fresh, diced
• 1/4 C. Orange Juice
• 1/2 C. Coconut Milk
• 1-2 cups kale (stems removed) or romaine lettuce, or spinach
• 1/2 to 1 cup ice

Detox Smoothie

• 1 1/2 cup of cold water
• 1 cups kale (stems removed) or romaine lettuce, or spinach
• 3 large stalks of celery
• 1/8 head purple cabbage
• 1 banana or apple
• 1 cucumber
• 1/3 bunch of parsley
• Juice of 1/2 a fresh lemon
• 1/2 to 1 cup ice

Pearulicious

• 1 cup green grapes
• 1 orange, peeled
• 1 Bartlett pear
• 1 banana, fresh or frozen
• 1 cup kale (stems removed) or romaine lettuce, or spinach
• 1 handful of parsley
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 cups ice cubes

Chocolate Mocha Green Smoothie

• 1/2 cup kale (stems removed) or romaine lettuce, or spinach
• 1/2 squash
• 1/2 zucchini
• 1 can Coconut Milk
• 1 teaspoon instant coffee
• 3 tablespoons raw organic cocao nips (http://www.rawcacao.com/)
• 1 packet Steeva
• 1 cup ice

Super Pick Me Up

• 1 Whole Peeled Orange
• 1 Banana
• 1 Stalk Celery
• 1/2 Apple or pear
• 1 cup kale (stems removed) or romaine lettuce, or spinach
• 1 Avocado
• 1/2 to 1 cup ice

Cantaloupe Smoothie

• 1/2 ripe cantaloupe, peeled, seeded, and cut into chunks
• 1/2 or 1 banana
• 1 cup spinach
• 1 cup almond milk
• 1 cup vanilla organic yogurt
• 1 cup crushed ice

This is cantaloupe season. I buy them on the side of the road bring ‘em home, cut them up and freeze them in baggies.

Do the same with bananas when they get old– freeze them. Using frozen fruit mean less ice needed.

Why Kale?

I don’t like kale but I know it is one of the more nutritious foods. If I hide the kale taste with fruits I don’t know it is there.

This chart is by Dr. Joel Furhman, author of Eat to Live, classifying the nutrient density in a variety of foods with 1000 being a perfect score. This is a great reference for
the most nutritious foods. Kale is 1000–10x more than beans!

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