Monday: Purple Smoothie
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Handful of frozen red grapes, a banana and mixed berries (all frozen)
2 glasses of cold water
Handful of cos lettuce
Handful of baby spinach
0.5 Tsp Vital Greens
** Caffeine: only 4 cups of tea or coffee for the day.
Tuesday’s Green Smoothie was even better!
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Handful of frozen banana and 2 handfuls of frozen grapes.
Handful of cos lettuce and baby spinach.
1.5 glasses of cold water
0.5 Tsp Ultimate Greens
Half teaspoon honey
** Caffeine: only 4 cups of tea or coffee for the day.
Wednesday’s Smoothie
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2 apples (peeled and cored)
2 handfuls grapes
2 handfuls baby spinach and 2 handfuls of cos lettuce
0.25 avocado
1 tsp Ultimate Greens
1tsp honey
1.5 cups cold water
** Caffeine: only 4 cups of tea or coffee for the day.
Thursday’s Smoothie
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2 handfuls frozen grapes
2 plums
1 handful baby spinach
1 handful cos lettuce leaves
1 tsp Ultimate Greens
Splash lemon juice
1 tsp honey
Friday’s Smoothie
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Handful of frozen banana and 2 handfuls of frozen grapes.
2 cups of Carrot/beetroot juice
Handful of cos lettuce and baby spinach.
1.5 glasses of cold water
0.5 Tsp Ultimate Greens
Half teaspoon honey
Weekend Smoothie
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2 handfuls baby spinach
2 handfuls full grown spinach
2 stalks celery
2 handfuls grapes
2 kiwi fruit
A splash of lemon juice
0.5 tsp Ultimate Greens
Well done Susan. Are you feeling any better for it? Are the smoothies taking place of a meal? snacks? or just extra?
Hi Belinda,
I’m not necessarily noticing any difference… *yet*. But my health is very bad and my nutritional deficiencies are many. However, John knows that they are helping him. He has 2 large glasses per day! They are helping with his fatty liver problem, which tends to run in his family. Italians – argh!
The morning smoothie is breakfast- it has replaced his normal breakfast of bacon, tomato and cheese. The afternoon smoothie is an extra, which we have once John gets home from work. It’s supposed to tide him over until tea time but we’re finding that we’re not really hungry after it so our main meal has become smaller! Yay!
Hi Angie,
The more fruit- the tastier they are. I started using frozen berries, thinking that it would be nicer and hide the taste of the greens but we’ve found that we don’t particularly like the berries. We prefer frozen grapes, bananas or raw/peeled apples!
They can be watery and therefore easier to *drink* if you add cold water. However my research tells me that the less water you consume with the actual smoothie, the better it is for digestion and absorption of nutrients. Of course, lots of water throughout the day is recommended and necessary.
So I limit the amount of water I use. This has the smoothie at the thickest consistency that we can drink it at. Your mileage may vary. It will depend upon each person… but there is no mistaking that we are definitely getting more greens and fruit into our diet this way… and it’s not painful or hard.
In my recipes above, I rated them out of 5, using yellow stars. The Tuesday Smoothie and the Weekend Smoothie were the nicest. 🙂
Mmmm, just had to share this morning’s smoothie, which was delicious.
1 orange
2 handfuls of frozen grapes
1 stalk of celery
large amount of spinach
0.5 tsp Ultimate Greens
Simple but yummy!
I had my first ever green smoothie on the weekend, banana, soy milk and red oak lettuce. Today I had watermelon, spinach and avocado it didn’t need any added water and was very, very sweet.
Hi Kylie, Good for you! Green smoothies are the best way for us to get a large amount of nutrients in our body each day. I really like the baby spinach but it’s a bit pricey so I’ve been using cos lettuce which is pretty good too. Thanks for popping by to share with me 🙂
Hi beautiful!
since we are on the subject of green smoothie, yours truly has gone into her “okay everyone,we’re drinking greeeeeeeen!” So, I’ve been making:2 large spinach leaves, 1 cucumber, 2 lettuce leaves, celery stick, 1 apple, handful of pineapple(if available),frozen blueberries, throw it all in with 1/4 cup cold water, into blender & drink with………..STRAW! yep, that’s the best way.Well, my 18yr old,P/T son, slams them down after each workout & the little guy is getting into them too.But the energy boost I get from al that iron is great!! yep, nothing like a good natural green smoothie drink-if only I can grow all that stuff in my backyard!
Oh Lina, I am SO glad to hear that you are going green 😉 Let me know if you want some really healthy, raw protein smoothies that are green as I have recipes for those too. Might be good for your PT son.
Can you plant some greens in the yard? I’m planting in pots. Only just started but it’s better than nothing 😉
Bless ya… lovely to hear from you
Hi Susan, thanks for visiting my blog & leaving that encouraging comment.been lazy in blogging.Maybe I should start writing about my cooking exploits!!
As for planting, I’ve got parsley, mint,spring onions, pineapples(yes, 15mth old pineapples|!!) oregano & belated tomatoes growing! There are few citrus trees growing on their own but no fruits…for 3 yrs in a row!Hope to get some spinach & carrots going soon.
Yep, send those recipes you mentioned.don’t mind trying them at all!!! God bless you and keep you safe! xxoo
Oh please do write about your cooking! I get so motivated when reading about others cooking adventures.