Post Workout Green Smoothie

This is a mild green smoothie recipe with the best of both worlds in proteins and simple sugars, giving your body everything it needs after a GREAT workout. 

Ingredients

2 cups spinach

1/2 romaine lettuce head

2 stalks celery

3 bananas 

3 oranges

1 cup blackberries

Directions

Place all ingredients into a blender and blend until thoroughly combined.

Pour into a glass and serve.    

Incredible Hulk Smoothie

Kid Friendly Green Smoothie

Ingredients

1 frozen banana

1/2 cup frozen pineapple

3/4 cup water

1 cup spinach

1 tablespoon raw honey (children under 1 year of age should not consume honey)

Directions

Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until thoroughly combined and serve!

Banana Pineapple Green Drink

Banana Pineapple Green Drink

• 1 cup frozen banana*
• 1 cup frozen pineapple*
• 2 cups spinach
• 1 cup water

1. Blend in high-speed blender until smooth.

* You can use fresh bananas and pineapple but I would add some ice.

http://www.rawmazing.com/banana-pineapple-green-drink/

The Green Breakfast Challenge

Each day, we are working to incorporate GREEN into our breakfast.  Here are a bunch of possible green breakfast foods to include!

My most simple smoothie recipe is 2 cups of organic, baby spinach + 2 cups of frozen fruit in the blender with water.  Smoothies are the easiest way for us to incorporate many greens, as I can vary the greens and vary the fruit!  You can add a bit of sweetener, honey or pure maple syrup, as needed. Or use 100% juice or fresh juice for the liquid.

Often, I'll use my herbal infusions as the liquid. And I'll freeze any extra smoothie - flat in a gallon-size Ziploc. This provides a quick frozen 'mixed juice' to toss in the blender in the afternoon as a Pick-Me-Up!

 

Basic smoothie recipe:
2 cups liquid (coconut water, water, juice, kefir, nettles, milks, etc)
2 cups greens (rotate, spinach, kelp, Romaine, spring mix, asparagus, etc - use organic)
1 cup frozen fruit (berries, mango, bananas, peaches, etc - use organic)
1-2 tablespoon of fat (avocado, coconut oil, cream, ghee, nut butter, etc.)
1/4 cup protein (pastured egg, nuts, seeds, nut butter, sprouts, liver, etc.)

1/4 teaspoon herbs or spices (cinnamon, cayenne, turmeric, kelp, ginger, etc.)
(optional) sweetener (honey, maple syrup)
1/4 cup of whole food probiotics (kefir, kombucha, yogurt)

Avocados
Bell peppers
Cabbage
Celery
Collard greens
Fennel
Garlic
Green beans
Green peas
Kale
Mustard greens
Romaine lettuce
Sea vegetables
Spinach
Turnip greens
Kiwifruit
Limes
Watermelon
Basil
Cilantro
Dill
Parsley
Peppermint
Rosemary
Sage
green tea
chives
lavender
mint
alfalfa
amaranth
chickweed
dandelion
fenugreek
nettles
oatstraw
red clover blossoms
seaweed
violet leaves

Sprouts: Alfalfa, Clover, Arugula, Cress, Radish, Fenugreek, Mizuna and Tatsoi,Garlic, Chives, Onion, Mung, Garbanzos, Peanut, Lentils, Peas, Broccoli,
wheat, barley, rye, oats, amber wave, amarath, buckwheat, corn, Kamut,
millet, quinoa, rice (billion types), Spelt, Triticale

Grasses:Wheat, Rye, Barley, Triticale, Flax and Oats, SpeltBaby sprouted greens:
buckwheat lettuce, mesclun mix, (Mustard, Radish, Mizuna, Tatsoi,
Cabbage, Cress and Arugula), pea shoots, popcorn shoots, sunflower
greens, garlic, leek, onion, red clover, Fenugreek,

Microgreens: alfalfa, clover, broccoli, arugula, cabbage, cress, radish, cabbage, chia, curly cress, flax greens

Sprouted nuts and seeds: almond, hemp, Peanuts, Sunflower Seeds (Hulled), Pumpkins (Hulled or Naked), sesame

The Sprout People: http://www.sproutpeople.com/seeds.html#Anchor-All-6041

Swiss chard
Green Leaf lettuce
Endive
Escarole
Bok Choy
broccoli
brussel sprouts
wheat grass
zucchini
beet greens
Arugula
Green apples
Green grapes
Green pears
Jalapeno
Mache
Watercress


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