Guest guest Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 Joanie, I've been mixing fruits and veggis in my morning smoothies as well and my body seems to be enjoying it too. swing --- Joanie <christmasbaby1956 wrote: > > > I have been making my " morning smoothies " everyday > in my blender - and these are the ingredients that I > use: > > BANANAS - always my " base " > > ANY AND ALL VARIETIES OF FRESH FRUIT - with the > exception of citrus fruits; I find that when made in > my blender, the citrus fruits have a tendency to > clog up my straw, lol, so I don't use them in > smoothies. > > ICE CUBES WITH ADDED COLD WATER - I have found that > to get the " right " consistancy that I am after, I > need to add a bit of cold water, with the ice cubes. > > A COUPLE OF " LARGE HANDFULS " OF MIXED GREENS & > VEGIES - What I do is just use my daily salad mix > that I have made up; which consists of a large > variety of mixed greens, and vegies that I have > tossed in to keep the greens company; mostly green > vegetables of one sort or another. > > Thats it! My question is, does this seem like the > appropriate/healthful way that is recommended to > make smoothies? I was just making only fruit > smoothies, but when I read about green smoothies > being so beneficial, I started adding greens and > other suitable vegies, such as brocolli, etc. > > It still seems " weird " to me to be mixing in the > greens with the fruit, but from what I have recently > read in my Raw Groups, is that this is fine to do. > (I had been hung-up on what I had previously read > about NOT mixing fruits with vegies/greens, Etc.) > > I have found that since I started making my > smoothies GREEN, that I like them even better, and > that is what I have begun to CRAVE in the mornings > now! > > It can all be so confusing, and I would like to know > that what I am doing is fine; or if there is > something that I should change, I would like to know > that too. > > Thanks for any feedback! An e-mail from Joanie > May all of your journeys be safe ones. > > > > > > > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been > removed] > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 10, 2005 Report Share Posted April 10, 2005 I have been making my "morning smoothies" everyday in my blender - and these are the ingredients that I use: BANANAS - always my "base" ANY AND ALL VARIETIES OF FRESH FRUIT - with the exception of citrus fruits; I find that when made in my blender, the citrus fruits have a tendency to clog up my straw, lol, so I don't use them in smoothies. ICE CUBES WITH ADDED COLD WATER - I have found that to get the "right" consistancy that I am after, I need to add a bit of cold water, with the ice cubes. A COUPLE OF "LARGE HANDFULS" OF MIXED GREENS & VEGIES - What I do is just use my daily salad mix that I have made up; which consists of a large variety of mixed greens, and vegies that I have tossed in to keep the greens company; mostly green vegetables of one sort or another. Thats it! My question is, does this seem like the appropriate/healthful way that is recommended to make smoothies? I was just making only fruit smoothies, but when I read about green smoothies being so beneficial, I started adding greens and other suitable vegies, such as brocolli, etc. It still seems "weird" to me to be mixing in the greens with the fruit, but from what I have recently read in my Raw Groups, is that this is fine to do. (I had been hung-up on what I had previously read about NOT mixing fruits with vegies/greens, Etc.) I have found that since I started making my smoothies GREEN, that I like them even better, and that is what I have begun to CRAVE in the mornings now! It can all be so confusing, and I would like to know that what I am doing is fine; or if there is something that I should change, I would like to know that too. Thanks for any feedback! An e-mail from Joanie May all of your journeys be safe ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 11, 2005 Report Share Posted April 11, 2005 Hi Joanie, If you have a juicer, you might consider juicing your greens before adding them to your smoothies. Kimberly > > A COUPLE OF " LARGE HANDFULS " OF MIXED GREENS & VEGIES - What I do is just use my daily salad mix that I have made up; which consists of a large variety of mixed greens, and vegies that I have tossed in to keep the greens company; mostly green vegetables of one sort or another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 11, 2005 Report Share Posted April 11, 2005 Thanks Joanie. Seems you already have the anawer, trusting yourself is helpful. bannana, cucumber and red pepper is one of my favorites. peace, Mark Joanie <christmasbaby1956Joanie <christmasbaby1956Sun, 10 Apr 2005 09:01:10 -0700 (PDT) Smoothie Question I have been making my "morning smoothies" everyday in my blender - and these are the ingredients that I use: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 13, 2005 Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 Good morning Joanie, As your message was originally posted a few days ago, I am including some excerpts here ahead of my reply : .... My question is, does this seem like the appropriate/healthful way that is recommended to make smoothies? .... It still seems " weird " to me to be mixing in the greens with the fruit.... It can all be so confusing, and I would like to know that what I am doing is fine; or if there is something that I should change, I would like to know that too. I have given this issue some thought over the years myself, especially in light of the meals I have seen put into the glass jar of a blending machine. In my opinion, meals prepared by juicing whole fresh foods will always be somewhat inferior to eating the original material in it's whole state. By juicing or blending, I believe that we are introducing the following potential problems: a. the food materials are being thrashed and torn up in the presence of air, meaning that rapid oxidation will take place. b. we are artificially replacing the action of chewing, a process that involves salivary enzymes and the most perfect mechanical action in the first step of obtaining nutrients from our food. c. juicing makes it easy for us to combine, without too much thought, materials that we would not think of eating on a plate. Ponder the greens-with-fruit issue(which I see you already have, Joanie) - would you eat broccoli with bananas, for example? Whatever adverse digestive consequences we can imagine from improper combining of foods in a meal, they will not go away simply because the meal has been mechanically reduced to a liquid or near-liquid state. d. two aspects of this type of meal should cause blood sugar levels to rise much more rapidly (with all the consequences that this can induce) than if the same food materials were eaten in their whole, original state - the sugars have been partly released before any chewing action has taken place, and the entire nutrient content of the food will most likely be swallowed much more rapidly than would take place with steady chewing. I'm aware that a lot of the well recognized authorities on nutrition advocate juicing, in some cases as part of a daily regimen. I've also witnessed speakers who advocate juicing as a means of `flooding the system with nutrients'. I remain skeptical about this strategy, for the reasons stated above - whatever level of nutrients we need, if there was a better system than the mouth and all the equipment that follows it, we should expect to have evolved with it in place by now! Having said that, we do live in a situation that leaves us all far removed from nature, and we now deal with pollutants unprecedented in our natural history. As a food group, greens seem to be the one that equips our systems to fight back. If the only way to take a meal of greens on the run is to blend or juice it, this might still be the best available compromise. I would just be very cautious about combining fruits and greens in this way. The rules of correct food combining are simple and easy to learn, and I think their application in this type of food preparation is all the more important. Juicing is surely a way to `take it with you'. One of my tricks is to whip 7 or 8 good sized bananas with water and sip it at red lights on the way to my first assignment of the day. With a meal like this, I try to remain conscious of the compromises I've introduced to this meal - and I sip slowly, using a mock chewing action (an effort to try to promote some of that salivary action that takes place automatically when I am peeling and then correctly chewing my whole bananas). Just one more comment to make - as you referred to broccoli in your post. I'm going out on a limb here a bit, and will suggest that it is probably not a raw food for us (humans) under any circumstances - whole or blended/juiced. I know people can be strongly in favor of this. My learning indicates that this food, while showing great `performance numbers' in a laboratory set up for nutrient analysis, is simply not fit for our digestion. There's a reason it tastes bitter and cannot be used alone as a food to supply supporting calories in a meal - the cellulose is not suitable for our digestion. With this in mind, I would avoid putting this in a blended meal at all times, and bear this in mind when juicing it as a contributor to your smoothies as well. Visualize the banana-with-broccoli meal, and you may choose to leave it aside! Grant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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