green smoothie, blender or juicer?

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I may have missed part of the thread...can I do a Kale smoothie in a

blender? I don't have a juicer yet, but make smoothies in blender

with frozen berries, ice, etc. I think greens would work ok in a

blender? no carrots though I guess!

 

 

 

, Donnalilacflower

<thelilacflower wrote:

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> That sounds awesome to me. Then I'd eat the pulp

> mixed with vegenaise or peanut butter.LOl I'm not

> picky!

> Donna

>

> --- Sharon Zakhour <sharon.zakhour wrote:

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> > Me too!

> >

> > This was my smoothie this morning:

> >

> > 1 banana

> > 3 or 4 carrots

> > frozen blueberries

> > frozen cherries (I was out of mango)

> > flax seed

> > hemp seed

> > about a quarter cup of nutritional yeast

> > unsweetened cherry juice

> > 2 huge red chard leaves

> > a bunch of dandelion greens

> > half a bag of spinach

> > one Pixie Vite (it's a powdered vitamin that my kids

> > hate, so I'm using

> > them up)

> >

> > :-)

> >

> > Sharon

> >

> > Donnalilacflower wrote:

> > > LOL I put everything in my smoothie. Even

> > dandelion

> > > greens.

> > > Donna

> > >

> > > --- Sharon Zakhour <sharon.zakhour wrote:

> > >

> > >

> > >> No, don't be alarmed. A green smoothie is a

> > fruit

> > >> smoothie with greens

> > >> added. It _tastes_ like fruit, but has the color

> > of

> > >> the greens and is

> > >> packed with nutrition!

> > >>

> > >> Sharon

> > >>

> > >> Nicole W. wrote:

> > >>

> > >>> I agree - I love Kale but I can't see it in a

> > >>>

> > >> smoothie with sweet stuff LOL

> > >>

> > >>> I could maybe see it in a cold soup but not a

> > cold

> > >>>

> > >> smoothie LOL

> > >>

> > >>> On 6/26/07, Valerie <bvwagner wrote:

> > >>>

> > >>>

> > >>>> I wish I had someone to make me a kale smoothie

> > >>>>

> > >> to try -

> > >>

> > >>>> I'm afraid just the name makes me want to say

> > >>>>

> > >> " yuck " though LOL!

> > >>

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[Guest guest]

How exactly do you make smoothie, what do you use, give the scoop..

I thought they were more like milk shakes than anything and they

used milk or yogurt or some kind of dairy.. Are they in place of a

meal or what?? If not it sound like an awful lot of calories for

me..

Bev

 

 

, " Melissa " <mapalicka

wrote:

>

> I may have missed part of the thread...can I do a Kale smoothie

in a

> blender? I don't have a juicer yet, but make smoothies in blender

> with frozen berries, ice, etc. I think greens would work ok in a

> blender? no carrots though I guess!

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Woah! So much interest in the green smoothies! :-)

 

I don't have a smoothie recipe -- I have a smoothie formula. I should

add that Dr Fuhrman calls these " blended salads " .

 

First, I don't juice the kale. I want the whole food. But I do use a

powerful blender - a Vitamix.

 

First I put in the banana (used to be fresh mango, but lately it's a

banana). Then I add whatever veggies I want. Today it was a few

carrots. Sometimes it's zucchini or summer squash. Or sometimes I get

right to the other fruit.

 

Then I add any other fresh fruit, like a tangerine or an apple or

strawberries or blue berries. Then I add the frozen fruit. I buy it at

Trader Joes and I love the frozen mango, mixed berries, and

blueberries. Sometimes I use frozen pineapple, peaches or cherries. I

fill the huge container about half full of fruit or fruit/veggies.

 

Then I add the flax seed. About 1-2 tablespoons. If I'm using Goji

berries, I add them here. Ditto with hemp seed.

 

Then I add some unsweetened fruit juice. Lately it's been cherry but

sometimes I use pomegranate or blueberry. I buy this at Trader Joes. I

add enough juice (or juice and water) until it comes up about 3 " in the

container, with the fruit in the bottom.

 

Now, the container is half full. I jam pack the rest of the container

with greens. I usually start with collards or chard or kale or

dandelion greens. I might use a leaf or two of one or two different

greens. I SQUISH them into the container.

 

Finally, I fill the rest up to the tippy top with spinach. I can get

several really large hand fulls in there. Like half a bag of spinach.

 

Then I put on the top and get my tamper. I have to _really_ wail on

that tamper. Once everything is going on its own, I remove the tamper

and lick it clean. That tells me how sweet or spicy it's going to be.

:-) Then I add a Pixie Vite (it's a powdered vitamin) because my kids

won't eat them and I want to use them up. :-)

 

The resulting smoothie is delicious, but can be a disgusting color.

Sometimes it's really green. Sometimes it's poopy brown. But even my

daughter likes them.

 

A good way to get started is to throw a hand full or two of spinach into

your smoothie. The taste of spinach is undetectable (unlike some of the

more strongly flavored greens). Just one or two hand fulls will hardly

even change the color.

 

:-)

 

Sharon

 

Bev wrote:

> How exactly do you make smoothie, what do you use, give the scoop..

> I thought they were more like milk shakes than anything and they

> used milk or yogurt or some kind of dairy.. Are they in place of a

> meal or what?? If not it sound like an awful lot of calories for

> me..

> Bev

>

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> , " Melissa " <mapalicka

> wrote:

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>> I may have missed part of the thread...can I do a Kale smoothie

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> in a

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>> blender? I don't have a juicer yet, but make smoothies in blender

>> with frozen berries, ice, etc. I think greens would work ok in a

>> blender? no carrots though I guess!

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