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Swing - How do you make your smoothies? About like I make mine, or are your

ingredients different? Do you use a blender also?

 

swing bolder <swingbolder wrote: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!

>

 

 

 

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