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Making a Green Smoothie in ANY Blender...

2/20/2011

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I made my first green smoothie without using my Vitamix this week.  I used a hand blender, because that’s all I had to use.  Now, because it was much smaller and less powerful, I made four batches.  Smaller quantities and smaller pieces.  I blended my greens with water first, and then I started to add fruit slowly.  An apple and a pear, diced very fine.  A banana, broken into small pieces. More water. Technically, in order to have a full liter of smoothie, I made four small ones.  They all tasted slightly different; one had a pear in it, one had three bananas, one had more cabbage. They were all wonderful and very healthful.  I loved my Green Smoothie, and I loved that I could make it no matter where I went, no matter what equipment I had at hand...

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There was one big difference, though. It wasn’t chunky, but it wasn’t smooth.  Now this isn’t just a texture preference.  Green leafy vegetables have remarkably strong cell walls. The life giving chlorophyll lives within these cell walls, unable to be crushed by our feeble jaws.  That is where my Vitamix comes in.  It runs at 240 mph and completely ruptures those cell walls, releasing the chlorophyll that is so life-changing and disease-fighting. As I was slightly chewing my hand blended smoothie, I realized that I was only getting part of the nutrition that was available to me.  

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Now, mind you, that smoothie was more nutrition than I had EVER gotten ten years ago.  Just by drinking a daily Green Smoothie, you are filling your life with more DISEASE PREVENTION than almost any other addition into your lifestyle.  So, I tip my smoothie to yours...whether it be a hand blended, high speed blended, commercially blended, or that inexpensive blender on your counter…let us fill our lives with more health!  It’s delicious and just what your body has been craving…


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C
2/20/2011 07:05:46 am

Sometimes I think that people in the raw community, or more specifically those that are new and interested in incorporating more raw foods into their lives, with the thinking that you need the pricey blenders and high quality kitchen accessories. I also think this puts a lot of poeple (i have spoken to personally) and myself off from trying it. However, I was lucky enough to realize (with some help from some of the awesome raw foods bloggers out their) that you don't need those higher priced items. Of course it's nice to have them, and yes they do have their benefits, but from people like me on a fixed income, it's not possible and may never be. That doesn't mean we don't want to be healthy and are interested in improving our diet from that of those filling the fast food huts around us. You CAN make a green, delicious, and energizing smoothie with that thrifted immersion blender or the one you got on sale from the local mega-mart.

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RawbyGrace link
2/20/2011 01:17:03 pm

C, precisely!! It seems we are thinking along the same lines. :)

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9/1/2021 09:42:17 pm

Healthy cooking is becoming increasingly popular. Because there is nothing that money can purchase when it comes to health. Thank you for sharing this helpful recipe.

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    Haley is passionate about Raw Food and how God has used it to heal her. She loves to share what she knows with anyone who is curious, and finds herself talking to everyone around her about her lifestyle. 

    God comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us.  For the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ. Even when we are weighed down with troubles, it is for your comfort and salvation! For when we ourselves are comforted, we will certainly comfort you. Then you can patiently endure the same things we suffer. We are confident that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in the comfort God gives us. (2 Corinthians 3-7)

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