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Raise your green smoothie, Happy St. Patrick’s Day

Angie — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:43:04 +0000

It’s all about green today,

Raise your green smoothie. Cheers!

I had a green smoothie (green monster smoothie) this morning and it was so much better than any of the ones I have made in the past and it was a pretty green color too not like my first one (you can read about my 1st green smoothie). Looked nice next to my freshly painted green nails ha ha

In today’s smoothie went 1/2 cup of original almond milk, 1/2 cup of vanilla almond milk (I planned to use 1 cup of original but I ran out), 1/2 banana, 1 scoop vanilla whey protein powder, 2 cups of spinach and about 5 ice cubes (my smoothies have to be EXTRA cold). It was so tasty, I can’t wait to have another.

Everyone makes their green smoothies differently so here are a few that you might be interested in reading about.

Angela’s green smoothies

Raw Family’s green smoothie recipes

And today I just came across The Green Smoothie Queen site and blog. I’m excited to go read more.

Also, my friend Lain has used the book Green Smoothie Revolution and wrote about her experience with green smoothies over on her blog 30 Minute Martha. Cute name for a blog huh?

So there you have it for green smoothie recipes and tips. Enjoy!

Been so busy today that lunch came late so I whipped up an egg with spinach and had an egg sandwich with hot sauce and Laughing Cow cheese. It was definitely a winner!

Hubby and I have no special plans for dinner but we do have a date at the gym for spin class!

Do you have any plans for St. Patrick’s Day? Have you had a green smoothie today?

P.S. Just in case you are looking, Eating Well has some healthy St. Patrick’s Day recipes.

Workouts this week and 3rd green monster smoothie

Angie — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:42:54 +0000

Not much to report this week. It’s been quite the challenging week with a sick dog as most of you already know from Twitter and Facebook. I did the best I could with exercise and hubs and I might do Wii Fit tonight but still not sure.

Workout stats for the week of June 22-28, 2009

Monday-

*Elliptical
Time: 17 min.
Calories burned: 179

*Personal training
Time: 20 min.
Calories burned: 200+

Tuesday-

*Walk outside
Time: 15 min.

Wednesday-

*Walk Away the Pounds Walk Slim
Time: 35 min.
Miles: 2
Calories burned: 320

*Walk outside
Time: 15 min.

Thursday-

*Walk outside
Time: 15 min.

Friday-

*Walk outside
Time: 20 min.

Saturday-

*Mow lawn
Time: 47 min.
Calories burned: 557

Sunday-

Day off

How did you do this week? Feel free to share your workout accomplishments here or on your blog if you have one and give us a link.

Had my 3rd green monster smoothie yesterday and it was quite tasty. Kev took a video with my camera but I have no idea how to edit it so until then you’ll have to just imagine me drinking it LOL!

This green monster smoothie consisted of 1/3 cup blueberries, 2 handfuls of spinach, 1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk, 1 tbsp flax, 1 banana, 1 tbsp peanut butter, 8 ice cubes (not sure why it took that many this time) and 1 scoop of vanilla whey protein powder. Tasty!

Make it a great week!

I survived my second green smoothie

Angie — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:41:44 +0000

Oh yes I did, I survived my 2nd green smoothie! YEA! It’s a lot of fun trying different varieties and I have a list of others I’ll be putting to the test over the next few weeks.

I made today’s green smoothie in a Back to Basics Smoothie Maker. This smoothie was very tasty but the kale didn’t grind up as well in the actual smoothie maker as the spinach did in the Magic Bullet
(love, love, love the Magic Bullet). Plus it took longer to prepare in the smoothie maker BUT since the smoothie maker is larger than the Magic Bullet, it was much easier to throw the ingredients together and much less messy.

Green smoothie #2 ingredients:

1 kale leaf, 1 c. unsweetened almond milk, 1 tbsp flax, 1 ripe banana, 1/4 c. frozen blueberries, 1 tbsp peanut butter (almond butter is recommended), 4-6 ice cubes and 1 scoop vanilla whey protein powder (not pictured).

I decided at the last minute to add the ice and protein powder.

Sorry for the messy glass, I dumped it back in the smoothie maker when I decided to add ice and protein powder ha ha. OK, the picture did not turn out too well either bummer.

It’s been fun trying out these two green smoothies. I’ll share more as soon as I make them and will probably put the recipes together on my main website so you can find them all in one place. These smoothies seem to hold me over fine until lunch time which is great.

I would love to own one of those Vita Mix blenders that I hear so many great things about. Imagine what you could make with one of those! Have you seen the Vita Mix blender? Own one?

Happy Thursday! Make it a great day.

PS. Read about my very first green smoothie experience.

My first Green Monster Smoothie

Angie — Tue, 26 May 2009 15:23:14 +0000

I had my very first green smoothie for breakfast this morning. I have seen so many varieties of this green monster smoothie, I wanted to try it out for myself. To be honest my first impressions before even whipping up the green smoothie up was to gag ha ha. But I was really quite surprised that it turned out quite yummy. It didn’t turn out a pretty green like the many I have seen on food blogs around the web but it had it’s own unique mix of colors. It looked like it would go nice with the Christmas holidays. Hints of green and red to it.

Want to see?

Here are the ingredients

1 banana, 5 frozen strawberries, 1 scoop vanilla whey protein powder, 1 cup baby spinach, approx. 1 cup almond milk and 2 tsp. flax

I just guessed on the ingredient amounts and it turned out well to me. I used my Magic Bullet mixer so the cups are small (but as you see below it filled a full glass and there was a tiny bit extra) and most green smoothies I saw I’m pretty sure were made in an actual smoothie maker or full size blender. If you have any tips on the amounts or ingredients feel free to share!

Here’s the final product (can you see the colored specs?), yum.

I have a list of other green smoothie ingredients I would like to try so you’ll be seeing more of my concoctions on the blog. It should be fun!

If you have made green monster green smoothies, please feel free to link to your blog or share with us here.

Read about my 2nd green monster smoothie here.