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[Ron]

Been a little while since the last smoothie thread, so I'm curious to get people's latest concoctions. My usual is kale and/or spinach, frozen blueberries, hemp milk, whey, and a banana.

[mia22]

-Unsweetened Coconut Milk
-Cocoa powder
-Whey Protein Isolate
-Berries-strawberries/raspberries/blueberries
-Banana

Vary between two to four thousand i.us of vit.d3 with it daily.

[Sillewater]

Breakfast:

http://hanswuhealth....p/about-me.html
lemon, blueberries, hazelnuts, brewer's yeast, yogurt, psyllium, lecithin granules, flax seed oil, aspartame to taste.

[Ron]

What's your rationale behind brewer's yeast? Seen that popping up lately.

[Mind]

Berries (usually blueberries, but sometimes strawberries, blackberries, or raspberries, or a mixture, sometimes a super-juice concentrate if I can get it cheap)
Some form of whey protein (whatever I can get a good deal on, I change brands a lot)
ice cream (lately the low carb stuff)
coconut oil or milk

Bananas sometimes, but I usually only use a half banana lately to limit carbs, but they sure are good in a smoothie.

[Sillewater]

What's your rationale behind brewer's yeast? Seen that popping up lately.

It's nutrient dense.

[1kgcoffee]

-Frozen wild blueberries
-Frozen young coconut
-a little frozen higher sugar fruit to taste (peaches, grapes, pineapple, strawberries, honeydew)
-heaping tablespoon of astragalus
-if in the mood, some greens

[Forever21]

3 kale leaves
1.5 - 2 bananas
1 tbsp almond butter or handful of almonds
1 tsp cinnamon
1 cup frozen wild blueberries
1 cup water

[beatsme]

3/4 cup frozen organic strawberries
1/3 cup frozen organic raspberries
1/2 frozen organic banana
1/2 cup organic soy milk
1/2 cup orange juice (not from concentrate)
+ occasionally a spoonful of flax seed flour, flax seeds, or hemp hearts.
+ however much water it needs to blend to a nice consistency.

Edited by beatsme, 18 November 2011 - 02:48 AM.

[Want_more_hair]

Blueberries
Strawberries
Low fat yoghurt
Cream
Unflavored whey protein concentrate.

Blend with some ice cubes.

[spirilla01]

150g organic frozen blueberries
40g orange peel
20g whey
100g probiotic yogurt
30 steelcut oats

[hyper_ventriloquism]

I bought a red/black Vitamix 5200 a couple of weeks ago and now every morning feels like Christmas. I freakin love this thing.

I haven't tried any of the recepies in the books that came with the vitamix yet, just my own concoction. It tastes OK, not great. But it's healthy and I love chuggin it down for breakfast and an after work snack.

This is enough to make 8 to 10 cups (ie. one day's worth for my son and I) and almost everything's organic:

2-3 cups cold water
2 tbsp e3live (cause I got it for free. will discontinue when it's gone)
2 oz. acai juice (got a buttload for free. will discontinue when it's gone)
1 cup plain keifer
1 roma tomato
1/2 granny smith apple
~6 stalks flat parsley
2 leaves of lacento kale (stems removed)
4 large leaves of romaine
2 celery stalks
3 to 4 larger fresh broccoli florets
1/4 of a small raw beet
1/2 frozen bananna
1 cup frozen wild blueberries
2 frozen whole pineapple slices including core (.5 inches thick each)
1/2 of a frozen orange including peel
1 tbsp lecithin
2 tbsp chia seeds
2 tbsp flax seeds
4 tsp cacao
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp cinnamon
and a good amount of whey and pea protein
~2 tbsp of raw honey
ice cubes if I feel I need them, but if my timing's right I don't.

Mother of smoothies. I feel like I need a cigarette after drinking this. lol

My son drinks it but doesn't love it. It's pretty green. However, he likes it better than having to eat a salad every day at 45 minutes a pop. Much faster and better tasting. I love my Vitamix!

Edited by hyper_ventriloquism, 07 December 2011 - 06:22 AM.

[Sillewater]

Updated Mix
1 whole lemon (w/ peel, remove seeds)
1/2 cup blueberries
1 cup no-fat yogurt
1 oz hazelnuts
1 tbsp Brewer's Yeast
1 tbsp Psyllium Husk
1 tbsp Sesame Seeds
50g of boiled peas
2tsp of flax seed oil
Liquid sucralose to taste

[Ron]

I bought a red/black Vitamix 5200 a couple of weeks ago and now every morning feels like Christmas. I freakin love this thing.

I haven't tried any of the recepies in the books that came with the vitamix yet, just my own concoction. It tastes OK, not great. But it's healthy and I love chuggin it down for breakfast and an after work snack.

This is enough to make 8 to 10 cups (ie. one day's worth for my son and I) and almost everything's organic:

2-3 cups cold water
2 tbsp e3live (cause I got it for free. will discontinue when it's gone)
2 oz. acai juice (got a buttload for free. will discontinue when it's gone)
1 cup plain keifer
1 roma tomato
1/2 granny smith apple
~6 stalks flat parsley
2 leaves of lacento kale (stems removed)
4 large leaves of romaine
2 celery stalks
3 to 4 larger fresh broccoli florets
1/4 of a small raw beet
1/2 frozen bananna
1 cup frozen wild blueberries
2 frozen whole pineapple slices including core (.5 inches thick each)
1/2 of a frozen orange including peel
1 tbsp lecithin
2 tbsp chia seeds
2 tbsp flax seeds
4 tsp cacao
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp cinnamon
and a good amount of whey and pea protein
~2 tbsp of raw honey
ice cubes if I feel I need them, but if my timing's right I don't.

Mother of smoothies. I feel like I need a cigarette after drinking this. lol

My son drinks it but doesn't love it. It's pretty green. However, he likes it better than having to eat a salad every day at 45 minutes a pop. Much faster and better tasting. I love my Vitamix!

Wow, that is quite a concoction! I got a VitaMix recently, too (thus this thread). Their recipe book is pretty worthless in my opinion. Thanks for sharing.

[signman]

- Vanilla Whey or Soy Protein Powder
- Vanilla flavored Coconut Milk, Almond Milk or Soy Milk
- 1 Banana
- Couple of Tbsps. of Plain Yogurt
- Fresh or Frozen Berries (Blueberries, Strawberries, Blackberries & Raspberries)
- Splash of Natural Vanilla Extract

*I'm trying to stay away from Soy because of the conflicting arguments whether or not it's healthy or harmful.

Edited by signman, 16 December 2011 - 11:44 PM.

[hyper_ventriloquism]

Wow, that is quite a concoction! I got a VitaMix recently, too (thus this thread). Their recipe book is pretty worthless in my opinion. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks!

I've recently halved the recipe after noticing a flavor change in the smoothie even after an hour of storing it sealed in a glass Ball jar in the fridge. The smoothie was much less sweet and markedly more bitter after storing in the fridge for even just one hour. I now just make what I can drink at the time.

Does anyone see any combination of ingredients in my smoothie recipe that may be harmful or counterproductive?

[signman]

Yes, I see an obvious counter productive problem in your ingredient combo. It's a NO NO to mix fruits and vegetables together in a smoothie or juice. Something to do with mixing the different types of digestive enzymes resulting in bad absorption of the vitamins and minerals.

Of course there are many conflicting arguments about this, but I feel that mixing them together seems a bit odd to begin with. Think about just eating 2 of your ingredients together, pineapple and kale. Hmmmm, sounds a bit unappetizing. But if someone can prove me wrong, then humbly, I am all ears!

Edited by signman, 17 December 2011 - 05:30 AM.

[canz]

What do you all think of Athletic Greens or similar products?

[signman]

When it comes to most fruit and vegetable powder blends, the enzyme make up is much different than with fresh fruit and vegetables. Many fruit and vegetable powder ingredients are hot milled which destroys the original enzyme and nutrient count. But products like Athletic Greens and some others use a cold milled process, preserving enzyme and nutrient content to a degree. But I still believe that these fruit and vegetable powders can be mixed effectively but not with fresh fruit and vegetables.

[hyper_ventriloquism]

Yes, I see an obvious counter productive problem in your ingredient combo. It's a NO NO to mix fruits and vegetables together in a smoothie or juice. Something to do with mixing the different types of digestive enzymes resulting in bad absorption of the vitamins and minerals.

Of course there are many conflicting arguments about this, but I feel that mixing them together seems a bit odd to begin with. Think about just eating 2 of your ingredients together, pineapple and kale. Hmmmm, sounds a bit unappetizing. But if someone can prove me wrong, then humbly, I am all ears!

Condescending much?

I'm looking for facts, not opinion. Please provide links to studies to back up your claims.

It's not "obviously counter productive" considering millions of people eat meals containing fruits and veg every day. Thousands of smoothie products, both liquid and powder, are on the market that contain many different fruits and vegetables together in the same product. Not obviously counter productive.

It doesn't take much of an imagination to figure out why people add fruit to "green smoothies", does it? It makes them taste better along with added nutritional benefit. Millions of health conscious people do it every day. My son much prefers drinking his salad everyday in a smoothie that tastes good rather than spending 45 minutes chewing it up.

So, to ask again. Does anyone know of any solid science that shows that I shouldn't be combining certain ingredients that I use in my smoothie? For instance, I think I recall reading a post or posts a while back stating that eating dairy at the same time as things like blueberries and green tea interfered with absorption of the minerals and polyphenols from the tea and berries. I also recall reading something on this forum about carcinogens possibly being formed when fat is combined with vitamin C in the stomach. Friendly help with science to back up claims would be much appreciated.

[Austin Diablo]

Raw whole milk from grass fed cow (I'm lucky to have a guy in my city who delivers from local sources every 2 weeks), gooey blob of chia seeds (omega 3) pre-soaked in filtered water, unsweetened & undenatured whey, liquid stevia, banana, frozen strawberries, raw cacao nibs, 2 tblsp of organic red maca, pinch of Celtic sea salt, 2 tblsp coconut oil & filtered water. Mmmmmmmm! If I'm feeling particularly wild, when it's down to a few swallows I'll crack a couple raw, free range, drug free chicken huevos into the mix & kick them back, relaxing the throat so they slide down without breaking!

[nupi]

Mix of frozen blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, red currant and black currant, half thawed
Banana
Water or orange juice (not from concentrate, that stuff is awful) to dilute it to a level where you can drink it with a straw

will add a good table spoon of pure Whey and potentially 2g Creatine as soon as I get it

Edited by nupi, 03 January 2012 - 03:18 PM.

[Mind]

150g organic frozen blueberries
40g orange peel
20g whey
100g probiotic yogurt
30 steelcut oats

For those of you that put leafy greens in your smoothie, seeds, or steel cut oats, do you have a heavy duty blender or something? I don't think my blender would sufficiently "blend" oats in order to make it drink-able.

[Ron]

Yep, VitaMix blends just about anything.

[hyper_ventriloquism]

Mind need Vitamix...

I've had the thing for like 2 months or something and still every morning is like Christmas when I was a kid (ok, I'm exaggerating a bit here).  I love this thing.  If I could have sex with it I would.  It's to the point where two of my three meals every day are smoothies and that's it.  Two ~16 ounce smoothies a day, lunch at whole foods, water, and tea straight from the farm and I'm set.

Edited by hyper_ventriloquism, 07 January 2012 - 06:16 AM.

[hyper_ventriloquism]

Smoothie update.

3 cups cold water
1 cup plain keifer
3 tbsp tomato paste
1/2 granny smith apple
~6 stalks flat parsley
2 leaves of lacento kale (stems removed)
4 large leaves of romaine
2 celery stalks
3 to 4 larger fresh broccoli florets
1/4 of a small raw beet
1/2 frozen bananna
1 cup frozen wild blueberries
2 frozen whole pineapple slices including core (.5 inches thick each)
1/2 of a frozen orange including peel
1 tbsp lecithin
2 tbsp chia seeds
1 tbsp flax seeds
3 tsp cacao
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp cinnamon
and a good amount of whey and pea protein

tis it, cheers

[hyper_ventriloquism]

Anyone else want to post their results of failed or fabulous experiments with recipes?

On a side note, I'm thinking of adding a tablespoon of high quality olive oil to my smoothie recipe.

[Detoxify&Rebuild]

Look at my name...

Now, what kind of message could I be wanting to send out with that?

Detoxify... and... Rebuild...

These are essential processes going on in the body all of the time. The body removes waste (detoxify) through the lymphatic system, and cells grow all of the time, replicates and expands.

Why reduce these complex biological processes into two separate categories?
How does this apply to eating habits, schedules and digestive processes, and in the end to food-composition -- like smoothie-making?

Now let's see if someone passes my little "test"... And then I will explain my thinking.

[nito]

2 bananas
2 apples
2 oranges
a little bit of water
milk
honey