Delicious Green Shakes to clean your slate for Summer!
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Ladies and gents, SHAKE your way to health!
What do I mean? Green Shakes!
Blend them. Drink them. Reap their rewards!
Blend them. Drink them. Reap their rewards!
And what are their rewards?
- FULLY LOADED: Green smoothies are packed with essential vitamins, minerals and nutrients.
- INSTANT GRATIFICATION: Those great nutrients are absorbed and assimilated far more easily by your body and absorption is almost instantaneous. This means drinking a big green smoothie will not only boost your overall health, it will make you feel nourished almost immediately.
- DECEPTIVELY DELICIOUS: For green-o-phobes, consuming a large serving of greens in smoothie form is a tasty way to disguise what your body needs -- minus the gag-reflex.
- CLEAN SWEEP: Unlike juice, a smoothie retains all the fabulous fiber of the fruits and vegetables it incorporates. This fiber works like a broom in your digestive tract and provides a gentle and effective flush of your system.
Today's recipes are for 2 variations of a healthy and delicious Green Chocolate Shake and for my unique Harmony Green Shake.
So I apologize - these shakes aren't the prettiest - but drink them often enough and you just might be!
Makes 1 huge smoothie or 2 normal size smoothies
- 1.5 cups frozen spinach
- 2.5 cups cold water
- 2 small pears (ripe bartlett or d'anjou) or 1 very large pear
- 2-3 large pitted medjool dates or 4-5 small Sayer dates
- 1 tsp pear butter (unsweetened) optional, gives richness
- Dash coarse sea salt
- 4 tsp 100% cocoa powder
- 1.5 tsp chia seeds
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
Add all ingredients to a food processor or blender. Pulse then blend until very smooth, stopping occasionally to scrape down the sides of the processor/blender. Taste! Add extra cocoa for more chocolate flavour. Add more dates or a few ops of stevia for more sweetness. Pour into huge glass or 2 glasses and serve immediately.
Makes 2 small or 1 huge smoothie
- 1.5 cups frozen spinach
- 5-6 chilled small pitted dates (or 2-3 Medjool dates) (about 40g)
- 1.5 red bartlett pears (ripe, core and stem removed)
- 1 tsp pear butter (unsweetened) optional, gives richness
- 2 cups cold water
- 2 dashes coarse sea salt
- 2.5 tsp cocoa powder
- 1 large handful fresh mint rinsed in hot water
- 2 tsp chia seeds
Blend all ingredients together in food processor or blender until very smooth, this could take a few minutes. Scrape down sides and blend again. Taste! Adjust mint and cocoa and add more dates if not sweet enough for your taste.
Makes 1 large fruity shake
- 2 small (or 1 large) red bartlett pear, stem and core removed, ripe
- 1/2 cups loosely packed baby green kale
- 1 cup frozen spinach
- 1/2 large ripe lime, juice of
- 4 small pitted dates
- handful fresh green and purple basil
- 1 cup filtered water (cold)
- 2 tbsp maca powder
- 1/2 cup frozen red raspberries
- dash coarse sea salt
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