Mango and Grape

Today's smoothie include Mango and Globe Grapes and
Kefir
Chia
Banana
1/2 Apple
Orange
Strawberries
Spinach
Broccoli
Cabbage
Carrot
Vanilla extract
Ice
Water

The grapes have a ton of juice in them. Can cut way back on the other added liquid.

Also mangos thicken up like bananas so be careful.

Friday Free day Smoothie

Banana
Orange
Apple
Carrot
2" zucchini
1/2 avocado
Big handful of spinach
Cabbage
Blueberries
6 Strawberries plus about 10 tops
Vanilla extract
Kefir
Motts for tots
Ice
Water

Made 4 servings -  and my estimate is that it cost about $4.00 total.

Thursday's Breakfast

2 bananas
Orange
Apple
Handful of spinach
Whole carrot
Brussels sprout
Slice of pineapple
2" squash
Kefir - about 1/2 cup
Orange juice - 1 cup
Water - 1 cup
Scoop of ice
4 strawberries
20 strawberry tops- made a fruit salad with chopped up strawberries and used the leafy top for the smoothie.
1 T Chia seeds - needed some organic energy this morning.

The Ultimate Breakfast Smoothie

from Blender Chef's website - Blenderchef.com


small amount of Welch's white grape raspberry concentrate (or your favorite juice) for flavor
1/4 of peeled banana
1/4 of peeled orange (keep as much of white pith as possible)
1/2 slice peeled pineapple
1/4 of apple (stems, seeds, core and all)
small handful of spinach
3/4 baby carrots
slice of squash
slice of zucchini
slice of cucumber
4-5 frozen strawberries
4-5 frozen peaches
1/2 cup of frozen blueberries
few pieces of ice
options:  add slice of red bell pepper, cilantro, oats, agave or honey, etc., etc....
1. Fill Vitamix container with all ingredients in the order they are listed.
2. Start Vitamix machine on "Variable" 1 setting, quickly turn to 10 and then flip switch to "High" setting.
3. Use tamper to push ingredients down on the blade.
4. For a very smooth texture, run it at least 30 - 40 seconds looking for shiny smooth texture on surface of smoothie while it is running.

Chocolate shake

3 scoops of ice cream
1/2 cup Vanilla Almond Milk
little chocolate syrup
banana

Blend!

Before blending

This Smoothie included:
Banana
Orange
Tomato
spinach
broccoli
cauliflower
carrots
kiwi
apple
strawberries
Mots for Tots
ice and water

Wednesday's combination

This morning I made the following:

Keifer
Vanilla extract
2 bananas
Almond milk
Mots for Tots
blueberries
4 flourettes cauliflower
hand full of spinach
4" of a carrot
1 brussel sprout
1 orange
1 apple
ice
water

blend for about 2 min.

this makes about 3 servings

Orange Smoothie from Tuesday

Keifer about 1/2 a cup
vanilla extract - 1 cap full or so
vanilla almond milk - Whole Foods makes a great one. - about 1/2 a cup
1/2 cup Mots for Tots
Frozen fruit medley of Strawberries, Pineapple, Mango - from Target or Wal-mart.
1 orange - peeled
1 pear - I do either a pear or an apple, but typically not both
2 bananas
2" carrot
Brussel sprout
1 flourette broccoli
1 flourette of cauliflower.
scoop of ice and about 1/2 cup of water

blend for about 2 min.

this makes about 3 servings

Red Smoothie from Tuesday

1 cup - Mots for Tots apple juice - I use this because it is more water than syrup.  Some sugar but not too much.
cap full of Vanilla extract
2 bananas
frozen peaches - about 8 slices
blueberries - fresh ones that I froze - just about a small handful
broccoli - 1 flourette and since it was the last one of the bunch I also added the whole stem - I read somewhere recently that it was full of vitamins so I decided to give it a try.  It was about 3 inches long.
small handful of spinach
1 cored apple - throw out the seeds as they are toxic the rest of the apple is fine to put in the vitamix - stem and all
1 orange - just peel the orange rind off - but leave the white pulp.  It takes some practice and picking out the right oranges to do it easily.
about 2 inches of a carrot
1 scoop of ice
1 cup of water

Blend on high for about 2 min.

this makes about 3 servings