Simple Fruit Smoothie

Ingredients

• 1 cup frozen strawberries
• 3/4 cup blueberries
• 1/2 banana
• 1/2 cup frozen pineapple
• 2 cups spinach
• water to desired consistency
• 1 tbsp ground flax seed
• optional – stevia to taste

Directions

• Blend all ingrediesnts on smoothie setting in Blendtec blender
• Serve immediately and enjoy!

Prep time: 10 min

Serves: 2

Mint Fruit Salad

Ingredients

• 1 package of strawberries halved
• 2 apples diced
• 1/2 cup blueberries
• 2 kiwis diced (peel skin)
• 2 tangerines peeled and separated
• 2 mangoes diced
• 1/4 cup fresh orange juice
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 5-10 drops stevia
• 2 tbsp mint leaves chopped

(You can add any fruit to this if you wish)

Directions

• Mix orange juice, lemon juice and stevia in a bowl
• Add all fruits and mint to bowl and toss well
• Serve chilled

Serves 4-6

Prep time 15 min

Chocolate Blueberry Smoothie

Ingredients

• 5 ounces baby spinach
• 1/2 cup almond milk
• 3 medjool dates
• 2 cups frozen blueberries
• 1 banana
• 2 tablespoons natural cocoa powder
• 1 tablespoon ground flaxseeds or Antura (chia seeds)

Directions

• Blend all ingredients well in Blendtec blender on smoothie setting

Recipe courtesy of Joel Fuhrman M.D.

 

 

 

 

 

Pear and Berry Shake

Ingredients

• 1 pear
• 2 cups blueberries
• 1 banana
• 1/4 inch ginger
• 2 cups packed collard greens or turnip greens
• water to desired consistency

Directions

• Blend all ingredients in Blendtec or Vitamix blender and enjoy!

Courtesy of Victoria Boutenko, with adjustments by me!

Acai Berry Spinach Smoothie

Ingredients

• 2 cups spinach
• 1 and 1/2 cup blueberries
• 1 cup strawberries
• 1/2  cup pineapple
• 1/2 cup acai juice (available from costco)
• water to desired consistency
• 2 scoops Standard Process Complete Protein and Meal Enhancement Powder (optional)

Directions

• Blend all ingredients well in Blendtec or Vitamix blender.  It will not taste good if a regular blender is used since it will not blend as finely
• Add protein in last and pulse gently so protein does not denature
• Drink immediately and Enjoy!

Kiwi-Berry-Greens Smoothie

Ingredients

• 3 leaves turnip greens
• 1 kiwi
• 1 cup berries of your choice (we use blueberries)
• 1 banana
• 1/2 cup strawberries
• 1 tbsp chia seeds
• 1-2 scoops of Lepterra or Vega protein (or high quality protein of your choice)
• filtered water to desired consitency

Directions

• Add the fruits, veggies and chia seeds into the blender with water.
• Blend the contents
• Then add protein to the blender and pulse gently to mix contents
• Do not over-blend the protein, or they will become denatured
• Drink Immediately!

Breakfast – 02/13/11 – Vegan and Gluten Free

Kirkland Brand – Cashew Clusters

These little bite sized clusters are made from cashews, almonds, pumpkin seeds and agave nectar, cane sugar and honey.

They are perfect for a quick snack or side for breakfast.  Kids love them since they are a little sweet.These can also be coated with some yogurt or almond milk and eaten like a cereal

There is only 4 grams of sugar per serving, 11g of healthy fats and 4 grams of protein.  A serving size is 5 pieces

 

 

One of my favorite treats is to have a shot of POM juice with a tablespoon of RAW apple cider vinegar

This tonic hits you like a tonne of bricks and tastes awesome.  I drink it from a shot glass to control my dose.  I could drink the entire bottle if you let me!

We buy the ACV from Kroger’s and the POM juice from Costco

ACV is awesome for lot of things including weight loss and healthy liver function, for more info go to this link.

Apple Cider Vinegar

 

 

Apple – I try to eat 2-3 apples a day.  They are awesome for countless reasons.

Also Dipa had a Larabar – Cashew Cookie Flavor, so good

That juice is the POM and ACV, two servings

 

 

 

 

 

Now the last segment in what seems to be a never ending breakfast.

1 cup of strawberries, blueberries and kiwi

1 banana

8 leaves of turnip greens, stems removed

4 scoops of Lepterra Rice protein, berry flavor

1 tablespoon of ground chia seeds

Notice that the color is a nice purple, kids wont even know they just had turnip greens (probably for the first time ever for most)

The shake is sweet from the stevia in the protein and from the banana, so you can cut the banana if you wish.

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A GOOD BLENDER TO DO THIS