For the past year Mark’s favorite morning drink has been a berry/spinach smoothie. In fact, he prefers it to any other sweet drink. We stopped giving kids juice two years ago since we don’t see any need of it anyway (empty calories, extra sugar). Anyway, every morning, I throw a whole bunch of spinach or kale, frozen berries, banana, sometimes apple, baby carrots, sometimes even walnuts or dates, into my Vitamix and add a little water. Blend it all-and I have a delicious healthy green/purple smoothie with a ton of nutrients. Mark usually drinks that whole sippy cup full of smoothie.
Katya likes “more berries than spinach” kind with a little honey for sweetness. Alex loves “chocolate smoothie” with spinach/bananas/dates/blueberries and cocoa powder. And they all like when I freeze that smoothie as popsicle for a healthy sweet treat.
Thanks to our friends here who are being great examples in healthy eating:)
Do you have seeds in your smoothies? I've heard the Vitamix pulverizes them. I have a knock off Montel Williams Healthmaster blender and I still get seeds in my smoothies. I hate the seeds.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I get any seeds. But I don't use very many raspberries or blackberries. If I do, I have to let it blend for a while longer. Vitamix is great. It really changed the texture of my smoothies.
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