Am I the only green smoothie mama who makes different smoothies for her than the kids?
I like my green smoothies to taste and look, well... green.
My husband recently drank his FIRST green smoothie at a Green Smoothie Girl demo. She makes the smoothies at her class with tons of berries so they won't be green and he really liked that. She also adds agave to some of the smoothies for the really timid and he liked that too. My husband and kids consume a lot of sugar outside the home and I think they need sweeter smoothies to enjoy them than I do. So, I make boring spinach-banana-berry smoothies for them and I get all the crazy, adventurous, good stuff with really high greens ratios.
Pina Colada *husband said this was good, but he only had one sip
2 cups water
1/3 blender parsley
2/3 blender spinach
1 1/2 Tbs flax oil
8 drops stevia
1 banana
1 pear
1 cup frozen pineapple
1 Tbs coconut milk powder
makes about 5 cups
Parsley
2 cups water
1/3 blender parsley
2/3 blender spinach
1 1/2 Tbs flax oil
8 drops stevia
2 bananas
1 pear
makes about 5 cups
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Giving green smoothie to the neighbor kids, thumbs up!
Well, I did it again today.
A little 7-year old girl was playing at my house, she stopped to watch with interest as I filled my blender to the top with swiss chard and spinach. Later she came to me asking for a snack. I asked her if she would like to try green smoothie. "Sure" she said bravely, "I'll give it a try". I gave her a dixie cup, half full. She drank it all and had another cup. Then she saw the 8oz jars on the table that I had set out for my own kids. My daughter told her friend, "we have smoothie for dinner every night." Her friend's response was an envious "you get that much!", she clearly felt cheated only getting a 5oz dixie cup. I asked her if green smoothie deserves a thumbs up, she said "yes". I told her to go home and tell her mom she had chard and spinach for her afterschool snack. (the proof was on her face, heh, heh)
I gave a neighbor kid smoothie once before with similar results, he drank it all. I'm always nervous about these unexpected samples because our greens to fruit ratio is pretty high, but so far, so good.
This is the smoothie she sampled (chard-spinach-stevia-flax oil-banana-frozen peach-orange)
A little 7-year old girl was playing at my house, she stopped to watch with interest as I filled my blender to the top with swiss chard and spinach. Later she came to me asking for a snack. I asked her if she would like to try green smoothie. "Sure" she said bravely, "I'll give it a try". I gave her a dixie cup, half full. She drank it all and had another cup. Then she saw the 8oz jars on the table that I had set out for my own kids. My daughter told her friend, "we have smoothie for dinner every night." Her friend's response was an envious "you get that much!", she clearly felt cheated only getting a 5oz dixie cup. I asked her if green smoothie deserves a thumbs up, she said "yes". I told her to go home and tell her mom she had chard and spinach for her afterschool snack. (the proof was on her face, heh, heh)
I gave a neighbor kid smoothie once before with similar results, he drank it all. I'm always nervous about these unexpected samples because our greens to fruit ratio is pretty high, but so far, so good.
This is the smoothie she sampled (chard-spinach-stevia-flax oil-banana-frozen peach-orange)