Morning Green Smoothie

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 1
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 451.6
  • Total Fat: 11.5 g
  • Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
  • Sodium: 190.4 mg
  • Total Carbs: 73.8 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 24.1 g
  • Protein: 21.6 g

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Introduction

This is my morning go to. Gets me up and going and lasts an incredibly long time. Blending raw veg with fruit might take some getting used to for some but this is a great way to get your fruit and veg intake up, make and easy breakfast and if you drink the whole thing it will keep you for at least 3 hard working hours. This is my morning go to. Gets me up and going and lasts an incredibly long time. Blending raw veg with fruit might take some getting used to for some but this is a great way to get your fruit and veg intake up, make and easy breakfast and if you drink the whole thing it will keep you for at least 3 hard working hours.
Number of Servings: 1

Ingredients

    2 cup Baby Spinach (raw)
    100 grams Cilantro, raw
    100 Grams Parsley, raw (NZ) (by KEEWEE01)
    .5 fruit without seeds Lemons
    1 cup, unthawed Blueberries, frozen (unsweetened)
    2 tbsp Hemp Hearts- raw shelled hemp seeds
    5 gram(s) Y.S. Organic Bee Farms Fresh Bee Pollen Whole Granules (1TBS, 5G) (by FAT_BEGONE)
    1 tbsp *Spirulina Powder
    2 cup slices Apples, fresh with skin
    3 cup (8 fl oz) Water, tap

Tips

I like to drink the entire litre to both get all the benefit of it and to stay full until my first break at work.


Directions

Put the greens in the blender first. Add lemon and half the water. Pulse on the more vigorous settings to get the main cut of the fiber in the greens broken. Then run the blender while you add the next ingredients. By the time you have added everything, you will need to add water as you go, it will have blended smoothly enough to enjoy it. I like to double the lemon because I prefer it sour. Generally it is more lemons and berries than any other kind of fruit. Apple sweetens it considerably as do pineapple and bananas. But these for me make it far too sweet. Experiment with various ingredients. One of the greatest benefits of this breakfast is that it is really flexible. Add fruit in season or that you have hanging around the house. Change up the spinach with Kale, Romaine, collards, virtually anything you like. I prefer to always add parsley and/or cilantro because they both have great cleansing effects and they are both really delicious and blend well. I always add the hemp seed or some other oily seed I have in the kitchen, sometimes swapping for ground flax. I usually add spirulina when the mix is sweeter, and bee pollen when it is more sour. I don't usually add both at once. I made this one especially "fat" but I wanted to push the calorie count up and eat a little less rather than record a smaller caloric version and risk missing some of the calories.

Serving Size: 1 Liter blended

Number of Servings: 1

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user FREECOLOGY.