Green Smoothies - Join the Revolution
Why Green Smoothies?
According to the Center for Disease Control, the vast majority of Americans aren't getting nearly enough fruits and vegetables in their diets. In fact, more than 75% of people eat fewer than three servings of vegetables a day--far below the recommended daily amount of 3-4 cups a day. For many people, finding out how to fit that many fruits and vegetables into their diet can be a daunting task. Green smoothies simplify healthy eating and are the antidote to the lack of disease-fighting nutrients and minerals in our diets. Here's why:
- They're fast. Green smoothies are the ultimate fast food. In less than 2 minutes, you can blend up a green smoothie that contains all the fruits and vegetables you need for the day.
- They're easy. Preparing a green smoothie is as easy as adding fruits and vegetables to your blender and pressing a button.
- They're delicious. While the thought of drinking spinach and avocado might make you cringe, believe it or not, green smoothies are a delicious treat. When combined with fruits and juice, you'll be amazed at how much they taste like any other great-tasting fruit smoothie.
Health Benefits of Green Smoothies
The health benefits of green smoothies are virtually unending, but here are some of the most compelling reasons to start incorporating them into your diet:- Boost your nutrition intake. Green smoothies provide large servings of leafy greens, including spinach, kale, chard, and lettuces. These are some of the most nutritionally dense foods you can consume. Adding 2 cups of leafy greens to your smoothies adds just 20 calories and a host of vitamins and minerals.
- Defend against cancer. Not too many things can make this claim, but the chlorophyll in leafy greens have been shown to help prevent a wide range of cancers.
- Stay fuller longer. Green smoothies are a great source of fiber, which keeps you feeling full for longer periods of time.
- Assist in weight loss. Approximately 45 million Americans diet each year in an attempt to lose weight. Green smoothies can help you lose extra pounds and maintain a healthy weight.
Getting Started
Making green smoothies is easy. Here are a few tips to help you get started:Use recipes.
One of the great things about green smoothies is the chance you have to experiment with different recipes and tastes—the possibilities are endless! In the beginning, however, it’s a good idea to stick to some tried and true popular green smoothie recipes for beginners.Always load your jar properly
You will get the best blends and avoid the dreaded cavitation (air bubbles that form around the blade) if you load your jar in this order: 
Start with the basics.
For some people, green smoothies can take some getting used to. Don’t get too crazy by adding every green ingredient you can think of to your smoothies at once when you’re getting started. Instead, start with the basics. Spinach and kale are green smoothie staples. As you develop your palate, you can work your way up to more creative and adventurous green smoothie recipes. Try our week of green smoothie recipes. They start out with a slight taste of greens and work there way up to a stronger taste. 
A good recipe is the one you will make often and drink, a bad recipe is one that is to complicated, too many steps, or doesn’t taste great. It has to be easy to make and great tasting, or you won’t stick with it. The good news is that’s easy to do. Try this, keep lots of frozen fruit on hand like strawberries, blueberries and bananas(peel, brake in thirds, freeze in zip locks). Use a few of each, add a little orange juice for liquid, and some fresh fruit if possible for taste and a big handful of fresh spinach, for green vitamin goodness (you can’t even tell it’s in there). Then add some greek yogurt if you like, a scoop of vitamin powder, protein powder, ground flax seed meal if you like. All of that is easy to keep in stock. The fresh fruit isn’t, so you need to only go to the store for that twice a week. Just adding something fresh, improves the batch 100% over going all frozen, but all frozen batches still are good. I never use ice, only frozen fruit and never use water, just OJ for a little liquid to get it going. You can use one third fresh or go 50/50 fresh and frozen and it will taste fantastic. I make a big batch and drink it out of the fridge all day.
Your body craves these nutrients, if you don’t get them, you’ll keep eating lots of junk until you’re full.
Soon, like in about three days, you’ll lose the craving for snacks and junk food, have more energy too.
Don’t sweat the expense of fresh fruit, just do it for a month or two and you’ll see it’s the best money you’ll spend. Much cheaper than doctors, pills, and weight loss diet foods. You just need the nutrients…
These nutrients are not available in a pill, if they were, everyone would take those pills, no, you need this blender to do the work for you, then just drink it. No pills needed after that, usually.
If you haven’t yet, you should watch “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead” on Netflix. Juicer or Blender, I use both.
Good luck,
Have fun,
B
Hi Carmen,
Yes, the Blendtec can replace your juicer and do just as well of a job, or better. Depending on how much water you add, it can dilute the flavor a bit. Please note that when juicing with a Blendtec blender, we call it whole juicing, as it does not take the pulp out like most traditional juicers.
Any of our Blendtec blenders will be able to make this smoothie effortlessly. Depending on which one you are looking at, there are many reviews about the pros and cons of them on our site. Are blenders have dual blades that blend food very well and they are easy to clean. The flat surface of our blenders also makes them easy to clean. Our blenders also have a metal drive socket, unlike others that are plastic, so if you come across something that is hard to blender, the blender will just stop itself instead of breaking the drive socket.
The biggest con that our customers talk about is the noise, but keep in mind that this blender has a very powerful motor; 1500+watt, depending on the model.
You can also add more water or nut milk/coconut milk to thin the smoothie out a bit
I just bought twelve Ball pint-size canning jars and am going to be taking three of these to work to drink throughout the day. I’m guessing one every two hours, but may end up only drinking two because they’re so filling.
Love the Blendtec and green smoothies. I’ve made the Green Flaxy the most so far, but bought avocados and celery to try the week of green smoothies.
Thanks for the recipes!
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