Smoothies With Veggies - Help me!

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I always put raw spinach in my protein shakes. If you add bananas and milk or grapes, you don't taste the spinach. It looks like sludge, but it tastes all right. For my chocolate protein, I just do instant coffee, milk, and spinach, because I find the chocolate too sweet.

Green Monster

Vanilla protein powder
1/2 c milk
1/2 c water
1 banana
Fill the blender to the top with spinach (usually 4-5 c)

Blend until smooth. It's really much more delicious than it sounds since you can't taste the spinach at all over the flavors of the vanilla protein powder and banana!

Yea, spinach was going to be what I was going to say. It turns your smoothie GREEN! but you can't really taste it as long as you have plenty of other good tasting fruits, etc... in it.

I make my smoothie with spinach (I freeze mine also), kale leaves (without the spine), an orange, and an apple (sometimes pineapple) strawberries and banana (sometimes) I never taste the veggies but I know they are there for my health! Blueberries make it brown!

Great recipes in general here .... http://ohsheglows.com/

The woman who started the OhSheGlows website does all sorts of great smoothies that she calls "Green Monsters" she even made a website just for all the recipes... http://greenmonstermovement.com/

My personal go to one that I always use after lots of trials is:

1 cup almond milk
1 scoop chocolate whey protein powder
1 TBLP of ground flax seeds
(sometimes if I need the extra cals I'll ad a scoop of peanut butter also)
1 cup raw spinach
1 cup frozen blackberries (sometimes I do blueberries instead).

blend and enjoy!!! mmmm

i use fresh spinach, blueberries and strawberries, a banana or apple, flaxseed, almond milk, and you can add some splenda if you are worried about sweetness. you dont taste the spinach but you get really full and tons of fiber/vitamins. i also throw in a chewable vitamin c tablet sometimes, just to make sure im getting plenty.

I like veggies but could always use more, thanx for starting this post!

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Ice

Several years ago, Dr. Oz made a guest appearance on Oprah and made her a "green smoothie". She said it tasted like a glass of "fresh". I'd say that's pretty accurate. When he demonstrated it on the show he used a blender but you could tell it had been filtered when it was in the glass. Anyway, I have this every morning before my workout (before breakfast). I don't strain or filter it and it is pretty thick, but it tastes great and really gets me going.

1 stalk celery
1 inch piece fresh ginger, peeled
1/4 granny smith apple
1/4 of a cucumber, peeled
1/4- 1/2 lemon, peeled
1/4- 1/2 lime, peeled
1 big handful of fresh baby spinach
4 nice green romaine lettuce leaves
1 tbls. raw honey
1 cup filtered water
1 scoop vanilla protein powder, if desired

Put all in a blender and blend until smooth, about 2 minutes or so.
Usually I will chop enough at one time to last 4 days and store them in baggies in the fridge. Then in the morning I jsut dump in a baggie of veggies and add the spinach, lettuce and remaining ingredients.

Bump! Lots of these sound yummy - I'm going to give this a whirl.

Definitely saving these for later, I never seem to eat enough vegetables.

YUM I'm saving this for later too!!

here is one of my favorites that packs a great punch:
2 bananas, frozen
2 HUGE handfuls spinach
1 cup soymilk
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon honey or agave nectar

Add all ingredients into a blender. Blend until mixed. Serve in tall glasses and enjoy.