When you’re making your first few green smoothies, don’t just throw things in the blender. Chances are, it’ll taste nasty if you wing it right out of the gate. To save you a few smoothie-fails, bust out those cute little measuring cups and follow this simple formula: 60% fruits to 40% leafy greens.
Add naturally sweet fruits to any smoothie that tastes bitter or a bit too “green.” By sticking with naturally sweet fruits like bananas, mango, apples, pears or pitted dates, we avoid artificial sweeteners and processed sugars.
You can blend your green smoothie the night before and store it in your fridge (up to 2 days). Use an airtight lid to limit oxidation and keep it as fresh as possible. When ready to drink, give it a good shake before you open.
Ingredients:
– 2 cups baby spinach (fresh)
– 1 banana (medium peeled frozen ripe, sliced)
– 1 kiwi fruit (peeled and chopped)
– 1 tea spoon chia seeds
– 1 tea spoon hemp seeds
– 1/2 tea spoon flax seeds
– 1 small cucumber (peeled and chopped)
– 1 medium apple (peeled and chopped)
– 1/4 avocado (peeled and chopped)
– 150 ml water
Directions:
Place the seeds, vegetables and fruits in the blender in this order. Process until smooth and then add the water. Enjoy!
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This is awesome… great tips for starting out with a green smoothie!! I really need to start drinking them, and this one seems like the perfect place to start! 🙂 Lovely recipe..great post!
It looks so beautiful. But I just can’t imagine drinking spinach 😕
Thank you. I used to think the same thing. Now I eat and drink spinach .
I mix spinach with my fruit smoothie plus a little bit of celery.
I love green smoothie
It looks beautiful and vibrant. Perfect for summers, healthy and yummy at the same time Xx
Thank you. So true!!!
Thanks for the tip! I really like the recipe.
You are welcome.
Wow! Looks healthy and refreshing..
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I’m preparing my next post about green smoothie as well, hope you will like my recipe too! I’m going to try yours now! Love photos!
Thank you. Hope you like it.
I will do it! 🙂
Hello there:) How are you!! This is undoubtely a healthy and rich recipe!!
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Good you’re doing great 🙂 keep it on
This looks great! Sometimes green smoothies can be hard to swallow, but I will try this one for sure!
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so pretty!
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thanks for your like of my Polenta Recipe, you have one more follower now 🙂
Thank you for the visit. I hope you will like my future recipes.
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I love your recipes and can’t wait to try them!
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Thanks so much for the new green drink inspiration! We’ve been using our Nutribullet with reckless abandon, and it’s nice to find something a little different to add into the mix!
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This looks amazing! Your photos are beautiful! 🙂 Can’t wait to try these out!
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I have made some seriously awful green smoothies in my time.. thanks for the tips to make it more digestible! I never thought of using cucumber, what a fabulous idea.
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Yum! I love green smoothies!
I totally agree with you on the fruit to vegetable ratio! This looks amazing and I can’t wait to try it (once I steal my boyfriend’s funky blender)!
And thanks for liking my latest post 🙂
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Inspiring recipe, normally we just use buttermilk & fruits but I love the green ones (Hit & miss sometimes). You have beautiful photos and the juxtapositions work so well. Looking forward to more, N
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Well, this seems to be all the rage at the moment, so I’m just going to have to try it!
Looks an interesting blog I must say. Thanks for this.
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This is beautiful, love it!
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Hi! Thank you for stopping by my blog and enjoying the post on “Food Pics”. You have BEAUTIFUL photos of food! I will have to peek around more and try to get some tips to help my with my food pic journey 🙂
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Yum, this looks delicious!
I’m so loving your smoothie recipes. I’ve made a short list and as soon as this snow melts I’m going to whole foods.
Enjoy!
It was! I so just finished it. It as delicious!!
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