Day 24: Recipe Roundup-Favourite Smoothies

Ok. I've been doing this for just over three weeks, here's some of my top favourite smoothies and juices so far.

when I'm making a smoothie, I find it's best to start with the most liquid things first and go on down to the toughest. So, almond milk and an orange or pineapple if they are in, go in first. Then I'll put any berries I'm using in, and lastly, any leafy greens. I'll use chunks of banana to weight the greens down and get them into the blades of my blender.

It's possible to underblend a smoothie, and really hard to overblend. Take that extra 30 seconds to make sure things are really broken down for you.

SMOOTHIE 1: sweet and simple. 
1 cup almond milk
1 banana
1 tangelo or orange
1 cup pineapple
1 cup strawberries

optional: 1-2T fresh raw minced ginger.

SMOOTHIE 2: Strawberry shortcake. 
1cups almond milk
1 banana
1tsp vanilla or 1 inch of vanilla pod
2 cups strawberries, very ripe.

optional: 1-2 tsp honey or agave syrup.

SMOOTHIE 3: Green Goddess
1 cup almond milk
2 cups spinach
1 cup parsley
3 kale leaves
2 bananas
1 scoop Green Superfood powder
1tsp fresh lemon juice

This is literally bright green, like a cartoon science experiment. Perfect.

SMOOTHIE 4: Swamp Thing
1 cup carrot juice
2 cups spinach
1 cup parsley
1 banana
1 cup strawberries

This looks terrible but tastes awesome. Your body will love you.

SMOOTHIE 5: Orange Alert
1 cup carrot juice
2 tangelos
1 banana
1/2 cup mango
1 cup cantaloupe
1/2 cup pineapple

SMOOTHIE 6: Summer Loving
1 cup watermelon
1 cup pineapple
1 tangelo
1 banana
1 cup strawberries
T lemon juice

These are my current faves. Next up tomorrow- favourite websites for raw recipe porn!