Can you believe it? I, Tom Brownsword, actually ate a green smoothie — and liked it?
Yup.
And now, the rest of the story: I signed up for Twitter the other day (I think I’m the last person on Earth to do so) and started following Roger Haeske. Roger tweeted (posted to Twitter) about a blended salad smoothie he made. I don’t have all the stuff he had, so here’s what I used:
- About 4 ounces of lettuce (gift from the neighbor’s garden).
- Six cherry tomatoes.
- 1/4 of a cucumber (those really big ones).
- One stalk celery (it was long but looked kind of anorexic, if you know what I mean!).
- Water to make it blend.
- A short squirt of agave nectar.
I think that’s it.
And I actually liked it.
While eating the vegetables isn’t a problem, I simply can’t force myself to eat enough greens (lettuce and the like) in the course of a day. Now I’m encouraged; I think I found a way to drastically increase my greens intake.
Oh, one other thing I did differently: I didn’t put any bananas in this smoothie. That, I think, was one of my key mistakes in the past. For me, the combo of lettuce and bananas just doesn’t cut it.
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Smacznego,
Tom
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You could also try adding spinach to your fruit smoothies as well! I started doing that regularly a few weeks ago, and you can’t even tell the difference, taste-wise!
I just finished a fruit smoothie of orange, kiwi, pineapple, cherries, blackberries, strawberries, cranberries and spinach galore – and it was pretty fantastic! =)
Welcome to the dark (green) side, Tom!
One of my favorite, non-banana, green smoothies is a simple combination of peaches or nectarines and spinach. Another is mango with greens. Earlier this week, I tried one with whatever-fruit-needed-to-be-consumed-fast combined with collard greens, and it was quite the pleasant surprise.