10 Jan 2013 No Comments
Think green
Running out of breakfast ideas or smoothie recipes to brighten up your day? Since I broke my ankle, we’ve been really focusing on green smoothies. Why green? Because you can get anywhere up to 50% of your required daily amount of minerals and vitamins from one of those. Still think green is yucky? Don’t be put off by the colour! The right ingredients make green taste very sweet indeed 
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Usually, each of us will start the day with 1,5 to 2 liters of whatever green smoothie we choose. They normally contain 6 to 7 ripe (!) bananas, a maximum of two other kinds of fruit and around 300 grams of greens. You’ll notice the quantities in the recipes below are a bit smaller – if you’re not used to drinking green, it’s better to take it easy at the start 
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Ripe bananas, kiwi fruit and chard.
Smoothie 1:
- 5 bananas
- 3 kiwi fruit
- 200g chard
- water
Smoothie 2:
- 5 oranges
Could this be any more tempting?
- 1 mango
- 3 medjool dates (larger and taste a bit like caramel)
- 200g kale
- a little bit of water
Smoothie 3:
- 5 bananas
- 200g strawberries
- 80g parsley
- water
Smoothie 4:
- 5 bananas
- 200g strawberries
- 1 cucumber
- 200g carrot tops (green leaves, that is)
- water
Smoothie 5:
- 5 bananas
- 250g pineapple
- 200g spinach
- water
Smoothie 6:
- 4 oranges
- 200g pineapple
- 200g chard
- water
Smoothie 7:
- 5 bananas
- 300g grapes
- 300g lettuce cos
- water
Blend well and enjoy the sweet green taste! Bottoms up!
Sweet green.
