A winter Green Smoothie

Still on the antibiotics...Fed up and needed a good healthy start to the day. 

Came up with:

Blueberry warmer smoothie:

2 lumps of frozen spinach (or 2 large handfuls of fresh)
1 Peeled banana
A cup of frozen or fresh blueberries
A peeled 1 inch thick knob of fresh ginger root
An apple (cored if you want)
1-1.5 cups of water
2 teaspoons of chia seeds (optional - but good for calcium)

Blend until completely smooth.  Let down with more water if too thick. 

Despite being a cold drink, it was creamy, sweet and warming. 

Need a boost? (My antidote to antibiotics)

My Dr has put me on very high dose antibiotics and i have not been feeling too good, plus i am tired from a lot of travel.  When i am tired, i crave carbs and then i am more tired as my system tries to digest them.  My favourite oatckes disappear faster than Paul Daniels's assistants.

So, what to do?

I decided that i'd make a green smoothie for lunch as a boost.

Here is what i made:

2 handfuls of raw (or equivilent of frozen) spinach
1 ripe banana (the riper the better, as it makes it sweet)
1 crisp sweet apple (i used a British Cox's - none of your foreign apples for me)
Water & Ice
2 tsp of Chia seeds (optional)

I did core the apple - don't know why as i usually don't.

Place it all in a high powered blender.

Blend on slow speed and push down with the pusher to get it started, then blend until smooth and unctuous.  You can add more water if you want and i would do if you use Chia as it absorbs water.

I was not really expecting it to taste great, but it really did.  Sweet and refreshing and a good lunch.

You should not eat anything else 40 mins either side of a Green Smoothie as it gets in the way of digesting it.

30 mins later and i feel a lot better than i did this morning.  Let's hope it lasts and helps me rid my body of this annoying infection. 

Greens are good for you, even at breakfast!

When i was a child, those words often rang out in our house.  "Greens are good for you" or "eat your greens".  My brother even planted spinach in the back garden and was so upset when it did not come up in cans as Popeye's did. 

So, how do you get your greens everyday?  The answer is a "Green Smoothie".  Here's one i made today.

In an high powered blender, place:

1 Banana
1/3rd of a can of peaches in juice (you can use a fresh peach, but i hadn't got any)
A tablespoon of oats
A heaped teaspoon of Chia Seeds (for Calcium)
3-4 lumps of frozen spinach
1-2 dates
A cup of vanilla or sweetened soy milk (if you use unsweetened, add 2-3 dates or some agarve syrup). 

Add a cup of iced water (wait 5 mins for the chia to absorb some of the water and swell up, if you can be bothered, have more time on your hands than the rest of us) and blend until smooth. 

Drink and enjoy. 

Yes, it looks like dragon snot, but it tastes delicious and it does you good to get your greens.