green smoothies feb 19th (3-ish green smoothies, ok 2,5)

green smoothie with maca & protein

Three recipes (or something like that).
Read on to see what happened..
(As always, we are talking raw and organic stuff.)

You know I love my Vitamix and, like with all the other horses we have in this house (like the iPad, the 2 Macs, the Sedona-tje and the Huron), I can totally say to the ones that say there's life before Vitamix and bliss after finding one:-) (sorry if I bore you with it but it's real love).

I filled it this morning (2l capacity, for the ones who have another blender) with:

• celery sticks (a whole bunch, maybe 10 sticks)
• 1 lemon peeled (and in half)
• 1 (red) orange, peeled (and cut in half)
• 1 small apple (was very soft)
• VERY MUCH mint:-) (like, the leaves of 15 mint plants, i just love it)
• a bit of honey just because it's winter
• a bit of purslane left overs from yesterday

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And also because it's winter, I topped that with:

•  (red) maca (one heaping spoon)
  
• SunWarrior protein natural (2 weeks ago I discovered a shop in The Hague that has it and I was super happy, as after a lot of reading I concluded that this is the best raw protein available at the moment - let me know if you met a better one:-) )
• astralagus (there is a shop in Amsterdam that has it) (good for building your immune system)
• raw cacao powder. 

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green smoothie today

.. and just because I am under a lot of stress lately I added some of:

• probiotica
• cleansing drops from Lisette
• echinacea drops

If you now think (she is crazy) this is too much for one recipe, you can just stick to the first part - but I am here to bare it all so here it is..


So we bzzzzzzzz-ed it, I mean blended, with the amazing help of my lovely V. (V as in Victor my son).
And as usual V had made a perfect alarm noise along with the Vitamix. You all know what I mean, I am sure.

You can see the result of the first blend in the middle of the second picture. above.
Not green enough although really yummy.

So I decided to make it greener: I added (again with help of the skillful hands of V):

• spirulina (like a big heaping spoon)
  
• wheatgrass powder  (idem)

 I also added a banana because it was separating and I needed a bit of a soluble fruit (see Valya's explanation that I will never ever forget, around min 1:25).

A second bzzz got us result exhibit first on the left. And such was the nature of the first 1,5 recipe.

As for the 3rd exhibit (the glass half full -sic- on the right).. V wanted a green milk so we made one:

• cashews soaked over night (2 hands full)
  
• 1l water (filtered and loved)
• spirulina
• honey
• SunWarrior protein
• maca
• bit of salt
• tea spoon cinnamon

I am trying hard to put some quantities here but V was measuring so....... don't know..:-)

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raw snack

as for the snacks: 

• carots
• cucumber
• banana
• fennel
• love (did not see that one coming, don'tchya)

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