vegetable smoothies (vegetables, recipes, calories, plan)

[zach_33]

So I am experimenting with smoothies and I think I have the frozen fruit ones down pretty well, but I wanted to see what I could accomplish with a big handful of greens and some other stuff. I found this recipe online and I thought it was pretty darn tasty, in a weird kind of way. Anybody out there have any go to smoothies made mostly (or entirely) from vegetables that they can vouch for?

Fruit-Free Green Smoothie | In Sonnet's Kitchen

[Kings Gambit]

Vegetable shakes are the way to go if you want to be healthy. The fruit ones its too easy to over do it on the sugar. People mistakenly think its healthy because its fruit but unknowingly take in 4 to 5 times the recommended daily servings of fruit/sugar by putting 5-6 servings of fruit in one drink - DUMB.

My favorites:

Spinach (lots of leaves)
5 blueberries
2 strawberries
1/4 avocado
few shreddings of avocado seed
Vanilla almond milk
Optimum Nutrition whey

OR

Half Kale and half spinach
Avocado
Broccoli
4 blueberries
2 strawberries
Vanilla Almond milk
Optimum Nutrition whey


Usually, if you use spinach, whey or collards as the main ingredient and keep the fruit to an absolute minimum you will be good.

[jambo101]

Heres a site i use to create smoothies, although the site is meant for juicing i just use a blender instead of a juicer=
Browse Juicing Recipes, Get Juicing Calories and Nutrition in Juice, Create Your Own Juice | myPHYTOS

[OhioJB]

Fatsickandnearlydead.com has a lot of recipes on it's site. I'm just about to start this all juice diet, except in my case it will have to be smoothies because I only have a blender, not a juicer. A juicer would be better, but I'll have to make it work with a blender.

[beachdiver]

My favorite is:
1 handful spinach
2 handfuls kale
1/2 beet (cooked)
2 carrots
1/2 c cherries
1/2 c grapefruit sections
1 c water

You can include any other mix-ins like flax, chia, matcha, etc. It's not overly sweet, the tartness of the grapefruit gives it a kick. You can also throw in some parsley, cilantro or whatever you have in the fridge.

[ChicagoMeO]

When you do kale, what fruit would take the bitter taste out? A granny smith apple? i'd like to eat kale for the health benefits and dont like the taste of it by itself.

[StrkAliteN]

Originally Posted by OhioJB

Fatsickandnearlydead.com has a lot of recipes on it's site. I'm just about to start this all juice diet, except in my case it will have to be smoothies because I only have a blender, not a juicer. A juicer would be better, but I'll have to make it work with a blender.

I would start slowly at 1-2 juice drinks a day and at least 1-2 normal whole food meals

Going full blown Defcon-1 and all juice and no normal whole food items may yield results ... but is it something you can adhere to forever ?

Successful diets are ones that are a lifestyle change of your eating habits and sticking to that plan forever.

Going all juice diet may be setting yourself up for failure down the road when you stop juicing

Just my thoughts ... best of luck to you

[jambo101]

Originally Posted by OhioJB

Fatsickandnearlydead.com has a lot of recipes on it's site. I'm just about to start this all juice diet, except in my case it will have to be smoothies because I only have a blender, not a juicer. A juicer would be better, but I'll have to make it work with a blender.

I lasted 15 days on the all juice diet,lost about 20lbs that all came back faster than i lost it.
while the occasional juice can be a real refreshing treat as a diet its unsustainable.

[zach_33]

Thanks for all the replies - I am going to keep experimenting and trying some of these combos you all have suggested.

Fwiw, I tried a kale based smoothie today and I did not like the flavor as much as the Spinach based smoothie that I tried yesterday. I tried adding some blueberries per Kings Gambit's reply above and I think it may have helped but I added in celery too so maybe that was why it tasted more bitter.

It is my understanding that the citrus fruits (lemons, limes, oranges, and grapefruits) will probably be most effective at countering the bitter of the greens.

[jambo101]

I find chard to be a good substitute for kale.