Saturday, February 26, 2011

my first smoothie

So I cheated a little today. Feel guilty and promised myself I'd make a veg & fruit packed smoothie for tonight with my dinner (I ended up making a bean burrito with a flour tortilla and tomatoes, but hey, NO cheese!). I even went out and bought a new blender. After much reading and contemplation in the blender isle, I ended up with a Ninja that is a food processor as well for $50 at Target. I need both, and I've read great things about the Ninjas. So far, great!

I only substituted blackberries for ice. Pretty good, I can taste the greens a little and it would be awesome with sweetened vanilla milk :D But I guess that's against the whole point. Tomorrow I'm so excited to make some humus. Yumm :) Hopefully I won't continue to feel so lost and confused about what to eat.

And here's a picture of my yummmmmmmmy smoothie.
Recipe inspired by: http://www.vegetablecarnival.com/emilys-green-monster-smoothie

-1 cup unsweetened almond milk
-2 large handfuls of spinach
-1 handful of chopped kale
-1 banana
-1 apple
-1 cup of frozen blackberries (or sub another frozen fruit)

3 comments:

erin said...

And I've decided I need to find a boyfriend who loooooves to cook, esp fat free vegan style :)

Emily said...

Good luck with that one.

So, you used the Almond milk?

Emily said...

Ok. So I ventured into the arena of smoothies today and LOVED it! I will be having one everyday, I'm sure!

Mine was kinda an ugly tan-ish color, but it tasted good. I used 1/2 apple, 1 banana, 1 cup rice milk (not completely kosher for this diet, but it was all I had and I was desperate!), a handful of "spring mix" type of lettuce, handful of spinach, a couple strawberries, and frozen grapes. Tasty. I even have tomorrow's ready, because J wanted to make his own and didn't really like it, but it was ok. I guess it isn't totally kosher either because he used OJ, hmm. Forgot about that. Well, I may use it anyway. I hate wasting food.