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I have tried and failed.. and failed.. and failed.. :P I could really use some advice  -_-

first of all don't ask what others like, you'll get some weird answers  :wacko:

see http://www.raw-pleasure.com.au/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,71/topic,1913 (http://www.raw-pleasure.com.au/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,71/topic,1913)

start with your favourite fruit, mine is  banana
add a glass or two of water,
JEN suggested blending fruit first to make it smoother and it works
the other suggestion was tougher things first which seemed logical but there you go
add a bland green leaf eg. lettuce
my favourite is bok choy only because I never used to eat it
and a few dates
i prefer a smoothy consistancy rather than too runny

Never thought of using bok choy in a green smoothie...it grows by the ton in my Mums veggie garden so now I'll know what to do with it - Thanks StaNagle :)

Mmm, had a delicious one this morning. First, fill up the food processor (mine is small) with silverbeet (you can use a more 'bland' green like lettuce or baby spinach) add a little bit of parsley or dill then approx. equal parts water and young coconut water (or all water if you can't get young cocos). Process this until its as smooth as you can get (depends on how good your blender/food processor is. Then add banana, peach and mango and blend/food process until smooth and creamy. The amount of fruit you need depends on how big your blender is and how much water you have.

Stine,if you are trying you are never failing..... -_-

hey, never thought of it that way :P

In raw-food speak, you never fail; just in the middle of creating something great and yummy!

My personal favourite fruit smoothies are definately the Blueberry-based ones(yummy)! 

where im at, we have an oversupply of ripe bananas. i find spotty ripe ones give the best smoothy creme flavour.

this morn i had fresh dates, ripe bananas and organic kale. it was so thick i had to pour it into a bowl and spoon it into my gob!!

chunky!

until now I've been wolfing the smoothies down straight away
but today i put a jug in the fridge to cool down

and it seperated into a clear part and a froth on top
the clear juice was delicous
the froth wasn't, I felt bad about throwing it away but did anyway

i think i may only have noticed now as i was reading about a guy who uses a strainer to get rid of blender froth as if it was a bad thing.
Do others even notice it, or do you just shake and mix it up again

I just stir in the froth... if you let the froth sit it just melts down into juice anyway (in my experience). Or if you put it in a sealed bottle and shake it all gets mixed in.

i dont mind throwing anything i cant eat to the critters and plants.

ok, good, we don't have a compost because nothing much gets past the chooks and worm farm

but I haven't reached the stage of bringing food scraps home from the office

At the yoga/surfing/raw retreat last weekend I saved up all the food scraps to take home to compost. There was a lot! One of the volunteers saved me from taking them home though by feeding it to the turkeys! I love the wild turkeys here... they are everywhere. I see about 5 a day at our place.

Hi
My favourite smoothy will usually have something redish in it, berries or tamarillo.  I pack as much as I can into the blender without it exploding over the sides.

Huge handful of pumkin seeds and about a cup or 2 of water, whizz till seeds are fine,
add:
half a pineapple
an apple
a pear
couple of kiwifruit
a tamarillo and/or frozen berries

half a banana or tahini (if it will fit)

blend and enjoy all morning long.

I am keen to make green smoothies now (just a matter of getting my head around the thought of lettuce/spinach and sprouts in a smoothie - juice I can imagine, but I have not yet invested in a juicer $$$ )

hope you have had some luck with your smoothie making.

kind regards
for-today

there's no way i'll get a hold of tamarillo where i live, i can't even get pineapple! the most exotic fruit i can get hold of here is mango :P they cost about 2 US dollars for one, and they're totally green and sour. the only fruit that doesn't cost a lot here is bananas. the vegetables is also extremly expencive. i dont know if i can afford being raw! (without starving to death)

well the best soluton to that is grow ur own :) just my 2 cents (i love my garden and think it is everyones duty to grow one :)  :ph34r:

hee hee,i think it is my duty to eat all the food grown in your garden Zact01..mmm yum...i think eating raw and organic is worth paying extra,cos if you eat the second rate crud you will end up paying more than Zact01's 2cents worth,lol...in my humble opinion....

I think I need to read some updated material on food combining. All the stuff I read says that you should never ever ever ever eat fruit with anything other than fruit. Ever! However I recently found out that an aquaintance of mine is in fact a raw lady and she happily blends her fruit and greens and wow, she is de-aging. She looks younger every time I see her. Awsome or should I say Rawsome... hehehe.

Jennie

hey Jennie,yep,greens go with everything,wonderful hey!

I make them every morning for my fussy boys...... their favourites are always pinapple, orange (juiced before adding to the blender, make sure you have no seeds, this makes it bitter), this is the base and then add greens, at first i only put in cos lettuce and sunflower sprouts, they have gone from having a small glass to a big glass and going for seconds!

To the pine/orange i sometimes add either apple or mango..... I find more than 2-3 fruits too much and my youngest finds banana to slimmy!..... Only kid on the planet that does not like banana i think.

Now they have them with kale, spinach, sunny sprouts and what ever else i can fit in the blender. 

So, my advice is to maybe just try your fav fruit with a mild green...then go from there!

My fav's are one type of fruit(lots of it) and tons of green! - kale, spinach, celery, sprouts etc.

If there not sweet enough add dates or sultanas.....just remembered that's another thing I did at the beginning.

Good luck....keep trying they are one of the best things you can do for you health!

Victoria Boutenko talks about food combining and green smoothies. It's generally accepted that greens should be in their own category and do combine well with fruit! Combine away!

Even the hard core food combiners on the forum find that to be the case! Right Janita?

Cheers,
Sheryl

Mmmm, green smoothies. I'm downing one as we speak. Karen (I'm guessing that was you logged in as Sami by mistake, lol!) I really want to try a pineapple/basil smoothie but haven't yet. I think that would be REALLY good - have you ever tried it?

yes,as a hard core food combiner,Sheryl... :rolleyes:
greens go beautifully with everything...only thing that's odd and doesn't really work,is green smoothie with cacao,some how that is just wrong!

Hmmm, was thinking of putting cacao in my gs tomorrow - gotta get that magnesium in! - but now I may rethink. Thanks sweet neet!  -_-

it's odd,but you may like it Freedom....

i tried peach in my gs today,first time with peach,wow it was delish...

Ahh neet, great (raw) minds think alike - what do you think I am licking from my glass as I type - only the remains of a peach gs!  -_- Not the first, but the first with white flesh peaches - MMMMMMMM soooo  good! Have the best day!

Hi FreedomB,

I tried your smoothie recipe on the first page of this thread and it's delicious! It's my first green smoothie that has fruit in it (I made one with all green vegies and it's not to be recommended if you aren't used to it!). Not only do I love it but my daughter and hubby do also. MMMM. The only change I made was to add a handful of soaked almonds.

Thanks! xoxo

So glad you liked it Jennie!

Hi Freedom,

I LOVED it! We had another today made from fresh orange juice, frozen pineapple, banana and a big heap of baby spinach. The only drawback? My hubby and daughter took most of it! LOL. Just happy to feed my girl healthy stuff.

Thanks again. Your recipe was the perfect starter.

xoxo

i have gone boonta on the gs today,massively craving bananas just lately...i have whipped up 3 huge gs today in total i have consumed 3 litres of the green goodness-makes me a real green goddess*lol*...and i am so adoring white peach added in and i lick out my glass too Freedom,yum,hurts my tongue to try and get all the last dregs as my glass of choice is a massive 500ml wine glass....could go some blueberries,but can't see any of those little babies around....have had soo much green today,i feel so incredibly good...

had my lovely gs chilling nicely in the fridge this morning,in the huge glass,sitting snuggly(or so i thought) in the door of the fridge,my beautiful boy opens the fridge to put the last of his green juice in fridge for later,and *smash!!!!!!* there is my smoothie sitting all over the tiles ,green for as far as the eyes can see with the glass smashed to smithereens....
Nige was devastated...and kept apologising over and over...and rang me 2 hours later still apologising....all is forgiven,twas an accident..must admit though i had a nervous twitch or 2 when it first happened. :rolleyes:

Ohh neety, your lovely glass and delicious gs all lost.  :huh: But how wonderful is raw, giving us the strength to see the bigger picture - after all, 'tis only a glass and some gs, so many people suffer so much every day. Imagine how angry a cooked foodie would get if someone accidentally threw away their leftover pizza or maccas!

I like to add almond meal to my smoothies to make them more filling - yum!

Eve

thanks Freedom...i love that you called me Neety...that made my heart sing..special people to me call me that..love it! :wub:
yes i was momentarily saddened..but had a whole jug chillin in the freezer..had that early then just bought more bananas for morning snack..

yeh,oh no!! not the maccas,oh man!

Nige's mum has made him another cake(*&^%$ :angry:)

i could always say that accidently landed on the floor couldn't i couldn't i????then runnnnnnnnnnnnnn for the hills eh..lol :wacko:

You are so funny Neet! Reading this has brought back a memory from about a year ago. I had made pizza and had made my hubby and I an extra one each for lunch the next day. He has loads of jalapenos on his which I can't stand, other than that, they're the same. Well he ate my pizza didn't he... and I went ballistic! Ooops. Look back and laugh now.

I wouldn't do that now that I'm a CALM raw smoothie guzzling little fairy would I?

What are anybody's thoughts on how long you eat raw food for before you consider yourself 'raw'?

xoxo

hee hee Jennie,funny isn't it... :wacko:

i think as soon as you are eating all raw you are raw baby...what ever you think ,you are...........

love to you...hey can you resend that message from yesterday,i lost the damn thing..please please...*grin*

HAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHA you honestly make me crack up Neet. Only you would think of that lol i love it...............but i must say good idea hey lol

Oh my Neet! that is exactly how we all have our smoothies....... in nice big wine glasses! Nothing like nectar of the gods served in the best glasses.

Although we are starting to grab even bigger glasses so i am on the look out for Mega wine glasses!!

Why don't you send mil one of your wonderful raw cake........

xxxxxxxx

heh heh raw minds think alike eh....*grin*

Here's the smoothie I make every morning (and I don't think it has too many funky ingredients...  ^_^)

1/2 frozen banana
1/2 cup frozen fruit (berries, mango, grapes, etc.)
1/4 cup fresh squeezed orange juice (about 1 orange)
1/2-3/4 cup water (depending on how thick or runny you like it)
2 tsp raw honey or other natural raw sweetener
1 oz raw almonds (about 22)
ice

The almonds not only add some good protein and fat, but they make the smoothie very "creamy" tasting. I made this this morning with raspberries and it had a nice sweet-sour taste.

Tam

Hey Tam that sounds delightful! Especially the addition of the berries!

Thank you for sharing!
Sheryl

that's a consistent and yummy smoothie i enjoyed today for Eastern as lunch,
after blending i strained it to separate the pulp you can use in other recipes:

1 quarter of Jackfruit
1 quarter of coconut flesh (+water)
3 dates
some fresh mint
water as desired

Enjoy the feeling!

 -_-

Nofrontierstour46 that sounds like the most delicious smoothie I have ever seen the recipe for! Oh wow!!! It's going on my list to try. Did you use young or mature coconut flesh?

Yesterday I blended watermelon (with seeds) and mint. Basically one Vitamix jug of watermelon and a who bunch of mint. It was delicious.

Cheers,
Sheryl

good on us Sheryl!

i used a ripe coconut but imagine it good as well with a young coconut...

your watermelon sound delicious, try to add some juice of one or two limes to make it 'vibrant'...  -_-

Much Love
Iv

wow Iv,that sounds amazing....

my fave at the moment
bananas
dates
baby spinach and dash of water....and ice if hot day like today....hann and i have been hoovering these every after noon...yummmmm and today we added a touch of almonds(15 in 2 litres of gs)gave me a pain but hey its all good...was tasty....and it will pass...-literally harr harr!!

It takes will power not to just inhale a gs this good...must stop and chew hee hee harr harr!

and when i have good celery i like to add 3-4 stalks to bananas and dates this is awesome too,kind of nutty!-umm i guess i am what i eat lol :wacko:

i made this Mango blend yesterday and found it worth to write down...

i called it 'Let go Blend' because of the amount of Prunes  -_-

haven't had any such symptons yet but felt a light cleansing reaction and a pleasent sensation in my body when i drunk it:

basic recipe is:

2 big ripe Mango
6-7 soaked prunes + water (even more)
some water

for a yummy alternative add:
4-5 pieces of Jackfruit
fresh mint

pass trough a strainer and let things go  -_-

Iv

my parents just came from costa rica and brought me home some cacao beans. 

I've been adding them into my smoothies.  Some are good combos with them, some are not so good.  Here is one I made that was very yummy:

greens from my garden
banana
date
apple
orange juice
cacao beans (not too many, only a couple is great)
ice

i've put papaya in this mix and it tasted yummy also.

oh oh look out i have one word for you...aphrodisia....he hee heeee....enjoy!!

My all time favourite is 1 cup water, tspn agave nectar, 1 tspn cacao powder, 2 dates, and 1 1/2 frozen bananas....pure heaven,  also baby spinach, frozen banana, and peach, yummmmmm

I've been having this almost every day:

1-2 bananas (depending on their size and my hunger!)
1 orange
a cup of frozen thawed spinach or many many handfuls of baby spinach!

The non-green variety I make is as follows:

1-2 nanas
1 orange
5-10 strawberries

I've been thinking of adding mango to them, since I loved mango in non-raw but vegan smoothies... but whenever the mango I've bought has ripened... I can't help myself, I just cut the mango into cubes and eat it like that... I so love it!

i just blended 30 bananas with water. it filled the blender jug 3 times. thats my first meal of the day.
really ripe bananas and you pulse the blender so the vortex doesnt form and drag air into the blend. this keeps the bitter edge away. the smoothy is sweeter..

try it.

Thanks for the tip about pulsing the blender rider. -_- I like the way you give blender advice. I learned something in another post of yours, but I forget what it was.

Here's what I just had for dinner:

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YUM !!!

:) 

Oh my that looks great! Thanks for posting!

xoxoxo

I'm sure it would turn brown. I didn't mix it. It was very nice as I drank it to get the red, tart, sweet strawberry first. It had some texture from being just strawberry and from the tiny seeds. When I got to the green part it was all smooth, super sweet and delicious. The contrast in flavors was fun!

oh oh am i too late for dinner MM??/looks awesome yummmmm....

lovin the chefs hat Valerie...

awesome recipe girl,thanks for a sharin!

Wow that's different! I can't wait until mangoes come back into season to try it out! Yummmm. Thanks for sharing Valerie.

xoxoxo

My two favorite gs at the moment:

Banana-Date
6 or 7 large bananas
4 dates
1/2 head lettuce

Orange
6 oranges
1/2 head lettuce
cup of water

Mmmmm. I have to agree Moncha man. I love the top one and have it often. Usually with baby spinach though. Soooo nice. Have you tried the top one with some celery added? Phwoar it really gives it something!

xoxoxo

Oooo. I'll try the bit of celery in there. Sounds good. It's funny, I never liked celery before, but now that I'm raw I like it in smoothies. Never tried with banana though.

I really didn't like celery when I went raw either. But I got a suprise a few weeks ago when all of a sudden I was craving it and now it even smells different to me! Strangely enough... it smells creamy! Yummmm! I might try a creamy celery soup. Phwaor!

Good luck!

xoxoxo

6 oranges
big handful raisins
1 stalk celery
1 huge kale leaf
bunch of red leaf lettuce

very nice :)

Mmmmmm. That sounds delish! How's the new blender treating you? Big difference?

xxoxo

The new blender is pure rock and roll. I love it.

Pure rock n roll hey! LOL. Love it.

xoxoxo

6 large tree-ripened nectarines
1 pile of romaine

This one is really doing it for me right now. I just made one. When I took my first sip I was all, "Oh baby! Oh man, Oh wow!"

Oooh nectarines sound yummy, I'm jealous! Can't wait for summer fruits again - especially juicy peaches.

Must share this green smoothie I made today, as it tasted completely different to any I'd made before:

4 kiwifruit
Juice of 1 lime
1 frozen banana
Big handful of rocket leaves

All I can say is:   ZING!!!!!!!!!!  :yahh:

This must've been the most energising GS I have ever drank - I think I was giving the morning coffee-drinkers a run for their money with bouncing off the walls.  So, be careful with it, but if you need an energy boost it's yummo!

Also I think I heard that kiwifruit actually have more Vitamin C than citrus fruit do, definitely a bonus in this wintery weather. So does chilli for that matter, but that's a bit spicy for me :)

I love almond milk(sweetened with a couple of medjool dates) as it's a substantial meal in a drink,Yum! :yahh:

Hey everyone, I had completely forgotten about this thread, I started it in oct :P wow so many delish recipes!! guess who's spending the day in the kitchen tomorrow, I have a lot of catching up to do  :laugh:

I made a great smoothie today. I soaked a couple of handfuls of cashews and two vanilla beans in some water for about 1/2 an hour. Then I blended and added two punnets of delish strawbs. Yummmm!

xoxoxo

MMM i just made the two p's in a pod i call it, pineapple and papaya. I thought ill share.

Fill the blender with  as much water as you want. I filled mine 1/2 way. Then i added half a papaya and as much pineapple as i wanted. Blend away and you have easy drinking baby food my daughter loved it.

Pineapple sweetens the papaya a little bit more. But if your a sweet tooth by any means add your sweetstuff but i think these two concoctions alone is sweet. Also if you like eating tonnes of fruit and you can handle it then by all means use the whole papaya and pineapple hehe. Dont need a banana for this recipe its already thick( easily drinkable) but it may add another zing to it. It also doubles up as a facial scrub to keep skin soft and smooth not that most rawdies need it(so scrape out whats left in the blender and put it on your face that way your not wasting it by washing it all away). To me it tastes like a version of mangoe hehe.

I put flax oil in mine dont ask me why and it was delish.

How i wish we had sweet ripe nectarines here now! Bring in the summer :ohyeah:
By the way what is romaine?

Yummmm! I am in smoothie heaven! I have just made my all time favourite smoothie. What's in it! Good question.

Water of a young coconut. (I have young coconuts here straight from the tree and sent to me.... so much fun getting them open!)
two mangoes  :laugh:
1/2 a bunch of spearmint
four large handfuls of spinach (baby)
2 large bananas.

Blend and drink. So delicious. Mmmmmm.

xoxoxo

I have a new favorite.  One sip & I was hooked.  Sounds a bit of a combo, but it's good!

sweet baby spinach
pineapple juice & a little water
oranges
bananas
green seedless grapes

It's sweet and syrupy and tasty and summery and... I an spending every sip discerning a different fruit flavour :)  Yum!

Hello :)

I'm new and thought my first post should be about my first green smoothie that I made today. I read this thread first and then blended 2 small bananas and a kiwi frui with water. Then I juiced 4 big spinach leaves and some ginger and added it all together - yum  :ohyeah: It was a gorgeous limey green colour too

Hi Kitteh,

You'll find lots of green smoothie fans here.  The great thing about green smoothies is that they are limited only by your imagination.

I'm hanging out for summer stone fruit, because my fave green smoothie is a blender full of baby spinach, a couple of frozen bananas and ripe juicy peaches.  Scrumptious!

Nice addition with the ginger, by the way - that would add a lovely kick!

Ok, not a green smoothie but I LOVE this.

Raw almond milk, raw agave and bananas. I make it when I need a sweet treat. Although I discovered custard apples today and am tempted to add one of those to a green smoothie. Mmmmm....

;)

This morning I used 2 bananas, spinach, a pear & ginger, was yummo.

Almost added a peach but I saved it to eat this afternoon :)

Wow I just read all off the pages on this post, amazing info.
Will have to read it all in the morning again and write them down.
Some combinations I would have never thought off!! Thanks :yahh:

For the past week I have been having a few large spinach leaves, 2 bananas, frozen raspberries and mango - yum!!

I wanted to try papaya, so I bought one over the weekend and yesterday I blended some it with some water, kale and frozen narna - it has such a distinct taste, it was really nice.

All winter long I made my gs with bana, pear, and lemon rind and juice. Beautiful flavour.

greens and mango; or coconut water and cacao for a treat.

mmmmmmmmm... sipping this divine creation and it's so good i Have to share........

blender full of sweet baby spinach.... bit of water... heaping tablespoon of raw cacao powder ... dash of agave...
blend blend blend...

Couple of ripe bananas.  a whole large punnet of fresh in-season raspberries. 
2 frozen bananas cut into pieces (for thicker consistency).
more blending.

Oh gosh, this is too good.  I am in love with the raspberry chocolate flavour.  :D

Snap Waterberry!  Well almost....

I'm not drinking a green cacao smoothie, but I did bring a cacao/coco/berry smoothie to work in my Sigg bottle today.  Half gone, and the other half is for this afternoon.

Berries + cacao are a match made in heaven.  Frozen berries work wonderfully.

Funny, I always wondered if a green smoothie with cacao would be tasty - I'm yet to try it, as I tend to make my fave berry one with young coconut.

I might do a green version of the coco berry one tomorrow.

Yumm, they are great arent they missgiggles!!     

I make them when I'm having chocolate cravings.  Over winter I used strawberries and frozen berries.  But the fresh raspberries were just... ohmygosh good :)

Yes the green smoothies with cacao are tasty, but I find better with the bland or sweet greens.  Although I had a very peppery rocket & radish-greens strawberry cacao one once, that reminded me of that chili-chocolate bite.

I've never put cacao in but green smoothies with mesquite are really yummy! I don't have them often but I happen to be drinking one right at this moment...!  :P

rockmelon...

or bananas and lettuce...going to have bananas and lettuce gs for my evening meal,mmmmm    just letting the rockie digest!

I blended two v.ripe narnas w/ some almond milk I made today, it was yum! V.thick and filling tho.

watch the combo KittehKat....nuts(fat) and fruit sugar,dont generally digest real smoothly....

Thanks RGG, I felt ok that afternoon, just wanted to use up the rest of the almond milk :)

This morning I put water into the blender and turned it on. Then added greens and grapes and blended until smooth. I put in 3 bananas and a handful of ice cubes and pulsed until there was no more crunching sound.

I pulse bananas in smoothies because it stops them from tasting bitter.

It was refreshing and tasty.  

Today I had mango, lemon balm, banana, water and baby spinach. It was very very tasty.

xoxoox

This week I've been wanting oranges. My fave GS for this week has been 4-5 oranges with the seeds lovingly removed, blended with one banana and two handfuls of baby spinach or silver beet. Yummmm!

Bill's favourite at the moment is the caramel shake. Almond milk, 2-3 bananas, 1-2 spoons of mesquite meal, soaked dates. Blend until smooth and guzzle before wife gets it! LOL

xoxoxox

This caramel smoothie sounds amazing! Will have to hunt out some mesquite I think. lol
I've loved reading this thread again - so many lovely new recipes to try while I'm just greensmoothie-ing :)

baby spinich & a few stalks celery, 1-2 mangos and 1-2 banannas, few icecubes
 mmm

I made one for the kids and I last night that was awesome. 1 pineapple, some frozen narnas and silverbeet. Yummmm!

xoxoxo

MMMmmmmm. I'm having  a great one here! 3 bananas blended with water. Add one handful of gojis, 1 tablespoon of Lucuma, 1 heaped tablespoon of mesquite and blend. Add Some frozen narnas and more water if needed and blend again. Kwor!

xoxoxox

Jen - here's one that the kids might love.  I've just had it for dinner, and it was scrumptious!

1 x handful of almonds (soaked and dehydrated)
1 x mug of water

Whizz whizz, and squeeeeeeeeeeeeeezed through a nutmilk bag.

Nutmilk back into the blender.

Add a "lump" of frozen young coconut flesh, allowing to partially defrost in the nutmilk.

Then add:

2 x heaped teaspoons of cacao powder
2 x teaspoons yacon powder
2 x teaspoons mesquite

Whizz whizz.

Surprisingly filling and unbelievably good.  It was a thick milk consistency, not exactly smoothie thick.  As far as a chocolate milkshake goes it was awesome.

Note:  the above quantities made a large glass full

Thanks Miss G. I think I will keep that one to myself.... the kids are struggling through a GS at the moment. It's like I've fed them green paint!!! Anyone would think that I was trying to kill them with the looks on their faces. Caitlyn looks like  :detox: with hair!

Yacon powder is the best.... so scrummy-licious.

xoxoxox

At the moment

3bananas + 1/2 bag of babay spinach blended with cup of water and a heap of icecubes...

My current fav (changes daily!) is 2 bananas, big handful of baby spinach, 1/3 mango and a handful of sunflower sprouts. The sprouts give it an almost nutty flavour. For more sweetness add more mango. I'm in a savoury mood so this one's perfect! I wonder what I'll feel like tomorrow? :laugh:

OMG! I just made the best smoothie I've ever had :ohyeah: I'm still doing the GS thing but I noticed since I started running again that I'm craving fats... so I thought I'd try some today in a smoothie and see how it goes...I'm also hanging out for chocolate for some reason so wanted to have some of that too. This is what I came up with. I made it about half an hour ago and it's only 1/3 gone - it's pretty filling 

flesh and juice from one green coco
dash of agave
heaped tspn of raw cacao powder
1/2 tspn cinnamon
1 cup water
2/3 tblspn raw coconut oil
2 bananas

I blended the first 5 ing. together first to get them all smooth and then added the coco oil and bananas in at the end. This is SO good!

This one is going down a treat!  :thumbup:

3 big nectarines or peaches (or 4 smaller ones)
2 oranges
bunch of baby spinach

Blend with a bit of water

Passionfruit is in season.... Crunchy & slightly tangy!

2 passionfruits
2 magnoes
1 banana
greens (don't know the name of the ones I used)
water

oooh what a great thread, only just found it!

this probably isn't much use until mulberry season rolls round again, but one of my top faves is:

Handful frozen mulberries (picked 3kg for free from a local tree last year, a very happy find!)
2 - 3 Bananas (can use frozen for extra thick, creamy smoothie)
1 - 2 Oranges
Bunch baby spinach
And a spoon of Spirulina is nice in it too

I had a really yummy one two weeks ago, got it off a Jennifer Cornbleet DVD:

Filtered water
Organic blueberries – used a whole tub
One organic orange
One organic frozen banana
Handful organic spinach

Really nice but given the tub of blueberries was about $8.00, makes for quite an expensive drink.

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Mission: To scour the recipe sections of my favourite raw sites

Objective: To recieve inspiration and practical advice to further my path towards raw goodness

Conclusion: Success!

What a great thread - my weekend will be filled with fantastic recipes now, cant wait. :-)

Here is a green smoothie i do when i dont actually have any fruit left in the house:

zest and juice from a couple of limes
greens
water

Is a great way to get your greens without it tasting like just green - yummy!

NB - i love the tip on only pulsing with the bananas, will use it for sure.  :yahh:

okay..not a green smoothie but one which I've been living on for the last month (until I couldn't find any more coconuts)...
1 banana
1/2 punnet of blueberries
water from one young coconut
maca powder

whizz together. this is divine. I didn't have room for my blender on this trip so i have been preparing my smoothies the old mortar and pestle way (often improvising with a mixing bowl and a potato masher..takes a while but it's worth it) and putting A LOT of love (elbow grease) into it at the same time. Yes, I'm a determined and often desparate woman. Ariel (my 'breatharian' son -ie: doesn't think eating is important) thinks this is the best banana smoothie he has ever had.


xo Peace

my fast workout protein shake is as follows

1 tablespoon cacao powder
1/2 tablespoon maca powder
1 tablespoon wheatgrass powder
1 tablespoon spirulina powder
3 tablespoon bee pollen
3 tablespoon goji berries
1 large handful frozen raspberries
1 ripe banana
fresh spring water

this really gives me allot of ompf when training..

hokahey

bananas and water (banana mylk)

bananas and celery

bananas and baby spinach

bananas date and silver beet

bananas and lettuce(soft leaf lettuce)

bananas and green veg juice...mmmmm

bananas and ripe fresh figs(or soaked dried figs) with lettuce

add water to all smoothie recipes as much as you want to get desired consistency!

i have many many over ripe bananas,i am very excited i love smoothi~ing...its so easy to digest..yummo

the less ingredients added to a 'meal' the less digestive energy used

xxx

Jedi, does that get your eyes spinning in your head? LOL. What a smoothie. I must drop by your place one day for a taste test!

My fave right now is just blended young coco. I've been having two or three of these per day. If I had the $$$ for 10 -15 of them per day I would do a fast on them right away. Soooo good!

xoxoxo

ahh,reminder i must call sunset coco man..and get bag of young cocos i love the water and the jelly inside..mmmmmmmmmmmmm

would be tres cool to coco water fast,was just looking at book(in rp shop) of benefits of coconut water...,,,,,,,,mmmmmmmmmmmm would like to buy that one too....

I've not read that yet. But I must! Especially given my current coconut binge.

xoxoxo

yeah i'm leg pressing 1200lbs again so it must be making my eyes %) on most exercise's i'm the strongest in the gym and have found the rawer(more raw) i've got the stronger i've got.. plus i play squash after every weights workout with a guy 30kgs lighter than me and last week i beat him, i put it down to my eyerolling shake.. and guacamole post workout meal

hey and i quite often pick up a coconut from the bottom of my hill and when its a nice young one i use the water and meat of it in my shake..

hokahey

That's it. I'm definitely coming to your place. Whaddya say Jedi? Tomorrow around oohhh... hmm... 10am? Sound good to you?

xoxoxo

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just to add celtic sea salt to your wounds jenergy.. this is the one i used for its water this morning..i'll be at the gym 10am, i'll save you some of my shake.. :laugh:

Good man! Unfortunately it took you so long to reply that I have missed the last bus and will not make it on time! T'will have to be another day. I do envy your young coco supply though. We might just have to move RP up somewhere tropical. Niiiiiiiiiiice!

xoxoxo

I made this yesterday and they are awesome! Thanks for sharing the recipe.

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LEs,man you are the man!! im coming for smoothie too if you please


i like it....raw man strongest in gym,whooping the skinny guys butt,te he....go Le-s go Le-s...whoop whoopp!

coco loco,tis awesome

fave smoothie right now

pears
green juice
baby spinach
coconut oil

bloody rippa!

and savoury
tomatos
sunflowerseeds
coconut oil
baby spinach
seaweed
celery
lemon juice
prob more like a soup really,but damn good
and you can throw in some maca nuts if you felt like it,or more seeds...mmmm! power food....

i've been talking to an old powerlifter friend who thinks raw food is for looneys, anyway i sent him my recipe for my workout shake, but said he'd never heard of half the ingredients so wouldn't try it even if i was whipping his arse, but on some of the other info i sent him on juice's he bought a juicer and sms'd me tonight that he'd tried his juicer out and felt like he was on speed, several sms's and emails later after he'd calmed down i warned him not to try my shake as i thought he might fall over and die from the over stimulation, maybe a few months on carrot celery and cucumber before he induges.. to which he informed me he was going to add strawberrys tomorrow.. i said you should be alright there.. amazing what a bit of live food can do..ya know he hadn't eaten anything uncooked for years not even a salad or raw tomatoe or even a nana....

i had a plain banana and strawberry smoothie today, jeze it was nice............

hokaflippinghey

harr harr Les

mine is rockmelon blended mmmm good!

Mine goes in a blender jug, rather than a juicer, so nothing is wasted.  I then add ice to it once it has blended, to make it super cold.  It comes out thick and creamy.

Last night I had 1 orange, 1 cup watermelon, 2 cups pineapple and pulp of 1 large passionfruit and 1 banana.  It was so delicious.  The passionfruit really set it off.   Yummo!!!

Oooh Intoraw that sounds nice!
I like frozen banana, rockmelon and blueberries.... (drools)