We are going back to the drawing board on the first week of smoothie making. What have we learned? They need more fluid than you think, unless you drink them right away. The protein is a necessity for keep you full, but there’s a little adjustment in the tummy. But lemons and blueberries are back for Day 8!
The mad scientist list:
One Orange
Two Lemons
Two cups of frozen Blueberries (Berry Mix)
Two handfuls of Mixed Greens
Two tablespoons Flaxseed or Protein Powder.
One cup Green Tea
The Mixed Greens and Green Tea should be blended until smooth. The orange and lemons are peeled and sectioned. Add the fruit together and blend smooth. Add the protein powder and blend a third time. This receipe made 52 ounces (1.6liters). This is best thing to come out of my blender!!
Yet, to me, the ingredients sound like it wouldn’t be that tasty!
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It’s actually very good. The lemon isn’t strong, it blends with the orange. If you like blueberries, it’s really good. Using almond milk would probably cover some of the citrus.
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Yes, it has a lot of citrus in it. I can’t drink/eat citrus because of reflux.
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That would be a problem. There are all kinds of mixes out there. The book I have goes between green and citrus. Not much middle ground. So I’ve mixed receives. That and I don’t go to the store each day.
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I’m surprised that one of your favorite smoothies is made with green tea rather than almond milk or coconut milk.
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The taste of the milks makes them heavy tasting. I’m happier with lighter taste. The coconut milk isn’t as strong tasting and with the calorie count it should be. It’s all fat.
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Oh, I didn’t realize that.
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Neither did on. I stayed mixing up something with lite coconut milk and 11.5 ounces has over 300 calories and all from fat. There isn’t even much coconut in it either
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I have not tried coconut milk but I imagined it to taste like coconut and be low calorie.
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I was disappointed with it. The coconut water is really goodand it had coconut pieces. That the way to go. Goya has a can for about $1 that makes two smoothies.
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That would be the way to go then unless it has a lot of calories. Especially since you like the lighter taste.
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Much less calories. I think the 16 ounce can has about 100
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That doesn’t sound bad at all.
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It’s the way to go. Now,if I could find a decent papaya around here. ..
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LOL! I have never had a papaya.
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The best part of eating in Hawaii.
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I imagine that it is!
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Unfortunately, it’s like winter tomatoes. They look the same but don’t taste anything like the real thing.
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Yuck, I hate winter tomatoes! They have no taste.
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One of my friends from high school lives in Florida. He took buckets of dirt back because no tomato tastes good there even in summer.
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Really, it’s because of the dirt? I would think it was because of the climate. I wonder if the dirt made them taste better?
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If you grow in sand or the percolite mixes, some plants don’t get enough minerals. It could happen. But the taste of fresh picked versus shipped across the country has something to do with it
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The taste of a ripe freshly picked tomato is wonderful!! I use to grow them and eat them right off the vine like an apple.
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How does a papaya taste? A blend of a peach and a pear?
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It’s rich like a peach but not nearly as sweet. Maybe more of a juicy cantaloupe with peach added to it.
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YUM, that sounds delicious!
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Truly awesome. One of life’s greatest pleasures is a ripe papaya
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The only thing I can compare it to is a really delicious ripe peach! Yummy!
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I’m not a peach person. But I appreciate tree ripe anything
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I have never met a “Not a Peach Person” before. LOL!
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Super sweet isn’t me. I’m sweet enough already 😉
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Hahahaha! I’m not into fruits that are tart or bitter-tart.
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Nothing but a papaya beats a Granny smith apple
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LOL! And I like Red Delicious.
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I can see how much you avoid tart with that choice. 😉
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Yes, I do. Hahahaha!
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I mean “imaginative compare.”
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Now thanks to GMO’S, imagine and they can splice them together
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Yes, they can but GMO just isn’t good.
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Fortunately the Senate is making sure we’ll never know what’s in the food.. it’s scary to think potatoes and salmon aren’t labeled and we don’t deserve to know their origin. But steak is labeled which country it comes from.
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I wonder why they don’t let consumers know where (country) their potatoes and Salmon are coming from. Especially, Salmon.
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Monsanto and others think we wouldn’t buy GMO’S if they are marked. So no label helps them.
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Are you talking about what country the food is coming from or whether they are GMO or not? I’m confused.
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Any meat besides salmon has to say what country produced it. No other food is required to say if it’s natural or GMO in origin. Some states have passed laws that require the GMO’S to be labelled, but only three I know do. Salmon is technically a food item now, much like processed meat and cheese
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Isn’t Salmon, fish? Are they genetically modified?
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FDA says salmon aren’t technically fish, this allows GMO product to be sold. Why they think something with fins,scales and gills aren’t fish is beyond me. Somewhere around Halloween (fittingly) they allowed for GMO salmon to be sold in grocery stores and restaurants. Crazy, but true. There are traces of GMO corn and wheat in most products already. They aren’t technically allowed to include them in US food market yet.
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That’s crazy that they say that Salmon technically isn’t fish! It makes me wonder if they are creating a “fish” that isn’t fish and calling it Salmon. You know, how they can “create” a beef roast by clumping beef together (or pork, or turkey) and calling it a roast? Maybe they are doing that with fish that “technically isn’t fish.” Does that make sense?
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Yes it does. It’s possible your beef roast may not be all cow in the future. They can do a lot already. If the ranchers could make enough money and reduce disease while growing cattle faster it’ll happen
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Yes, it will.
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There’s something wrong when the food you eat can’t pass an Olympic drug test.
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LOL! That sounds funny but certainly true!
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