Pineapple Blackberry Spinach Green Smoothie

I Banana
1 C Blackberries
I 1/2 C Pineapple
Coconut Milk
Juice Plus+ Complete Powder while food based drink mix
Superfood Powder (I’m currently using Greens Today)
Spinach

I buy all organic fruit whenever possible and buy in season. Just wash, cut then freeze and its ready to go in your smoothie. If I’m using fresh fruit I usually add a little ice.
Add fruit and Coconut Milk to cover the fruit. Add several large handfuls of spinach.
Using a high powered blender (I use HealthMaster LivingWell by Montel)
Blend on high for 1 minute. It will be frothy and a lovely purple green.

Yummy!
Enjoy!

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Kale/Mango salad

Kale/Mango salad

1 bunch kale (black kale is especially good!) stalks removed, leaves thinly sliced
juice of 1 lemon
1/4 c. extra-virgin olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
kosher salt
2 t. honey
freshly ground black pepper
1 mango, dices small
small handful toasted pepitas

In a large serving bowl, add the kale, half the lemon juice, drizzle of oil and a little kosher slat. Massage until the kale starts to soften and wilt, 2-3 minutes. Set aside while you make the dressing.

In a small bowl, whisk the remaining lemon juice with the honey and lots of freshly ground black pepper. stream in the 1/4 c. of oil while whisking until a dressing forms, and you like how it tastes.

Pour the dressing over the kale and add the mango and pepitas. Toss & serve.

Try it soon – you’ll LOVE it! my kids both can’t get enough of it, and there’s no other way in the world either of them would eat kale!

Credit to our OMazing webmaster for www.oyusadallasfest.com
And
Aarti Sequeira of Food Network!

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Uncle Randy’s Salsa

What do I do with all these tomatoes and peppers from my garden?
Take:

6 large tomatoes
1 jalapeno; small pepper no seeds (or a banana pepper if you don’t want it too spicy, use one hotter pepper to increase heat)
A small onion; quartered
1/4 cup of fresh cilantro chopped well
1 tsp Uncle Randy’s Not too spicy
1/8 tsp Uncle Randy’s Spicy Spicy
(or use season salt and garlic powder)
1/8 tsp Cumin

Using a food processor pulse tomatoes and onion until chunky. Add in your peppers. Pulse until smoother but not soupy. add cilantro and spices. Pulse briefly to combine.

Refrigerate for an hour. Serve with flat Pretzel Crisps.

Delicious!

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Parsley, Kale, and Berry Smoothie

Parsley, Kale, and Berry Smoothie (2 servings)
Submitted by Yogini Cathy N.

Puree 1/2 cup (packed) flat-leaf parsley (leaves and stems), 4 kale leaves (center ribs removed), 1 cup frozen organic berries (such as strawberries, raspberries, mango, peaches, pineapple), 1 banana, 1 teaspoon ground flaxseed (optional), and 1 cup juice (such as pineapple). Blend until smooth.
The parsley provides anti-inflammatory properties (helpful for arthritis!), boosts your immune system, and may help protect against everything from colds to cancer.

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Super Tangy Kiwi Cherry Green Smoothie

Happy Spring!
To start this day off right I created this Über yummy green meal.

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Start with:
1 mango (or frozen mango cubes)
3 kiwi, peeled
Cherries, dark, sweet; 1 large handful frozen or fresh pitted
2 kale leaves
3/4 C Greek yogurt, plain (optional) if vegan use 1-2 C almond milk and reduce juice
2 1/2 C Organic unfiltered apple juice

Then add:
1 scoop Juice Plus Complete Powder (or vegan protein) plus
4 capsules each, Juice Plus whole food Orchard, Garden and Vineyard blend- contents only, no caps

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May add a cup of ice cubes. Blend in a high horsepower blender. (I use Living Well by Montel. )
Enjoy!

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Green Tea Raspberry Irish Green Smoothie

Happy St Patty’s Day! Here’s my newest super green recipe! Enjoy!

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Add to high powered blender:
(all organic if possible, as I always recommend)
1 banana, fresh or frozen
1 3/4 C frozen raspberries, or 2 C fresh
3 C fresh spinach
2 T hemp seeds (hulled, you can buy it thus way)
1 C organic unfiltered apple juice
1 1/2 C Almond milk, unsweetened
Protein Powder, vegan, I chose Source of Life Mixed Berry for more flavor (
I regularly use Juice Plus Complete vanilla or Arbonne Vanilla)

Blend on 7 (out of 8 which gets very frothy) for 1 minute.

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Then add Organic Coconut Oil to increase your intake of good fats. This also makes you satisfied and full.

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Brew two cups of organic green tea, add ice to the cups to top off and add to blender.

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Enjoy your Green Tea Smoothie with a friend or your kids!

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Sneaky Spinach Strawberry ‘Ice Cream’

Sneaky Spinach Strawberry Kiwi Blackberry ‘Ice Cream’
Fill high horse powered blender with 1/3 ice
Add:
2 C Soy or Almond Milk
1 C Blackberries
2 Kiwi, peeled
(this will trick your kids into thinking it’s supposed to be green!)
8-9 Strawberries, tops cut off, organic if possible
2 good healthy squirts organic Agave
nectar
1 t good Vanilla
Set to medium high. Add tamper into lid. Blend 1 minute. Wait for kids to not look. Add two huge handfuls spinach. Tamp down. Blend 1 minute adding more milk substitute to blend until thick or adding :
1/2 C Half and Half, if you’re eating dairy.
Pour into bowls. May freeze to create ‘ice cream’. Or enjoy right away. It melts quickly.

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This is what my kids THINK is I this frozen treat.

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This is what is actually in it. Sneaky!

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A few M&M’s and Voila!

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Ginger Pineapple Green Smoothie Goodness

Ginger Pineapple Green Smoothie Goodness

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So today as I’m on my lunar cycle I have had stomach day and this ginger pineapple smoothie I made two days in a row it’s amazing.
I had a few different ingredients yesterday but I’ll give you one I made for today.
I always add a scoop or two scoops of the Juice Plus Complete powder because I’m always needing extra vegan protein,so that is optional.

1/3 pineapple no husk
2″ piece ginger root lightly peel off dark areas
4-5 stalks organic celery root
3-4 kale leaves
1 1/2 C organic apple juice or 2 apples cored for a thicker smoothie
1 cup ice water
1-2 scoops Juice Plus Complete Whole Food Powder

Blend in hi horse powered blender on high for 1 to 2 minutes until frothy and yummy. Serve!

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