It’s monthly challenge time! We will start off 2014 with a 14 day Green Smoothie Cleanse. What are green smoothies? A green smoothie is a smoothie that has fresh leafy greens in it, such as collard greens, kale, swiss chard or spinach. This is in addition to the most common smoothie ingredient: fruit of all kinds! […]
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Are All Blenders Created Equal? Choosing the Best Blender for Your Smoothies
When it comes to food, we want the best and most healthy options we can find. With a striking array of fresh fruits and vegetables to choose from, farmer’s and produces markets are the go-to destinations for organic, nutritious and freshly harvested produce. And if you’re a smoothie lover, you know that fresh produce makes […]
Green Smoothies Make Great Meal Replacement Shakes
You all know that I love Green Smoothies. The beauty of green smoothies and a plant based diet in general, is that you can eat as much as you want until you are full. Now I’m talking about an eating regime based on whole, natural foods. This can be a tough concept for many people […]
Day 30 – September Smoothie Challenge – Last Day of our Challenge
It’s the last day of our September Smoothie Challenge. I’m down 9 lbs for the month and loving it. Like many other Black Women Losing Weight members, I’ll be continuing with smoothies as part of the Meatless part of our October Challenge. Today’s Recipes: Go Green Shake 1/2 ripe banana 1 kiwi, peeled and chopped […]
Day 29 – September Smoothie Challenge – More Green Smoothies
Green smoothies have been my favorite during our whole Smoothie Challenge. Here are a few more for you to try. Today’s Smoothies: Mean Green Juice Recipe Veggie Smoothie Raw Radiant Health Smoothie
Day 25 – September Smoothie Challenge – More Video Recipes
More Recipe Videos for Day 25! Today’s Recipes Tropical Detox Smoothie Glowing Green Smoothie Calmee32’s Detox Smoothie
Day 24 – September Smoothie Challenge – 3 Great Green Drinks
For Day 24, I want to share 3 great green smoothies. From happyhealthylonglife.com – “My 64 ounce smoothie–that lasts 2 days” 8 packed cups of organic kale 2 large organic carrots 1 very juicy orange (or a kiwi) 1 cup of berries (usually mixed–but I only had wild blueberries today) Occasonally I’ll also add 1/2 […]
Day 21 – September Smoothie Challenge – More Recipes
Today’s Recipes Lemon Lime Berry Smoothie 1⁄2 cup frozen lime juice concentrate 1 cup vanilla greek yogurt 1 ripe banana 1 cup raspberries 1/2 cup blackberries 3 ice cubes Pineapple Berry Green Smoothie 1 can crushed pineapple 1 cup ice 1 cup of kale, cut into strips 1 ripe banana 1/2 cup fresh blueberries 1/2 cup […]
Day 14 – September Smoothie Challenge – 7 pounds down so far!
I’m down a total of 7 pound (4 last week, 3 this week) and I’m so happy. I would have been happy to just have 7 pounds down for the whole month so this smoothie challenge is really working for me. I’ve found that I’m less winded when going up stairs and my size 14s […]
