Green Smoothie With Cucumber, Celery & Pear

 If you have trouble eating enough vegetables, try making a green smoothie filled with vitamins, minerals, and fiber. Today's smoothie has 6 ingredients: nutrient-dense greens, lemon juice, freshly grated ginger, pear, celery, and cucumber, plus ice water or ice cubes. The vegetables provide chlorophyll and alkaline-rich foods, which increase red blood cell count, improve circulation, calm inflammation, and oxygenate the body.

 The end of summer and the beginning of autumn are a great time to make a green smoothie with a fresh pear. Cucumber and celery are diuretic veggies great for weight loss and high in minerals. Kale is a super vegetable packed with vitamin K and has anti-cancer benefits. Plus, you can boost your immune system with cleansing lemon that’s full of vitamin C.  Pear is a great source of fiber and helpful for colon health. If you are unable to find kale, you can substitute spinach. If you are using a regular blender instead of a food processor or high-speed blender, blend kale or chard with ice water and then add the rest of the ingredients. Sometimes if you do all the ingredients at once, the greens clump and do not blend well.

 Green Smoothie with Cucumber, Celery & Pear

 Use organic when available; it makes 1 large serving 

Ingredients

• 1 cup kale, baby spinach, or chard
• 1 lemon
• 1 cucumber
• 2 celery stalks chopped
• 1 pear cored & diced
• 1/2 tsp grated ginger
• 1 cup ice water
• Optional 1 teaspoon chia or flax seeds
• Optional scoop of avocado or Greek yogurt 

 Instructions

• Peel rind off lemon, remove seeds, and quarter
• De-core pear
• Cut ends off celery and cucumber and chop
• Put all ingredients in food processor & blend until smooth
• Optional put greens in blender with ice water & blend
• Optional add rest of ingredients to blender and process
• Serve immediately

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Green Avocado & Spinach Smoothie

 

 

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Now for today's recipe:

When I first started blogging some years ago, I started the day with a smoothie almost every morning. A few years later, I just got tired of it. My smoothies had almost disappeared in my breakfast menu ideas. Oatmeal became the main morning dish for breakfast. Recently I have again made the choice to add smoothies as a healthy, delicious morning choice. I like to have one for breakfast, lunch, or afternoon snack.

Back in the early days of blogging (2016), I shared Start Your Day With A Spinach Smoothie. I think it was the first recipe I shared. Spinach is one of the healthiest vegetables you can eat.  It is a super food loaded with tons of nutrients in a low-calorie package. Dark leafy greens like spinach are important for skin and hair, bone health, and provide protein, iron, vitamins and minerals. Just do a search for the word spinach and you will see pages of articles  on the health benefits of spinach. Just eating one serving of spinach a day can make your brain 11 years younger.  A diet rich in leafy green vegetables help prevent cognitive decline according to recent research.   It slows the aging process.

 

 Today’s recipe is a quick and delicious banana, avocado, and spinach smoothie that can be used as a breakfast or snack. It’s really a good basic recipe that can be adapted to diet or taste needs. For vegan, replace the honey with maple syrup or agave nectar. Can’t eat nuts? Choose a different milk. I choose vanilla almond milk for a nutty flavor with a touch of vanilla. Need more protein? Add a scoop of protein powder. Have ripe fruit you need to use? Chop and add. Remember to make it your own and vary with what’s in the refrigerator. This recipe makes 2 smoothies; put the second in a covered bottle or jar in the fridge for a snack in the afternoon.  Give it a shake or two and your snack is good to go.

 

 

 

Green Avocado & Spinach Smoothie

Use organic when available. Serves 2, Ready in 5 minutes for Breakfast, Brunch, Snack

 

 

Ingredients

• 1 cup baby spinach leaves
• 1 ripe avocado, pitted, peeled, & halved
• 1 ripe banana (try frozen for extra creamy)
• 1 tbsp honey or dark agave nectar
• 1 cup ice cubes
• 1 1/2 cups vanilla almond milk or milk of choice

Instructions

• Add all ingredients except ice to blender
• Blend 50 to 55 seconds
• Add ice cubes and blend again for 30-35 seconds.
• Serve immediately 

Enjoy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

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