Experiments in green smoothies.

So I've been watching all kinds of food documentaries lately. Wanting to be more healthy, Wanting to eat more vegetables and fruit, Wanting to look and feel better, Wanting to drop the weight that I added when I let myself go.

Juicing seemed a viable option, But very expensive and I don't own a juicer. I do however have a kitchen ninja. So today I decided to see if it was up to the task of puréeing some fruits and vegetables.

Here's what I got: large leaf spinach, Kale, Strawberries, Plum Orange, Gala apples, Peruvian mango, banana.

What I ended up putting in: Four stalks of kale, two large spinach leaves, Half of the Apple, Orange, mango and banana, and Five strawberries. Then my ninja chopped them all up into tiny little pieces. The result was 30 ounces of green vegetable sludge. It actually tasted really good but seemed like it would be hard to swallow.

So I poured some out and I decided to add some soymilk.

Voilà, vegetable and fruit perfection. It tastes great and there's lots of servings of my daily veggies and fruits, No added sugar, And drinkable through a straw, which is very important to me. Lol.

My goal is to drink three glasses of this each day instead of having breakfast and lunch. We'll see how that goes.

Then I'll eat dinner with the hubby which is usually some form of lentil and barley soup. Sometimes with curry, sometimes with mushrooms, sometimes with potatoes, And once in a while with sausage. We're trying to eat meat very infrequently. We shall see how that goes since we're both huge meat eaters. And I do mean huge, no pun intended.