I have been trying very hard to get more of the dark green leafy vegetables into my diet. The vitamins, minerals, and the overall benefits are key to our well-being. And most people have very few dark green veggies in their diet. Sure we all eat salads, and have the occasional green bean, but what about kale, mustard greens, collard greens, swiss chard, cabbage, bok choy, spinach? To be honest I have cabbage once in awhile and the occasional spinach salad. The longer I am a vegan and the more reading and experimenting that I do, the more these green veggies are rearing their heads. So I am on a quest for the next month to try more and more recipes using these vegetables. Daniel sent me a recipe recently for a kale salad with cashew cream dressing and it was great! I will be posting that soon. Everywhere you go on the vegan/vegetarian sites there is a buzz about green smoothies and I am going to be trying a new one every day for the next week and will post the successes. The two that I have tried so far were so good that I can't wait to try another one tomorrow. This is such an easy way to incorporate green veggies into the family diets. If they ask why it is green, just tell them you used green apples to make it. :-)
I am also adding a tsp of flax seed oil to each recipe even when it isn't called for and a scoop of protein powder.
GREEN SMOOTHIE #1..... TROPICAL TANGO
- 1-2 cups of fresh pineapple
- 1 banana
- 1 cup of fresh orange juice (approx the juice of two oranges)
- 1 cup water
- big handful of greens ( used spinach but anything will do)
- add some flaxseed oil or protein powder (optional)
Blend for 2 minutes
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