daily green smoothies

green smoothies are all the rage... and for good reason. a quick easy way to get good stuff in your body in a way that is more palatable than straight up chompin.

here is the recipe for my daily greens...

toss these into your high powered mixer in this order...

• two/three big handfuls of raw organic spinach (press down so it is lightly compacted at the bottom
• 8-10 frozen strawberries
• 1/2 cup frozen pineapples
• Organic Orange Juice - pour orange juice into the mixer and fill up to cover the spinach ... ( your frozen fruit should not be underwater)

optional:

• 1 tbsp of ground flax seed
• frozen kale leaves (a super helpful tip from a friend : wash the kale, freeze the kale, break off leaves into the smoothie (discard the stems)... the kale loses its potent flavor!)
• sub 1/2 of the orange juice for organic carrot juice
• sometimes if I am making this for Ian I will add a greens super food protein powder scoop.
• substitute any fruit you have on hand!! We recently went through the costco pack of tropical frozen fruit (papaya, mango, pineapple, and strawberries)
• If you have extras, freeze into popsicles.

grind on high until all ingredients are blended and enjoy. For a more juicy consistency, add more juice... for a thicker drink, add more frozen fruit, not less juice.

My kiddos love these too and guests are pleasantly surprised to find out there is a whole lotta spinach in there. enjoy