Green super smoothie

Recommended pre-read: 8 Rules of Thumb for Veggie, fruit smoothies


Use this vegetable smoothie recipe as a baseline and add/remove vegetables to/from it. Go light on fruits. They are good but also have sugar, treat fruits as a replacement for candy 

1. broccoli – 2 flowers
2. celery – half of a single stem
3. green apple – 1
4. lemon – 1
5. greens – handful or as much as you can stuff in blender
6. cucumber – ¼
7. dried figs – 2
8. Water (purified with no chlorine, flouride and other chemicals) – enough so ingredients are under water and give the blender enough room to churn/blend. Add a pinch of Himalayan rock/pink salt 

here are additional vegetables you can add to the baseline recipe based on availability and your own systems tolerance of certain vegetable types 

1. Bok Choy (1/2 of a leaf) 
2. Mint leaves (especially good in summer) - 4-6
3. Fennel stem - 2" 
4. Beetroot - small slice. say 1/8th of a standard sized Beetroot 

If you are active and working out a lot or engage in high endurance sports or just want to switch some veggies out for a change, then add rich sources of protein and/ nutrition like these 

1. Peas - handful of frozen peas
2. Green beans - handful 
3. Carrots - handful 
4. Squash - 1/4th 
5. Chia Seeds - 1 Tablespoon (soaked and/or sprouted) ...