_THE_ Breakfast Smoothie

This is the Most Beautiful Green Smoothie You’ll Ever Drink!

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My Blog’s website builder lets me categorize my posts so that readers can search my site by topic, such as main dishes or side dishes, or main ingredient such as eggs or garlic, etc. As a kind of joke to myself, I categorized my Salted Caramel Apple Pie recipe as a breakfast recipe, because my husband will sometimes eat a slice of that apple pie for breakfast. That usually happens the day after his birthday, and well, on such a special occasion as the day after one’s Birthday, that’s allowed.

I do however only truly recommend about 3 things for breakfast, or for eating before 11am, ever. Those three Becky-approved breakfasts are: (1.) spinach or kale sautéed in olive or avocado oil, seasoned with salt & pepper, and zested with fresh ginger and fresh turmeric served with a fried egg of any variety. (2.) a small bowl of high-protein, low-sugar granola loaded with dark berries and some A2 milk, and (3.) this “green” smoothie.

Because this is all we ever have before 11am, a couple times a month I make breakfast for dinner, and we do the full-on, traditional breakfast with bacon or sausage, eggs, sautéed spinach, and pancakes or, my favorite, crepes with unsweetened whipped cream and berry compote.

So start the New Year off right with me, and make this smoothie your go-to start of every day… and have a croissant for a mid-day snack and pancakes for dinner!

THE Breakfast Smoothie

You’ll Need:

(For 2 14 oz. Smoothies)

• 1 cup spinach, packed
• 1 cheek lemon
• ½” nub ginger root
• ½” nub turmeric root
• 2-3 stalks mint
• Your daily preference of vitamins and supplements dried berries
• 6 slices banana
• ½ – 1 avocado
• 3-5 Tbs honey, depending on preference and dietary needs
• ¾ cup mixed frozen berries
• ½ cup unsweetened Greek, whole-fat yogurt
• ½ cup juice
• Water to constitute smoothie

I have a Vitamix blender with a smoothie setting. It’s marvelous. I bought mine re-furbished through a discount sale site called Zulily, but Vitamix also offers certified, refurbished blenders through their own site. I’ve had mine, and have used it at least once daily, for going on 6 years, and it’s still going strong. I can absolutely, whole-heartedly recommend investing in a Vitamix blender. Mine is among the top 3 MVP, most used kitchen tools along with my rolling pin and my Shun paring knife. I wouldn’t really want to cook as much as I do without those three tools.

Besides that un-sponsored sales pitch for Vitamix, we also own a little NutriBullet, and it works too, pretty well, I just fill it to the brim and feel like I would tax it using it the way I do my Vitamix every day.

Whatever blender you’ve got at the moment, use it! Start your New Year’s resolution to start treating yourself right every day before you rightly treat yourself later in the day.

Pack 1 cup of spinach in the bottom of your blender carafe.

Slice off then roughly dice a ½” nub of fresh ginger root. Then slice off and roughly dice a ½” nub of fresh turmeric root. Add to the carafe. And slice off a cheek of lemon and squeeze into the carafe. Pluck off the leaves from your 2-3 stalks of fresh mint and add to the carafe.

I add supplements here to my smoothie.

I used to exclusively use a one-and-done, potent polyphenol blend by Dr. Steven Gundry, called Vital Reds, and unsponsored again, I whole-heartedly recommend adding it to your daily smoothie. I also, however, have lately been adding about 2 capsules (800mg) of green tea extract, 3 capsules (3000mg) vitamin C, 1-2 Tbs dried elderberries or aronia berries or billberries, etc. (Whatever daily routine of supplements you’d like to solidify your resolve to taking, add them in here now!) If they’re in capsule-form, I dump them out of the gelatin capsule and add the shells to my compost-bound pile.

Next, add 6 slices of banana.

(This is for thickness and for sweetness.) I keep a baggie of pre-sliced chunks of bananas in my freezer door.

Then add ½ to 1 whole avocado.

Experiment with how thick you like your smoothie and go with that. A whole avocado makes a really nice thick smoothie, if you like yours thinner, go with half. Place the other half in a small Ziploc in the fridge for tomorrow’s smoothie.

Next, squeeze, scoop, or pour in 3-5 Tbs honey, depending on your taste or dietary needs.

If you’re limiting sugars, even from natural sources, leave the honey out. (When I only used Vital Reds as the supplements in my smoothie, I didn’t need or want any honey at all, nor any juice. That supplement is naturally sweet and makes the smoothie a vibrant red, making it beautiful and visually palatable all on its own. If you’re adding green tea extract or any other particularly bitter supplement, not adding something along the lines of Vital Reds, and  are not heavily watching your sugar intake, try adding honey to your taste level here.)

Next add ¾ cup berries of your choice.

I love raspberries for the color, the smell and the taste, and my husband’s favorite berries are blueberries, so I add a mix of frozen mixed berries and then some of just frozen blueberries. (Frozen cranberries are also pretty good to throw into the mix.)

Top her off with ½ cup whole-fat, unsweetened Greek yogurt.

Then pour in ½ cup of juice.

I mostly do this for the color as well, but I like a little pomegranate juice or black cherry juice, because they’re so dark in color.

Then add enough water to bring the liquid level above the spinach and to the bottom of the level of the berries.

Blend. Pour. Sip and Enjoy!

And feel great!

Much love and many blessings this year,

—Becky

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