Green Smoothies for Beginners: Essentials to Get Started with a Green Smoothie Diet

If you're anything like me, you've seen green smoothies, heard health nuts rave about their healing properties, and promptly thought, "Yeah... that's gonna taste like crap. Thanks, but um, No Thanks." A good friend suggested to me that my resistance would probably be best addressed by getting a good starter book that gave good recipe ideas.Green Smoothies for Beginners is just that. Sure, the first few chapters are about the health benefits, the hows and whys, which I was honestly less interested in until I tried a recipe or two. We all know that wheat grass shots are good for us, but how many people Actually drink them?!The book gives an excellent list of the properties of many different types of fruits, veggies and spices. While I certainly know what they taste like, I'm not as good at knowing what they each do for my system. The list is pretty helpful.My favorite recipe listed is actually really simple. It's called the Hidden Beauty Smoothie, suggested as an afternoon pick-me-up, but really you can have it whenever you want. It's ingredients consist of spinach, pineapple and banana. Did you know that the taste of spinach actually bows down in submission to yummy fruit? I bet Popeye wished he could have had a nice green smoothie instead of slimy canned spinach.The other great rule of thumb presented in the book is the 4,3,2,1 rule. Use 4 parts sweet juice, 3 parts green veggies, 2 parts tangy or tart juice and 1 part zesty or spicy fruits. This is an excellent formula to inform those of us who like to get creative in the kitchen and just start throwing in ingredients. I've made a dish or two that were terrible because I didn't have a good baseline idea of what should go in it. On the other hand, my experimental dishes tend to be everyone's favorites, so it goes both ways.I'm glad I found this book. I'm excited to go make more smoothies.

Yeah-yeah, this is a good book about smoothie, but when I am able to get new information that totally makes me stop and think about what I have been doing, makes the information in 'Green Smoothie for Beginners' GREAT!I grew up in a household of healthy eating, so this big health kick in the past few decades - been there - done that!Smoothie?You mean my Mom didn't INVENT them?Well, I never knew that having diary or any kind of protein in a smoothie defeat the purpose of the smoothie due to the body's need to break down the complex proteins, thus disabling the body's ability to absorb the GOOD STUFF from the fruits and vegetables.We always put yogurt as a base with honey into our smoothies.WONK-WONK!Been screwing that up all these years.I am a big proponent of taking supplements because without the ability to do crop rotation, our produce lack the nutrients - yattah-yattah-yattah.HOWEVER!When throwing broccoli, kale or any other vegetables (I would always steam or overcook them) into the blender, I am getting more organic nutrients than artificially derived supplemental vitamins and minerals.Stay with me...If we can actually get the full impact from our organic produce, then our refrigerators become our pharmacy instead of doctors pushing pills.This can be daunting and straight-up intimidating trying to blend fruits and vegetable into a palatable taste, but this book will "hold your hand" and give you an eye-opening guide into a LIFESTYLE of eating (drinking) better and fixing what ails you.Recipes, cleanses, detoxes, cocktails, formulas for cures to universal ailments - 'Green Smoothies for Beginners' is a MUST-READ!

I was on Amazon looking for a solution to my issues with sustainable weight loss. I had heard from a good friend that green smoothies could help you lose weight relatively quickly. I chose this book because the cover of the book really caught my attention. I wanted something that would provide me with all the information I was looking for, but that would also make it easy to understand for a beginner. I made the right decision! I started seeing results within a couple weeks of purchasing the book. It's got loads of great sounding recipes that aren't just "green" but that add fruits as well. This was important to me because I wanted to enjoy the smoothies, not just gulp them down as fast as possible. A few recipes even have a humorous twist to them. My favorite, The Mister Ed Special, has cucumber, mint, apples and a bit of carrots are in it too. Since starting on smoothies, I've felt lighter, and even brighter throughout my whole body. I make a smoothie in the morning, then I separate that one large green smoothie in order to sip it a tiny bit, several times a day. Healthy living doesn’t get any easier than this. My results include: acceptable weight balance, a decrease in water retention, and an overall sense of feeling like my body is finally comfortable. I only have five more pounds to take off, but I plan on sticking with the smoothies after that because of how great I feel!

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