Robyn Openshaw has over sixteen years experience researching the benefits of adopting primarily a raw plant based diet that focuses on natural, unrefined and unprocessed whole foods.
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I’m here with my friend Todd who wants a green smoothie demo, and I’m showing you the quick and dirty fast approach for making a green smoothie because this is the highest and best use of your kitchen time. If you do nothing else that’s healthy all day long, do this. Why should you make a green smoothie? First of all, you do not have to put nasty salad dressings on your greens to get them down. It’s just pure greens and fruit and it tastes better. Okay, why else? Do you eat kale and collards on a regular basis? I’m betting that you don’t. Kale has so much plant fiber in it; it actually absorbs several times its own body weight in toxins and removes it from your body.
There are so many powerful things about greens, and Americans aren’t getting enough greens in their diet. Every body knows that. This is the way to do it. Okay. So I’ve got a nice super high-powered blender on my website greensmoothiegirl.com, you can read about why I chose this blender even though I have several others. Its 3 horsepower, it will grind up anything. I’m going to put a whole bunch of spinach and kale and beet greens and collards in my green smoothie today.
And even more greens. And I add a little bit of flax oil because it’s a hard thing to get in to your diet and it’s easy to put in a green smoothie. I also add a little bit of stevia which is an herbal sweetener. You don’t have to, totally optional.
And now, I’m going to add some of my favorite fruits. Bananas are great because it makes the green smoothie creamy. I’m throwing in some apples and my favorite thing is mixed berries that are frozen because it helps your green smoothie from being actually green. It looks better, has great fiber, and it tastes fantastic.
And we’re done. It took about five minutes and had I made my blender full I would have a quart for me and four pints for each of my kids. That is 15 servings of fruits and vegetables in my quart of green smoothie every day. 15. The USRDA says you should get 5 to 10. I personally think you should get more, but right here without doing anything else in your whole day you have got 15 raw greens and fruits. So, anybody can do this. If you think your kids won’t go for it, start with less greens and more fruit and work your way up.
