Green Smoothies, A Wonderful Way To Get Our Greens!

Raw Family is the Boutenko website, and Victoria has a lot of great information on there. I also got her book (Green For Life) on Amazon, and read that, and it explains everything in depth better than is on the website.
You can get a used copy of the book for $1+shipping, and that is how I got mine; but it is also available new and I think as an ebook.
If you just do a search on the Kindle Store for green smoothies, there are free books with lots of recipes and information.
I also follow Sergei's Youtube channel, and there are bunches of videos on there that I am going to start watching more of.
Surprisingly, greens are one of the best sources of pure protein, and our body can use more of this plant protein than it can animal protein, so when you are adding more greens to your diet, you actually do not need much else to have enough protein.
Sergei explains that in the video that i linked.

 

Tonight I made the smoothest green smoothie ever ! My daughter got me a Vitamix blender, and that is just so powerful and in no time, it had my smoothie totally blended.
I have also been adding some protein powder into some of the smoothies and it actually goes great with the fruit and the greens. Even chocolate was delicious !
The smoothie that I made tonight had those superfood greens, some frozen (fresh) pineapple, a few grapes, plus a thin slice of lime, rind included. The lime covers up any "grassy" flavor from the greens, and gives it just that little bit of tartness.
I also added some fresh mint leaves, and half a scoop of vanilla protein powder. It turned out really great, and was my first smoothie in the new Vitamix blender.
I also found those blender bottles on sale at Walmart, and got one for Bobby and one for me. They hold 28 oz and come with a textured ball inside so that you can shake up the smoothie as you drink it and it keeps them from separating into fluff on top and juice on the bottom.
They sell for $10-$15 onAmazon, but Walmart had them for about $4.50 here; so a big savings.

 

I totally understand what you are saying, @Gloria Mitchell , and it took me a while to actually convince myself that i was going to do this thing, too.
No one ever just gets a craving for spinach, it just doesn't happen. Even Popeye ate his can of spinach when he knew he needed to be strong, not because he was craving the green stuff.
Once I read the "Green for Life" book and realized how important it was to have greens (and more greens) in our diet, and also that even if we sat and ate salad all day long, we might not get enough nutrients from it to meet our requirements; then I started to decide that I needed to learn to like drinking the stuff, even if it was GREEN (and sometimes a really UGLY green, at that).
To actually get all of the vitamins and minerals from greens, they should be eaten raw, and then chewed and chewed until they are soup in your mouth. that is a LOT of chewing, and of something that lacks all of the flavor of pizza or apple pie. The cell wall of the green plant/leaf has to be broken down before we can actually digest it and get the nutrients, and either blending or juicing is about the only way that happens.
Since doing everything I can do do keep my heart (as well as the rest of my body) working as good as it can, is of primary importance in my life , here I am learning to drink my greens every day.
At first, I had to close my eyes to be able to drink the green stuff; but now I don't mind the color anymore and just remember how healthy it is for me.

 

I have been reading about chia pudding, and also chia jam, and I intend to try making some of that myself soon, @Chrissy Cross . Even though I am staying away from bread, and other flour products, I do like the keto-bread that is made from almond or coconut flour and flax meal. I think that having some of that with a fresh fruit chia jam might be a great snack or even a breakfast food sometimes.
I did try putting some in my green smoothie; but then it made it so thick, I had to eat it with a spoon, and it is much easier when I can just drink it down.
I also got one of those shaker bottles that has the little weight in it, and that way I can keep the smoothie mixed up and not separating in the container.
The lid fits tight, and I just give it a few swirls before each drink.

 

There are lots of recipes on the internet, Chrissy. some called for cooked fruit, and some prefer raw. Since you lose most of the nutrients when you cook a fruit or veggie, I am going to make a raw fruit jam and see how that goes.
This recipe is pretty simple, just mixing up the fruit and chia seeds and letting it set up and absorb the liquids from the berries; but I am pretty sure that (somewhere) I also saw recipes that called for putting it all in the blender and then you have a smoother jam, and do not see the chia seeds in it. You can add whatever sweetener you want to almost all of the recipes.

http://naturesnurtureblog.com/easy-raw-strawberry-chia-jam/