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Monday, September 10, 2012

Healthy(-ish) smoothie

I really, really want a Vitamix. If I were to write my x-mas wish list early a Vitamix would be at the top. SIGH. For now I have to tinker around with my refurbished Breville mixer; no, not tinker, BEAT WITH A HAMMER. It worked beautifully for the first few months after I got it, but now it freaks out if there's ice cubes or if my frozen bananas aren't cut into teeny, tiny pieces. Okay, enough venting--just get me a Vitamx for xmas Santa and I'll be a good girl for the rest of the year. ^^

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Ingredients:
  •  1/2 frozen or fresh berries; my bag of frozen has dark cherries, strawberries, blueberries, and pomegranate
  • 1 banana
  • 1 yogurt cup
  • 1 cup of almond milk
  • Scoop of powdered wheat grass
Method: Hopefully you don't have a junky mixer like I do and you don't have to cut everything down to little pieces. I always throw all the ingredients in the order I listed above. If you are using powder wheat grass or if you add any protein powders you will want to add it last or in the middle. The powder tends to not mix well if it's at the bottom (or course that's just MY janky mixer).


You should get two servings. Silly me I forgot that Dillon is allergic to bananas. But that just means there's more for me! And I usually it will keep me full for hours. And I say it is healthy-ish because it does have a lot of sugar from the yogurt I used and of course the berries. But you know I can't always stay away from sugar. And I say it's better than getting a sugar fix from candy bars.

YAY, the wheat grass didn't make it army green! (no filter pic)

2 comments:

  1. Yummy! I wish I had my Vitamix with me!! Where do you get the wheat grass again!?!?!

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    1. at the health food store... you can get it at whole foods. it's called amazing wheatgrass. http://amazinggrass.com/product/42/Organic-Wheat-Grass-30-servings.html

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