Green Getaway

Ingredients

½ cup Water, or to blend

3-3½ Pineapple Spears (or roughly 1 cup)

1 Mango

½ Large Golden Delicious Apple, peeled, cored and chopped

¼ Frozen Banana

1-2 Dried Dates, chopped (more if you want it sweeter)

1-1½ cups packed Greens (I usually use spinach)

½  – 1 tsp Barley Grass Powder, Wheat Grass Powder or Spirulina (optional)

2-3 Ice Cubes, reserved

 Instructions

Blend all ingredients, except ice, until smooth.  This one’s a blender full so if you have a small blender, split this recipe.

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Morning Sunrise

Ingredients

¾ cup Almond Milk or Water, or to desired consistency

7 Strawberries

3 Bananas (frozen preferable)

2 Pineapple Spears

1 Orange, peeled and quickly sectioned

1 tbsp Hemp Hearts or Rolled Oats

 Instructions

Blend all ingredients, except ice, until smooth.

Get Your Greens!

Add those leafy greens (such as 2 Collard Leaves, destemmed) and  1 tbsp Honey.  Just pay no mind if the color is a bit off.

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Rise-to-Shine

Ingredients

7 Strawberries

1 Banana

1 Orange

½ Mango

2 tbsp Hemp Hearts

½ cup Water

½ cup Ice

*Make it Green with 1 handful each of spinach and kale, 1-2 tbsp Honey, and an additional ½ cup water.

Instructions

Blend all ingredients until smooth.

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2×4

Ingredients

2 large Oranges, peeled, seeded and coarsely chopped

2 Apples, cored and coarsely chopped

2 Bananas, preferably frozen, chopped and reserved

2 cups Kale or other Greens

Instructions

Using standard blenders:  Blend oranges and kale until well pureed.  Add apple chunks through the top hatch and continue blending until smooth.  Add banana and blend until smooth.  You may add extra water to blend and/or extra ice to chill, as desired.

 If using a high-speed blender, ignore these instructions and just throw it all in.

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Coconut Cream Pie Smoothie

Ingredients

1 Young Thai Coconut (flesh & water)

1 tbsp Chia, pre-soaked in coconut water (optional)

¼ cup Cashews

4 Dates, pitted & chopped (more if you like it sweeter)

Tiniest touch of Cardamom (optional)

4 ice cubes, reserved

Instructions

Blend all ingredients until smooth.

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Banana Cream Bliss

Ingredients

1 Banana

¼ cup Brazil Nuts

4 Pitted, Dried Dates, chopped

1 cup Almond Milk

1 tbsp Maple Syrup

 Instructions

Blend all ingredients, except ice, until smooth.

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Blueberry Bliss

Ingredients

1 ½ cup Blueberries, fresh or frozen

1 Banana, preferably frozen

½ cup Almond Milk, or to blend

1-3 tsp Honey, optional

Splash of Vanilla

Instructions

Blend all ingredients until smooth.

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Southerner’s Strawberry Smoothie

Ingredients

1⅓ cup Almond Milk

8 Strawberries

¼ cup Chopped Pecans

½ cup Old Fashioned Oats

2 tbsp Maple

8 Ice Cubes, added just before serving

Instructions

Blend all ingredients until smooth.

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Pretty in Pink Smoothie

Ingredients

6 oz. Raspberries

7 Fresh Figs

2 Bananas

½ – 1 cup Almond Milk or Water to blend

Honey or Agave, if desired to sweeten

3 Ice Cubes

Instructions

Blend all ingredients until smooth.

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White Peach & Fig

Ingredients

1 cup Almond Milk

1 tbsp Chia Seeds, soaked in almond milk for 15-20 min.

7 Fresh Figs, stems removed

4 White Peaches, pitted and chopped

3 Ice Cubes (reserved)

Honey to sweeten, if desired

 Instructions

Blend all ingredients until smooth.

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Peachy Keen Smoothie

Ingredients

2 Peaches

½ cup Old Fashioned Oats

1-3 tsp Honey

Almond Milk, to Blend

Instructions

Blend all ingredients until smooth.    .

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Charlie at the Raw Food Factory

Ingredients

2 cups Kale or other Greens

2 cups Water

4 tbsp Hemp Hearts

3 tbsp gently rounded Raw Cacao Powder

3 tbsp Honey or Agave

2 Frozen Bananas

*May sub water and hemp hearts for 2 cups prepared nut milk; adjust honey if milk is sweetened

Instructions

Blend all ingredients until smooth.

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Chocolate & Cherry

Ingredients

2 cups Pitted Cherries, Fresh or Frozen

2 tbsp gently rounded Cacao Powder

2 tbsp Honey or Agave

2 tbsp Hemp Hearts

¾ – 1 cup Water or Almond Milk

4 Ice Cubes

 

Instructions

Blend all ingredients until smooth.

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The Green Chocolatier

Ingredients

1/2 – 3/4 cup Almond Milk

1-2 tbsp Chia Seeds, soaked in almond milk for 15-20 min

2 rounded tbsp Cacao Powder (or Carob), or as desired

2 tbsp Honey (or to taste, may sub stevia)

1 handful of Spinach

4 Ice Cubes

*Make it Mayan with a dash of cayenne

or Mint Chocolate with 8 fresh mint leaves.

Instructions

Blend all ingredients until smooth.