For the past four-ish months or so, I’ve been a weekday smoothie breakfast drinker. I’ve got the quickness down to a science, so I never have an excuse not to devote the six required minutes it takes to start my day off right.
It starts with a freezer stocked with various frozen fruits and veggies. I usually have an assortment of spinach, kale, strawberries, cherries, blueberries, mangos, and pineapple. And then some chia seeds (or flax or hemp seeds).
I fill a Blendtec with 10 ounces of warm water (yep warm!), 1/2 cup of frozen greens, 1-1/2 cups of frozen fruit, 1 tablespoon of chia seeds, and let the blender do its thing. The warm water keeps the juice from turning into sorbet. Some of my fav combos are spinach-strawberries-mangos-chia and kale-blackberries-cherries-pineapple-chia.
I wish I could love smoothies more! I love the idea of it, and I love drinking a smoothie, but I am just more of a crunchy person….liquids just do not make me feel content for the day…..but maybe in the summertime I can turn myself around. Now I know who to turn to for recipes 🙂
I prefer coffee instead. It is hard for me to wake up early morning and a coffee mug is what I need the first thing in the morning. I would, though, love to give a try to this smoothie. Happy Morning.