Brunneria, how do you make your green smoothie please? Just bought a blender and am up for a smoothie!! Thnx x
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Hi!
You are aiming for 60% veg (mainly leafy greens like spinach, kale or spring greens, but I also use cucumber, carrots, courgette, avocado, white cabbage). They should be fairly mild tasting.
Then 40% fruit (use berries as a basis cos they are good for diabetics, but you also need some sweet fruit like pineapple or apple). I buy frozen pineapple, summer fruit, strawberries, blueberries, cherries. That way there is no prep time and no waste.
It will taste like a fruit smoothie, hardly spike your BG, and look like a puréed swamp.
Avoid fruit juices, sugar and sweeteners.
Some blenders are strong enough to cope with frozen fruit, some aren't.
Please don't burn out the motor with too much ice!
I usually bung everything into the blender, pack it down a bit, and then add enough water so that the water level comes half way up the fruit/veg mix. You can adjust this to get the texture you want.
You can add anything else you like; MSM, spiralina, hemp or flax seeds, macadamia nuts, sunflower seeds, muesli, hemp oil, coconut oil, half a lime (prevents oxidisation), coconut water, bean sprouts, yoghurt, wheatgrass, barley grass....
Blend til it is the smoothest you can get and drink while
cold.
Remember, it is a work in progress! Not every smoothie is delicious, so just adjust your ingredients til you find a mix you like.
My usual smoothie is about 100g spinach or kale, a large courgette, 1/3 punnet of frozen pineapple or 2 sweetish apples, and 1/3 punnet of frozen berries.
This make up to at least 1.5 litres of smoothie, which is enough for Mr B and I to have 500ml each for breakfast, and a smaller glass as a dessert at lunchtime.
It will keep in a sealed container,
in the fridge, for 24 hours.
500ml of that smoothie raises my BG by 1.5-2 after 2 hours, but that is entirely dependent on the veg content. Too little veg and the smoothie would spike my BG sky high.
Here is a link to some other recipes:
http://www.incrediblesmoothies.com/...s/green-smoothie-recipes-for-type-2-diabetes/