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Any such thing as a low carb smoothie?
- Thread starter Emmotha
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My delicious green smoothies are typically about 35g carbs - and are 1.5 litres in size.
So portion size is key!
They typically contain:
50-100g Spinach or kale
A large courgette
2-3 inches Cucumber
1/4-1/3 of a punnet of Frozen Berries or cherries (berries are lower carb than cherries, so I use more of them)
1/4- 1/3 of a punnet of Frozen pineapple or apple
Some avocado or macadamia nuts
The perfect blend for a green smoothie is 60% mild tasting veg, 40% fruit.
Lob everything into the blender. Don't peel or remove the apple core, don't trim the courgette.
But DO take the skin off the avocado!
Add cold tap water until it comes half way up the fruit.
Blend til smooth.
Add extra water if necessary. I like a milkshake consistency, but it is up to you.
All ingredients and portion sizes are adjustable.
See the link in my sig for more ideas.
So portion size is key!
They typically contain:
50-100g Spinach or kale
A large courgette
2-3 inches Cucumber
1/4-1/3 of a punnet of Frozen Berries or cherries (berries are lower carb than cherries, so I use more of them)
1/4- 1/3 of a punnet of Frozen pineapple or apple
Some avocado or macadamia nuts
The perfect blend for a green smoothie is 60% mild tasting veg, 40% fruit.
Lob everything into the blender. Don't peel or remove the apple core, don't trim the courgette.
But DO take the skin off the avocado!
Add cold tap water until it comes half way up the fruit.
Blend til smooth.
Add extra water if necessary. I like a milkshake consistency, but it is up to you.
All ingredients and portion sizes are adjustable.
See the link in my sig for more ideas.
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Is that 35g for the whole 1.5 litres?
yup.
and 500ml of it (whole fruit and veg blended with tapwater) raises my bg by less than 2mmol/l at 1hr and then a lot less at 2 hours - but of course, we are all different.
I'll go back up and add quantities to the recipe post.
But really, with green smoothies, you sort of make it up as you go along.
And you need a good blender. It needs to cope with ice (they are nicer cold) because you add ice cubes or frozen fruit chunks. and they need to be as smooth as possible. Lumps kind of ruin them.
But really, with green smoothies, you sort of make it up as you go along.
And you need a good blender. It needs to cope with ice (they are nicer cold) because you add ice cubes or frozen fruit chunks. and they need to be as smooth as possible. Lumps kind of ruin them.
so do we, but ours stopped working before xmas.
need to get it sorted.
i was drooling while typing out that recipe.
its been far too long...
I miss the icecream, the soups and the pate too.
I know. we had smoke and everything. and all I was doing was making a bulletproof coffee, so it came as a bit of a shock...
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