Green Smoothies

Have you discovered green smoothies yet? If not, you should give them a try. I was turned on to them after reading a friend's copy of Victoria Boutenko's book, Green For Life. I haven't tried all of the recipes in the book yet but I have started creating my own versions. Initially I thought that there was no way any drink filled with blended up spinach or parsley could taste good but I was wrong. Here is one of Victoria's recipes and one of mine.


Parsley Mango Green Smoothie (VB's recipe)

• 2 mangoes, peeled, pitted, & diced (I just use frozen mango chunks from Trader Joe's)
  
• 1 bunch Italian parsley


• 2 cups water

Combine in a blender* and blend until smooth.

Here is my smoothie. It isn't very sweet so you may want to add a ripe banana or some agave nectar or other sweetener.

Steph's Mango Parsley Pear Smoothie:

• half of a ripe avocado


• 1 really ripe pear


• a little under a cup of frozen mango chunks


• half a bunch of parsley


• 2 cups water

Blend until smooth.

*I should note that many green smoothie advocates use a Vita-Mix or other high-powered blender. Unfortunately these run somewhere around $300-400. I have an old blender that cost under $30 over 5 years ago and it works pretty darn good. You will have to just see what your blender can do. Having to chew your smoothie isn't very fun.