Baraka_Guru

These days I've been trying to do the following:

Set up the blender and stuff as many veggies into it as possible along with: ground oatmeal and flaxseed, protein powder, peanut butter, and frozen fruit.

Veggies/fruits that I've enjoyed so far have involved a combination of: spinach, avocado, celery, bell peppers, carrots, cucumbers, banana, mango, strawberries. I figure the more watery veggies work best, and it helps to enjoy eating the veggies raw normally.

I want to try to keep a "base" of a leafy green veggie such as spinach. I also want to try kale, collard greens, and Swiss chard. I'll be tackling a head of romaine lettuce starting tomorrow.

I put all this stuff together, and then I blend the shit right out of it.

I'm trying to get into the habit of having one of these a day. I figure they make good pre-workout or off-day recovery shakes.

I find that having flavoured whey power, oatmeal, fruit, and fatty foods such as flaxseed, peanut butter, and avocado make the shake very palatable despite all the raw veggie action.

I've tried it both with milk and with water only, and I find either one to be tasty enough. I eyeball the proportions, but I try to get about a 1/2 cup of oats and 2 tbsp of flaxseed (before grinding), and a half of an avocado. And a good handful of leafy greens. The rest I more or less balance out equally until the damn blender is full.

It's way cool to watch it get reduced to a green/brown gooey delicious powerhouse of a drink.

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