The Live Green Smoothie Diet

The End of my Mono-Smoothie Recipe Series… For Now. This is the last recipe I have planned in my current Mono-Smoothie series. I’ve really wanted to drill into my readers that you can whip up a smoothie from ingredients so simple, all you really need is ONE kind of fruit, or vegetable, or fresh greens. [...]

You know you pass them all the time… exotic fruits and vegetables in your local grocer’s, so many of them you’re curious about but simply don’t know what to do with them if you should be so bold as to purchase them. They’re not necessarily expensive — in fact, some of them are quite cheap [...]

The beauty of zucchini used in raw smoothies really becomes apparent in this recipe! You will instantly experience how zucchini just disappears, providing a blank background for whatever else you’re pairing with it. In this case… mango… and you end up with a delicious glass of “Essence of Mango”, without any cloying sweetness or undertone [...]

All berries are very low in sugar, so I tell all my clients not to use them as the primary fruit in a Live Green Smoothie, because they just won’t have enough sweetness to carry through — they will be too tart. Paired with zucchini, however, and they seem to shine! The zucchini provides a [...]

In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), beets are used to strengthen “spleen” energy, which enhances the ability to produce healthy blood and vital “chi”… certainly important for feeling well-being and energy. It’s the foods with earthy-sweet flavors that are said to enhance this quality, and beets rule this realm with their fabulous earthiness and natural sweetness. [...]

The blood oranges are abundant in the grocery store lately, and they just beckoned for some cocktail action. This recipe is a twist on the classic Screwdriver, with a custom juice blend to provide the right amount of sweetness and lemony “zing”. What is a Blood Orange? As the name suggests (the photos here demonstrate), [...]

If you have some fave veggies in the grocery aisle, consider trying them out as a Mono-Smoothie. For example, Asparagus and Arugula, two strongly flavored green vegetables that I know aren’t the first items one would think of as a smoothie ingredient. But if you’re a fan of their charms, they blend up nicely with [...]

If you’re like me, you frequently pass by the Exotic Fruits section at the grocery store and survey with wonder at some of the cool stuff lining the bins… but then keep on walking, because what does one actually do with these things, other than slice them up and use them as garnish? It’s not [...]

We normally don’t think of using just avocado for a smoothie… but paired with raw honey, it’s a wonderful, mild, creamy drink! Great backdrop for vanilla or chocolate… make a quick, all-natural shake! And just a couple plain carrots for a smoothie…? Who knew? Better than any kind of vegetable juice you could buy at [...]

Look at these two great Mono-Smoothies using one common garden fruit and another common vegetable. Funny thing about these two… we think of cucumber as a vegetable but in fact it’s a fruit, and we treat rhubarb as a fruit but actually it’s a vegetable! They both make brilliant Mono-Smoothies. Cucumbers are wonderful hydrators and [...]