Carrots are not just for salads and juicing! Especially if you have a high-powered blender, in which case blending them makes them completely smooth, like a whole-food juice.

Carrots, obviously jam-packed with beta carotene, blend brilliantly with fresh berries! And especially strawberries. The result: a deliciously flavored, highly refreshing, wildly nutritious raw smoothie that is quite low in sugar… great for dieters, diabetics, and anyone else watching their glycemic levels.

I left the fresh greens out on this recipe only until I’d taken the photos because I wanted to show how pretty the underlying ingredients are together. But then I dumped everything back into the blender with some baby spinach for my version.

Drank the whole thing up and felt amazing the rest of the night.

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Recipe for: Carrot-Strawberry Live Green Smoothie

• 2 cups fresh strawberries, chopped to measure (or use another fresh berry you have on hand)
• 1 cup fresh carrots (about 3 small), chopped slightly to measure (peel if not organic, leave skin on if organic)
• juice squeezed fresh from 2 oranges (I just slice them in half and use a fork to press the juice out, and using navel oranges is great because they have no seeds)
• 1 to 1-1/2 cups fresh baby spinach or parsley (optional)
• spring water to 32 oz.
• 1-2 cups ice

Blend until smooth and pour out into a pretty glass! The color is gorgeous if the greens are not added, but it’s worth adding some fresh spinach or parsley! You will feel awesome afterwards!

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