The Live Green Smoothie Diet

This is a repost of a favorite recipe. And still one of the prettiest smoothies ever. How could this not be great for your vitality, I ask! It’s getting to be watermelon & porch-sitting season soon, so whip up a batch and invite your neighbors over. It’s sure to be a good conversation-starter. Be sure [...]

There was so much interest in this recipe, from readers who wanted to jack up the amount of broccoli in their diet, that I brought this recipe out of the members-only area and have made it public for everyone. Am re-posting for my most recently joining readers. Creamy Vanilla Shake with…Broccoli! Delicious High-Protein, Cancer-Fighting Smoothie

It is cold here in Jersey! (Says the chica who spent the last 6 months in the mid-90s tropics…) And while I’m endeavoring to “jack up the raw” as much as possible right now, we all know that when the cold weather hits what we really want most are those warm, cozy comfort foods. Enter [...]

I’m in serious need of some nutritional restoration at the mo’. Having returned to New Jersey, I’ve been regaled with some wonderfully heart-felt hospitality on the part of dearly missed friends. Along with that has come more than a vitality-compromising share of delicious home-cooked foods and far too many bottles of delicious red wine. Not [...]

Take two Utterly Pedestrian produce ingredients, add a wee bit of many of the most common superfoods raw foodie types tend to keep in their pantries, and you’ve got a rich, tasty, uber-nutritious Live Green Smoothie! Starting with apples and fresh cilantro (which lends a rather floral-herbal quality here), we add small amounts each of: [...]

Upon recently making my first trip to Whole Foods in Tampa (oof — the bill!) I was Christmas-morning squealy-happy to find gorgeously white young coconuts tucked into a corner of the produce department, obviously just waiting for me to take them home. It had been ages since I”d come across any on my shopping forays [...]

I was delighted this week to find a good local source of giant aloe vera leaves! It’s been a few months since I enjoyed a smoothie made with fresh aloe vera gel, and the fresh gel is el primo for alkalizing your body and helping to get rid of inflammation and stiffness, not to mention [...]

Anyone who is familiar with my site knows I am not a proponent of adding protein powders and other heavily processed ingredients to Live Green Smoothies, unless they are of a very high quality, low-temp-processed, and genuinely “superfood” in nature, such as hemp seeds, marine phytoplankton, and quality super-green powders. In fact, the massive array [...]

Someone recently asked on the site if I had any smoothies or other recipes using raw asparagus. Up til now… no. But this recipe here changes that. Health Benefits of Asparagus Asparagus has some significant health benefits. In particular, it contains a phytochemical called cochinchinensis which has apparently been used in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) [...]

Cucumbers are just so great for hydrating, and so great for your skin, and connective tissue, and, well, every aspect of staying fresh & looking young (hah… there’s a commercial in there, somewhere!), and they pair wonderfully with mango here to make a Live Green Smoothie that is only mildly sweet. Add fresh lime juice [...]