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I happened to catch a bit of the Dr. Oz show earlier this week and saw him speaking on the subject of the list of foods he has assigned to his “Anti-Cancer Diet“, and he was highlighting three foods I’ve mentioned more than once here on the Live Green Smoothie Diet site as being well-known to be anti-cancer foods: turmeric, cabbage, and broccoli.

These three seemed like no-brainer candidates for Mono-Smoothies… and so here they are!

I decided to make a point of categorizing the foods on my site that fit into Dr. Oz’s program, so I created two new website categories: “Dr. Oz” and “Anti-Cancer Diet”, so check them out over the next few weeks after I go through all the recipes on my site to file them under those two new categories.

Also, funny coincidence… I see that on the main page for Dr. Oz’s Anti-Cancer Diet he has chosen to use the exact same purchased stock photo of fresh fruit and vedge that graces my own main page! Great minds thinking alike… obviously.

Anti-Cancer Diet TURMERIC Mono-Smoothie

Anti-Cancer Diet SAVOY CABBAGE Mono-Smoothie

Anti-Cancer Diet BROCCOLI Mono-Smoothie

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A great thing about Mono-Smoothies is that, as long as you have at least ONE type of fresh fruit, vegetable, or leafy greens in the house… plus a bit of raw honey (or even dates… medjool dates would make brilliant natural sweeteners)… you can crank out a 32-oz (3-quart) batch of Live Smoothies. Take it with you on-the-go, start your day with it, or even drink it out of a lovely cocktail glass for an evening refresher… and it doesn’t have to be complex in the least.

Fresh herbs make great Mono-Smoothies, and no doubt offer various naturally medicinal benefits depending on which herbs you select.

Check out these four new Mono-Smoothie recipes:

Meyer Lemon Mono-Smoothie

(Made with whole fruit, not juice!)

Fresh Pear Mono-Smoothie

Fresh Dill Mono-Smoothie

(Dill…? Yep… :D)

Fresh CILANTRO Mono-Smoothie

(Like a refreshing, aromatic cocktail… and sweet!)

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These Mono-Smoothies are a revelation, and something I’ll be drilling into my kids over the next year, as they have determined that this is the year which they want to learn all about how to navigate the kitchen and feed themselves (and their prospective guests in the future) under the auspices of their own acquired knowledge.

Live Green Smoothies and raw smoothies may be super-easy, but these Mono-Smoothies are in a whole new category of easy! Complete and utter no-brainers.

And they are DELICIOUS… light, sweetly refreshing, and just the very essence of freshness!

And Not Only Are They Both Delicious & Easy… They’re Cheap, Too!

And for anyone who has a concern about the cost of radically jacking up the raw and living fruits, vedgies, and greens in their diet, being able to make use of this easy smoothie-making technique will be a budget-saver!

I’m introducing 4 Mono-Smoothie recipes here, and I have 4 more to follow… and I will be sharing boatloads in the coming days so that my readers and subscribers truly gain an understanding of how valuable and useable the Mono-Smoothie concept is.

What do you need to make a Mono-Smoothie?

To make a Mono-Smoothie, you need a single kind of fruit, vegetable, or green (fresh and uncooked should go without saying…), some raw honey, spring water, and ice (ice is optional, according to your preference).

If you don’t want to use raw honey, that’s your business — do what works for you. But I’m an advocate of raw honey and all things made by bees. It is not “just another sugar” (can’t in any way compare with white sugar in my opinion, sorry).

It is rich with living enzymes, is a natural anti-inflammatory agent (read up on its helpful effects for people with asthma and arthritis), and has been famed for ages for its health-promoting, longevity-enhancing, and various healing properties. It is also included in a list within the TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) paradigm of foods that are recommended, as a part of “food therapy”, for diminishing candida-causing yeast and mold in the body.

I use raw honey generously. You use it according to your own taste and health requirements.

Pineapple Mono-Smoothie

Red Pepper Mono-Smoothie

Pumpkin Mono-Smoothie

Mint Mono-Smoothie

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With this one recipe you have a few options — with or without greens, super-lemony or just mild, and dessertly sweet or just sweetly average. Personally, I’m partial to With Greens, Super-Lemony, and Quite Sweet to off-set the lemon… but you pick your fave combo!

Any way you do it up, tho, it’s a great combination. Super way to take advantage of the yummy pineapples and Meyer lemons currently overflowing the grocery bins!

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Zucchini contributes a respectable bit of protein to this Live Green Smoothie, accounting for its its creamy texture (high-protein foods like goji berries, hemp seeds, and broccoli are well-known for contributing creaminess to smoothies).

In addition, if you peel your Zucchini, it adds no taste to your LGS (and for you weight-conscious folk, hardly any calories!) so the fruit you use to sweeten it (and the greens you pick — in this case, I’ve used parsley) can really shine through.

Zucchini has some decent health benefits as well. And it’s cheap. So… keep some baby zucchinis your fridge and start tossing them into your smoothies now & then!

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This recipe is very much like Live Green Soda Pop. Only waaaay more refreshing and infinitely more healthifying!

A friend mentioned making “live green Coke” earlier today, and it got me thinking… “Gee, I’ve got this giant vat of homemade Kombucha in my fridge right now. And I haven’t used it for an LGS because…?????”

What is Kombucha?

Kombucha is made from sweetened, fresh-brewed tea that is allowed to ferment into a sparkling health-tonic  beverage. It has a kind of hard-cider or refreshing light wine quality to its flavor, and develops a fine fizzy quality much closer to champagne than to soda.

(It actually tastes mildly vinegary to me, but don’t let that put you off… I actually loathe the taste of vinegar, but there’s just something oddly, magically appealing about Kombucha).

Kombucha is considered detoxifying and immune-enhancing, and has a long history in Asia as being “the elixir of long life”. It’s rich in enzymes, probiotics, and other beneficial nutrients, and has many devoted daily-drinking fans.

It’s also easy to make at home. Here’s a great resource page with instructions, a video, and an audio call with David Wolfe talking about Kombucha (and many other healthy foods and herbs).

Super-Refreshing Soda Substitute…With a Natural Buzz

Owing to its fermented quality, Kombucha has an extremely low alcoholic content, something around 0.05%. But I always get a nice relaxed “chill” when I drink it, which cracks me up because the alcohol in it is negligible, and any buzz one gets is probably homeopathic in effect.

But it’s refreshing, delicious in Live Green Smoothies, and can even be used to make very tasty Raw Cocktails. Certainly, it’s a vast improvement over packaged, sugary sodas. What an improvement to our culture, have relaxed, Kombuchified tonic-drinkers instead of soda drinkers hopped up on sugar and aspartame.

Pass the word on to your friends and family. This is a trend that would be just wonderful to see hit the mainstream. And it’s so economical, as you can make it so easily at home!

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This extremely mild, sunny-flavored smoothie is in response to two requests this week for various ways to increase Vitamin C. So add this to your list of rejuvenating, immune system- boosting, beta carotene rich raw smoothies. And just add some fresh greens to make it a Live Green Smoothie!

Papaya is just tops for enhancing digestion and a beautiful complexion. Add a bit of fresh orange juice and a whole orange (sans peel, or course), and you’ve got a great dose of Vitamin C and fiber as well!

This would be a great smoothie to add a bit of Orange Blossom Water to, but… it’s so refreshing on its own, I quite enjoy its simplicity as well. And if you want to *really * jack up the Vitamin C, antioxidants, and beta carotene… toss in some goji berries!

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One of my recommendations when radically jacking up the raw foods in one’s diet with Live Green Smoothies is to make the 3rd quart of the day be a richer, creamier, more nutrient-packed smoothie, often with raw cacao and hemp seeds. But here’s another alternative, without cacao.

Rich, creamy, substantial, made with fresh pineapple, banana, cold-pressed coconut oil and raw macadamia nuts, this would also make an excellent breakfast on a day you know you’re not going to have time to stop for a mid-morning snack! It will give you endurance and a bit of a nice “rib-sticking” quality, as opposed to a smoothie that goes right through you.

Definitely try this one. It will expand your concept of what Live Green Smoothies can be like!

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Kumquats are abundant and affordable in my neighborhood grocery stores this time of year. Thing is… what to do with them?

Answer: Live Green Smoothies!

Kumquats have a delicious citrusy flavor, slightly exotic, and with a very delicate and pleasantly bitter aftertaste (much milder than marmalade) because they are used whole, including the very thin skin. They make a great addition to a Live Green Smoothie!

Add avocado and you’ve got a rich, gorgeously green shake!

For an added exotic nuance, Orange Blossom Water goes great with this recipe. Delicious!

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This is the type of recipe that is so easily modifiable and so delicious, it could become all the rage in the mainstream if someone would start passing the word about it and making it for friends and family. It’s just delicately, fragrantly wonderful!

You can add berries of any kind to create variety… you can use Rose Water instead of Orange Blossom Water… you can use banana or pear or fresh orange juice to sweeten the smoothie instead of grapes… and certainly you can add some fresh spinach or parsley to green it up. So many wonderful options!

It would even make a fabulous raw cocktail if you add a shot of your favorite alchoolic libation to your glass.

And in the end… all just wonderful for your skin, tremendously refreshing, extremely mild… and slightly (oh, just slightly) exotic.

My cuppa smoothie, for sure.

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