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 of plastic-bottled industrial proteins that assaults the eyes at most health food stores quite boggles my mind when there are so many non-industrialized whole-food ways to power-up with a richly mineralized, respectably protein-laden Live Green Smoothie from fresh ingredients.

To wit… this uber-simple meal-replacement-power-shake. A bit of quality raw cacao powder, some bananas, raw sunflower seeds, and Utterly Pedestrian fresh parsley combine, with some good vanilla and quality “himmy” salt, to make a rich dairy-tasting shake to satisfy your

A Few Variations For The Energy-Deprived…

Need more energy than even this smoothie can satisfy? Got a wild-n-crazy workout up ahead, or a day-long power-meeting at work? Then add the flesh and water from one whole young coconut to the mix, plus a heaping spoonful of goji berries and a large spoonful of raw honey. That will see you through pretty much anything!

And you can always add some metabolism-stimulating cold-pressed coconut oil for some natural heat and instantly-useable fuel-to-burn!

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Am currently working on creating some good breakfast recipes with crunch and texture, to redirect my morning inclination for bready things.

This dish, with the satisfying crunch of raw cacao nibs combined with a creamy fudge pudding, works for me. And… it’s not too sweet. Just a bit.

Would make a nice light supper as well, when you just can’t be bothered with much more!

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Got a mint plant out back that tends to rage out of control and want to know what to do with it? Start making Live Green Smoothies with it! Paired with some raw cacao powder, avocado, banana and a few other ingredients, you’ll have a deliciously creamy LGS, or even frozen “milk” shake if you add a bit of extra ice.

Sweet, creamy, mildy minty… which you can enhance with a bit of peppermint extract or a few drops of peppermint oil. A very nice summer treat!

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Raw vegans, eat your heart out. This is a recipe any chocolate-lovin’ meat-eater will enjoy. You can make this for friends and family and don’t say a word… they’ll never know it’s good for them. And it’s a lot faster than making pudding out of a box!

Serve this pudding warm… that’s the point of this recipe. Because warm, live, raw, rich, creamy, delicious, comfort food is such a rare thing. And this is truly it. And, of course… it’s chocolate to boot. Anyone can whip this up the next time they have a hankering for something sweet & chocolatey. It’s bound to satisfy.

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A Live-Green Chocolate Tea? Yep! This is warm raw cacao blended with fresh spinach and grapes to make a comforting but perky refresher. It doesn’t have the rich creaminess of this Live Green Hot Chocolate; instead it’s light and refreshing, with the wonderful dark-cacao pick-you-up flavor of chocolate.

Blend it in your blender, like you do all your green smoothies, then serve it warm like you would your favorite tea.

The twenty-something young men in my home drank it up, so it’s not nearly as exotic as it sounds.

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You’ll be so surprised how this tastes… no one would ever suspect that there’s fresh, raw zucchini in it! Talk about a reason to over-plant your garden with squash this year!

You can even make this rich, creamy smoothie utterly non-fat… or luscious-it-up with a bit of raw cacao butter, which really makes a fabulous difference in taste.

What a great, healthy way to get your chocolate fix!

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Raw chocolate and raw maca go together brilliantly. I already have a “ChocoMacaVerde” Live Green Smoothie recipe on my site for pairing those two, and you can also add a teaspoon or raw maca powder to my Liquid Brownie recipe for spectacular results.

Now here’s a third option, one without hemp seeds or avocado, but still creamy, luscious, and mild. Can’t taste the maca in this one at all…tastes just like a creamy chocolate milkshake!

And, of course… you can always add some fresh spinach or parsley to make this a Live Green Smoothie!

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(Before chocolate is completely set.)

Chocolate is set here, but much darker than shows up in the photo.

Frankly, this is a great chocolate to make when you just want chocolate… forget the nuts & nibs.

Honestly, when you make a raw chocolate treat like this for the first time and experience and fast and easy it is to make something so satisfyingly delicious, you’ll wonder why you ever made those Peanut M&M runs to 7-11.

This particular chocolate is a little different from my other raw cacao recipes… it highlights some awesome Mexican vanilla a friend so graciously gifted me recently (a gigantic quart-sized bottle… can you imagine???), and is nicely salted to offset the sweet. For best results, definitely use the best quality vanilla and naturally mineralized salt you can get your hands on.

And if you have all these good-but-simple things already in your kitchen as staples, this is a no-brainer to whip up on-the-fly. If you don’t have macadamia nuts or nibs, you can use any other nut or seed — and don’t forget Goji Berries. Or you could just eat the stuff off a spoon as soon as it’s mixed up.

I swear to you, it takes probably just two minutes to get to that point. That’s how quick a chocolate-fix this really is. Heh.

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If you haven’t yet tried any of the smoothies I’ve been whipping up lately with fresh aloe vera gel, maybe this will be the one to send you over the edge and buy a handful of aloe vera leaves at your local grocery store. I’d like to say that this is my favorite one, but the thing is, every smoothie I’ve ever made with fresh aloe has it’s special appeal.

This one… a rich dark-chocolatey blast of well-being from both the intense choco-magnesium and aloe-polysaccharide. Both frothy and refreshing… and it’s made without any nut milk, and without the addition of hemp seeds. Quite spectacular, really.

What a delightful discovery. This one will become a regular in my kitchen, absolutely.

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Former Girl Scout that I am, I’ve quite a few memories of scampering about the Minnesota woods on camping exhibitions equipped with baggies full of homemade “gorp” (a combination of peanuts, raisins, M&Ms, and other portable goodies for munching on-the-fly).

Even as a non-camper, it’s a good strategy to make a nice raw equivalent and keep it on hand for snacking, or to tuck into your bag for “just-in-case-I’m-stranded-without-anything-healthy-to-munch-on” when you’re on-the-go, or even for enjoying with a glass of wine instead of cheese.

If you frequently get a craving for crunchy food, and an apple or carrots Just Will No Do, make this and keep it about. It’s also salty… a great appeal for those like me who find sweetness abounding in the raw world and are left looking about for the grounding quality of savory foods.

You can switch up the ingredients in this recipe to accommodate your tastes and what you have on hand. But the key is that you moisten and salt your chosen ingredients, so that the salt sticks satisfyingly to each piece.

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