The Live Green Smoothie Diet

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 [...]

This is definitely one of the most gorgeously spring-green Live Green Smoothies… a spectacular shade of vitality! And did you know that people in hot climates tend to eat spicy foods because it makes them sweat and helps keep them cool? What a great drink for the summer months… or even for the cold months, [...]

Yah, I know… who thinks about Broccoli and Vanilla in the same breath? Hah, well… clearly I do! This is a great combination, and there’s a sizeable amount of raw broccoli in this! But when broccoli is raw in a smoothie, it doesn’t have the rather potent sulphuric taste not uncommon when it’s cooked. And [...]

I want to continue adding some “zero-point” Live Green Smoothie recipes (pretty much “blended salads” without fruit or fat) as an option for my readers who are partial to Weight Watchers. These smoothies are of course all going to taste a bit better with some sweetness and/or some fat, so customize however you’d like. But [...]

This very light-tasting, utterly non-fat “blended salad” Live Green Smoothie recipe is an excellent template to use as a base for… whatever variations you can cook up in your own kitchen. The only fruits in the smoothie are tomatoes and cucumber, which of course we tend to classify as vedge in our cuisine. These are [...]

Serious beta-carotene blast here, with fresh strawberries and rose water adding fragrance, and a bit of banana added for creaminess Use yellow, orange, or red sweet peppers, and substitute raspberries if you’d like. Imagine this with red sweet pepper and raspberry with rose water… mmmmm. Add greens to this one… I left them out just [...]

Now here’s a hot-weather beverage that could really take off. It has the light, truly refreshing quality of iced tea, with the fresh basil having an almost minty accent. Fresh, raw zucchini provides a light, tasteless backdrop for the basil and red grapes for sweetness. (If you have organic zucchini, make with the skins on [...]