- Peach and raspberry (with spinach)
- Banana, chocolate and peach (with lettuce)
- Chocolate, peanut butter and banana (with avocado)*
- Salad vegetable smoothie (avocado, pepper, tomato, celery and avocado with olive oil and balsamic vinegar)
And they're all gorgeous and full of vitamins and minerals in an easy to deal with form that's relatively natural (so the combinations for absorption are there, rather than the isolated vitamins and minerals in pill supplements). But. Tricky to eat in that they get quite fluffy and aerated. When you're in a hurry, that sucks quite a bit. On weekday mornings, it won't work for breakfast as there's just not the time. However, in general we should all be taking a good length of time to eat our meals, mostly to allow the body to figure out that we're eating and release the relevant satiety chemicals and then react to them etc. so it can really help with that as the texture forces you to slow right down. The icing on the cake is that they taste pretty good. OK, so they're mainly sweet flavours and I've not got a huge sweet tooth so I'd like to work out some more savoury ones. So far I've managed to make a very thick version of V8 in the savoury flavours; pretty limited imagination there on my part.I'm not likely to be making and eating smoothies a couple of times a day, or even every day; it's just not convenient time-wise. If I could make one in the morning and have it still in a good state for an afternoon snack at work that might work, but it seems to me that they're best consumed within an hour of making at the longest.
Anyone of the smoothie making crowd out there got any suggestions or experience in keeping them fresh for a few hours or longer? And any ideas for more, distinctly different savoury smoothies to make?
* - recipe added on request:-
- 1 scoop chocolate whey protein, or 1tsp good cocoa powder
- 1/2 frozen banana
- 1/2 fresh avocado
- 1/2 fresh peach (do not peel!)
- 25g crunchy peanut butter
- 2x ice cubes
- 150ml skimmed milk
