This one’s for you: The Green Shamrock Smoothie. Just in time for Saint Patrick’s Day. It’s a gut healer, not a gut destroyer. It will make you feel good instead of…not. It provides energy instead of migraines.
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Green Shamrock Smoothie (the gut healer)
1-2 Cups Water
1/2 Squeezed Lemon
1/2 inch Ginger (skin on, scrubbed)
1 Cup Spinach (fresh or frozen)
1 Cup Kale (fresh or frozen)
1/2 Avocado (peeled)
1 Green Apple (cut, skin on)
1 Frozen Banana
Directions: Put ingredients in the Vitamix (or other powerful blender and give it a whirl.)
If you’ve never had a really green smoothie before, this may take some acclimating. You may feel the need to grimace. But after awhile an interesting thing happens: taste buds change. After a day or two without my precious green smoothie, I start to crave greens. I need it. I want it. I must have it. my precious.
McDonald’s Shamrock Shake nutrition information: Calories (535) and fat (15 grams) aside, the Shamrock Shake has 73 grams of sugar.
4 grams = 1 teaspoon.
That’s 18.25 TEASPOONS of Sugar in a 12 oz. drink. Woah, Bessy! Drink real greens and this shamrock shake will taste disgustingly fake. For reals.
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Are you convinced? Drink good greens not dyed chemicals.
May the luck of the Irish be in your gut today!
This sounds much better! And by the way, I have made green smoothies with a few drops of mint extract. For that one I would do almond milk, ice, protein powder, (or skip the powder), 2 cups of greens, a few drops of stevia. It’s also low sugar because no fruit! But you have to be okay with using a few drops of stevia, I guess.
I didn’t mean my version sounds better. Meant yours sounds way better than McD’s!
It is really amazing how much sugar is in processed foods. I did a juice cleanse in October, and had plenty of the green smoothies. They weren’t as bad as they looked, and I liked know how good they were for me. I know I don’t eat enough vegetables…I think I’m going to start making a green smoothie daily to help me get more of those nutrients into my body!