Green Smoothie

by Ravi Raman on June 22, 2008

I’m now enjoying the Green Smoothie you’ll see in these pictures.

It never occurred to me to throw cucumbers or celery in the Vita-Mix, but after reading Anthony’s blog for a while and his comments about cucumbers being good for skin, I figured I would try it out. Celery is also a fantastic source for electrolytes, which is perfect for active folks like me. Especially with all the yoga I do (the room is heated to 95 degrees), I lose a lot of fluid through sweat every day.

This smoothie has a very neutral taste.I just finished a 7.5 mile run, and ate half a pineapple when I got home. After doing some things around the house, I was a little hungry and decided this would be a good way to get some of the micronutrients back into my body that I lost through sweat on the run.

As a bonus…I was dropping off a few things at the goodwill 1 mile down the road, and discovered a little farmers market tucked into a small park there! It has a whole bunch of local produce, including the pint of strawberries I had for breakfast, and the 1 medium sized cucumber and three celery stalks used in this smoothie.

I cut the ends off the cucumbers and the bottoms off of the celery, but that is it. I don’t peel anything. Especially not the cucs, you want all that green stuff in you!

{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

ross 06.25.08 at 1:23 am

hey bud!

throw in half an avocado too - makes it really smooth and creamy!

have an awesome week
ross

ravisraman 06.25.08 at 5:38 am

great idea Ross! I might experiment and throw some Cilantro and other stuff in there for variety too….

darrick 07.07.08 at 8:35 am

yum,
D

Jul 07.09.08 at 7:49 pm

Mmmm, looks good. I need my old, feeble blender to die already so I can justify buying a new one capable of blending anything firmer than an over-ripe banana…

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