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Recipe: green smoothie

Cut up everything so it will fit in your Blendtec blender (don’t even try this in anything less than a Blendtec). Run it through the “smoothie” setting twice (otherwise you will get little bits of annoying carrot, trust me).

I have a 40-oz Simply Modern Tumbler made of stainless steal that can always take the 32+ ounces that this usually turns out to be. I dump the smoothie in the tumbler and immediately rinse off the Blendtec stuff which easily washes away (no sticky stuff). Then I suck on it while catching up with lunch-time news, social media and stuff.

Do not use BPA plastic containers for anything—especially a citrus smoothie with natural acids that will leech the BPA.

Note that the frozen stuff will be bulky because of the frozen water around it. It’s hard to measure so just estimate.

Don’t skip the cucumber. The anti-inflammatory benefits of cucumbers are ridiculously good, not to mention the polyphenols, vitamins, and other stuff.

WARNING: Never add banana to any smoothie that contains any other fruit at all! Bananas are well-known to destroy the chemical composition specifically of polyphenols that (along with the vitamins and soluble fiber) are the reason you should eat fruits and veggies in the first place.

I may have added vodka (the “healthiest” of the alcohols) to this in the past (for a special occasion) and I have no idea what its effect on the polyphenols was, only its affect on me. 😁