[photopress:300_Collard_Greens_1.jpg,full,alignright]Not so surprisingly from my last post I have gotten addicted to green smoothies!…I can taste one in my mind right now. mmmmmm…..it’s the kind of feeling you get when you give your body something it really needs. A deep sense of satisfaction. We got the idea from the book Green for Life by Vicoria Boutenko which I recommend.

We got our Vitamix a couple of weeks ago and have been digging it up and down. Every morning we’ll put a big bunch of greens of all different kinds in it along with some water and fruit chunks…I like using frozen mango, pineapple and banana especially. The vitamix makes quick work of it and it turns into a yummy green/fruit smoothie. I prefer more fruit than Kala does, but either way it is plenty green. We have also been throwing in some wild edibles such as nettles and dandelion.

The magic of it is that it is predigested….normally one would have to chew and chew greens to get them to this state which we of course don’t naturally do. With the cell walls ruptured, you’re drinking a glass of totally assimilative chlorophyll! It is different from juicing as it is a whole food….plenty of fiber in it.

In any case I’m hooked! The vitamix is great, though one could do it in a blender as well. We have been using the vitamix to make fruit sorbet, soups (avocado, cucumber and tomato is my favorite!) and almond milk. I’d highly recommend getting one though it is expensive. In the long run though it will live on the length of many blenders. It can also handle anything! I put frozen solid fruit in there and it makes a yummy frozen fruit smoothie. It’s a real badass piece of machinery for a raw foodist to own!