Ingredients:
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2 bananas, peeled
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2 dates
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2 dried apricots
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¾ cup plain yogurt, with live bacteria
Directions:
Put all ingredients in a blender and mix them.
Banana, Date, Apricot, and Yogurt Smoothie
Nutritional Strengths: Vitamins A, B, C, D, and K, Potassium, Beta-Carrotene, Folate, and Calcium
(Posted 8/20/2013)
Banana Chocolate Shake (Posted on 8/27/2013)
Nutritional Strengths: Vitamin B2, B12, D, and K, Calcium, Chromium, Potassium
Ingredients:
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2 cups organic cow’s milk (any milk will work)
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1 oz dark chocolate
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2 ripe bananas
Instructions:
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Heat milk in a saucepan over low to mid-low heat. DO NOT BOIL.
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Break dark chocolate into small pieces and add to the saucepan of milk.
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Stir chocolate into the heated milk until the chocolate melts
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Peel the bananas
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Put chocolate milk from saucepan and peeled bananas into a blender
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Blend content until smooth, pour into a glass or cup, and drink!
PINA COLADA BANANA SMOOTHIE (Posted on 9/6/13)
Nutritional Strengths: Vitamins B1, B6, C, K, Beta-Carotene, Folate, Calcium, Chromium, Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Phosphorus, Potassium, Selenium, and Tryptophan
Ingredients:
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1 pineapple
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2 ripe bananas
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1 1/4 cup coconut milk
Instructions:
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Peel and chop the pineapple into small chunks
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Peel both of the ripe bananas
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Place the peeled pineapple, peeled bananas, and coconut milk into a blender
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Whiz until smooth
Nutritional Strengths: Vitamins A, B2, B3, B6, B12, C, D, E, and K, Beta-carotene, folate, calcium, and protein
Ingredients:
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2 ripe bananas
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1 tablespoon peanut butter
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2 cups milk
Instructions:
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Peel the ripe bananas
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Place peeled banana, peanut butter, and milk into a blender and blend until smooth.
PB & B Smoothie (Posted on 9/11/13)
The A.A.C (Posted on 9/18/13)
Nutritional Strengths: Fiber, B Vitamins, Vitamin C and K, Beta-carotene, calcium, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc
Ingredients:
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4 apples
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3 apricots
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½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions:
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Cut the apples into wedges
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Halve and pit the apricots
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In this order, put into a juicer an apple wedge followed by a chunk of apricot, and repeat until no apples and apricots are left to be juiced.
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Sprinkle the cinnamon on top of the content and drink.
GREEN OJ (Posted on 9/27/13)
Nutritional Strengths: Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Iron, B Vitamins, Folate, Magnesium, Limonin
Ingredients:
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10 ½ ounces spinach leaves
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2 oranges
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3 kiwis
Instructions:
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Peel the oranges and separate them into small pieces
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Peel the kiwi fruit and chop them into small chunks
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Wrap the spinach leaves around the oranges and kiwi
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Put the spinach-wrapped food through the juicer, stir, and drink.
A BERRY GOOD SMOOTHIE (Posted on 10/23/13)
Nutritional Strengths: Vitamin C, B Vitamins, Beta-carotene, Calcium, Ellagic Acid, Manganese, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, and Zinc
Ingredients:
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10 strawberries
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25 raspberries
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25 blueberries
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1 ¾ cups plain yogurt with live bacteria
Directions:
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Hull the strawberries
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Wash the fruit
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Mix all ingredients in a blender until smooth
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Serve
BREAD AND BREAKFAST (Posted on 11/2/13)
Nutritional Strengths: Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids, Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium, Folate, and Lignans
Ingredients:
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¼ cup rolled oats
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¼ cup raisins
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2 tablespoons almonds
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2 tablespoons flaxseed
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½ cup coconut milk
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1 cup yogurt
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1 tablespoon lemon juice
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1 teaspoon freshly grated lemon
Instructions:
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Put oats, raisins, almonds, and flaxseed into a bowl
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Pour milk into the bowl, cover, and refrigerate overnight.
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Put bowl content into a blender and add yogurt, lemon juice, and lemon peel.
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Blend on high until smooth.
Sweet Carrot Juice (Posted on 11/26/13)
Nutritional Strengths: Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Magnesium, Potassium, and Selenium
Ingredients:
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1/4 Pineapple
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4 medium sized carrots
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1 cup sliced peaches, fresh or frozen
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6 chamomile herbal tea ice cubes
Directions:
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Steep one tea bag in hot water for abourt 20 minutes
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Pour the steeped tea into 6 ice cube tray squares and put ice cube tray in the freezer
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Once the tea has been frozen, run the pineapple and carrots through a juicer
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After juicing the pineapple and carrots, pour the juice into a blender and add the frozen tea cubes and peaches to the blender
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Blend on high until smooth and serve.
DARLING CLEMENTINE (Posted on 1/5/14)
Nutritional Strengths: Vitamin A, Alpha-Carotene, Beta-Carotene, Fiber, and Vitamin C
Ingredients:
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1 Apple
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2 Clementines (Clementine oranges)
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12 Baby Carrots
Directions:
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Wash all of the ingredients thoroughly
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Core and cut the apple into small chunks
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Cut the carrots into small pieces
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Peel the clementine skin on both clementines and pull each individual clementine piece apart
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Run ingredients through a juicer
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Stir ingredients in a glass using a spoon and serve immediately
CHERRY, CHERRY (Posted on 2/1/14)
Nutritional Strengths: Antioxidants, Vitamin C, Potassium, Selenium, Quercetin, and Pectin
Ingredients:
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2 large handfuls cherries
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½ cucumber
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2 celery sticks
Instructions:
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Wash the cherries and vegetables thoroughly
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Run the ingredients through a juicer
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Stir and drink immediately
Nutritional Strengths: Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Betanins, Carotenoids, and Copper
Ingredients:
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1 organic Fuji apple, medium size
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1organic Bartlett pear, medium size
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12 organic baby carrots
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1 large organic beet
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1/2 - 1 teaspoon organic cinnamon
Directions:
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Thoroughly wash apple, pear, carrots, and beet
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Cut the apple, pear, and beet into wedges so that they can fit into a juicer.
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Run the wedged apple, pear, and beet along with the baby carrots through a juicer.
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Stir content and top with the cinnamon.
ROOKIE BEET (Posted on 4/16/14)
Nutritional Strengths: Vitamin C, Protein, Potassium
Ingredients:
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1 Mango
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1 banana
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3-4 tangerines
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1 cup vanilla greek yogurt
Instructions:
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Peel the tangerines and separate them into pieces
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Peel and chop the banana
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Peel, seed, and cut the mango into chunks
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Put all ingredients into a blender
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Blend until smooth
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Pour into a glass
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Stir and serve
SUNSHINE SMOOTHIE (Posted on 7/24/14)
Nutritional Strengths: Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Potassiium, Pectin, Antioxidants, Fibre,
Healthy Fats, and Protein
Ingredients:
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1 Cup of Pomengrante Juice
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1 Mango
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1 Banana
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1/3 Cup of plain Greek Yogurt
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1 1/2 teaspoons of Freeze dried Acai Powder
Instructions:
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Pour 1 Cup of Pomegrante Juice into a blender
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Peel and cut the Mango into about 1 inch pieces and place into the blender
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Peel and slice Banana into the blender
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Scoop 1/3 cup of Greek Yogurt into blender
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Scoop 1 1/2 teaspoons of Acai Powder into the blender
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Mix the ingredients until blended together and smooth, like in the picture reference for this recipe
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Pour into a glass and serve immediately
In honor of the 2016 Summer Olympics, which took place in Rio, here is a recipe involving popular tropical fruits: Mango, and Acai berries. These are native to the country of Brazil, and are loaded with nutritional benefits that will make you feel like and Olympic athlete!
OLYMPIC SMOOTHIE (Posted on 8/24/16)
Gingple Juice (Posted on 3.26.17)
Directions:
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Chop or slice carrots and apples into small pieces and run through a juicer
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Break off a piece of ginger root and run it through the juicer into the cup with the other ingredients
Ingredients:
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3 apples
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2 carrots
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1/2 inch ginger root
Nutritional Strengths: Vitamin C, Beta-Carotene, Calcium, Folic Acid, Magnesium, Phosphorus,
Potassium, Sulphur
Green, Lean, and Mean (Posted on 6.25.17)
Nutritional Strengths: Vitamin B3, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Beta-carotene, Calcium, Folic Acid,
Iron, Manganese, Magnesium, Phosphorus, Potassium, Sodium, and Sulphur
Ingredients:
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3 medium sized carrots
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2 medium sized celery sticks
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1 cup watercress
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1 cup of spinach
Directions:
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Slice carrots and celery into pieces small enough to fit into a juicer
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Put watercress and spinach into juicer at the same time as the carrots and celery
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If you can't fit all ingredients into the juicer at the same time, run the watercress and spinach simultaneously with the carrots or the celery because the celery and carrots hold more watter and will allow the spinach and watercress to run through the juicer easier
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Stir in a glass and serve!
Apple Chia Shake (Posted on 10.1.17)
Nutritional Strengths: Vitamin C, Calcium, Fiber, Omega-3 Fatty Acids, Protein
Ingredients:
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2 cups coconut-almond blend milk
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1/2 cup rolled oats
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2 tablespoons natural unsweetened cocoa
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2 tablespoons peanut butter
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1 apple
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2 tablespoons chia seeds
Directions:
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Slice the apple into very small pieces
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Pour the coconut-almond milk into the blender first
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Pour all the other ingredients in after the milk
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Hit 'liquefy' or 'blend' on the blender until ingredients are mixed in thoroughly
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Serve immediately and enjoy!