The Organic Climber – Vegetarian running, cycling, swimming, rock climbing and raw foods.

This is one of my all-time favorite smoothie recipes. It was one that I made countless times when I first started eating raw foods. This simple green smoothie is brightly colored and is sweet and tasty to boot. All you need is spinach, bananas and water. It’s that simple! Alternatively you can use almond or hemp seed milk to add to the flavor and provide additional nutrients.

The Recipe

• 2 hand fulls of spinach
• 2 bananas
• 6 ice cubes (or omit if your bananas are frozen)
• 1 cup of water or your favorite “milk”
• 2 TBSP of hemp seed protein (totally optional)

Directions: Throw it all in a blender and WHIRRRRR

If you want to spice it up even more use a chocolate greens powder such as Amazing Grass, or just use cacao powder. One of my favorite things about this drink is how much it freaks people out when they say it. Their reaction is always, “eww, your going to drink that”. But I promise, what looks like it flowed right out of a nuclear waste dump is one of the most delicious smoothies you will ever taste.

RAW Food, Recipes, Smoothie Tuesday, Uncategorized by OrganicClimber
almond milk, banana, cacao, green, hemp seed, protein, RAW, smoothie, spinach
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First off, I apologize for not having a picture for this entry. I was all ready to take the photo last night and the battery went dead on my camera, and I wasn’t about to sit around and wait for a battery charge to drink my smoothie. So, you will have to do without a photo.

After my evening run last night I was really wanting something different than my typical berry smoothie, so I popped my head into the freezer to see what fruit I had. The first thing I saw was a huge bag of large purple grapes! The grapes were not mine though, however, my roommate allowed me to take some of them. So, I filled my Vita-Mix blender container with grapes, mango and a banana. I almost always put a banana in my smoothies to smooth out the flavor, I really think they help balance out all the flavors.

I also added a dash of vanilla extract and some almond butter for extra flavor. I even added a table spoon of greens powder, but feel free to use fresh greens  (actually preferred) and a few table spoons of hemp seed protein powered to help with muscle recovery from my run. I didn’t take any measurements this time though, but had about twice as many grapes (if not more) than I did mangoes*, so just add to your liking.
*these were diced frozen mangoes

The Recipe

• grapes
• mangoes
• 1 banana
• 1 dash of vanilla extract
• t tbsp of almond butter
• 1 tbsp of greens powder (or fresh greens)
• 4 tbsp of hemp seed protein (option, but good source of protein and helps in muscle recovery)

Directions: As always, throw em in and blend!

Uncategorized by OrganicClimber
grape, grapes, greens, hemp seed, mango, mangoes, powder, protein, RAW, recovery smoothie, smoothie, vegan
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