Living Healthier

Living healthy. What does this mean? For one, it means eating foods as nature intended, not the twinkies and diet pepsi that the media screams at us to buy. Sure, twinkies and diet pepsi can taste good, be we all know they are not good for us.

Here's what I choose to primarily snack on on a daily basis. Green smoothies. Green smoothies you say? Aren't those gross? Well, I used to think they would be. Until I made my first one. Took me about 3 sips before the body realized what I was feeding it was actually good. Then I craved it. So how do you make green smoothies?

This is a typical menu I use, which is my own menu, for making smoothies. And because I used a larger blender, the Omni Blender, I can actually make 4 smoothies at one time.

Recipe ingredients that I commonly use are:

- 3-4 leafs Romaine lettuce

- 1-2 stalks Celery

- 1/4 to 1/2 cup homegrown sprouts( mine are typically made using alfalfa, rice, radish, rye, and sometimes wheat, sometimes caraway)

- 1/3 cup fresh or frozen blueberries

- 1/3 cup fresh or frozen peaches ( not all the time on this one, mostly while in season)

- 1/3 cup fresh or frozen raspberries or strawberries

- 1/5 cup flaked coconut

- 1 TBSP dulse

- 1 TBSP almond butter, or brazil nut butter, or cashew nut butter(mostly made with the Omni blender

- 1 apple, either red delicious or gala

- 1 pear

- 1 or 2 bananas

- 2 to 3 cups water(non chlorinated; mine is well water)

Bear in mind, I do not use all these ingredients at one time, typically though, I will have about 11 ingredients per smoothie. And because I make four smoothies at one time, I can save them in the fridge for a couple of days if I choose. I always use organic produce. It's the only good way to go.

Check out the Omni blender below. It's actually at least as good as the Vitamix, has the 3 hp motor, fits UNDER my cupboards(Omni's height is 16-1/2"), which none of the Vitamix could do, and has a 7 year warranty. And one little thing I can't leave unmentioned, is that it a fair amount less money than the Vitamix. Don't get me wrong, the Vitamix is a great blender. I just prefer the Omni, for the reasons I just stated. Plus, OmniBlend will also send you a recipe book to get you started. How does it get any better than this?