Does anyone consume a significant portion of their vegetables via blended shakes? I hate eating my veges, so I’d rather just put them all into a shake. However, experiments with such shakes in the past resulted it utter failure with a horrifically vile tasting green mess.
So any suggestions on how to make a vege shake actually taste palatable or even…good??
It may not be what you have in mind, but I don’t know any way to get the phytonutrient equivalent of 5 servings of fruits and vegetables into a shake that tastes good other than by using Superfood, which I include with protein shakes twice a day.
As for juicing vegetables, it just doesn’t seem to work so well. Also the supermarket cost of lots of fruits and vegetables is pretty severe, not to mention the issue of all the sugar present in the fruits.
[quote]Bill Roberts wrote:
It may not be what you have in mind, but I don’t know any way to get the phytonutrient equivalent of 5 servings of fruits and vegetables into a shake that tastes good other than by using Superfood, which I include with protein shakes twice a day.
As for juicing vegetables, it just doesn’t seem to work so well. Also the supermarket cost of lots of fruits and vegetables is pretty severe, not to mention the issue of all the sugar present in the fruits.
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I expected a Superfood plug, and I should have addressed it in the OP, but something just does not feel right about consuming fruits and veges in condensed powder form. I think food was meant to be eaten whole or as close to it as possible, generally speaking. I absolutely have no qualms with Superfood and I think it is a great product, I just would be uncomfortable with it being my only source of veges long term.
Now fruit, I have no problem with and could eat most fruit raw all day.
I didn’t say to consume no vegetables in their whole form.
I have tried what you were asking: it was very expensive and overall was not a good experience.
There are a couple of exceptions: pumpkin is a nice addition to a shake, but will rapidly turn your skin orange if you do it all the time.
Obviously one can toss blueberries into a shake, or what-have-you.
But if that was all you had in mind, rather than really loading up, then I don’t understand why the question as those things are well known. So I didn’t think that was what you meant. Perhaps it was, though.
Yes, you can add blueberries or a number of other things to a protein shake and get a serving or so of fruit or vegetable at the same time as the protein drink. No special technique is required.
John Berardi had a super shake recipe with spinach, avocado, radish, apple and orange that was pretty good. I do not recall the recipe exactly, but I did get it off of the t-mag site.
Yeah…I was talking about really loading up. For instance, in my last shake I had 5 oz of frozen spinach, a cup of frozen collards, a half cup of frozen kale, a kiwi fruit, a handful of almond and walnuts, a tablespoon of peanut butter, two scoops of chocolate whey, and some green tea.
It didn’t taste great, but I was able to choke it down.
[quote]jdepron wrote:
John Berardi had a super shake recipe with spinach, avocado, radish, apple and orange that was pretty good. I do not recall the recipe exactly, but I did get it off of the t-mag site.[/quote]
I tried his V6 shake and very nearly puked it all up.
[quote]Fiction wrote:
Yeah…I was talking about really loading up. For instance, in my last shake I had 5 oz of frozen spinach, a cup of frozen collards, a half cup of frozen kale, a kiwi fruit, a handful of almond and walnuts, a tablespoon of peanut butter, two scoops of chocolate whey, and some green tea.
It didn’t taste great, but I was able to choke it down.[/quote]
God bless you if it works for ya, but that just sounds horrible! Have to go with Superfood or any greens product on this one. I’d swear I get a buzz off that stuff.
Frozen chopped spinach mixes in with a shake perfectly.
I’ve also recently started putting some nutmeg and ginger powder in my shakes and it really helps cover up any funk that’s present.
This is a shake I have pretty much every day. Tastes ok (although I regularly drink PeptoPro and CEE with no added flavouring, so I might not be the best person to judge…) and would probably work well even with more fruit and vegetables:
250g natural yoghurt (2%)
2 scoops oats (about 140 ml/60g)
1 scoop whey (25-30g)
1 banana or some berries
3-5g cinnamon
large handful of spinach (about 50g, maybe more)
broccoli (about 50g)
flax seeds
milk (to regulate thickness, so however much you like)
B.
I’ve made the mistake of adding to many ingredients and having the shake too thick. Basically you want to be slamming it down ASAP. So as watery as possible is the idea. Also choc flavouring doesnâ??t go with green veg.
What works for me is a head of broccoli and apple and water and blend it till itâ??s completely liquefied.
Broccoli is the best bang for buck veg and the apple is to sweeten it a bit. A fairly good blender is essential.
I’ve done:
scoop of strawberry whey
handful of fresh spinach
handful brocolli
cup of berries or strawberries
1/4 cup of oats
2 tbls almond butter
I think this taste great, no complaints. If u have 2 of these instead of stuffing everything into one you’ll be set. I’ve also addded red peppers to this. If u wanted u could put greek yofurt in for more protein and flavor. Hope this helps
2 cups broccoli
2 cups spinach
2 cups kale
1 chopped apple
2 cups green tea
1 orange squeezed
1 lemon squeezed
Blend altogether and it fills a 64 oz. just about perfectly. Has a nice citrus freshness to the taste.
Squeeze the orange and lemon in and it helps to cut the bitterness. I tried blending them as well and it didn’t taste good at all. Definitely just squeeze.
It can be a little expensive but I never felt so good as when I had the conditions to do this everyday. My skin even felt incredibly smooth.
Metabolic Drive masks the tastes of the vegetable very well. I get my veggies in that way
Chocolate MD
Broccoli
Spinach
Coconut Milk
ice
you need to play around with whatever liquid you use to your desired texture
simple stuff dude.
Berries are awesome in shake form. I like cranberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries mixed in with spinach and whey. I usually just get cheap cranberries and put a pound of them in the blender with some spinach and whey. I also make stevia “tea”. its just the stevia leaves brewed like tea. i then take the tea after it has cooled and thats what i mix the shake with.
1 large handful of Normandy style frozen veggies
1 small banana
1 scoop unflavored protein powder (I use a 50:50 custom blend of whey and milk protein isolate)
1 tsp. almond butter
1 tsp. honey
4-5 heaping tbsp cottage cheese
Splenda to taste
Optional: egg whites
Blend completely and it tastes great. I have this for lunch virtually every day.
I’m new at this, I just drink V8 juice. shrug
I haven’t tried any of them, but i got a huge recipe book when i bought my vitamix blender and it has a bunch of green smoothie recipes in it. Some of them don’t sound too bad compared to the one someone posted earlier.
Don’t know if it was mentioned already, and right now I’m too lazy to read through everything, but Berardi also had a “popeye shake” or something along those lines. Try looking it up (I’m also too lazy to go get the book to look up the recipe right now) but it was something along the lines of 1/4 cup walnuts, 1 cup frozen raspberries, a scoop of chocolate protein powder, 1-2 cups of spinach and a little cottage cheese. Add some water/ice and blend it together. I used to drink it a lot and it was somewhere along the lines of 500 calories give or take and you got your veggies via the spinach. Again look up the recipe for specifics because I honestly don’t remember it exactly.
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
Metabolic Drive masks the tastes of the vegetable very well. I get my veggies in that way
Chocolate MD
Broccoli
Spinach
Coconut Milk
ice
you need to play around with whatever liquid you use to your desired texture
simple stuff dude.[/quote]
Are you using fresh or frozen veggies?