Green Smoothies!!

Some of our symptoms so far: difficulty sleeping, sluggish, major cravings!!!, grumpiness. I got up early and made green smoothies. The kids reported feeling great after drinking them, and actually didn't fight on the way to school this morning. My cravings have lessened since I drank mine this morning.
 
We make ours with a BlendTec which really gives it a nice smoothie consistency:
Stuff handfuls of spinach (organic if you can afford it! Regular spinach carries more toxins then many other fruits/veggies) in your BlendTec. (You can also use kale or swiss chard-both are milder greens. We usually mix the greens up, but spinach is definitely our staple!)
Put filtered water into the blender, up to the 2 cup line. Blend until it is a lovely green looking water. Next add the following:
1/4 of a lemon-including the peel-don't get me started on the benefits of lemon peel!
1-2 bananas
Some frozen berries-this turns the smoothie purple
Agave nectar or stevia as desired
any other frozen fruit (peaches, pineapple, strawberries, mango, melon, whatever!)
Press the Whole Juice button and watch it go! The younger kids especially love to watch it change colors--"like magic!"

This keeps in the fridge for up to 48 hours, just make sure you shake it up before you drink it.

**you can add lots of different things. Here are some ideas: hemp protein powder, nuts, flax seed or flax seed oil, sprouts, get creative! I promise you that you can't taste the greens...all you taste is fruit fruit fruit! 

Things I've learned-spinach is over 40% protein! Spinach is all things fantastic-calcium, B vitamins, fiber, ENZYME CITY!!, the list goes on!  Chlorophyll neutralizes internal body odors and bad breath, and it mops up free radicals that cause cancer and all degenerative disease. Greens are a powerhouse of enzymes, vitamins, and minerals. They are, ounce for ounce, the most nutritionally dense foods on the planet.If you don't know why you need enzymes, just ask my chillens. Okay, well, I'll tell you too: Enzymes are catalysts in all bodily functions, including digestion. Digestive enzymes break down food for storage in the liver of muscles. And while your body’s organs can produce the needed digestive enzymes, those organs typically become exhausted in the body of anyone eating a typical Western diet of dead, processed foods. According to most estimates, you have at best about 30 years’ worth of enzyme production capacity. Eating raw foods, particularly greens that have intact enzymes (heating above 116° destroys enzymes), gives you energy that does not deplete your limited enzymatic capacity. Drinking a quart of green smoothie daily will go a long way in providing your body the enzymes it needs to digest other cooked food.

The last picture was taken around St. Patrick's Day. The kids thought that greeeeeeeeen smoothies were perfect for that!