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Offline scatman

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Go the Green Smoothie
« on: July 11, 2009, 03:00:56 pm »
Does anyone else like green smoothies made with TM?  It was one of the reasons I couldn't wait for my TM to arrive. 
Most mornings I throw in      5-6 almonds,
                                        a teaspoon of seeds (pumpkin, sunflower),
                                        a tablespoon of oats,
                                        a pinch of dulse flakes and a pinch of wakami flakes (for all the minerals)
                                        Blend for 8-10secs on speed 9
                                        chuck in banana (break it into pieces)
                                        throw in a big handful of leafy greens - I love baby spinach, cos lettuce, silverbeet,
                                        pour in a cup of filtered water or more depending on how thick you like your drink
                                        Blend on speed 9 - 10 for 40+ seconds
                                        sometimes I drizzle in a little honey or maple syrup if I want it sweet but most times I leave it out.
                                        Pour into a huge glass and drink away.
My four Kids love this drink and it is one of my favourite morning starters.  I used to just use banana, greens and water but now I have the Bimby and can blend the seeds and oats it tastes more like a meal than a drink.
Using fresh baby spinach gives an awesome light green colour.   Try it and tell me what you think.

p.s this is my first recipe post so please forgive the layout. I'm sure I'll improve as I take note of how others have posted recipes.

Cheers!

Jus. ;D

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Re: Go the Green Smoothie
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2009, 03:04:49 pm »
Sounds weird but if you like it, it has to be OK  ;D ;D ;D  Someone out there will try it, I'm sure.
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Re: Go the Green Smoothie
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2009, 03:26:27 pm »
If you want to change the colour so the kids will try it - Follow the recipe only add 1 cup of  frozen blueberries for Blue,  Raspberries for a red touch, in with the leafy greens.  I have even added a peeled mandarin for a variation.   
A note of warning - I find it very difficult to drink without the banana.  It takes away any grassy taste and helps to make it smooth. 

Enjoy ;)

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Re: Go the Green Smoothie
« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2009, 12:43:19 pm »
Thanks Jus - saw something similar at a Raw class recently.  It tasted good and this sounds so simple and healthy.
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Re: Go the Green Smoothie
« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2009, 03:34:26 pm »
Good work  ;) ;D
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Re: Go the Green Smoothie
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2009, 01:22:16 am »
There are two reasons I am waiting for the TM demonstrator so we can buy one .

First is the cheap rice milk and second is the Green smoothies we make......every single morning!

We currently make them with a stick blender which is OK if you like watching paint dry but when we made one in a Friends TM we were gobsmacked!!!!

Our recipe is :

Large bunch of greens. We usually have a mixture of: Comfrey leaves, hibiscus spinach, green spinach , Guatemalan spinach, a little bit of lettuce ( too watery if used alone), 3 -4 beetroot leaves, Kang Kong, Or what ever greens we have left over from dinner preparations. WARNING: don't use bokchoy or similar unless you like a mustardy taste.
1/2 cup blue berries
Small hand full of fresh mint leaves
2-3 sugar bananas ( this is a MUST)
1 large table spoon of organic honey
1 teaspoon of Barley Grass
1/2 lemon ( juice and pulp only)
1/2 cup Macadamia nuts ( we buy in bulk over the internet and it is actually cheaper than buying Almonds)
1/8th cup of Goji Berries
and any other fruit like apples or what ever we have laying about
And COLD water to make it the consistency you like


Blend the back side out of it and ***voila*** you have an amazingly tasty and nutritious breakfast meal that keeps me really satisfied until about 11.00 when I then have a mid morning smoothie snack of:

Chocolate smoothie:

handfull of nuts ( your choice) we use Brazil, cashew or Macadamias
1 teaspoon of raw cacao powder ( raw chocolate powder)
Macca Powder
honey
cold water
and anything else you would like in a chocolate style smoothie.

Again Blend the bottom out of it and take to work in a thermos or what ever and drink when you get a little hungry ....  stops the munchies on chocolate bars and the like and it is HEALTHY. No sugar, no fats, not crap.


Yum Yum Fairies Bum ..... as my 5 year old daughter says.   :D



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Re: Go the Green Smoothie
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2009, 12:42:15 pm »
Spanner you make me laugh!!!

What is Macca Powder?
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Re: Go the Green Smoothie
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2009, 12:51:10 pm »
Spanner you make me laugh!!!

What is Macca Powder?


you want more kiddies .???........ eat Macca!!!

it is the root powder of all root powders.  nudge nudge wink wink say no more.   ;D ;) :-))



Look it up on Google .  It is really good hormone balancer  .... particulalarly for pre menopausal women , is really quite good for the libido .... much to my wifes (sometimes) dismay, and is really good for you in many many other ways.


Here is a cut and paste of a short(ish) article on macca ( or spelt Maca sometimes).
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Maca - A Herb to Watch



Rather than hormone replacement therapy (HRT), millions of women are putting their faith in a cruciferous root vegetable from Peru Called maca.

WHAT IS IT?
Maca is a dehydrated, cruciferous root vegetable, and not a drug. It is a benign, medicinal food which has been in use for 10,000 years, possibly more, and has had ample time to be judged effective. Today, dried Maca roots are ground to powder and sold in drug stores in capsules as a medicine and food supplement to increase physical stamina and fertility.

WHAT’S IN IT?
 Initial analysis of Maca indicates that it contains glucosinolates which have a positive effect on fertility. Proteins, as polypeptides, make up 11 per cent of the maca root; calcium makes up 10 percent and magnesium and potassium are present in significant amounts. other minerals include iron, silica and traces of iodine, manganese, zinc, copper and sodium. Vitamins in maca are thiamine, riboflavin and ascorbic acid. The amino acid proteins in maca include aspartic acid, glutamic acid, serine, histidine, glycine threolline, cystine, alanine, arginine, tyrosins, valine, methionine, isoleucine, lysine, proline, hoproline and sarcosine.

BENEFITS OF MACA
Menopausal symptoms: hot flashes, tender breasts, sleeplessness and emotional upsets, "brain fog", vaginal dryness.
Osteoporosis: significant bone rebuilding, improvement in bone density.
Energy booster: Balances the endocrine system - thyroid, pituitary and adrenal glands.
Male impotence
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Period problems: Pain, PMS, flooding and/or scant flow
American and Peruvian doctors have brought this extraordinary remedy to the attention of the Western world. Once in a decade a remedy used by native peoples for thousands of years comes to our attention and it seemed so important to health that we wonder how we ever got along without it. Maca is that kind of supplement. Now women have an alternative to hormone replacement therapy drugs. Maca works in an entirely different and more satisfactory way for most women than phytoestrogen herbs like black cohosh and liquorice root. And men, too, find that maca can counteract the difficulties they may experience in maintaining good sexual relationships as they age, due to a general slowing down in the output of the endocrine glands.

RESEARCH
Peruvian medical doctors say that maca root works in a fundamentally different way than HRT, promoting optimal functioning of the hypothalamus and the pituitary, thereby improving the functioning of all the endocrine glands.

They isolated four alkaloids from the maca root and carried out animal studies with male and female rats given either powdered maca root or the alkaloids. females receiving either root powder or alkaloids showed multiple egg follicle maturation, while in males, significantly higher sperm production and motility rates were noted than in control groups.

They established that it was the alkaloids in the maca root, not its plant hormones, that produced fertility effects on the ovaries and testes of the rats. "These effects are measurable within 72 hours of dosing the animals," they said. They deduced that the alkaloids were acting on the hypothalamus-pituitary axis, which explains why both male and female rats were affected in a gender-appropriate manner. This also explains why the effects in humans are not limited to ovaries and testes, but also act on the adrenals, giving a feeling of greater energy and vitality, and on the pancreas and thyroid as well.

Implications of the discovery of the pituitary-stimulating effects of maca are enormous. What it means is that hormone replacement therapy - even the natural varieties - will no longer be the gold standard for optimising health from a holistic point of view.

NATURAL VIAGRA
Doctors Malaspina, Muller and Chacon, as well as doctors from the USA and Canada, also have good news for men who are suffering age-related sexual dysfunction.

They can forget expensive, possibly dangerous Viagra. Maca works extremely well, and safely.

Dr Jorge Aguila Calderon, Dean of the Faculty of Human Medicine at the National University of Federico Villareal in Lima, prescribes maca for a wide variety of conditions, including osteoporosis and the healing of bone fractures in the very elderly. He says, "Maca has a lot of easily absorbable calcium in it, plus magnesium, and a fair amount of silica, which we are finding very useful in treating decalcification of bones in children and adults."

Dr Calderon has also helped patients overcome male impotence, male sterility and female sterility by employing maca therapy. Additional problems he treats with maca are rickets, various forms of anaemia, menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes and night sweats, climacteric and erectile difficulties in men, premature ageing, and general states of weakness, such as chronic fatigue.

Another health professional using maca is Dr Garry F. Gordon, President of the International College of Advanced Longevity Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. He said: "Using maca myself, I experienced a significant improvement in erectile tissue response. I call it ‘nature’s answer to Viagra’.

"What I see in maca is a means of normalising our steroid hormones like testosterone, progesterone and oestrogen. Therefore, it has the capability to forestall the hormonal changes of ageing. It acts on men to restore them to a healthy functional status in which they experience a more active libido. Lots of men and women who previously believed their sexual problems were psychological, are now clearly going to look for something physiological to improve their quality of life in the area of sexuality.

Of course, as someone interested in longevity, I’m aware that mortality comes on much sooner for those individuals whose sexual activity is diminished or nonexistent. I believe that people who engage in sex twice a week, or more, live longer. I’ve found sexual activity to a reliable marker for overall ageing."

The Importance of Maca in the History of Peru
Maca’s cultivation goes back perhaps five millennia. It was an integral part of the diet and commerce of the high Andes regions. When they controlled that particular South American area, the Incas found maca so potent that they restricted its use to their Royalty’s court. Upon overrunning the Inca people, conquering Spaniards became aware of this plant’s value and collected tribute in maca roots for export to Spain. Maca was used as an energy enhance and for nutrition by the Spanish Royalty as well. But eventually knowledge for maca’s special qualities died out, being preserved only in a few remote Peruvian communities. In the 1960’s and later in the 1980’s, German and North American scientists researching botanicals in Peru, rekindled interest in maca through nutritional analyses of what was designated as ‘the lost crop of the Andes’. The publication of a book by that name introduced maca to the world. At an international conference in 1991, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United nations recommended that Peruvians should return to eating traditional, native Andean foods. Maca was included in the FAO list as a means of combating nutritional problems being caused by people switching to processed foods and high-sugar drinks. The reintroduction of maca has established healthy eating once again in the Peruvian diet.

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Re: Go the Green Smoothie
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2009, 01:15:45 pm »
Interesting article Spanner.... pretty sure I don't need it right now but thanks anyhoo!
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Re: Go the Green Smoothie
« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2009, 01:38:01 pm »
Sounds interesting.
Thanks Spanner.
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Re: Go the Green Smoothie
« Reply #10 on: July 13, 2009, 02:49:07 pm »
Go Spanner!  thanks for the reply.  I have used barley green powder as well.  Thanks for sharing about macca powder, sounds great.   If one starts with a base of banana or sugar banana, with water and then build it up with all the fresh green leaves and wholesole goodies that you might think will taste good.  Have a go everyone, they taste great and are so healing and energizing for the body.

Jus  :D

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Re: Go the Green Smoothie
« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2009, 06:39:38 am »
Spanner you make me laugh!!!

What is Macca Powder?


you want more kiddies .???........ eat Macca!!!

it is the root powder of all root powders.  nudge nudge wink wink say no more.   ;D ;) :-))



Look it up on Google .  It is really good hormone balancer  .... particulalarly for pre menopausal women , is really quite good for the libido .... much to my wifes (sometimes) dismay, and is really good for you in many many other ways.

ROFL ;D ;D ;D if ever there was a way to convince the DH's to buy a TMX this would be it!!! Oh honey, I need you to buy me a TMX so I can make smoothies with Macca powder...you know what that would mean ;) ;) ;) ;) ;) lol,,,might just have to keep this one up my sleeve
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Re: Go the Green Smoothie
« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2010, 09:34:24 am »
I tried this Green Smoothie recently and was amazed at how tasty it was - who would have thought something so good for you would taste so good!

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Re: Go the Green Smoothie
« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2010, 11:39:22 am »
We love our green smoothies (my version is similar to this) but we were recently warned that consuming raw spinach wasn't very good for our health.

I did some google research and found that raw spinach contains large amounts of oxalic acid which can apparently inhibit the absorbtion of iron and calcium in the body.  Oxalic acid can also combine with calcium in the kidneys and form kidney stones.  Cooking spinach breaks down the oxalates which enables the body to absorb the high levels of calcium and iron present in the spinach and also prevents these unabsorbable "stones" from forming.

We have been having silverbeet in our smoothies lately so I am now off to check if silverbeet contains oxalix acid also!  It probably wouldn't be a worry to most people, but I just thought I would post a warning incase people are making these regularly.  :)

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Re: Go the Green Smoothie
« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2010, 04:31:13 pm »
Does anyone else like green smoothies made with TM?

Jus. ;D

Meeeeee  ;) I make almost evey 2 quarts of green smoothie. 1 quart for my familly and 1 quart for me. Your smoothie is going to be my lunch today...maybe with some maca....

@ Chelsea: here was a discussion about oxalic acid in rhubarb
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