So I thought I would make another, this time Chocolate Maca version.

Maca has become a popular herb lately, it has been used historically by Incan Warriors to increase energy and stamina.

Try the smoothie and you be the judge.

Ingredient list for Super Quick Chocolate Maca Smoothie

• Chocolate protein powder
• All natural peanut butter
• Purified water
• Coconut milk
• Maca root powder
• Super greens
• Ice cubes
  Stick it all in a blender bottle and shake, baby, shake!

You can get blender bottles at your local department store. They have a little wire mesh ball inside that helps to blend the ingredients. Very handy.

Many of us did.

Time to give yourself some positive motivation and recommit yourself to vibrant health.

I know I for one, ate and drank this past holiday season. It was a good time, but now I am committing myself to  30 days of 80% raw foods including raw fruits and veggies along with raw nuts and seeds. Who wants to join me? Use the comment box below to share your thoughts.

Today’s video is called the hangover smoothie. Even if you don’t have a hangover, it’s a great energizing smoothie recipe. Try it for breakfast tomorrow .

• Almond milk
• Honey
• Oatmeal
• Flax
• Maca powder
• Cinnamon
• Banana

Modify the recipe to taste and available ingerdients. Smoothies are a great way to start your day by including some good nutrition into your diet.

Try to find positive ways to motivate yourself in your weight loss and healthy living efforts. Beating up on yourself or feeling sorry for yourself tends to be not very productive. Often finding a friend to help keep you motivated and accountable works well. Try to find a buddy to give yourself positive reinforcement.

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Well good nutrition can make a difference in your mood and how you feel.

Here is a delicious smoothie with protein, healthy fat and some good carbs.

There are some great nutrients in blueberries, some of which scientists have not even figured out what they do yet, so just eat the blueberries! Or put them in your smoothie.

Blueberry Almond Flax Smoothie Recipe Ingredients

• Blueberries
• Almond butter
• Almond milk
• Banana
• I would use actual flax seeds instead of flax oil. It goes rancid quickly, plus the seeds are high in fiber.
• Protein powder

This smoothie is delicious and makes a great breakfast or mid morning pick me up snack. It takes just a couple minutes to throw this together. Get out your blender and smoothie up!

Almonds and banana are on the alkaline side of the chart, so the almond milk and almond butter can help your alkaline diet.

Make one of these today and let us know how you liked it!

Also if you have a favorite smoothie recipe, (there are millions of variations) let us in on it!

Here is one phenomenal tip, replace the everyday breakfast of toast, bagels, doughnuts, eggs, bacon and whatever else, with a green smoothie

They are quick and easy to make and nutritious.

You can get creative with your own ideas, experiment and come up with something delicious.

Mom’s Green Smoothie Ingredients

• 1 cup of pure water
• 10 grapes
• Baby spinach handful
• 1/2 Cucumber
• 3/4 cup Strawberries
• 1/2 cup Pineapple
• 1/2 Banana
• 1 tsp Hemp seeds
• 2 tsp Chia seeds
• 1/3 Cilantro

Put it all in the blender and enjoy! This provides healthy omega 3 fats and a bit of protein along with loads of anti-oxidants. Makes a great breakfast of snack. If you feel like you need something more substantial, have a handful of nuts or a can of sardines along with this delicious, nutritious green smoothie.

I have personally been drinking green smoothies for a few years now, almost every morning, but not every single morning (variety is good). I have a basic recipe and I vary the ingredients from day to day, based on what is growing in the garden and what is in season. Fresh locally grown foods are best, but any fruit or vegetable is better than a bagel or doughnut!

I would love to hear about your favorite smoothie recipe. Please us the comment box below, thanks for reading and watching today.

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I tried to make it quick and to the point.

And the juice was delicious and very alkaline.

Check it out and try for yourself.

Alkalizing Juice Ingredients

• Celery
• Carrot
• Apple
• Beet
• Ginger root
• Garden greens
• Garlic (optional)

Run through the juicer and enjoy. This is a great time of year for fresh garden herbs and greens. If you don’t have a garden, check out your local farmer’s market or roadside produce stand.

I would love to hear about your favorite juice recipe. Please use the comment box below to share.

Adding apple and watermelon to my usual morning smoothie recipe, really perked up the flavor.

I had a piece of salmon with it, so I got protein, healthy fat, and good carbs, along with a great lineup of vitamins, minerals, anti oxidants, enzymes, and some nutrients that have not even been discovered by scientists yet.

Ingredients for this all natural fruit – vegetable smoothie:

• 2 carrots
• 1/4 large beet
• Garden greens, romaine, arugula, dandelion greens, use what you have on hand
• 1 Apple
• Few small slices of  Watermelon
• Purified water, enough to get the preferred consistency
• 1 TBS Flax seeds
• 1/2 tsp Milk thistle seeds, optional

Of course feel free to add, substitute ingredients, based on what you have available. If you come up with a great new recipe, let us know.

Daily Alkaline Breakfast

I have some type of vegetable smoothie for breakfast almost everyday. Sometimes I add fruit. I like to have a protein source along with it. Sometimes, it’s protein powder, other times fish or eggs. I like to have a good healthy start to my day, getting fueled up with natural nutrition, having all the bases covered.

This is a nice alkaline forming breakfast. It helps me to keep my body pH in the correct range.

Every once in a while I will have something different for breakfast, like buckwheat pancakes, gluten free of course. Variety is good.

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This smoothie recipe tastes really yummy and almost everyone is going to like it, even kids.

The bananas,  pineapple and mango make this smoothie actually taste great. You may not even notice the taste of spinach at all. This is one way to get a little bit of greens into someones diet.

People with blood sugar issues like diabetes, hypoglycemia, or other issues should be careful with this one, as it is sweet. Too much sugar is good for no-one, even if it is natural. This should be looked at more as a treat, than an everyday smoothie. It is still far and away better than a candy bar, ice cream cone or piece of cake.

Blend one up today and enjoy!

Ingredients

• Banana, frozen is good.
• Fresh mango
• Fresh pineapple, canned pineapple is nowhere near as good.
• Some water to help it blend
• A handful of spinach

Blend it up good, adding water to get the consistency you like. Feel free to substitute, or add other ingredients like apples or grapes, or kale.

I would love to hear about one of your smoothie recipes, please use the comment box below.

To add a little extra internal cleansing action to this or any smoothie, substitute 1 cup of chilled Iaso tea for an equal amount of water. Detoxification with herbal tea is one way to lose a few pounds in a hurry.

The normal recommendation is 5-10 servings per day, but if you expect to achieve alkaline balance you need to do better than that.

I have personally been drinking green smoothies almost every day for the last couple of years.

A Good Blender

You can make this in any decent blender. Sure one of those high powered blenders is nice, but they are way expensive. I wouldn’t recommend the cheapest blender available to blend vegetables, especially carrots and beets. One of the better models from the local store will do a decent job.

Most people don’t eat that much kale and collards and certainly not raw. I happen to eat some raw kale and collards from my organic garden, but then again, I’m not like most people.

Sweetness and Flavor of Your Green Smoothie

You can balance the sweetness and flavor of this green smoothie by the amount of fruit you add. Beginners will use a higher ratio of fruit, until taste buds adapt. Stevia and xylitol are healthy sweetener alternatives that don’t add many calories.

One Change – Flax Seeds, not Oil

The only thing I would change about the way this lady does it in the video is to use flax seeds instead of flax oil. More than one health expert that I know personally has said, flax oil goes rancid quick, Once you open the bottle the clock starts ticking. On top of that, flax seeds contain healthy fiber.

Feel free to make this with whatever ingredients you have on hand, or suites your taste.

Key Ingredients

• Kale
• Collards
• Spinach
• Apple
• Berries
• Flax seeds
• Stevia

A better way to detox and cleanse on the inside. Iaso tea. I have some everyday with my green smoothie.

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I wanted to talk to you about the difference between an alkalizing breakfast and an acidifying breakfast.

Now, let’s just take a look at the typical American acidifying breakfast which typically includes something like coffee, or people even drink soda. Follow that with something containing refined white flour and sugar like doughnuts,  sweetened cereal, bagels, muffins, and all that kind of stuff.

Even  whole grains, are  still on the acid side of the chart

It may be less acidifying, sure. Whole grains are better than the refined white variety which is very acidifying, but it is still all on the acid side of the chart. And a lot of times people consume refined oils along with these products and they end up with something that is really not very healthy at all.

Now in contrast, an alkalizing breakfast would be something like green or white tea. You can still get caffeine. Have a couple extra cups of green and white tea. It is better than a cup of coffee. Even better yet, blend your green tea with some herbal tea.

Don’t Take Away My Coffee!

Now, some people, we get this question a lot, “Can I have a cup of coffee? I can’t live without a cup of coffee. Can I still maintain alkaline balance and have a cup of coffee?”

I like to have a cup of coffee myself every now and then. So what do I do? I put a little bit, about a quarter to a half a scoop, of Sea Calcium and I take a Magnesium tablet and I break it open, and I sprinkle about a third into that coffee and stir it up. It actually turns a little bit lighter color of brown, and I have actually gotten buffering minerals in my coffee now, so it is not quite as harmful from a PH balancing acidic point of view when I consume it.

Here is another tip. Brew up some herbal tea, like Dr Miller’s Iaso Tea – known to be alkalizing, and blend it 50-50 with your coffee. You still have a hot beverage that tastes good. It gives you the caffeine that many of us depend on for energy, without quite so much acid effect.

You could even do both, tea blend and mineral addition. This will decrease the acidic effect significantly.

A Better Alkaline Breakfast

I am going to have right along with it a vegetable blender smoothie, which is very alkalizing. I will probably have maybe some whey protein in there so I am getting some protein, some fish oil so I am getting protein, fat, vitamins, minerals, all the essentials of a good healthy diet that is very alkalizing.

Meat is OK – Organic is Best

I might even have a little bit of meat. If I do, it is a small piece, and it is clean. It is maybe organic or at least free range and doesn’t have hormones or antibiotics and all that kind of stuff in it. Or a little bit of healthy fish is also OK. And as an alternative, maybe a salad instead of the vegetable blender smoothie. All these and you will end up with a much better alkalizing breakfast solution.

Remember, nothing we say should be considered as medical advice. Use this information at your own risk and it is just for informational purposes only. Thanks for visiting our site.

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