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!

Tropical Surprise Mango Smoothie with Garden Greens.

The garden greens provide at least some locally grown ingredients.

The mango and banana certainly are not locally grown for me anyway.

Maybe you are lucky enough to live in the tropics. Maybe someday I can live where mangoes can be considered locally grown. (or at least visit often)

So Gather up Your Ingredients for This Great Tasting Smoothie

• Banana
• Mango
• Carrot
• Coconut milk
• Fresh local greens, mints are great, a lot of these came from Herbfest, learn about growing herbs
• Protein powder
• BELOW ARE OPTIONAL
• Garlic
• Flax seeds, just a few
• Milk thistle, even fewer

This can make an occasional meal replacement, or a good pre-workout or post-workout drink.

Can you store juice that was just made with a juicer?

The short answer is no, but so many people are in a time crunch today.

So here is the problem, juicing takes time and effort and many people would like to make juice once and store some for later. There are ways to pull this off, but guidelines are needed.

The best possible scenario is to the drink the juice right after you make it.

If you need to store some for later, here is how to do it:

Get some canning jars. Fill the jars right to the tippy top with juice. The less air in the jar the better. Use a vacuum sealer attachment on the lid to suck all the air out.

Keep it as cold as possible without freezing. Keep it out of the light.

If you don’t have a vacuum sealer, at least fill the jars right to the top, adding water if necessary to keep the air out. This will help prevent oxidation.

I have read elsewhere that adding a bit of powdered vitamin C or other anti-oxidant to the juice can help.

Even with the best preservation method, I wouldn’t store juice for more than a day.

The same applies to smoothies.

You still get some nutrition from frozen juice, but not as good as fresh.

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Dr. Mercola drinks about a quart of fresh vegetable juice every day.  (the only fruit is lime) He says it helps the healthy bacteria in the gut.

This one is especially sweet, because it has natural sweetness from fruit.

Some people just cannot stand vegetables.

Here is a smoothie recipe for the dedicated veggie hater.

A lot of people know that vegetables are good for you, but just do not like the taste or texture.

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This smoothie has enough sweetness, that you might consider sneaking in  a small amount of greens powder, or maybe just one leaf of a vegetable.

That way you can gradually and slowly introduce some vegetables into your body, without having to deal with the taste or texture.

Vegetable Hater Smoothie Ingredient List

• Strawberries, preferably fresh and in season
• 1 Peach
• Blueberries
• 1 Banana
• Chocolate whey protein, or rice protein if you are sensitive to dairy.
• Purified water
• Almonds, raw if you can get them
• Optional for the brave: greens powder or a leaf or two of a green vegetable

Start by soaking the almonds in the water for a bit first. If you have actual raw almonds, you could soak them overnight and discard that water, starting your smoothie with fresh purified water. Otherwise, just soak the almonds for a few minutes in the blender, while you prep the other ingredients.

Put everything in the blender and blend, it’s that quick and easy. You don’t need a super expensive blender like a vita mix to do this. It does help to have a better quality blender though, as the cheapo models may struggle with this.

If you are so inclined you could add a few ice cubes, instead of so much water.

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.

There are many veggies that you would not even think of putting in your mouth.

How about a big hunk of ginger for example?

There is a way to get the benefit of pounds more vegetables per day without having to eat them. 

Juicing and smoothies are the answer

When you juice, you can take a few pounds of produce, some of which you would never think of eating, and turn it into a couple glasses of juice.

The best part is the vitamins and other nutrients absorb more easily into you body. It’s almost like a direct infusion of nutrition. Very little digestive energy is needed.

You can’t help but feel good after drinking a glass of freshly made juice.

Choosing the Best Quality Produce

Always try to choose organic, locally grown produce as often as possible. If you can’t get your hands on organic or locally grown, just do the best you can with what is available. A juice drink made from celery, greens, an apple and a nice hunk of ginger is still better than a candy bar and chips any day.

I have found that vegetable blender smoothies are easier to make than a glass of juice. Cleaning a blender is easier than cleaning a juicer. The nutrients in juice are more bio-available though than a smoothie, because the fiber slows absorption. On the other hand fiber is good.  So take your pick, smoothies or juice or how about both? Love to hear your thoughts. please use the comment box below.

Or if you just want to be healthier and more energetic.

The Love and Peas protein powder provides complete protein, healthy fats from the coconut, and the carrot and beet provide good carbs.

Protein, Coconut Smoothie Ingredients

• Small handful of organic coconut flakes
• 2 carrots
• 1/4 beet and beet greens
• 2 cloves garlic (optional, depending on social activity for the day)
• Piece of peeled ginger root
• Mixed greens like kale, lettuce, collards, or what you have available. Load up on the greens for pH balancing, alkalizing effect.
• 1/4 cup flax seeds
• 4 cups purified water
• 2 scoops Love and Peas protein powder

Blend the hard vegetables first; carrots, beet, garlic and ginger. Then add the coconut and greens. Protein goes in last.

This makes a great breakfast, I have a smoothie to start my day 5-6 times a week. Provides protein, fat and carbohydrates, along with vitamins and minerals, antioxidants, and phytonutrients. A great way to start the day!

Smoothies are one way to get more vegetables into your diet, without having to eat more veggies. They can be a great help, when you are shooting for 80% alkaline foods in a day.

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It is also chuck full of other nutrients.

Mangoes contain an enzyme with stomach soothing properties similar to papain found in papayas.

Adding spinach to the smoothie makes a real nutrition powerhouse.

This green smoothie is super simple to make, just three ingredients.  Add some protein powder and a tablespoon of fish oil for a nice morning alkaline breakfast drink.

Mango Green Smoothie Ingredients

• Mango
• Spinach
• Water

I definitely like to add purified water to my smoothies. In the video she adds the water after blending the mango and spinach, I would add the water in the beginning to make it blend easier.

Please share your favorite smoothie and juice recipes with us, using the comment box below.

Thanks for reading and watching today.

Chewing more thoroughly is one of the best and no-cost ways to improve digestion.

This even applies to smoothies. Instead of chugging it down, chew your smoothies in your mouth to mix with saliva.

Try this and see if it helps digestion. I would love to hear your comments on this video, please use the comment form below.

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Digestive problems are abundant in the modern world. Chewing your food and your smoothies better can help improve digestion. Also relax while eating. Digestion works much better when you are in a relaxed state. Stress moves energy away from digestion. So take your time, enjoy your smoothie or whatever you are eating.

Blending up your vegetables in a smoothie does make them easier to digest, and easier for your body to absorb the nutrients. Just don’t forget to chew it first.

You don’t necessarily need a fancy blender like this guy in the video has. Yes they are great blenders, but you cna get by with one of the better blenders from Wal Mart. The cheapest one on the shelf, might not do so well, look for one that is powerful and well built.

Purpley Green Smoothie Ingredients

• 1 Banana
• Organic blueberries
• Dulse flakes
• Hemp seeds
• Kale
• Pure water

Alkaline Diet Breakfast Choice

A smoothie makes a great alkaline breakfast, or snack any time of day. This is one way to get more greens into your diet, without having to eat more vegetables. The fruit makes it taste better and adds nutrition.

We all know we need more vegetables in our diets.

Juicing is one great way to get more vegetable nutrition into your diet, without having to eat a whole bunch more veggies.

This is a basic vegetable juice recipe, that tastes good and has a good variety of veggies. See recipe below.

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Here are the juice ingredients

• Broccoli, juice the stem part, that you would normally throw away
• Carrot, adds sweetness. So vary the ratio of carrots to other vegetables, based on how sweet you want the juice
• Celery, great all around alkaline food
• Cucumber, another good alkaline food, adds volume to the juice

He is using a masticating juicer, which is better for preserving the nutrients in the juice than the centrifugal juicers. Masticating juicers can generally extract more juice from the produce you put into it. They are slightly more expensive and sometimes a bit more work to clean up and put back together after use.