I bought a VitaMix a year and a half ago at Costco – I was so excited I made a million green smoothies and choked them all down. Okay, some weren’t that bad- but they weren’t that good either. I bought different brands of green powder stuff full of goodies to add to the nutrition in my smoothies, but I still didn’t like them that much. By the way, if you’re interested, the best of the green stuff is Amazing Grass. I gave it a good few months and gave up on it except for adding spinach to whatever smoothie. And lately I’ve just been buying the Naked Green Machine at Costco- by far the cheapest – the ingredients cost way more than what you pay, it’s awesome! My kids love the Green Machine and then they get all that good stuff so it makes me happy too, if it were organic I’d be ecstatic!
Anyway – a couple of weeks ago I was trying to find some good breakfast recipes and came across this recipe (and picture above) on Shape - Kimberly Snyder‘s Glowing Green Smoothie. I was totally intrigued. The base of the shake is romaine lettuce- which I have not tried in a shake fearing it would be weird – but really, can it be much weirder than spinach? Which is something that I’ve had in a million shakes. And if you think about it, romaine has a crisp, clean taste and may actually be refreshing in a shake. The celery adds to that clean crispness, and the lemon finishes it off. Parsley and cilantro surprisingly work – but if you don’t like cilantro just omit it. The smoothie is light and refreshing and fills me up for a good hour. I got on Kimberly Snyder’s blog and read up on some of her reasonings on food and pairings and I love it- not sure if I could ever actually do it all. I feel like I should listen to her since she’s so cute, her skin really does glow and she has a rocking body. After drinking the smoothie for awhile I’ve found that my skin is actually looking better this week! Which could be attributed to the unseasonably warm weather and my slight tan – or the fact that I changed pills a month ago – but maybe it’s this smoothie? Anyway – it’s promising and so maybe someday I’ll do something crazy (for me) like her whole detox plan. For now, I’m just enjoying this smoothie and the additional nutrients my body gets every morning.
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Oh my – I have a MacBook Pro – convert from a regular ole PC- and the simplest thing has perplexed me and so this review has taken a month and I still haven’t done it! Here’s the problem: the super-nice people at The Better Chip sent me a really cool t-shirt (in MY size and not a men’s L or XL, yay!) and so I decided to post this picture where I was wearing the shirt and my dog was staring at the chips I was eating. It was classic. But I can’t re-size the damn picture. What the heck? Then I get on the App store and there are too many choices – all with poor ratings. What to do… Anyway- I’ll have to talk to a Genius but haven’t gotten around to it and so I had better write this review without the shot- just wasn’t meant to be. Even tried to grab a pic from Amazon and it still needs to be resized. Ugh! Wish my photoshop would transfer to this computer.
More importantly, The Better Chip folks actually sent me their chips – and they are seriously delicious. I received Red Pepper, Jalapeño and Sweet Onion. They say it better than I can, so I’m just going to copy/paste what they’re about – (not getting paid or required to do this btw, just love the idea behind it): “Made from double corn masa, 40% fresh veggies and enhanced with a smidgen of sea salt or natural seasoning for a better tastingand better dipping chip. We understand, not everyone appreciates better taste.Unfortunately for artificial ingredient lovers, we only use natural ingredients. No preservatives. No gluten. Nothing genetically modified. And no cholesterol. Simply better for you.” So, now that you get the gist- I’ll start with my favorite flavor, Red Pepper. It has a pretty strong, excellent red pepper flavor. But not in a fake way- just good and obviously red pepper and you can taste the freshness. Seriously. It’s reminiscent of a nacho chip (since it’s Red Pepper AND Salsa Fresca) but in a major natural red pepper way. The Jalapeño chip is weaker than the Red Pepper- so don’t try that first and then Jalapeño- you have to eat them separately, because the first time I tried the Jalapeño variety- it was right after the Red Pepper and I couldn’t really get the flavor. But I ate it a different day and really loved it – it’s a lot more subtle and there’s some heat at the end. A fun and different chip. My son didn’t like that one -too much heat for him- it was pretty cute watching him run for some cold water. He hasn’t developed any heat tolerance yet though. The last one is sweet onion. I’m not a big onion person but do love caramelized onions- and this reminded me of caramelized onions actually. I ate the whole bag and was glad my husband was away on a business trip. I also made broccoli that night – should’ve had my sardines but didn’t think about it:)
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