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Hi, I’m Jane from blenditandmendit.com. Welcome.
Today I am making my Summer Romaine Green Smoothie. This is so refreshing and it’s a thirst quencher and you get your greens. I’m starting out with one cup of cold water. Just pour that into your VitaMix. Then add about 1/2 cup fresh orange juice. I think that’ll do it.
Life Giving Greens
Then I’m adding 1 1/2 cups of pineapple, make sure it’s ripe if it’s fresh. It can be fresh or frozen. I’m adding frozen. One banana; this is a frozen banana. Make sure that’s ripe, too. Make sure the peel on the banana has its brown sugar spots. (Peel before freezing.) That means the starch has converted to sugar and it’s at the peak of its nutrition, ripeness and flavor. And the life giving greens. About a half of a bunch of Romaine lettuce. Romaine is tender, tasty, not bitter, full of nutrition, fiber, water, chlorophyll, antioxidants, phyto-nutrients, amino acids… look at our beautiful blender.
Positivity and Cheer
Bright, cheery, frosty, fresh, tropical – you have to try this. It’s so simple and delicious. It’s common ingredients and you get your greens and you get the gorgeous color. I say the same things over and over again. The waterful foods fill me with positivity and cheer. If that’s all they did, I would be satisfied. Please hit the LIKE button for this video and we can send the Summer Romaine Green Smoothie all around and share it with our family and friends. I appreciate your support and I thank you for watching my videos.
Summer Romaine Green Smoothie Recipe
- 1 cup cold water
- 1/2 cup fresh orange juice
- 1 1/2 cups ripe pineapple. fresh or frozen
- 1 ripe banana, frozen okay, too
- 1/2 bunch Romaine Lettuce
Blend. Sip. Beautify.
Here are a couple of videos Morgan and I had a lot of fun making.
You can eat these beauty products and we do!
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Welcome. Today, I want to show you how to make an Iceberg lettuce green smoothie. I did a little investigating and Iceberg lettuce is not devoid of nutrition. All my life I’ve been hearing, “Pass it up for the deep, dark greens.” You don’t have to do that. You can go to nutritiondata.com, it’s one of my favorite websites, and you can find out that Iceberg lettuce has amino acids, vitamins, minerals, it’s good stuff. So, I want you to use it in your green smoothies.
Don’t Pass It Up
And this is a really simple green smoothie. All you have to do is put about 1/2 head of lettuce into your Vitamix. If you don’t have a VitaMix, that’s okay. Use the blender you have, reduce the quantities, you may have to add a little bit of water, but get your greens. Don’t pass up the green goodness.
Then add one cucumber, or 1/2 of the long, English cucumbers. I cut mine up into a few pieces and put it right into the blender. And then a tomato. Just one tomato, any variety. I happen to have this beautiful, golden yellow tomato, so gorgeous. But you can add Roma tomatoes, which are usually the least expensive. So say you want to buy organic and you’re going to be blending… buy organic Roma / plum tomatoes, and you won’t have to spend so much money since you’re blending them up anyway.
The Colors
If you can’t get organic, don’t worry about it, just get started with what you have. Start blending and getting your greens; you’ll work the organic into your life as you can. One of the beautiful things about drinking my greens is all the varieties and the different hues of the color green. I just enjoy the colors so much. And this tastes so mild… let’s say you’re a beginner, maybe even for your kids, you can put some Iceberg lettuce into your blender with some fruit and have a wonderful smoothie, really nutritious.
This is almost sweet. It’s so mild. I really think you’re going to enjoy this. And it’s nice to have another green to add into your rotation. Think 7 different greens in 7 days. Shoot for that and that’ll keep you looking for new greens, it’ll keep the greens in the forefront of your mind and when you’re at the supermarket or you’re somewhere and you look at the greens and you go, “What is that?” Buy some, put a little into a green smoothe and check it out. Test it and see.
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This is a wonderful, savory green smoothie. Lettuce, tomato, cucumber, how easy is that? I would really appreciate it if you would hit the LIKE button for this video. That way we get to send the green goodness all around. Other people get to learn about using Iceberg lettuce in their green smoothies. Thanks for watching my videos. Thank you for your support. And send in your green smoothie recipes. I really enjoy making the viewer submitted greens moothies. New blends for me and for you.
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Iceberg Lettuce Green Smoothie Recipe
- 1/2 head Iceberg lettuce
- 1 tomato
- 1 cucumber
Blend. Sip. Beautify.
Hi, I’m Jane from blenditandmendit.com. Welcome. Today I am making my Grapefruit Parsley Mint Green Smoothie. It’s one of these, “Hi, I’m awake! green smoothies.” Not too sweet, a little bit tart for a refreshing, hydrating, perfect morning smoothie.
Keep It Simple, Smoothie
I’m sticking with my Keep It Simple,. Smoothie philosophy. All you need is a grapefruit… I peeled it, I took out the seeds. You can leave the white pith on if you want to or take it off, it’s up to you, but you know that white pith helps to nourish our extremities in our fingers and toes, the really tiny veins, so you might want to throw some in there.
3/4 of a bunch of parsley. Can’t get too much parsley. It’s antifungal, it’s antiviral. It cleans us from the inside out and keeps our breath nice and fresh. And It helps to sweeten our thoughts, no scientific proof on that, but when you drink your greens, it makes you feel good inside and out and the positivity and the cheer is there. And a handful of mint. I have some chocolate mint that I bought from Whole Foods so that I can grow it in the windowsill, isn’t it pretty?
Blend. Sip. Beautify.
You can use any kind of mint, regular spearmint is fine. And of course, some cucumber, I put in one cucumber or a half of a long, English cucumber. If it’s pesticide free, you don’t have to peel it. Wash it good, cut it up in a few pieces and put in the blender. Blend. Sip. Beautify. That’s what we’re doing.
It helps if you enjoy grapefruit to enjoy this smoothie. There is the tartness from the grapefruit in it. Of course, it is a beautiful, life giving color of green. Very clean… cleansing…. You can chew your smoothies a little bit; digestion begins in the mouth and chewing gets the digestive juices going.
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All this water in this beautiful texture comes from the naturally purified water that’s in the grapefruit and in the greens and in the cucumber, which is a fruit. Thank you for watching my videos. I really appreciate your support and I would like to ask you to hit the LIKE button so we can continue to send the green smoothie goodness all around.
Perfect Morning Grapefruit Green Smoothie
- 1 grapefruit
- 1/2 bunch parsley
- handful mint
- 1 cucumber
Blend. Sip. Beautify.
My Goji Berry Beauty Water is so delicious! Hints of sweetness from the Goji berries and Medjool dates and the bursting, refreshing flavor from the greens.
So easy to make! Pour into a few mugs, pop them in the fridge or take to work and you have anti-aging, anti-oxidant rich, chlorophyll and oxygen filled, truly hydrating and healthy Beauty Water!
- 6 cups water
- 1/4 cup Goji berries
- 3 Medjool dates, pitted
- 2 handfuls mixed greens or greens of your choice
Soak berries and dates overnight in water to cover. Pour the dates, berries and their soak water into the blender, add the greens and 6 cups water and blend, baby, blend. Maybe 20-30 seconds. Enjoy. You’ve never been more beautiful.
A Wonderful Thing
Today I am making my Anti-Aging Goji Berry Beauty Water. It requires 1/4 cup of Goji berries, which I soaked, along with 3 Medjool dates, pitted. I put them in a little water last night, water to cover, they soaked overnight, now they’re all mooshy and sweet and the flavors of the Goji berries and the Medjool dates have melded together. I’m adding that, soak water and all, to the 6 cups of water I already have in the VitaMix. Beauty Water has a water like consistency, not a smoothie like consistency. It makes a great beverage throughout the day. It is perfect for killing cravings and hydrating you. You can even drink it with meals, it’s not a meal replacement. It’s a wonderful thing.
The Beauty’s In The Greens
This will be a day’s worth of Beauty Water. I’ll put it in some big mugs and sip on it throughout the day. Then, to that we add our greens. The beauty’s in the greens. Chlorophyll, oxygen, anti-oxidants, which are also in the Goji berries. Goji berries are wealthy with anti-oxidants and play a big part in the anti-oxidant, anti-aging theories. The key to enjoying your Beauty Waters is to make them taste good, as in all food.
Blend for 20-30 seconds in the VitaMix. It doesn’t take long to mix up the Beauty Water. Okay, let’s see what we’ve got. First, the aroma. Ah, bright, fresh. I can even smell the Goji berries and the dates in there. Now, watch the consistency. Look at that. It’s a beautiful, olive green color, wealthy with chlorophyll and oxygen. That’s a big mug that you can drink from just like this. That is delicous.
Touch Of Sweetness
It has a touch of sweetness from the Medjool dates. I can taste the Goji berries, you know they have a slight earthy flavor to them. The greens are bright with color and flavor. This is a delicious Beauty Water, I want you to try it. If you want more Beauty Waters, all you have to do is go to my website, www.BlenditandMendit.com. You can sign up if you want my K.I.S.S. Guide, Keep It Simple, Smoothie, or you can just go in and enjoy the 100+ recipes: anti-aging ice creams, Beauty Waters, green smoothies, soups, salads, starters, elixirs, on and on.
Welcome. Today I am making The Chuckster. This blend was sent in by fortgreene31, who wrote in and said, “Honeydew and strawberrry and some mint leaves and some spinach and a couple of almond milk ice cubes. Call this The Chuckster.”
Ripe Fruit
Well, I finally got around to making it, it’s summer and the ingredients sound so refreshing. It’s so simple and I made a 2 cup portion for you. I know I’m usually making a blender full, and I hear from some of you “But I can’t drink all that.” Well, now you can. Start off with a ripe honeydew melon. Smell it. Does it smell like a honeydew? Press on the ends, are they a little bit soft? Does it have that glossy, yellow color to it? Even a regular honeydew has a golden cast to it when it’s ripe. If you don’t have ripe fruit, your blends are not going to be delicious or nutritious.
60% Fruit 40% Greens
fortgreene31 didn’t send any proportions, but that’s okay with me, because I’m always throwing my blends together and I can work with this and I want you to be able to work with it, too. If you ever have any question about your proportions of fruit to greens in a green smoothie, remember 60% ripe, organic fruit and 40% greens. Or 2/3, 1/3, make the blends so you enjoy them.
I’m adding 3 frozen strawberries, because that’s what I have in my freezer, a couple of sprigs of mint leaves; mint is antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, it freshens your breath… and a handful of spinach. Spinach is a mild tasting green. Some of you aren’t ready to go to kale, some of you are, you can put any green you want in here, but The Chuckster calls for spinach so that’s how I’m making it. And a couple of almond milk ice cubes. If you want to know how to make almond milk, watch my video, I show you how to do it.
Almond Milk Ice Cubes
Then just pour some into an ice cube tray and when you want to make a vegan ice cream or when you need a couple for a blend like this, they’re ready to go. Isn’t that pretty? Now, we have to taste it. This is my favorite part of getting the viewer submitted smoothies, so keep them coming. I enjoy all the new blends. We all need, including me, new blends to stay in the green smoothie game long term. Rotate your greens, you’ll get a wide variety of nutrients and tastes, you’ll feel good… The Chuckster is a good one… the mint bursts, the honeydew’s sweet, the strawberries are like an envelope for everything, the almond milk ice cubes make it creamy.
Eat Your Water
And the mint garnish is not a garnish to be tossed away. This is a garnish to eat. Get used to eating your water. The water’s in the greens and the fruit; naturally purifed and structured water really hydrate us. I so enjoy my green smoothies, this is an excellent blend, The Chuckster. Thank you for sending it in. Make some and share with family and friends. Please hit the LIKE button and we can send the green goodness all around.
The Chuckster Green Smoothie Recipe
- 1.5 cups ripe honeydew
- 3 fresh or frozen strawberries
- 1 handful spinach
- 2 sprigs mint
- 1 almond milk ice cubes
Blend. Sip. Beautify.
Hi, I’m Jane from blenditandmendit.com. Welcome. Today I am making Pineapple Cilantro Beauty Water. “Hi, Janis!” Janis wrote in and suggested this blend.
K.I.S.S. Keep It Simple, Smoothie
I’m starting with 6 cups of water. You don’t have to make this much if you don’t want to. I make enough to last all day. You can sip on it, put it in different glasses, put it in the fridge, put it in a thermos, take it to work, take it to work out. It’s all good, just keep it cold.
Then all you have to add to it is 1 cup of fresh pineapple. How do you cut a pineapple safely, swiftly and easily? Watch this video that I made and I’ll show you how to do that. When you’re in the market and you’re looking at the pineapple, smell them. If it doesn’t smell like a pineapple, or hint that it’s going to smell like a pineapple, get a different one. You can also try pulling one of the leaves out of the crown and if it removes easily, that’s also a sign of ripeness. Sometimes, they’re not always golden and sometimes thay’re not always soft. This one smells ready to go.
It Doesn’t Take Long
So I’m going to add one cup of fresh pineapple to this Beauty Water. You don’t have to add that much, you can add half of a cup, but it smells so good, its so fresh, I want it. And a handful of fresh cilantro. Before I started drinking my greens, about 6 years ago, I used to think that cilantro tasted like soap. Not anymore. I crave cilantro. Now this is a large handful, you can add a small handful if you want, but when it’s in front of me like this, I have to add more.
And there you have this gorgeous blender. That blended for about 30-45 seconds, it doesn’t take long. Color first.. isn’t that beautiful? The aroma is bursting out of the blender. I smell the cilantro. I smell the pineapple. I’m going to pour it into a big mug. Can’t help but get happy when I am pouring Beauty Water and green smoothies. Look at that. Look what you get today… There’s enough to pour three glasses and put them in the fridge, I don’t even cover them. Or fill up a couple of thermos’s and take them to work, take them out with you. .. this will help to kill your cravings.
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Pineapple Cilantro Beauty Water Recipe
- 6 cups water
- 1 cup fresh, ripe pineapple
- 1 handful cilantro
Blend. Sip. Beautify.
Hi, I’m Jane from BlenditandMendit.com. Welcome. I have a new, leafy green… what is this? Do you recognize it? Some of you might, some of you may not. I didn’t know what it was. I was at an organic orchard yesterday, not too far from where I live. I have a video that I made a few months ago about three organic farms in three minutes, so go ahead and watch that and you can see where I was at.
What Does Sorrel Taste Like?
The farmer is cultivating sorrel, so I had to get some. It’s great to find a new green for our green smoothies and Beauty Waters and green juices, because we all need new greens to stay in the greens drinking game long term. What does sorrel taste like? That’s usually the most important question, because we expect leafy greens to be bitter. Well, the best way to find out what something tastes like is to eat it. You’re not going to believe the burst of lemon that comes out of this… it’s incredible. Sorrel used to be cultivated, it used to be common. It disappeared for about a hundred years and now it’s back. I, for one, am grateful.
So, I thought, “What can I do with this?” Should I make a green smoothie? Should I make a Beauty Water? What would go with this lemony, tangy, Vitamin C filled green? Full of fiber, chlorophyll, oxygen… so good for us… has so many gifts, so many wondrous contributions to our health.
Should I mix it with pineapple, perhaps? I have a beautiful pineapple I just cut up yesterday and I’m saving some of it for the pineapple cilantro Beauty Water from Janis, so watch for that. I thought, no, that doesn’t quite hit it, it would be good, but… and then, I have this gorgeous honeydew I cut up yesterday. Should I mix the sorrel with honeydew? Hmmm, I don’t know, it didn’t quite mesh. I know it would be good, it’s all good, but, it’s not what I wanted to do. I have this watermelon, I have that watermelon. I could bust one of those open and mix the sorrel with watermelon… but ultimately, I thought, because of the way the sorrel tastes… I’m gonna leave it alone. It’s so juicy and tangy. So, I decided to leave it alone.
Zero on the G.I. Scale
Let’s see what sorrel will taste like if I just fill my VitaMix up with water, I’ve got 6 cups of water in here, and add a couple leaves of sorrel. We can have a nice Beauty Water. A light, tangy, zero on the G.I. scale, refreshing Beauty Water to sip all day. A sorrel Beauty Water. Just sorrel and water. Let’s see what that’s like. We’ll taste it and then I’ll see if I need to add some fruit or maybe more sorrel. So far, it’s 6 cups of water, two leaves of sorrel. Let’s see what we’re going to get.
It tastes like it has a touch of lemon in it, a touch of green, but a new green. A new flavor. I love when we have a new green and a new flavor. Mmm… I think I’m keeping the sorrel Beauty Water just like this; water and sorrel. See, the thing about finding new greens, especially ones that are being cultivated, that are kind of wild, is they have really long roots. The roots go deep into the earth, into dirt that has not been depleted. Highly nourishing soil.
Our food is only as nutritous as the soil it’s grown in. So we want to always have a wide variety of nutritious greens. It’s so important and I’m always telling you that. So when I found the sorrel, I thought, we have to go for this. Look at that big mug of sorrel water. Sorrel Beauty Water. I feel beautiful when I’m drinking it. I feel beautiful when I’m out there at the organic garden just putzing around, seeing what the farmer has and he shows me this. I feel beautiful when I’m making it.. because it’s so full of life. Look at this – how can you not feel good sipping on this?
Nourish yourself: your mind, your body, your soul, your heart… your attitude. It works.
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Sorrel Beauty Water Recipe
- 6 cups water
- 2 leaves sorrel
Blend. Sip. Beautify.
Hi, I’m Jane from BlenditandMendit.com. Welcome. Today I am making my Peachie Parsley Beauty Water.
Love the aroma of parsley, it is so cleansing. And make sure you have a ripe peach for this Beauty Water. You’ve got to have ripe fruit for the aroma, the flavor and so it’ll be at the peak of its nutrition.
My Beauty Waters are so simple. All you need is water; they’re low glycemic because they only use a little bit of fruit in them instead of like a green smoothie where we’re using 60% fruit. So in this one today I’m only going to use 4 cups of water. Sometimes you’ll see me using 6 cups of water in the Beauty Water. And I’m going to add a handful of parsley. That’s all you need to do. You can use curly or flat leaf parsley, either one is fine.
Blend. Sip. Beautify.
Then I cut up this wonderful, aromatic ripe peach and I’m putting the whole thing in there, of course no pit. Look at the blender. Isn’t that beautiful? Then all we have to do is blend, sip, beautify. Ah.. it’s that sweet ripe peach and that fresh parsley blended together that is so refreshing. This way I get my greens, I get a Beauty Water which lands right between a green smoothie and a juice. Like a juice with the fiber in it from the greens and the fruit. I think that’s pretty good. I’d like to thank each and every one of you for watching my videos and for clicking the LIKE button for the video. This gives the video some google love and we get to spread the green goodness all around. Thank you.
So send in your Beauty Water blends. I love new blends, they keep me interested, they keep you interested, and we all need new blends to stay in the green smoothie game long term.
Peachie Parsley Beauty Water Recipe
- 4 cups water
- handful parsley, flat or curly
- 1 peach, ripe, no pit
Blend. Sip. Beautify.
Today I am making my Minty Lemon Beauty Water. I got a note from Janis. Hi Janis, how are you doing? She says, “Jane, I love your Beauty Waters. I have a couple of combos for you. Pineapple cilantro and lemon mint, a classic.” Of course. Where has my head been? I have been concocting all these great Beauty Waters and I forgot the classic lemon mint, so I’m making that today. Thanks, Janis, for reminding me.
If any of you have Beauty Water blends that you want me to make, send them in, I’d love to hear from you.
I’m starting with 6 cups of water. You don’t have to use 6 cups. You can make 4 cups or 2 cups. My Beauty Waters land right in between a green smoothie and a juice. We’re going to keep the fiber from the greens and today we’re using mint. How much mint I know you’re going to ask. How about a small handful, a couple of sprigs, or however much mint you want. It’s a concept, not an absolute recipe. Add the mint to the water. Then I have a half of a lemon. We all have a different flavor tolerance for lemon, so you can add more or less if you like, but I want this thing to really sing with zing, so I’m using a half of a lemon. Make sure that you remove the peel. You can leave the white pith on. Check it carefully, make sure there are no seeds in there. And then add it to the VitaMix.
What other sweetener has fiber in it?
I want a little bit of sweetener in mine. I know some of you can use raw honey, some of you use agave, I like to sweeten with dates. I have 2 Medjool dates here that I removed the little caps and the pits from; you can add those. I just want a hint of sweetness. I don’t want this to be sweet, I want it to be refreshing.
And because I can’t resist, and I’ve got this ginger root, I took off a little nib of ginger, you don’t need much. I’m not going to bother to peel it, it’s organic and I washed it well. Just add a little bit. You don’t have to add the ginger, but I love the aroma, I love the effects, I love just a little bit of the ginger flavor because it’s strong and I don’t want it to overwhelm everything. So, look at the blender, doesn’t it look beautiful? This is what we’re going to blend up.
Snowy White Inside
You don’t have to juice if you don’t want to. I love juicing, I do it. You don’t have to have a thick green smoothie all the time. I love green smoothies, as you know, but sometimes I want a change. I want a beverage that’s thin like water. And this you can sip on all day long. Such a beautiful color. I never tire of the beautiful and many shades of green that I have discovered since beginning to drink my greens 6 years ago. Ah.. so refreshing.
The lemon’s right there, dash of the sweetness, just takes the edge off the lemon. And that was the perfect amount of mint. It’s there but it’s not overwhelming. Mint is anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and it keeps your breath fresh from the inside out, which is what we want. We want to be snowy white inside. Get your greens… Ah, delicious.
If you want it a touch sweeter, you can throw in a little bit of honey or perhaps another date. Make this and let me know what you think. I would love to know. So I got these 2 glasses out of it and this jug. All this will go in the regrigerator and I’ll have it all day to sip on. Or you can put it in a thermos and take it to work with you.
I hope you enjoyed this Minty Lemon Beauty Water. Thanks again, Janis. Please hit the LIKE button. This way we give the video some Google love and we get to spread the green goodness all around. I would really appreicate that. Thank you.
Minty Lemon Beauty Water Recipe
- 6 cups water
- Small handful fresh mint
- 1/2 lemon, peeled, no seeds, white pith okay
- 2 Medjool dates, pitted – or sweetener of your choice, honey, etc.
- Small nib ginger root, optional
Blend. Sip. Beautify.
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