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Joan - your green tea smoothie sounds great. how strong is the green tea flavor? I'm not a big tea fan, but mixed with other flavors, I may tolerate it... and your recipe sounds really good.

Here's another one I found in Your Life and Health Magazine from Better Homes & Gardens

2 cups lightly packed spinach
1 lg green apple cored
1 lg banana (FROZEN) cut into chunks
1/2 cup milk
1 T peanut butter

The recipe calls for juicing the spinach and apple before putting in the blender. So, if you don't have a juicer, I'd buy some fresh apple juice. Then add everything in the blender and blend away

Good way to get your greens for the day!

I read that when bananas are getting overly ripe, you can peel them, put in a freezer bag and stick into the feezer, then you just pull out pieces for uses like you suggest.

I've been doing this for a while now and it sure cuts down on spoiled bananas!

I freeze my over-ripe bananas all the time, and they're great for banana bread, smoothies, and even as is! Like banana ice cream :-)

I was on a smoothie kick for a year, and only drank smoothies for most dinners and lunches. I didn't lose a pound! I didn't realize how many calories are in my smoothies, and I counted them as a "drink", not as a meal. So, if you're drinking lots of smoothies, remember that some of them have as many calories as a meal!

Hey, I'm doing research for an article about how food affects your appearance, and Tina Seitz of the Moss Wellness Spa in Arizona gave me this recipe for healthy smoothies:

Smooth out fine lines with a potent anti-aging Breakfast Smoothie.

Breakfast Smoothie recipe:
1 cup of frozen berries
� cup of Almond milk or Hemp milk
1 scoop of Protein powder
1 tbsp. of Flaxseed oil


Yum :-)

If you are still in the market for smoothie recipes I have a great basic recipe with several tasty variations available on my website, Simple Nourished Living