A Smoothie Plan

The other day as I was making a smoothie, I got to thinking... during the summer I make maybe five smoothies in a week.  And while I vary some of the ingredients (some days it's bananas, strawberries, and spinach, while other days it's blueberries, pineapple, and sunflower seeds, I always put in flax seed, hemp, turmeric, and pepper.

I'm one of those people who is always trying to "improve the system".  And it dawned on me that I could streamline the addition of those last four ingredients.

After some consideration, I settled on my method.  I purchased from Amazon an "extra large pill dispenser".  I filled each of the seven compartments with 1 T of hemp, 1 T of flax seed, 1 t turmeric, 1/4 t pepper.  I pop this into the fridge and it's way easier to open one at a time and dump the contents into my smoothie compared with opening four different jars and measuring each time.


Now, a word about the whole turmeric and pepper thing.  I do realize that the amount of curcumin I'm getting in a teaspoon of turmeric is considered by some to be not worth the effort.  That to get what I need from turmeric, I'd have to eat a half a cup a day or something like that.  Well, that's not going to happen.  But I figure SOME is better than NONE.  Shrug.  (P.S. I can't swallow pills, so this is it.)

And if you don't know why I'm putting black pepper into my smoothie, google "turmeric and black pepper"... tons of info out there.

So anyway, just wanted to share my little smoothie hack with you.

I didn't have any spinach today, but I wanted a smoothie anyway, so here's what today's smoothie was (I keep track because it's so hard for me to get an appropriate ratio in my NutriBullet).


  • ½ banana (frozen)
  • ½ cup blueberries (frozen)
  • ½ cup other fruit (frozen), I used pineapple
  • 11oz coconut water
  • ½ cup unsweetened fruit juice, I used strawberry/watermelon
  • ¼ cup raw sunflower seeds

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