I'm still busy blending in my Optimum 9400 every morning and I've moved on from spinach to kale this week. I do love a green smoothie and this is good one. Very tasty and slurpable.

I made one yesterday that wasn't so good. I used end of season strawberries, frozen mango and kale. I put way too much kale in and it was rather bitter. Not my best effort at all, but I still finished it and Cooper drank most of his too. Graham took his took work, so I'm not sure how he got on, but he didn't complain about it so hopefully he drank all his too.

This one isn't bitter, but beautifully sweet with a good apple flavour from some crisp, juicy red apples and boosted with some apple juice. The kale is there but it's not overpowering and I've added some banana in it to sweeten it.

I really believe all the juice we're drinking has prevented us from catching all the stinking colds everyone around us have been suffering with. I'm sure it'll catch up with us at some point during the Winter, but it's definitely helping.

I gave us an extra boost by adding some hemp protein powder, which is full of iron, folate and B vitamins.

Do you juice or blend in the morning?

• Green Mango and Spinach Smoothie - Tinned Tomatoes
• Lunchtime Boost Smoothie - A Mummy Too
• Stegosaurus Green Smoothie - Tinned Tomatoes
• Green Passion Fruit Smoothie - Food to Glow
• Hemp Protein Green Smoothie - Smarter Fitter
• Pear and Spinach Smoothie - Citrus Spice

You can also check out more healthy smoothies from Monica Shaw in her book Smarter Fitter Smoothies.

UPDATE: Stopped juicing for a week and a half. Was just tired and in a rush in the mornings. Cooper got a sniffle and it went into my chest. I am definitely back on the smoothies. Take note folks!



Disclosure: Thanks to http://www.hempseedoil.eu/ for sending me some hemp powder to try and to Froothie for my blender, which I love. As usual I was not asked to write a positive review and any opinions expressed are my own.

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