The Prudent Wife

Blueberry Smoothie ~ Low Carb

As I got the Vita Mix out to make my morning protein drink, I wondered what to make. Thinking back to summer, we had gone to an organic blueberry farm and plucked baskets of gigantic, succulent blueberries fresh from the trees. I am currently eating a very REDUCED egg diet, and so have been experimenting with different protein mixes, flavors, berries, fruits and veggies. Blueberries are great for the brain, so in they went.

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Tropical PGX Smoothie

1st spring harvest in Tennessee, could not resist, check out those gorgeous round hay bales in the distance!

When you run across a deal on tropical fruits, stock up. There are a whole variety of delicious smoothies you can make from an inexpensive treasure trove of pineapple, mango and bananas. Tropical PGX Smoothie is packed with fiber, anti-oxidants and fresh nutrients, the perfect start to a gorgeous spring day.

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Mango Berry Bliss Smoothie

Delight your family with a delicious, flavorful Mango Berry Bliss Smoothie, packed with anti-oxidants. This luscious, tropical, fruity Mango Berry Bliss Smoothie is secretly full of ingredients that are very soothing to the stomach!

Who says you can't sneak maximum nutrition into a smoothie? I created this recipe specifically to help heal Emily's stomach after she had an endoscopy, which is a camera sent down the esophagus to explore your stomach and digestive tract. While the procedure has no pain, Emily really wanted a cooling smoothie, and I wanted it to be healing too!

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Clean Out the Fridge Smoothie

Let's face it, there are times when we need to clean out the fridge, but what to do with all of the fruit that is still good, but maybe a tad bit past it's prime? Easy, make a Clean Out the Fridge Smoothie with it! We are famous for cleaning out our fridge and making the best stir fry, soup and veggie dishes, why not apply the same principle to a fruit smoothie!

Clean Out the Fridge Smoothie will help you make snap decisions when you run across those killer deals on different fruits. Go ahead, stock up, the sky is the limit on the variety of delicious smoothies you can make from an inexpensive treasure trove of season fruit!

Delight your family with a delicious, flavorful, frugal Clean Out the Fridge Smoothie, packed with anti-oxidants.

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Cappuccino or Latte in Vita-Mix

An easy fix for when you long for a cappuccino but don't have an espresso machine handy! Enjoy this is a quick gourmet coffee drink that whips up in the versatile Vita-Mix blender in seconds! Reminiscent of the fabulous Mimi's restaurant! 

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Canteloupe Mint Smoothie

Cantaloupe Mint Smoothie will help you make snap decisions when you run across those killer deals on cantaloupe that make spring so exciting! Go ahead, stock up, the sky is the limit on the variety of delicious smoothies you can make from an inexpensive seasonal melon! Cantaloupe Mint Smoothie is delightfully zingy with mint, yet pleasantly mild

Delight your family with a delicious, flavorful, frugal Cantelope Mint Smoothie, packed with anti-oxidants. Note the pretty green flecks in the picture, those are tiny pieces of mint!

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Flushy Slushy ~ Whole Food Cleanse

As each new season rolls around, are thoughts of doing a juice fast, a cleanse, or flushing out your system dancing through your head. A new year begs for a cleanse! Instead of harsh routines, try this fabulously simple Flushy Slushy, for a gentle, whole food "liver and gallbladder flush" with natural food. Flushy Slushy makes a great breakfast smoothie and is ideal for families, just double the recipe. Our daughter Emily rates this recipe a 10! Originally came from our chiropractors's office! As ever, please refer to your health care provider before trying any cleanse or flush.

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Ginger Green Smoothie

Emily is still detoxing from the gluten challenge, which puts us in the "Stomach healing challenge". How do we heal her stomach and leaky gut from gluten, along with the intense pain and constant nausea she has from gluten? Lots of fresh ginger, and the Ginger Green Smoothie fits that bill! Ginger helps in multiple ways, by fighting pain, soothing inflammation, and calming the waves of nausea that are overwhelming her stomach.

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Pineapple Core Tropical Smoothie

Are you like me and can't stand waste? Every single time I cut up a luscious pineapple, it makes me nutty to throw the core away. When Emily accidentally cut a whole pineapple up into chunks, without removing the core, the idea was born.Time to creat a Pineapple Core Tropical Smoothie!

We are so frugal, we cut up the fresh pineapple, reserved the core and used that pineapple core in our post-workout smoothie! Remember this idea when you run across a deal on fresh pineapple and stock up. It is a reason to choose whole pineapple over the cored pineapple - sometimes they are the same price in our grocery stores and it is tempting to go with convenience! Pineapple Core Tropical Smoothie is packed with fiber, anti-oxidants and fresh nutrients, the perfect start to a gorgeous spring day.

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Coconut Mango Banana Smoothie

When you run across a deal on tropical fruits, stock up. There are a whole variety of delicious smoothies you can make from an inexpensive treasure trove of pineapple, mango and bananas. Coconut Mango Banana Smoothie is packed with fiber, anti-oxidants and fresh nutrients, the perfect start to a gorgeous spring day.

This luscious, tropical, fruity Coconut Mango Banana Smoothie is secretly full of ingredients that will keep your blood sugar rock solid all morning. Adding coconut flakes, which are loaded with fiber, helps you stay full and satisfied longer.

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Whey Choco-Berry Smoothie

Whey Choco-Berry Smoothie will start your day off with a bang! Packed with a high quality whey protein powder, it supplies enough nutrition and energy for a power packed start to the day. You can even add frozen bananas for a smoothness that is out of this world yummy, making our Whey Choco-Berry Smoothie stretch frugally to nourish more people!

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Chocolate Banana Berry Smoothie ~ CF DF

Delight your family with a Chocolate Banana Blueberry Smoothie that is dairy and casein free, bursting with nutrition and energy for a power packed start to the day. Adding frozen bananas adds a creamy smoothness that is out of this world yummy, making our Chocolate Blueberry Smoothie stretch frugally to nourish more people!

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Chocolate Blueberry Smoothie ~ CF DF

Delight your family with a Chocolate Blueberry Smoothie that is dairy and casein free, bursting with nutrition and energy for a power packed start to the day.

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Wild Berry Burst Smoothie

Whip up a Wild Berry Burst Smoothie packed with anti-oxidants. Who says you can't sneak maximum nutrition into a smoothie, by dumping a little packet of Greens Plus Powder in Wild Berry Burst? We are currently experimenting with Wild Berry Burst and love it.

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Green Dream Kale Smoothie

When you need to really amp up the anti-inflammatory diet, make up a Green Dream Kale Smoothie. Starting with our base recipe, adding a few extra ingredients, a glass of this juice will make you feel cleansed and ready to take on life again. As we were coming off the "great gluten challenge of 2011" this was the perfect detoxing drink. Green Dream Kale Smoothie immediately INFUSED my body with energy and vitality and I could feel the toxic gluten draining away!

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Habanero Zinger Live Vegetable Smoothie

When you need to really amp up the anti-inflammatory diet, make up a Habanero Zinger Live Vegetable Smoothie. Starting with our base recipe, adding a few extra ingredients, a glass of this juice will make you feel cleansed and ready to take on life again. I drink these a lot in the dead of winter, when it is cold and snowy outside and it just feels too cold to eat a salad. They immediately INFUSE my body with energy and vitality - try the Habanero Zinger Live Vegetable Smoothie and let me know if it has the same effect on you!

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Salad in a Glass

Salad in a Glass is a slightly different form of our base recipe designed to teach you how to begin making your own Whole Food Live Vegetable Smoothies in the Vita Mix or other high powered blender. Salad in a Glass are a wonderful way to get maximum nutrition in for your whole family, without losing the fiber and all of the nutrients. Whether you are having health challenge, want to include more veggies in your diet, are trying to lose weight, or have just had major dental work done and can't chew, Live Vegetable Smoothies are the perfect starting point to customize a green smoothie that makes your family's taste buds sing!

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Cashew Chia Berry Smoothie

So many combinations of smoothies to make. Delight your family with a Cashew Chia Berry Smoothie bursting with nutrition and energy for a power packed start to the day. Gluten and casein free, Cashew Chia Berry Smoothie is a wonderful alternative for people who need alternative protein sources not based on dairy. Chia Seeds give an added nutritional boost.

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Romaine Blues Juice

Farmers markets are the most inspirational place on the planet. Faced with amazing greens, veggies of every kind, fruits, herbs and passionate, local farmers...I just buy too much. When a crisp $20 bill can fill up an ice chest with the best of local fields, how can you go wrong?

So that was my quandary today, coming home with my usual FM stash. Only this time, I opened the fridge and realized that I still had a fridge full of stuff from last week. You see, I had this little dental issue and I couldn't chew lettuce. It was traumatizing.

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How to Make a Live Vegetable Smoothie in the Vita Mix

Use this base recipe to begin making your own Whole Food Live Vegetable Smoothies in the Vita Mix or other high powered blender. Green Smoothies are a wonderful way to get maximum nutrition in for your whole family, without losing the fiber and all of the nutrients. Whether you are having health challenge, want to include more veggies in your diet, are trying to lose weight, or have just had major dental work done and can't chew, Live Vegetable Smoothies are the perfect starting point to customize a green smoothie that makes your family's taste buds sing!

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Cranberry Emergen-C Citrus Smoothie

Feel a cold coming on? Want to kick it with real foods, and an infusion of live, healthy juice and powdered Vitamin C? Grab a packet of Emergen-C fizzy drink mix, and invite the kids to watch you whip up a delicious Cranberry Emergen-C Citrus Smoothie. As you pull it together, placing all of the yellow fruit into the Vita Mix, ask them what color they think it will turn out to be.

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Emergen-C Citrus Smoothie

Feel a cold coming on? Want to kick it with real foods, and an infusion of live, healthy juice filled with fiber, antioxidants, flavonoids and real, whole nutrition? Grab a packet of Emergen-C fizzy drink mix, and invite the kids to watch you whip up a delicious Emergen-C Citrus Smoothie.

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Coconut Blueberry Spinach Smoothie

So many combinations of smoothies to make. Delight your family with a Coconut Blueberry Spinach Smoothie bursting with nutrition and energy for a power packed start to the day.

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Blood Orange Citrus Smoothie

Invite the kids to watch you whip up a delicious Blood Orange Citrus Smoothie. As you pull it together, placing all of the yellow fruit into the Vita Mix, ask them what color they think it will turn out to be.

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Sunshine Citrus Pineapple Smoothie

Serve up a gorgeous yellow Sunshine Citrus Pineapple Smoothie for breakfast and your family will thank you. Particularly good on a frosty cold, snowy day, when it is dark outside and you are just dying for sun.

Citrus Pineapple Smoothie is like drinking sunshine in a glass, packed with anti-oxidants, you can serve it as a delicious drink with breakfast, or add protein powder for more a more substantial smoothie.

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Tropical Acai Berry Smoothie

One frosty cold, snowy day, I headed out to take a friend to the orthopedic doctor. She had fallen over the weekend and messed up her ankle and needed surgery. So, I whipped up a Tropical Acai Berry Smoothie packed with anti-oxidants and protein powder, to help the healing begin.

Who says you can't sneak maximum nutrition into a smoothie? I created this recipe specifically to help nourish Renee for a few days, to get her to her surgery date.

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Pineapple Mango Berry Smoothie

Pineapple is one of our favorite smoothie ingredients! Pineapple smoothies are slightly more sweet, adding a burst of enzymes to our Pineapple Mango Berry Smoothie. Packed with anti-oxidants and tropical ingredients, Pineapple Mango Berry Smoothie is secretly full of ingredients that are very soothing to the stomach!

Who says you can't sneak maximum nutrition into a smoothie? I created this recipe specifically to help heal Emily's stomach after she had an endoscopy, which is a camera sent down the esophagus to explore your stomach and digestive tract. While the procedure has no pain, Emily really wanted a cooling smoothie, and I wanted it to be healing too! This was her dinner smoothie and she LOVED it!

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Apple Ginger Spinach Juice

We are in the midst of doing a spring Gallbladder and Liver Cleanse, and we need to eat a ton of fresh veggies and fruits, and we are really amping up the anti-oxidant capacity. With lean meats, and lowered fat, it is a definite switch from a more paleo lifestyle, but it is only for a short time.

As part of the cleanse, we need to drink 4 glasses of apple juice, 8 oz each, 32 ounces of apple juice each day. I would rather have root canal. I have simply NEVER been a fan of apple juice. I don't mind juicing apples, eating apples in any way shape or form, but drinking bottle apple juice - YUCK! Not a fan. I feel like my blood sugar is through the roof this time and I cannot help but wonder how about the squadrons of "juice" drinking toddlers running around America with a cup of the stuff. Moms, think it through, what are you doing to THEIR bodies?

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Ginger Apple Green Juice

We are in the midst of doing a spring Gallbladder and Liver Cleanse, and we need to eat a ton of fresh veggies and fruits, and we are really amping up the anti-oxidant capacity. With lean meats, and lowered fat, it is a definite switch from our low carb lifestyle, but it is only for a short time.

As part of the cleanse, we need to drink 4 glasses of apple juice, 8 oz each, 32 ounces of apple juice each day. I would rather have root canal. I have simply NEVER been a fan of apple juice. I don't mind juicing apples, eating apples in any way shape or form, but drinking bottle apple juice - YUCK! Not a fan. I feel like my blood sugar is through the roof this time and I cannot help but wonder how about the squadrons of "juice" drinking toddlers running around America with a cup of the stuff. What are we doing to THEIR bodies?

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Blueberry Green Smoothies ~ St Patrick's Day

Delight your family on St. Patrick's Day with Blueberry Green Smoothies, a rich, shamrock green, yummy smoothie bursting with nutrition and energy for a power packed start to the day.

Use this recipe for Blueberry Green Smoothie as a starting point to customize a green smoothie that makes your family's taste buds sing! Start off with what we have, then experiment, to come up with the perfect taste and nutrition for your clan. Chia seeds add healthy Omega 3s and EFAs while blending in beautifully with this smoothie, substantially increasing the fiber and fullness of the smoothie, even without protein powder.

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Chocolate Cayenne Protein Smoothie

Some days, I just cannot live without cayenne pepper. Yesterday morning was one of them. As I got the Vita Mix out to make my morning protein drink, it just didn't sound good. I am currently eating a very REDUCED egg diet, and so have been experimenting with different protein mixes and flavors and just flat out wanted something different. My eyes lit on the cayenne pepper. Immediately, my brain went into overdrive and I began thinking of a deep, rich Mayan hot chocolate that I love! Why not make a smoothie out of it? Why not indeed?

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