The greatest smoothie of all time

The Shane

I recently purchased a blender - fantastic device.

Now I'm looking to make all my meals a thick paste, what sort of recipes have you got?

Mainly I'm just having a smoothie for breakfast -
Banana, porridge, yoghurt, OJ, peanut butter.

Pretty tasty, but I want more. In particular green smoothies. I could just go and experiment but I figured it'd be easier to ask.

Gone West

The Shane wrote:

but I figured it'd be easier to ask.

I guess you figured it would be easier to post this in any random forum too?

Nothingcompares

fruit, berries, nuts, eggs, garlic, broccolli.

john kavanagh

The 'Franklin'

400ml Soya milk
high quality protein
banana
porridge
frozen fruit
flax seed oil
multi vit supplement

the best way to start the day

Clive

The greatest smoothie of all time:

Colm_OReilly

FuzzyLogic wrote:

I guess you figured it would be easier to post this in any random forum too?

We frequently have diet related topics on this board posted by MAers.

Have you tried liquidising a Big Mac - I'm sure it's Paleo.

Dragan

My "Romper Stomper"

I start the day with this when i don't have time to prepare my normal breakfast

400ml Wholefat Milk ( don't know the wholefat folks....the fats themselves are nicely distributed and it's better than the added carbage carbs in low fat milks - this is changed to water when i am being very Paleo )
30 grams high qualtiy protein powder
40 grams rolled Oats
banana
some cashew nuts
ground flax

get that down you and your off to a good start.

And it tastes like "yummy".

paddyc

sorry lads

is this cooked or un cooked porridge you using and are you using a blender or a juicer to make it? thanks

john kavanagh

paddyc wrote:

sorry lads

is this cooked or un cooked porridge you using and are you using a blender or a juicer to make it? thanks

uncooked for me and in a blender

Deanopride

Every morning i have a fruit smoothie, the base is that V8 multivitamin juice from quinnsworth( its part fruit and part veg),actimel, kiwi,strawberries, banana,grapes, egg whites. You can mix and match depending what is left in your fridge e.g apples, oranges, berries. I always drink my fruit smoothies on an empty stomach as fruit is not primarily digeted in the stomach it goes straight through within minutes and starts to release the goods in the intestines, avoid drinking it after a big breakfast as the fruit will get trapped and begin to ferment.

paddyc

can you elaborate a bit more on thats digesting in the stomach and intestines etc etc

benefits and all that


thanks

Dragan

paddyc wrote:

can you elaborate a bit more on thats digesting in the stomach and intestines etc etc

Hey Paddy, the primary action of the stomach is to break down foods to a point where nutrients can be extracted from them by the body, at this point the food is passed to the intestines where the real work of taking the good and passing on the bad is done!!!

With fruit, because it already of a texture and a structure that is so easily absorbed by the body ( remember, we spent a few million years running around eating fruit ( or the last 6000 regretting that some bird couldn't fight a craving for an apple, depending on your view ) so evolution has kind of ensured that we match up well! ) it gets passed through the stomach pretty quick.

If you eat fruit with another slower digesting food stuff them it's passage to the intestines will be hindered, and all that lovely sugary fructose will start acting with your stomach acids, results in over digestion and a bit of a stomach ache.

Did you ever had an apple with some milk when you were a kid? Milk is pack full of healthy fats, which are slow to digest, and casein protein, which is also slow to digest. If you drink the milk, your stomach goes into "slow digest mood" so when you eat that apple it ends up sitting around for a bit!!!!

In short, fruit is really best eaten on it's own!!!

Roper

They say... and they say a lot of things, that much of what people describe as fatigue in the mornings and afternoons is due to fermentation in the stomach. Particularly fruit and sugars. Essentially, you have a hangover without getting drunk. If I can find an article I read I'll post the link up later Paddy

The Shane

FuzzyLogic wrote:

I guess you figured it would be easier to post this in any random forum too?

A saucer of milk?

Maybe we could put it in a smoothie for you.

I posted here because I believe that the guys on this forum have similar fitness goals to myself. With that in mind they are better able to advise on the nutritional combinations they have found effective. If I were to post that on a cookery page the answers I would get would be so useless as to be, well, useless. If I posted on a normal "fitness" or "nutrition" forum then, then I would have to prefix the post with a description of the sport I'm in the physiological needs of said sport and what type of training extra to the sport I'm doing.

So yes, Lazy, pretty much sums it up.

The Shane

To everybody else, cheers.

What I'm looking for is a smoothie to drink pre-cycle to work, That is if I can motivate my fat ass.

What was that green smoothie that was posted on dlofnep's diet query?