An essential component of any healthy diet is to eat enough vegetables. However, 95% of people who follow a health plan, not eating enough green leafy vegetables.
I admit, I often find it difficult (or even lack the desire) to eat my greens. There are days when I do not eat enough. I know greens are good. I need to eat more green, but I just can not do it.
And then I found a fun way to get more green in my diet. Here are my Top 3 ways to get more green in your diet.
1. Green Tea Smoothies
Green smoothies are great and my favorite way to consume a large amount of green vegetables! When I heard about green smoothies was a little skeptical about fruits and vegetables and the mixture was surprised by the result.
Here are some recipes from my ebook Smoothies for optimal health.
Roman Berry Smoothie
1 cup strawberries
2 bananas all
1 / 2 bunch of Romain
1 / 2 1 cup water
Mix fruit and water. Add the romaine lettuce. Enjoy.
Being a Green Smoothie
2 cups fresh spinach
1 cucumber, whole or shredded carrots
2 bananas all
1 whole orange
3 whole apples, juice
In blender, whirl all ingredients together until thick and smooth.
2. Make a salad Blended
Once you have become accustomed to the taste of vegetables in your smoothies, you can put to mixed salads. You can change gradually decreasing the amount of fruit in your smoothie and increase the amount of green vegetables. Gazpacho is a form of mixed salad. Here's one of my favorite recipes (although I must admit it took me a while to get used to the taste and texture to mixed salads).
Mixed salad
2 medium tomatoes, coarsely chopped
2 celery ribs
4 lettuce leaves (large)
1 large handful of spinach
1 green onion
1 / 2 avocado
1 / 4 cup parsley
2 tbsp. dulse flakes
C. 1 soup. Nori flakes (optional)
Water if necessary
Stir in tomatoes and add remaining ingredients gradually. The use of water only if necessary. A salad should be thick enough.
3. Find a good healthy salad dressing
A funny thing happened once I started to eat more green in my diet. I started to hate some of my favorite "healthy" links. My taste buds reeling from the taste of olive oil. So I have compiled a collection of healthy condiments in my ebook, "Top 70 healthy salad dressings may be less than 2 minutes"
Here is the recipe to get started.
2 tomatoes or cucumbers
2 c. soup. The apple cider vinegar or lemon juice
1 cup fresh dill
1 small avocado
Mix the tomatoes and add the other ingredients gradually. Blend until smoothie. Add more seasonings if desired. Consumes more water if necessary.
We know greens are good for us, and we should all strive to get more vegetables in our diet, but do not force yourself to eat more green vegetables, if you do not like them! You get sick easily. Instead, let your innate hunger for greens come naturally, by slowly incorporating more greens into your diet in the form of green smoothies, salads, etc. You will find that your power begins to be cleaner, you will naturally want more green vegetables and raw foods.
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