Smoothies featuring cinnamon

Good Morning Green Smoothie Recipe

Good Morning Green Smoothie Recipe

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Get your day started on the right foot with this delicious, nutrient dense, green smoothie. Everybody is on the go these days making it difficult to consume your daily amount of fruits and vegetables. Enter the green smoothie.

Blending a couple servings of fruits and veggies into a smoothie allows you to consume more at one sitting, improves nutrient absorption and digestion, masks the taste of bitter greens some people can’t stand, and is quick and easy. Once you build a few smoothies on your own you’ll realize how easy it is, and more importantly, perfect the recipes to meet your nutrient and taste bud needs.

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Pumpkin Pie Smoothie Recipe

Pumpkin Pie Smoothie Recipe

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For anyone who is still craving pumpkin pie after Thanksgiving like I am, this recipe is for you. I don’t eat dessert very often, but always make an exception on the holidays.

This year’s choices included blueberry, key lime, and pumpkin pie. All three were delicious, but the pumpkin pie stole the show in my mouth. Maybe there was something in that pumpkin pie because I can’t seem to stop thinking about.

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Frozen Blueberry Blast Smoothie Recipe

Frozen Blueberry Blast Smoothie RecipeIt’s only appropriate that the inaugural smoothie recipe I post is one of my favorites. There are a myriad of health benefits attributed to blueberries, including but limited to, antioxidant powerhouse, brain food, anti-aging, anti-cancer, and eyesight improver.

Living in Michigan, one of the top blueberry producing states, I buy them by the pound when in season and freeze a fair amount for future use. Most grocery and health food stores carry frozen blueberries (get organic or wild when possible) ready for all your smoothie needs.

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