One of the central components of any healthy diet is eating a sufficient quantity of greens. Yet 95% of people who follow a healthy diet, do not consume enough green leafy vegetables.
Here are the top three ways to get more greens into your diet.
1. Prepare green smoothies.
Green smoothies are a great way to consume a large number of greens! When I first heard about green smoothies, I was a little skeptical about blending fruit and greens and was surprised by the result.
Here are some recipes from my ebook Smoothies for Optimal Health.
Berry Romaine Smoothie
1 cup strawberries
2 whole bananas
1/2 bunch romaine
1/2 to 1 cup water
Being Green Smoothie
2 cups fresh spinach
1 whole grated cucumber or carrot
2 whole bananas
1 whole orange
3 whole apples, juiced
In a blender, whirl together all the ingredients until thick and smooth.
2. Make Blended Salads
Once you’ve gotten used to the taste of greens in your smoothies, you can graduate to making blended salads. You can transition gradually by reducing the amount of fruit in your smoothie and increasing the quantity of greens. Gaspacho is a type of blended salad.
Blended salad
2 medium tomatoes, roughly chopped
2 ribs of celery
4 leaves of lettuce (big)
1 big handful of spinach
1 green onion
1/2 avocado
1/4 cup of parsley
2 Tbs. dulse flakes
1 Tbs. nori flakes (optional)
Water if needed
Blend the tomatoes together, and add the rest of the ingredients progressively. Use water only if you need to. A blended salad should be quite thick.
3. Find One Good Healthy Salad Dressing
A funny thing happened once you started consuming more greens in your diet. You started to dislike some of your favorite “healthy” dressings.
Here’s a recipe to get you started.
2 tomatoes or cucumbers
2 Tbs. apple cider vinegar or lemon juice
1 cup fresh dill 1 small avocado
In addition, you know you should be eating more greens, but the thought of doing it makes you tired. Before you even begin, there is a long list of things to do and decisions to make: which green(s), how much, how frequently, which recipes.
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