Raw Summit - Victoria Boutenko - Green Smoothie combos

Victoria's talk last night was mainly about her family's story and about discovering green smoothies and how greens are good for health. Between herself, her husband and 2 children they had a combination of most illnesses out there and each of them was cured by going on a raw diet and eating more healthy foods, esp greens.

I've been asked so many times about what to put in green smoothies.. what combinations of fruit and greens. Most combos taste great.

The idea is to blend green leafy veg and fruit together at a 40:60 ratio.

I take a couple types of greens and fill up the blender with them, add 1 cup water and pulse down. Then fill up with fruit and blend. I often add 1T or so flax seeds - it just seems to fill me up for longer with them added so I am not hungry again so quick.

for greens pick any 2 (or more) Romaine, spinach, kale, chard, sunflower sprouts, pea green sprouts, bok choy, other lettuces, lambs quarters, parsley, beet tops, carrot tops, dandelion, plantain, stinging nettle, purslane, arugula, collards, red clover etc.. etc..

Then the fun part
Some of my favorite fruit combinations are:

Mango, banana, pineapple, pear
raspberry, pear, banana
blueberry, strawberry, banana
orange, apple, banana
jackfruit, orange, mango
grape, cherry, apple
watermelon, cherry, banana
strawberry, clementine, apple
mango, peach, banana
blueberry, apple, pear
guava, strawberry, blueberry, banana
mango, papaya, banana
mango, raspberry
apple, pear, banana, pineapple
apple, banana, strawberry
peach, pear, apple
papaya, banana, orange
grape, strawberry, orange
strawberry, raspberry, grapes
banana, peach, strawberry
bosc pear, raspberry
apple, strawberry, banana
kiwi, pear, banana

& so many others..
A green smoothie is one of the most delicious, & most nutritious things you can put into your body.
Enjoy!