Many of you have tried making my Glowing Green SmoothieÂź and are now enjoying it daily! Yay for you!
Some of you have perhaps tried to make it, and ended up with a chunky, grainy mess that really didnât taste very good. Hereâs the one thing we all need: the right blender.
The right blender is critical for a number of reasons I list below.
The blender I wholeheartedly recommend is the Vitamix. By the way, I tried my friend Lenkaâs Blendtec and made a Green Smoothies with it last week. NOT the same!!! (To see why I personally prefer the Vitamix over the Blendtec, please see the comment section)
Here is a reason why the Vitamix is the industry standard across raw food restaurants, cafes, and natural restaurants!! Hereâs why I think the Vitamix is so critical:
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More nutrition: This is definitely the most important reason. The Vitamix is a 2-horse power blender that has the ability to rupture open the cell walls of the vegetables and fruits and release maximum nutrition from the whole foods. The reason we are blending in the first place is to help âpre-digestâ the foods so your body does not have to work hard to absorb the nutrition. With the right blender, there is more nutrition readily available to the body, including 3,850 powerful phytonutrients. EVEN if a blender makes the smoothie fairly smoothie, it does not mean that all the cell walls have been adequately burst open for maximum nutrition (!).
If there is one thing I do not scrimp on, it is my health and making sure I have as much of the best health and beauty nutrition available to my body as possible.
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Better taste: Okay this one is a very close second place. The Glowing Green Smoothie only gives us great results when we stick to it, right? There is no way anyone would want to drink the smoothie every day if it is grainy and chunky. But it is delicious smooth! When I was in Virginia last week I tried making the smoothie with my clientâs $100 blender. HORRIBLE! Even I could not drink more than 3 sips of it, and I wanted to barf! It is funny how the texture of something makes such a big difference in how palatable something is, even with the exact same ingredients. To my friends who have been making the Green Smoothie with $60 Oystertag blenders: I promise you that that is not the way I intended it to be or taste!!
With the Vitamix the Green Smoothie is incredibly delicious, and you will WANT to drink it every day. You canât overestimate the value in that.
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Easy to clean up and saves time: It take about 60 seconds to chop the organic produce and throw it in the Vitamix and blend it to smoothness. When I made that âbarfâ Green Smoothie :) last week it took so much time to blend it, because I had to cut everything into tiny pieces and add them in one at a time. It took like 15 minutes! PLUS the longer the produce is blending in there, the more the chance it is getting heated up and we are killing enzymes- which defeats the purpose of what we are doing! Then I had to clean it up, and it had all these pieces and a blade I had to screw off separately. With the Vitamix you throw some water and soap in after you are done, turn it on, and it cleans itself in 15 seconds.
I donât have time to spend an extra half an hour with a slow blender to make the smoothie or clean up. Iâm sure you donât either. Who does? Time is precious!
The Vitamix is an investment, but it is an investment in your health and something that will last you a very long time. Think of how easily you splurge on new makeup or good shampoo and consider them âessentialsâ rather than luxuries.
What if I told you the Vitamix too was an essential, for the reasons I list above, as the one piece of kitchen equipment that will help make your skin and hair better than all the Sephora crap- oops I meant stuff :) â you buy every month?
PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR A DIRECT LINK TO THE VITAMIX SITE. If you donât like ordering over the Internet, you can call Janet Gladish and order directly from her at her direct line of 440-782- 2316.
The discount code if you do it that way is: 06-004995.
Love,
Kimberly
