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In this episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, I am switching it up a bit and going to show you how to make a healthy smoothie. I drink this smoothie quite a bit for breakfast, it is really easy to make and this recipe is super easy. Why healthy smoothies? Because I can’t eat cinnamon rolls and waffles and bacon every morning can I. Or can I? No I can’t, haha. So I combine healthy smoothies with exercise, to stay in shape, so it allows me to eat all my treats, sweets, fattening foods, without it hurting me too much. 🙂 Let’s get started!
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Recipe:
1 banana
1 cup frozen or fresh mixed berries (or can all be the same berry, or use other fruits)
1 giant handful of fresh spinach (sometimes I will throw Kale from my garden in there as well)
1 Tbs. milled flaxseed
2 to 3 ounces water as needed
Throw them all in a blender and blend for about 2 minutes. Adding water to thin it up.
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Transcript: (partial)
Hello and welcome back to In the Kitchen with Matt, I am your host Matt Taylor. Today I am going to show you how to make a healthy smoothie. It’s super easy it’s super yummy. I love treats, I love crepes, I love cinnamon rolls, I love bacon and eggs and hash browns, for breakfast, but I can’t eat that stuff all the time. I am in relatively good shape and the reason that I am is because I do eat healthy quite a bit, for breakfast and lunch and for dinner even. But because I do eat healthy and exercise quite a bit, I have that luxury of being able to eat my chocolate, my bacon, and my cinnamon rolls, once in awhile, and it is not going to effect me too much. Anyway I love this little recipe I just came up with it myself, I use it almost everyday for breakfast, it is really easy to do if I can do it you can do it, let’s get started. All right for smoothies in general you really want to get a fairly decent blender. The best blenders on the market are either the blendtec or the Vitamix. There is going to be some are arguments between the two camps, so to speak of which one is better, most likely the Vitamix, they are pretty expensive but I will put some links down below, in case you want to pick those up, they are kind of the king, kings of the blender market. This one I have is just an Oster, I think I paid around 40 bucks, and it has worked, pretty well for me it is not quite as good obviously. So for this recipe what I do is I start with mixed berries, you can get your berries yourself, like I do, and I just freeze them, or you can buy a pack of frozen mixed berries at the supermarket. Add those first here to our blender. And then I am going to do a big handful of spinach. One of the only ways I like to eat spinach, is either raw in a salad, or in a blender, I am not a huge fan of cooked spinach. But if it is in recipes and pastas and stuff like that, it is fine. And then what I am going to do is I am going to add one banana, and then about a tablespoon of Flaxseed. This is milled flaxseed. You can leave this out if you want but it adds a little bit of extra nutrition. And then orange juice I am going to do about a cup of orange juice. And my blender here has cups and liters written on it, which is cool. So I am going to start with that and see where it gets us. Now if it is too thick I am not going to add any more orange juice, I am going to add just water to thin it up, or instead of orange juice I will also use almond milk. All right lets go ahead and do the ice crush mode right now. As suspected it is a little too thick, and now let’s add a little bit of water, a couple ounces, and that should get us where we want to be.
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