Kale Smoothie with Hummus

After making hummus for my lunches this week, I several tablespoons in the bottom of the vitamix that I couldn't get at. So I decided to just incorporate the hummus into a smoothie to go with my dinner.  The smoothie with hummus undertones - pretty good!  Yet now that I see the calorie count (yikes!), I realize that the salmon, fresh corn and quinoa I made (in the solar cooker) - added up to a significant calorie intake for 1 meal!!

Put into Vitamix and blend to desired consistency:

3 Tbsp hummus
30 grapes
3 clementine oranges (peeled)
1 cup skim milk
1/4 cup non-fat yogurt
1+ cup of Kale


Rated a 4.68 on the Kale Scale.

Watermelon Smoothie

Half of a small watermelon made about 2 cups for a smoothie. The ingredients were added at random from there.

Add and blend as desired (Vitamix took less than a minute)

2 cups watermelon
1/2 cup pineapple chunks, raw
3 clementines, peeled
2 Tbsp Hemp protein powder (Bob's Red Mill)
1/4 cup yogurt, Danon Light'n'Fit vanilla
1/2 tsp nutmeg
2 tbsp hummus
2/3 cup milk
1/4 cup pomegranate juice
10 grape tomatoes
1.25 cups of kale


Rated a 4.67 on the Kale Scale.

Citrus Smoothie with Hummus

Tossing things in the vitamix to make this smoothie.  It was pretty good! 

However... I have been reading Fat Chance by Dr. Robert Lustig. Finally, a book about how bad added sugar really is!  He is offering evidence for why we have an obesity pandemic.  I highly recommend the book.

He also talks about other facets of food, including the role of fiber and how soluble fiber can’t do its job without insoluble fiber being present (which gets completely destroyed in all processed or blended food, yes blended, as in a blender, as in a vitamix).  So I won't be going full blended meals; and I'll probably still have smoothies, cause it's just so easy.

Blend

1 orange
1+ cup of Kale
3/4 cup raw pineapple
2 Tbsp hummus
5 grape tomatoes
1/2 yellow pepper

Rated a 4.51 on the Kale Scale.