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How to Get the Healthy Smoothie Habit
Just imagine if you could eat healthy food every day without ever having to think about it. You just do it.
I bet you eat the same thing for breakfast every day. So why not get into the habit of making that thing the healthiest it can be!?
A lot of folks are struggling to get the minimum 5-a-day, so how would you like to get three and a half just for breakfast and do it in a quick and delicious way!?
You can’t get much better than a well designed smoothie
- Only minutes to make
- Packed full of healthy nutrients
- Delicious
- Helps you to eat foods you wouldn’t normally eat but that are really good for you (like berries)
If there’s one absolute certainty in nutrition it’s that we should all be eating a lot more fruit and veg. So a healthy fruit smoothie or a green smoothie gets your day off to a fantastic start. There’s lots of variations on the smoothie theme but here’s how I do it, every single day…
How to do it
First, make sure you’re kitted out;
Measuring jug (mine holds 1 liter—about 4 cups) and hand blender (or “big” blender or smoothie maker), digital scales (optional).
- Chop a banana, apple, or pear into the jug, put the jug on the scale
- Weigh out 160g (6oz) of fresh or frozen berries. Reset the scale (tare)
- Weigh out 14g (0.5oz) of protein powder. Reset scale
- Add 30-40g (1 to 1.5oz) of ready prepared green salad leaves. Reset scale
- Add 270g (9.5oz) of semi-skimmed (2% fat) milk or milk substitute such as soy/soya, rice or nut milks
- Weigh out 10g (0.35oz) of nuts or seeds to go with (not in) your smoothie
- Blend to the consistency you like
- Rinse the hand blender straight away
- Drink it straight out of the jug, whilst making “mmmmm” sounds. Take at least 10 minutes to enjoy it slowly (I tidy up whilst having the occasional sip)
Variations
There are many variations you can do like adding yogurt (makes it nice and creamy), using different fruit blends, even adding little seed sprouts to boost the nutrition even further. If I’ve got some alfalfa sprouts in say, I’ll stick them in with the greens. Another great one is to add celery if you’ve got no greens. Yum! I love celery in a smoothie — it’s a taste sensation!
So, once you have the basic blend above, you just vary it depending on what you’ve got. I’ve never had a smoothie I didn’t enjoy. My favorite is probably plain mango and banana with soy milk. Absolutely delicious and tastes just like custard!! But better! :-)
Easy for weight loss too!
I’ve included the weighing out instructions there for those wanting to lose weight (the above “recipe” is roughly 350 calories — and “roughly” is about as accurate as you need in the Habit Guide system).
Folks huff and puff about weighing stuff out but you stick a plate or a jug on a scale and put food on it. What’s so hard about that? It’s only a pain in the butt if every day is different but if every day has the same structure, it’s like shelling peas — child’s play!
Making your diet a no-brainer is one of the major strategies for successful weight loss and Habit Guide contains many more of those gems to make weight loss as easy and effective as possible.
So, the smoothie takes very good care of breakfast and if you want to learn how to make all your meals and snacks as simple, delicious and healthy as possible, then it’s all in Habit Guide. And you can be sure it’s not going to put you on some weird or anti-social type diet. It’s just good healthy, simple and tasty food that’s easy to make.
Don’t stress it
Seriously, who wants to be stressing about health or weight all the time or struggling to find something to have for dinner? Make good nutrition a no-brainer and get on with living we say!
Believe me, once you start to apply these ideas to your whole day, and you add in the other simple lifestyle factors in Habit Guide, you’re going to see your health and happiness levels climbing up, up and awaaaaaay!
All the best,
Mike Kinnaird
Habit Guide: How to be Happy & Healthy
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I love fruit smoothies! That is all :-)