[Giovonny]

(06-06-2012 04:46 PM)PartyonBro Wrote:  

How much does one shake end up costing you in food costs? I get mine at whole foods for about $5...kind of worth it when you factor having to clean up, etc.

I've done this comparison. Making it at home is much cheaper. For $5 I can buy 2 pounds of carrots, a pound of broccoli, and a pound of apples.

This is organic and fresh squeezed.

The juice you buy at Whole foods...Is it organic? How long has it been sitting on the shelf in that plastic container?

My cleanup is about 3 minutes. But, I have a great system.

[kosko]

A blender gives you the fiber and the skin, fiber helps slow the sugar rush if your using tons of fruit and there are still nutrients in the skin also. Juicers IMO you approach differently since your using it strictly to get nutrients in you as quick as possible. Stuff like wheat grass, celery, carrots, beets, even stuff like watermelon (flesh and rind), you juice those and you will get a hit in the chin of nutrients. I'd never throw celery or cucumbers into a smoothie but I would for sure juice them.

In a perfect world I'd have both.

[Drazen]

(06-06-2012 05:23 PM)Giovonny Wrote:  

(06-06-2012 04:46 PM)PartyonBro Wrote:  

How much does one shake end up costing you in food costs? I get mine at whole foods for about $5...kind of worth it when you factor having to clean up, etc.

I've done this comparison. Making it at home is much cheaper. For $5 I can buy 2 pounds of carrots, a pound of broccoli, and a pound of apples.

This is organic and fresh squeezed.

The juice you buy at Whole foods...Is it organic? How long has it been sitting on the shelf in that plastic container?

My cleanup is about 3 minutes. But, I have a great system.

whole foods has a fresh juice bar. i had one with bananas, coconut water, kale and i believe bananas...$4.99. I mean, blueberries are expensive and they put a bunch in there.

[kosko]

Alfalfa sprouts will give you 8-ropers. Throw that into your Green shakes fellas and drown lizards. Half a basic package each day, do this for 5 days. Nothing else I have found (so far) has flooded my nut sack like a storm chanell in such a short amount of time.

You on Alfalfa Sprouts:

[Gixxermuscle]

From the misc.

Dude puts kelp in it. Anyone try seaweed?

[fortysix]

Hey guys, I know this is an old topic but I ran across something online which was a little worrying - apparently a lot of the greens in these green shakes have high levels of oxalates which could be devastating to your health. Spinach seems to have the highest level of oxalates, and should probably for that reason be avoided.

Stick to kale.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/482281...ney-risks/
http://www.pkdiet.com/pages/herbs/food/spinach.htm

[hypesession]

Helps to have a Vitamix (blender with dildo attachment), but I use a regular old blender and just beat the shit out of it.
I do a shake every now again. Kale, milk, water, cuke, ginger, pears/apples banana.
You can add whatever you want to it: peanut butter, spices etc. Choke it down. I add a little sugar to it usually bc I'm a sugar addict and more often than not it tastes awful. If I had it I would use agave, or honey. I use sugar.

After that I eat whatever I want, bacon beef, pork, whatever.

Btw. Highly recommend The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast, for whenever you're bored he does a three hour podcast talking about random topics while stoned.

You guys have to try this. Have you ever attempted to eat kale leafs?? Fuck that. It's awesome that all you have to do it wash and throw it in a blender and choke that shit down like a man

[BIGINJAPAN]

Wanted to get my first out of the way and this is the perfect topic for me.

All these shake recipes sound good. But everyone is missing the most important ingredient. One of God's gift to the planet and that would be organic EGGS. I have 6 raw ones in my shake every morning and usually throw back another 6 on their own in the evening. You get a complete protein chain by eating your eggs raw. Pretty much anything cooked over 115 degress destroys the protein chains and enzymes. So in order to keep everything intact and reap the benefits of a whole egg, I just eat them raw now. I have been doing that for a few years and you will notice a change almost instantly. Eating raw eggs will help increase your testosterone naturally due to the abundance of HDL or good cholesterol. The healthy fats will make you feel fuller and can go longer without another meal.

I only recommend you do this with free run, vegetarian fed chickens. I have never once got sick from eating eggs raw. Used to as a child as well growing up on the farm. But with todays " farmers " and big business, salmonella is very prevelant in regular eggs due to the stress of the chickens and of course the diet coupled with antibiotics.

One more thing some of you guys should be careful with is the amount of fruit you use. If you want to lean up and stay full longer stay away from the fruits that are higher in sugars. Like bananas and apples. If you have to use fruit then make it a mix of berries. Raspberry and strawberry are very low on the glycemic index compared to most fruits and blueberrys are a not to far behind. Plus they have the most antioxidants I believe out of all fruits. Be sure to get the frozen unsweetened ones. They are generally fresher because they are frozen right after being picked.

Also fruits have the ability because of the type of sugar in them to make you store fat. Unlike chocolate bars and donuts which you have a small window to go work them off before your body starts storing them as fat, sugars from fruit do not give your body that opportunity to be burnt off. They are stored as fat immediately.

[babelfish669]

Since this thread got bumped,

Add frozen pineapple to your green smoothies. It will offset much or all of the bitterness. If the smoothie tastes or smells bad you've just put the wrong mixture of stuff in it.