Green Smoothie

The World Standard requirement for vegetables is 8-10 servings a day! My dad, Ed Fila, has spent quite a long time developing a Green Smoothie that actually tastes good! I really was surprised by the taste.

2 Cups Liquid (Water /Rice Milk /Raw Cow's Milk)
1/8 c. Sea Vegetables (see Oriental food stores or food sections, or health food stores)
1/4 of a Cucumber
1 peeled Carrot
2 cups 12 Vegetable Mix (we get this mix at Costco, it is the stir fry mix)
1 1/2 cups fresh Spinach
1 Stalk Celery (put in more celery to lower blood pressure)
4 or more ice cubes
1/4 tsp. fresh ginger.
1/4 tsp. Stevia powder, or 1/4 cup agave nectar, or other healthy sweetener
1/4 tsp. Cinnamon (this helps keep insulin levels low)

Optional:
1 tsp. Amaranth, Quinoa, or other high protein grain
1 Tbspn. Oat Bran (helps lowers cholesterol)
1 Tblspn Flax Seed


Put all ingredients in a powerful blender with a ramming rod and blend until smooth.
Enjoy!

Further Notes: To migrate from the Fruit Smoothie (beginning) to the Vegetable Smoothie (advanced), taste buds need to be exposed to a new food at least 7 times to accept it. Therefore, you can put a small amount of vegetables in you fruit smoothie, increasing the amount of vegetables over time. Eventually the goal is to eat an all vegetables smoothie in the morning.

To lose weight: Only use uncooked grains, and increase oat, wheat, or rice bran intake.

For Diabetes: if a person can work up to having 70 grams of fiber a day, it can significantly reduce (or even eliminate) diabetes. Therefore, fiber is obviously very important for diabetes. Increasing the grains and flax will help with this.


Hope you enjoy this!