We all make mistakes
And I sure made a doozy of one this morning.
I started drinking “Green Monsters” at the start of the new year. I have known about them for a long time, but just never got around to putting spinach in my smoothies. Well, I’m hooked on my version of a “Classic Green Monster” now, and have been drinking one just about every morning for a couple of weeks. However, this morning I work up feeling the tiniest *start* of a cold coming on (the kids I work with have been sniffling and coughing for almost a month now!), and I wanted to try to up the vitamin content of my GM. Enter a packet of Amazing Grass Choco Superfood. In the interest of full disclosure – I have tried this before in chocolate milk, and it was very tolerable. I won’t say that I loved it or anything. But tolerable, yes. More so than I expected. However, putting the packet into my morning GM – BIG MISTAKE. It tastes just awful. I have been sipping on it all morning, off and on, trying to get it down. It tastes like I am sucking on a multi-vitamin!
I’m going to finish it. I’ll be damned if I am going to waste it – and hey, it’s part of my breakfast and I don’t have any other options now. But… blergh. I WON’T be making that mistake again.
Into the blender it goes...
Angie’s Green Monster
1 heaping TBSP of Flax Meal
1 c. 2% organic milk
2 c. baby spinach (raw, and tightly packed)
1 frozen banana
handful of ice cubes
Blend your little heart out, and drink up. It’s quite tasty. Honestly. Just leave out the Superfood.
SUCH a pretty green color!
Green Monster, on the go
Oh no!
I have not tried any Amazing Grass products, but I can
imagine! Bleck!
I know how difficult it is to drink a green monster that doesn’t taste good, I tried a few combinations in the past that tasted horrible and I almost cried drinking them.
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Yikes, such food experiences are the worst! And I’m pretty sure we’ve ALL had them! Congratulations on being brave and drinking it anyway!
I really like green smoothies and drink a lot of them. They make me feel really good. I’ve experimented with cinnamon, mint, basil, and ginger in them, and liked it a lot. Also, I make them with almond milk (dairy intolerant) instead of cow’s milk. Yours looks very good! You also seem to have a fine blender. Frozen banana is yummy, I should it more often!