Part of my new and improved diet are mega-nutritious smoothies for breakfast - with one surprise ingredient: avocados. The basic idea for this is not from the Endometriosis cookbook, but from a different book (the somewhat lamely entitled but informative "Spent - How to Overcome Exhaustion and Feel Great Again" by Frank Lippman) - but the recipes are all endo-safe and I love them and make them in endless variations. Each of these smoothies contains different kinds of fruit, fresh squeezed lemon juice, some hemp oil, protein powder or flax seed meal, green food powder and either coconut water or orange juice or aloe vera juice or a combination - plus 1/2 an avocado for the healthy fat and creamy texture.
This was one of the very first ones I made, and it doesn't have any extra fruit, just avocado and coconut - kind of like my avocado-coconut ice cream from a year ago, but with all the added powdered superfoods and protein
avocado-blueberry smoothie
avocado-blueberry smoothie on a rainy day
avocado-honeydew-kiwi smoothie
mango-coconut-smoothie (ok, no avocado in this one, the next batch isn't ripe yet)
raspberry-cantaloupe-banana smoothie with red superfood powder (goji, noni, pomegranate etc)
this was yesterday's pineapple-banana smoothie with hemp seeds (no avocado)
and this was this morning's pineapple-peach-avocado smoothie, again with hemp seeds. Looking a little chunky because our blender is so loud and our walls so painfully thin and our neighbors so cantankerous that I'm terrified of causing them grief at 8am in the morning. So I blend for a maximum of like 12 seconds, holding my breath. The weekends, when we get up later, are a different story, hence creamier smoothies on Saturdays and Sundays...
1 comment:
Avocados are useful in so many different recipes.
And healthful.
And delicious!
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