Seven Days of GREEEEEEN

I've taken on the challenge set by Jen of Peanut Butter Runner!  Here it is: once a day for seven days, make and consume a green smoothie!  I had seen one of these before and tried it and thought it was absolutely terrible!  But I kept looking into it and found some awesome recipes!!  I'll post the ones I use and give you more links to other recipes!  Comment if you want to join the challenge!  I'm a little late, but I'm going to go ahead with seven days anyway!

For day one, I used a recipe from Raw Family's video 15 Green Smoothies in 3 Minutes.  This is the link to the video and all the recipes: video and recipes.  I used #13 this morning since I had all of the ingredients!  Here was my adventure:

First I decided to blend my spinach leaves first.  Last time, I blended them with everything else and they got stringy.. >.<  So I took 1/4 pound of blanched frozen spinach (from our garden last summer!) and blended it with about 1/2 cup of water.

Next, I put it into a big blender and added another 1/2 cup of water, 1 cup frozen blueberries, one orange, and 3 cubes of ice..

(I used Heirloom Premium oranges because they were on sale at Coborn's ;)

They look the same color as grapefruit, almost!)

After a good long blending, this is how it looked when all was said and done.
Not exactly the most beautiful color (my mom said the color was yucky) but the smoothie was awesome!  I'm so excited to try another recipe tomorrow!!

1/4 pound spinach

1 cup water

1 cup blueberries

1 orange

3 ice cubes

For supper my mother made the most excellent salad!  Two summers ago, I basically lived at my best friend's - Kt's - house.  I worked on her organic farm.  For lunch almost every day, they had this summer salad.  This is the original recipe:

Canned chicken

Spinblend Salad dressing

Green grapes

Shell macaroni

My genius mother modified it to make it uber healthy:

Cooked chicken (from back and wings)

Red graped

Shell macaroni

Unsweetened plain yogurt

White wine vinegar

Dill

Crushed fresh garlic

Lemon Pepper

Basil

Salt

A much happier, healthier version of a great summer salad :)