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Posted 3/27/2014 6:05 PM (GMT 0)
What is a great green smoothie ? This is what I was drinking before I found out about Lyme. I love it. However, It is not low carb.

  • 1 cup frozen green grapes
  • 1/2 cup pineapple chunks
  • 1/2 ripe banana
  • 2 cups fresh spinach

    • Please let me know if you have a good green smoothie. tongue

    Posted 3/27/2014 8:03 PM (GMT 0)
    You could add in kale, take out the grapes and banana. Grapes are high in sugar and so are bananas, as well as high in carbs. Dandelion greens (found in a natural food type store) are really great as well as fresh cilantro. You could keep the pineapple. I eat a lot of pineapple because of the bromelaine (sp?) in it which is supposed to be good for Lyme.

    I also recently found out that green apples are much lower in sugar than red apples. I never knew that! Maybe some pieces of a green apple?

    I juice mostly though, not smoothies. If you wanted to juice, I would have a lot more recipes!
    Posted 3/27/2014 9:35 PM (GMT 0)
    Sorry to sound so dumb, but what is the difference between juice and smoothie. I guess I always thought to make it smoother I just added the frozen fruit.

    I also forgot to mention I add in Whey power as well. I will take out the banana and grapes and try to add the kale.

    I would love to have some of you juice recipes if you don't mind. turn

    Posted 3/27/2014 11:05 PM (GMT 0)
    Juice is made by putting the plants through a juicer and it separates the pulp from the juice, so you just get the juice. A smoothie is made in a blender, where everything is chopped up in a blender and you consume all of it. Make sense?

    Collards are another green you could add to your smoothie. I had a kale and red cabbage smoothie yesterday, but maybe not the best choice for my thyroid being off some.

    Ellion, I just learned the same about green apples recently.
    Posted 3/28/2014 1:04 AM (GMT 0)
    Since I Read about Not being able to eat fruits I usually grab two handfuls of spinach, 1 sugar free activia, a cup of almond milk and a scoop of whey powder...and few walnut some Chua seeds or ground flax and a little water. I blend it up in the nutra bullet. Tastes ok...and no fruit other t Han the tiny bit that's in the activia. Sometimes I get sick of them and just open up the hatch and down it like I used to do the raw eggs when I was a younger lad
    Posted 3/28/2014 9:46 AM (GMT 0)
    I do Kale, romaine, green apple, lemon, tumeric, ginger, bee pollen, spirulina, manuka honey, dates and coconut oil and filtered water.

    There is this one from a book I have:
    Kale, coconut meat, coconut water, lemongrass, pineapple.
    Posted 3/28/2014 2:59 PM (GMT 0)
    Watch the ground flax seed - it will interfere with the thyroid function.

    Bananas can also increase inflammation for many. Considering Lyme is an inflammatory disease, anything that creates more inflammation should be avoided.

    For my green smoothies, I used 1/2 cup of Greek yogurt (more probiotic action, like Activia) a fistful of spinach (greens for nutrition), 1/4 cup of cilantro, 1/4 cup of parsley (both for their detoxing power) and as many blackberries as I needed to make it taste okay (LOL!) The berries are just healthy and you can use blueberries for their antioxidant powers (I just don't like blueberries).

    I used this recipe for months because of my leaky gut issues before I was healed, and was quite pleased with the results.
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