Smoothie for the car ride to the train station

Tahini milk
Restorative, and balancing for nerves and stomach
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Two spoons of unhulled tahini (calcium)
2 cups of water
2 tsps of slippery elm powder (good for soothing stomach acid and the esophageal world)
2 spoons of maca powder (adrenals)
2 spoons of lucuma powder (lucuma is often part of celebrations and banquet settings because of its distinct and fragrant flavor)

Today im having a day of smoothies

Without dogma but its what I feel like

so far

- 11.40am 

1 spoon almond butter

1 spoon tahini

1 banana

small handful raisins

1 tsp slippery elm powder

1 glass of water

--1 spoon of apple cider vinegar in a glass of water

- 9.06am

mango fennel mint smoothie (see below)

--1 spoon of apple cider vinegar in a glass of water

- 7.53am

1 cup of strong and hot dandelion coffee 

blended with 

1 spoon of maca 

1 spoon of slippery elm powder

Buck porri!

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Cooked buckwheat with 1 tbs coconut oil, pink salt and good spoon of maca powder (mixedthrough at the end of cooking)

topped with grated fuji apple, a dusting of organic desiccated coconut and a dash of coconut kefir

Post run

Today I started training again. After a foot injury and a few other momentum distractors it was really wonderful to go for s proper run. Before I left I meditated for an hour and then read the sections on "Nutrition during and immediately after exercise" in Brendan Brazier(vegan ironman)'s book Thrive. I ran 10kms down through the parks and along the river. It's so sustaining to connect with some kind of nature on a regular basis. Below are the "recovery drink" and "whole food smoothie" I made post run.

Whole food smoothie
An hour after my run I made this smoothie (the recovery drink at the end of this post is what I drank straight afterwards)

"A liquid meal shortly after exercise is of value because the majority of the bodys blood will be bust rapidly circulating throughtout the body clearing lactic acid and other metabolic waste from the extremities and delivering nutrients...with the extra strain of digestion removed by consuming complete liquid nutrition, recovery (from exercise) will dramatically improve." (Brendan Brazier, Thrive, p120)
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2 segments of durian (my friend dumpstered amazing fresh durians imported from thailand, crazy that they get thrown out, too weird for normal people maybe? anyway the durian was able to lead a regenerated second life in my kitchen, thankyou world for the present)
2 cups of water
1 tbs unhulled tahini
1 tbs hempseed protein
1 tbs carob powder
1 tsp slippery elm
This was a really satisfying protein rich smoothie, and it tasted amazing!

Recovery drink - I made this straight after my run.

"What is consumed after the workout is vital for cellular reconstruction.. To speed recovery, the body needs simple carbohydrate to enter the blood stream - the quicker the better. This means that the post-exercise snack should contain very little fat and no fiber, since both slow the rate at which carbohydrate enters the bloodstream...as well as electrolytes lost in sweat." (Brendan Brazier, Thrive, p118)
Suggested in Brendans recipes are the use of dates, coconut water, blueberries and papaya which are all lovely but I don't have them. So I read his ideas and made my own.
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2 calendula flowers (the petals)
sprig parsely
2 cups of water
1/4 tsp pink salt
2 tsp maca (for adrenal nourishment)
1 tbs hemp oil
1 tsp wakame seaweed
1/2 large lemon
1 tsp raw honey

Green Smoothie love

The green smoothie phenomena is quickly becoming a central part of my life. Everyday I pick greens and blend them with water and whatever fruit I can find. Everyday I invent a new recipe and find out you really can eat everything that grows (almost haha).














Here are a couple of recent smoothies I really enjoyed
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24.08.10
parsley and a few leaves of cos lettuce (from garden)
a grapefruit and 2 bananas
1 cup of water
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23.08.10
fresh parsley
1 and 1/2 bananas
tablespoon each of carob powder and dessicated coconut
1 cup of water
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22.08.10
(made with Chita)
milk thistle and nettles
1 orange, stick of celery and 2 bananas
3 cups of water
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17.08.10
lots of spinach stalk and all
a small apple and half a banana,
spoon of tahini and a spoon of hemp protein
1 and 1/2 cups of water
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11.08.10
lots of chickweed!
Spoon each of hemp, cacao and carob powders
4 squishy Turkish dates
1 banana and 1/4 of an avocado
1 and 1/2 cups of water
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another version of chickweed chocolate!
04.08.10
chickweed!!
Half an avocado
1 banana and 3 strawberries
raw cacao and maca powder to taste
a tiny bit of agave of you need to balance sweetness
1 and 1/2 cups of water
(by all the exclamations you can probably see I am fond of chickweed-chocolate smoothies...)
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01.08.10
buk choy leaves
2 bananas and 3 strawberries (these were high flavoured organic strawberries so don't need many, also I don't generally use much expensive fruits in my smoothies, since the high proliferation of bananas, I buy ripe ones from the markets and keep in freezer, I do the same with avocadoes sometimes-removing skin, quartering and freezing-rationing)
spoon of maca
1 and 1/2 cups of water