Mango Smoothie

Frozen mango slices
Milk
Sugar to taste

Blend until like a milkshake. You can add sugar if you want or not. You can also use skim, 1%, 2% or whole milk. All will work. The mangos from my mom's tree they used to have in FL were the very best. Now that they've moved up here with us I'll have to find someone else that has a good mango tree in FL LOL

Another reason I love my VitaMix -- cleaning a juicer is a royal PITA. :)

What about soy milk for a base? It cuts the sweet and makes a nice foundation for mango, berriees, etc.

Honestly, I don't even use a recipe. I just keep frozen fruit on hand and throw things together depending no my mood. :)

(I don't know about the chest pain part, but the salivary thing -- it's entirely possible you have a food allergy there. I know someone whose mouth itches when she eats mango.)

There are several pages of great smoothie/juice recipes on Martha's site. I started making them a couple of days ago and have been pleasantly surprised by the taste of the ones that I thought may have been gruesome (like the green juice).

Anyway, there are both blender and juicer recipes here.

Alexa

Bobby I have a "Breakfast in a Glass" recipe from the GI (low glycemic) Diet Cookbook which uses a base of soya milk along with a mixture of fruits of the forest, often found as a frozen mixture, together with 1/2 a banana etc. It covers you for protein, fruit and fibre.

I haven't tried it but here's the recipe:

Breakfast in a Glass
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16 fl oz soya milk
18 oz fresh or frozen fruits of the forest (blueberries, blackcurrants, strawberries, raspberries)
1/2 a banana
4 oz low fat natural yogurt
1 oz flaxseeds or linseeds
2 TBS sunflower seeds
1 oz whey or soy protein isolate powder (health food store)
2 TBS soy lecithin granules (optional)
sugar substitute to taste

1. Using a blender or liquidiser, whiz together the soya milk, berries, banana and yogurt until almost smooth.

2. In a spice or coffee grinder, finely grind the flaxseeds or linseeds and sunflower seeds. Add to the soya milk mixture in the blender along with the protein powder and lecithin, is using. Blend just until mixed, about 5 seconds.

Source: Rick Gallop's GI Diet Green-light Cookbook
London 2006

Sharon Cb

Sorry that should read ...
"Add to the soya milk mixture in the blender along with the protein powder and lecithin, IF using. Not IS using!

Darn typos only appear after pressing submit don't they!

SharonCb

Green Smoothie (made in my Vita-mix - not sure how it will work in other blenders)

Put Ingredients into the Vita-Mix in the following order:
1-2 cup of Green Grapes
¼ of a large Pineapple or 1/3 of a small Pineapple
One whole large Banana
Half of an Apple
4-5 cups of Spinach
2 cups of Ice

This will make 2-3 LARGE servings or 4-5 smaller (juice glass size) servings.

Blend according until the icy slushy mixture turns into a smooth liquid.

In fact I'm drinking one right now for breakfast. I use 1/4 the ingredients to make one serving. (keep the rest of the banana in the freezer)

This is my usual lunch, except in winter:
One ripe banana, one cup of plain whole-milk yogurt, one 6-ounce can of pineapple juice. Add an ice cube if you want. Blend. Drink through a straw. I don't know why the straw is necessary but it is.

My favorite (although super sweet):

Frozen blueberries, frozen strawberries, pineapple yogurt and enough OJ to cover (barely) the berries in a blender. No ice. You can get reduced sugar OJ or make OJ from concentrate (cheap!) and add more water than recommended to cut down on the sugar.

1 part frozen spinach goes into the above without altering the taste much.

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Frozen pineapple chunks and soy milk. No ice, no sugar. Blend until smooth.

Frozen strawberries and cow milk. No ice, no sugar. Blend until smooth. (My other favorite. Reminds me of Quik from when I was a kid.)

Good luck!

~Amanda

Bobby, I use the frozen fruit from Costco. Put as much as you want in the food processor add some orange juice and blend. Sometimes I'll add some fresh spinach.

I usually toss in a mix of unsweetened frozen berries (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, etc.) or peaches (from bags in the freezer case at the grocery store), a tiny bit of orange or apple juice, a small carton of lowfat yogurt, and Splenda to taste. Blend. Sometimes a frozen banana will join the mix. For added nutrition I have soy protein powder that I sometimes add.

I love smoothies with plain nonfat or lowfat yogurt, half a banana and frozen fruit, usually strawberries, raspberries, blueberries or some combination. I don't find it too sweet at all and I have diabetes and find it does great for my sugar. In fact I use less insulin when I have it for a meal. If it's too thick a little milk. Yes, I too use my hand blender and zoom away.