Image: Mia with her smoothie.
I’ve written here before how I’ve become one of those insufferable people who drinks green smoothies every day for breakfast. Every day. Even weekends. Sometimes at work in front of my colleagues.
You can read that humble brag here.
Working as I do with 60 women and sharing as I have, images of my green smuggie smoothie on social media occasionally, I’ve been fielding a lot of questions about WHAT THE HELL IS IN THAT THING.
I’m so glad you asked.
I have become quite the evangelist about my green smoothies and over the year or more I've been drinking them, I've acquired rather a large amount of knowledge about what makes them work.
It would be my great pleasure to share that knowledge with you now. Here are some important things to remember before we begin.
1. Rubber bands have no nutritional value.
I'd like to say there was this one time where I accidentally blended the rubber band holding together a bunch of kale into my smoothie. But there was more than one time. I've done this many times. Try to avoid it where possible. Sticks in your throat.
2. Ditto those little sachets of silicon that comes in the containers of dry ingredients to keep them fresh.
You know, the ones that say "DO NOT EAT" and you laugh at the stupid warning because what idiot would try to eat a tiny bag of chemical grit?
The first time I did this, I told my husband because he is the one who always reassures me when I'm freaking out about something health-related. Like last week when I kept getting numb toes when I exercised and I was worried I might have MS. He suggested my new trainers might be tied up too tight, and you know what? HE WAS RIGHT.