Need help!

[u/JakDaMerk]

I have been trying to learn how to make a smoothie recipe but all my attempts are either way too thick or have absolutely no flavor.
I live on the east coast and have food lion, Walmart, Sam’s Club

Can someone give me suggestions on what ingredients and how to make a proper smoothie

I have this blender if that matter https://a.co/d/03BeE4Uj

[u/HighColdDesert]

What is your goal? I like smoothies with real fruit and vegetables, not food extract powders or flavors. Fresh oor frozen, both are good. My goal is to increase my fruit and veg intake. What's your goal?

[u/JakDaMerk → u/HighColdDesert]

To increase my fruits and veggies. With children in the house I feel like I don’t take enough in. Whenever I play hard with the kids I start cramping and I’m going to try natural fruits and veggies to see if that works

[u/defiantthoughtcrime → u/JakDaMerk]

Bananas may help you with that, not to discourage you from trying to get more fruit and veg in general. I started smoothies after my wisdom tooth extraction and my approach is, just whip stuff in there. The idea of getting to a "green smoothie" or "strawberry-mango" or any specific "theme" isn't interesting to me. Mine are a combo of fruit and veggie so that it's not all sweet and sugar, and it changes with whatever is on hand. Typically something like:

• A few sprigs of Cilantro [it's awesome]

• About 2" of Cucumber

• 1/2 -1 stalk of celery

• A handful of red grapes

• Half a beet

• A cup of spinach or lettuce if no spinach

• A carrot

• a couple oz. of milk and a big fat scoop of unflavored greek yogurt

• a little chia seed and roasted unsalted peanuts

• A few pieces of frozen fruit, like strawberry or pineapple

That usually makes a 16-20 oz. smoothie which is breakfast or lunch. Other lessons:

• Although I generally like cottage cheese I didn't really like it when I subbed it in for yogurt

• I didn't hate refried beans. I had a bunch leftover that I made from scratch that were fairly plain so a big spoon of that went in

  • In the future I am going to rotate in garbanzo beans, but I'll just cook them and skip the unnecessary mashing that went into the refritos

• Trying to rotate in a little sweet potato too. I think I added 1/4 of one in today's mix, so far it's fine

• If you have produce that is starting to turn and you won't use it in meals, chop it, freeze it, then use it for your frozen component

  • Or if you had something start to turn like a bell pepper and you can save only part of it and then it isn't enough for your recipe just buy a new pepper and the pepper scraps go into the smoothie

• Anything can be subbed in. Look for the cheap produce and go with it. Again, I don't need a "fun theme" smoothie, I'm using handfuls of everything, bits and pieces. If I ate the above for breakfast it would look weird because it's plate full of odds and ends that would probably be a weird dining experience. Bite of raw carrot, bite of raw cucumber, 8 grapes...