{"id":41,"date":"2014-03-24T21:18:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T21:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2014-03-24T21:18:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T21:18:58","slug":"smoothie-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Smoothie Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I love smoothies and I make one nearly every day. Smoothies serve many purposes.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First you can use fruit or veg that are marginally past their best days in kitchen life. A soft banana or a slightly mushy zucchini is still worthy of inclusion in a smoothie.<\/p>\n<p>Second, you can make a smoothie out of ANYTHINK YOULIKE!\u00a0 What a concept-Absolute smoothie freedom! Here are two of my favorites:<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Fruit Smoothie Heaven<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>1 banana\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1 cup of any berries you like<\/p>\n<p>1 carton of Greek yogurt-I recommend Dannon Light and Fit 80 calorie (Mmmm!)<\/p>\n<p>5 ice cubes or 1\/2 cup vanilla fat free frozen yogurt<\/p>\n<p>a small can of pineapple bits with juice<\/p>\n<p>For liquid I like Diet Cranberry Juice by Ocean Spray\u00a0 (5 calories per 8 oz)<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, you can substitute any juice, fruit or liquid. Any suggestions from other smoothie people?<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Veggie Lovers Smoothie<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I start with 8 oz\u00a0of V8 juice. I use the reduced sodium.<\/p>\n<p>I add some chopped celery, chopped zucchini, and some broccoli. I have a friend who adds a small can of green beans, juice and all, to this but I think that is a bit much.<\/p>\n<p>_________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Both of these recipes are only the beginning. Take off from here with your smoothies. By the way, all of this goes into the bowl of a blender and you can pulse til you reach the thickness you like. Good health in a glass, for sure.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Uphill Skater<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love smoothies and I make one nearly every day. Smoothies serve many purposes. First you can use fruit or veg that are marginally past their best days in kitchen life. A soft banana or a slightly mushy zucchini is still worthy of inclusion in a smoothie. Second, you can make a smoothie out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skatinguphill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}