Is this the equivalent of eating a salad?

[Anonymous]

If you are doing it for the nutrients, why not just take a multi-vitamin? I'm impressed that you are willing to eat that soup even though you do not like it.

[Anonymous]

Molasses is the best way to get iron in your diet without meat. So is eating Grape Nuts or Raisin Bran.

[Anonymous]

You could check out something like The Sneaky Chef where vegetables are "hidden" in other dishes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:fruit has too much sugar for losing weight

Now that is just idiotic.

Pureeing the veggies shouldn't take any nutrition away. Green smoothies are a big thing, and you are doing a variation on that.
Do you eat any cooked vegetables? Salad isn't a necessity.

fruit have a lot of sugar most diets recommend nothing with sugar and to drink tea with stevia or spenda

[Anonymous]

This is an older thread but I am interested as well. Have never loved veggies (trying to eat them more in last year) but a green smoothie seems really healthy. Just curious as to why posters seem to be steering OP away from her green smoothie? Surely cooking "hidden" veggies in other foods and eating dried fruit won't give her the nutritional benefit of a big ol' handful of the green stuff.

[Anonymous]

Actually, what you're doing is BETTER than eating a salad because you are ingesting a larger volume of vegetables when they are pureed than you would eating a salad AND you are breaking them down making all the vitamins and nutrients more easy to absorb in your body. Pureeing in different than juicing, so you are actually keeping all the fiber in what you eat. As long as you're not adding any processed sugars or ingredients to your smoothies, this is a great way to ingest vegetables!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:fruit has too much sugar for losing weight

Now that is just idiotic.

Pureeing the veggies shouldn't take any nutrition away. Green smoothies are a big thing, and you are doing a variation on that.
Do you eat any cooked vegetables? Salad isn't a necessity.

fruit have a lot of sugar most diets recommend nothing with sugar and to drink tea with stevia or spenda

She's NOT ON A DIET. Jees. Op, sounds good and natural. Good for you. I hope you get to the point where you like it more! Me, I love friut and it's very healthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
fruit has too much sugar for losing weight

Now that is just idiotic.

Pureeing the veggies shouldn't take any nutrition away. Green smoothies are a big thing, and you are doing a variation on that.
Do you eat any cooked vegetables? Salad isn't a necessity.


fruit have a lot of sugar most diets recommend nothing with sugar and to drink tea with stevia or spenda


She's NOT ON A DIET. Jees. Op, sounds good and natural. Good for you. I hope you get to the point where you like it more! Me, I love friut and it's very healthy.

Funny I have been eating a big bowl of fruit in the morning and before dinner. I have lose a lot of weight. I was just trying to eat better. It just fills me up and I eat a lot less throughout the day. Feel great, also!

[Anonymous]

Gazpacho are a great way of doing this, just drop the bread out of the recipe.

[Anonymous]

Something that makes me eat 10x more veggies- cut the veggies up and steam or microwave them. Put the pasta, meat or whatever you were eating for dinner over the veggies.

Works well with cauliflower, spinach, broccoli.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So I hate eating vegetables and salad in general. I know I need to eat vegetables for health reasons. I started mixing:
handful of baby spinach, long kale leaf, half a carrot, 2 broccoli pieces with 4 or so chunks of pineapple and a handfull of blueberries in the cuisinart food processor so it essentially purees into a thick soup. Then I have been eating the soup. I do not enjoy it but I find it doable versus eating a salad which disgusts me. So my question is what are the draw backs? will I still get all the fiber, vitamins, antioxidants, nutrients by processing the food into a puree then eating it? I am a healthy weight -- 5'7" and 135lbs. I eat lots of processed foods and carbohydrates... pasta, bread, cheese, chips etc. and I am trying to do this to get a bit healthier.

I used to love eating vegetables and salad when I was younger, but now I don't have the patience for them, meaning I kind prefer eating foods that jus fill me up fast w/o a lot of effort (protein, carbs). Veggies and salad take too much preparing and chewing time, and they don't provide that burst of fuel for energy that I am looking for (I'm not a foodie, I eat to live, not live to eat).

What has helped me is to eat vegetable raw, without cutting them up. I eat min cucumbers, mini carrot, peas in the pod, I eat them like snacks.

[Anonymous]

If it works for you, go for it. It is definitely better than nothing and your body will thank you.

[Anonymous]

I would add some kind of fat to the mix (or eat it with a meal that includes some fat). Lost of vitamins are fat soluble and need to be ingested with fat to be absorbed by your body.

This could be a pat of butter, a spoon of coconut oil, some full fat milk or yogurt, coconut milk from a can, some avocado, or a handful of nuts.

There is an issue with eating a lot of raw spinach and kale that it can be hard on the thyroid. I think green smoothies are fine to have sometimes, but if its close to every day, you might want to look into this. You might be better off eating those healthy veggies cooked.