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Green Smoothie with Fresh Fruit and Vegetables


I picked some lettuce from the garden today and some green onions (along with an egg that one of the chickens laid in the garden...)  The lettuce is abundant. This is the salad season for sure but you can only eat so many salads so I discovered a new recipe so I can eat lettuce for breakfast, too.  It's a green smoothie.  Perfect.  Here's the recipe-


Green Smoothie

1 bag of freshly picked, organic leaf lettuce
3  stalks of celery
2 medium apples, cored and chopped
1 banana
juice of 1 lemon
1-1/2 cups of coconut water
a few ice cubes


1.  Put all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.  


This recipe has 395 calories, 14 grams of fiber, with a whopping 2,500mg potassium!  When you consider the recommended daily intake for potassium is 4,700 mg, this is a good way to start out the day.  (A banana has 400 mg)  The trick is using coconut water, which is a very popular item in stores right now.  According to the Nutrition Facts label on coconut milk, a serving is 8.5 oz which has 45 calories and 515 mg potassium.  Coconut water tastes good plain but its perfect for a smoothie.   Not as sweet as juice and less calories but still a nice flavor.  I actually drank the whole 24 ounces, too.  I think I'm going to make these more often with all the lettuce we have around here.  Try it, you'll like it!
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  1. Ginger's KeeperJune 24, 2011 at 5:41 PM

    How did you think of this? Looks interesting. We just ate our last bunch of lettuce from the garden today, so no more fresh salads for awhile!

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