Green Smoothie - "Weeds in the Garden"

3 bunches red dandelion greens
4 leaves rainbow chard
1 small juicing orange
~3 oz mango frozen
~3 oz peaches frozen
~2 oz strawberries frozen
Dulse
3 T ground chia seeds

I called this Weeds in the Garden because I got the chard from my garden and dandelion greens are considered a weed. A very nutritious weed. Kind of funny that I bought the weeds from the store. I'm going to look into growing dandelions. Easy of course, but I don't want them to take over my whole garden.

This was very green tasting so probably not for the uninitiated.

I found a conjoined twin chard in the garden!

Green Smoothie - "OGP"

4 bunches dandelion greens
1/4 cantaloupe
~4 oz peaches frozen
Dulse

I couldn't figure out why I called this OGP. After an embarrassing amount of time, I realized it's Orange Green Purple!

I made this when I first started using dandelion greens. I made them the only greens in this smoothie because I wanted to get a good idea of their flavor (in a smoothie). They kind of taste like a mix between wheat grass and swiss chard.

Green Smoothie - "Frozen Blue"

3 leaves rainbow chard

2 large handfuls baby spinach

1/2 cucumber (not pictured)

1 small handful mango frozen

1 small handful pineapple frozen

1 small handful peaches frozen

1 large handful blueberries frozen

Handful raw pumpkin seeds

Ice 

Water

When I made this (a long time ago--I can tell by the plastic straw and the poor picture quality), I had a lot of partially used bags of frozen fruit. I decided to use it all up and not let the fruit get that frosty again. Because a lot of the ingredients were frozen, the blender had a hard time mixing it up. I didn't want it to be too watered down so I added the cucumber. Cucumbers and watermelon are great ways to add liquid to a smoothie without that weird watered-down taste.

Green Smoothie - "Peaches 'n Greens"

2 large handfuls baby spinach

2 leaves beet greens

1 thin slice watermelon

10 slices frozen peaches

Handful raw sunflower seeds

Ice

Water

Less watermelon and more peaches would have made this taste more peachy but I needed to use up this watermelon--the thing was huge!

Don't be fooled by the "before" pic--there are a lot more greens than it appears.

I added the seeds at the very end so there would be some chunky bits to chew on. It's a good thing to "chew" your smoothie to get the digestive process started. Chewing causes saliva production to increase and that's the first step of digestion.