Smoothie Challenge

I enjoyed this last smoothie and did make some changes in the previous smoothies too. I am pre diabetic and have high cholesterol so I’m trying to avoid the super sugary fruits like bananas and in this last smoothie recipe you said to swap it with frozen cauliflower, what a great idea!!!! You are right, the taste of it is pretty inexistent.. loved this idea!!!

I do smoothies daily and using ginger and turmeric in every single smoothie (love ginger) unfortunately at times the taste of ginger is prevalent to everything I use.

I loved this challenge because I learned how to mix, swap ingredients as my liking and healthier to my needs.

I read someone said it would be nice to have the challenge for be 2 weeks and I completely agree!!

Thank you for helping me make my smoothies healthier and interesting.

Joined to jumpstart better eating habits this year. I’m obsessed!!! These smoothies are just the thing to get me going everyday.

I liked the opportunity to try so many new smoothies recipes. I really liked 6 out of 7 recipes. It give me confidence and ideas to help make new recipes and combinations of ingredients to make delicious smoothies apart of my diet regularly. Thank you !

Always looking for ways to improve my daily smoothies.

I joined the challenge to renew my confidence in making smoothies. I was a green smoothie junkie about 13 years ago. We were an army family and I was on a weight loss and health renewal journey. Since my husband retired from the army, we’ve moved a few times, adjusted to civilian life and raised our kids. AND gotten older lol! I needed a kickstart to revitalize my health and ease my creaky joints. I enjoyed the recipes during the challenge. The PDF was very helpful, so thank you! I did add pea protein, chia seeds and sometimes oats to my smoothies depending on my needs for the day. I slept better and deeper overall, and felt refreshed when I woke up the next day. I didn’t lose any weight but I did have a lot less bloating. I plan to repeat the challenge this week and add an additional green smoothie each day. Thank you and your team for putting this even together. It has been a great experience!

Love having a smoothie every day. The recipes were great, easy and delicious.

Love the challenge

I joined to try the smoothie recipes that give me alternatives for healthier eating. I enjoyed making all the recipes and only the honey turmeric smoothie was not for me, although with some tweaks it could be. I will work on the tweaks. I lost 4 pounds over the week so hoping I keep it off by rotating smoothies into my regular daily eating. I’m glad you added the PDF for the grocery list. I didn’t try any of the challenge deals (not that I didn’t like them, just didn’t get to take advantage of them), but with having the flu this week I don’t recall them, but you probably mentioned them at the pre-challenge workshop. I didn’t read many emails this week, so I may have missed that info if it was in an email. My inbox was inundated with emails every time someone posted a comment so I will have to figure out how to turn that off for future challenges as I miss finding other emails in the long list of smoothie challenge comments, which I just log in and read the comments on the website anyway. I really enjoyed the week, loved all the pics everyone posted. Maybe I will win a Vitamix one day that also has the option for the food processor bowl. I would love to get rid of my old food processor! I’m hoping you will do a soup challenge, which would be a great winter challenge as I eat more soup in the winter as a warm up. Thanks for a great week!

I really enjoyed making the different types of smoothies. And now I have more recipes to follow. All of the smoothie recipes are very healthy and are a good way to start the day. Surprisingly I have been sleeping better which is an added bonus.

The BEST part of this happened Wednesday when I picked up my library hold —Jen’s cookbook! My old boss (I retired from there) said he was thrilled when he pulled the book (which I’ll buy now to have forever) for me because for 10 years my smoothies at work were notoriously awful-tasting (I’d put ANYTHING in lol) and was so happy I’d have delicious ones! Man he was right. I’ve been texting him pictures of the week’s smoothies! I think I saw the challenge on Facebook and jumped onto it. It’s changed my whole smoothie game and I am enormously grateful. THANK YOU

Almost anything thing that says the word “challenge” I’m all in. I liked the variety of recipes. I have been satiated w the smoothies. The amount they make is perfect? I would make them more seasonal like autumn/winter and spring/summer.

I like all the recipes except the leman smoothie. Next time I will reduce the amount of lemon used

I joined because I am always looking for ways to eat better without complicated recipes that will help reduce my joint pain (I’ve had arthritis since childhood and it really has affected my elbows strength & range of motion) lose weight (a 20 lb challenge) and increase my energy/motivation to include daily “exercise”. The recipes were well presented with so many suggestions to adapt them to personal tastes. I really enjoyed hearing how everyone else made them too. I loved how easy you made it to prep with the lists & video! I’m really proud of myself for sticking with the program! If I changed anything it would be perhaps to reduce the fruit and increase the veggies (veggies spoil the pretty colors sometimes). I’m sure you’ve heard it before but you RAWK!😊💪🏻

I wanted to try some new smoothie combinations. I would rather use your tried and true recipes than experiment on my own and get a yucky result! I learned new stuff and will use some of the ingredients in my future blending. This challenge came at a good time for me as I had some healing to do from a skin cancer surgery. I’m hoping it will help speed my new skin growth! I can’t think of anything that you would need to change. You cover it all! I enjoy the encouragement and support you offer. I enjoy seeing the pictures and posts from the other participants. You make it easy and all we have to do is put in a little effort to make the recipes. It’s a great plan!! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and passions!

It was great because it got me comfortable with having breakfast again and making it healthy. I did it with my daughter and it was fun doing this together and making her have veggies in the morning. I wouldn’t change anything. I loved the ingredients. I just need to be careful not to add to much ginger next time haha. It was a good burn on the throat 😁

Joint this challenge has given me the incentive to get back on track with smoothies in my diet. I really liked the variety in the smoothies, very different from what I’ve previously made.

I have smoothies pretty regularly but after having done the Plant-Based Cleanse with you before I wanted to try yet more new and exciting recipes. And the challenge fulfilled that! Like I’ve been trying to get turmeric into my smoothies and this week there were two recipes with turmeric so now I have new ideas. I loved seeing how others swapped and added items. And I loved sharing with everyone and seeing their photos! I feel great and I’m very proud of myself for making through the entire 7 days!! With life and work that can be hard to do!!! Thank you for the awesome challenge!

I joined because I got a Vitamix for Christmas and wanted to learn some new recipes to use in it. I loved the recipes. There are several that are now my top favorite recipes to make. And even the ones that I wasn’t a fan of I’m glad I tried because it got me out of my normal flavor profiles I always stick too and helped me expand my thoughts on what can go in a smoothie. I noticed I felt better ate better and lost 4 pounds in the week that I did this challenge. There isn’t anything I’d suggest changing. Well except maybe making it longer. I’d totally do this for 2 weeks!

I wanted to get back to smoothies and liked being a part of a group for accountability. Also wanted to try some new recipes, so I followed the week’s recipes exactly. Thanks!

It went really well. I enjoyed getting up and making a new smoothie each morning. I loved all the different flavors of the smoothies as well. Thanks for all your hard work to make this fun and delicious for us! Keep up the good work 😍