Green Smoothie Challenge

I joined the challenge because I love a challenge and I love smoothies. This way I was sure I would be motivated to have one every day and be excited to try some fun new recipes. The recipes were delicious!! They were so satisfying I was full for hours. I have felt so clear headed and energized. I don’t wake up groggy I don’t need coffee anymore and my skin looks more radiant. I’m so proud I rated and commented on every smoothie because I’m normally not a person to post my thoughts but I was so excited about the smoothies!! I plan to keep it going. WooHoo!!!

Grateful for the supportive community counting on me to blend a healthy treat everyday kale yeah!

Joined the challenge to experience for myself the benefits from incorporating at least one green smoothie into my diet a day. The recipes were tasty and delicious. Each day, I looked forward to waking up to check my email for the new smoothie recipe. I noticed, skin, hair and nails improved. I felt less food cravings, less snacking, fuller, and more energetic; and I had an incredible sense of pride that grew stronger each day simply because I stayed committed.

Loved the simple, nutritious recipes. Filled my son and me full of energy! Thank you so much.

I joined the challenge to try more recipes. They all were fantastic! What surprised me is how much I learned about adding different ingredients and the many flavors they produce. I could taste specific ingredients. I am finding that fruits and vegies are so flavorful. One day, my husband made a scrambled egg for me along side the smoothie. It tasted quite bland compared to the smoothie 🙂 With the smoothies for breakfast, I feel full, but not bloated. And I start something afterward and have more energy to finish it. I just keep working 🙂 I have decided to have Green Smoothies most mornings for breakfast! What fun!

I really liked this. The ingredients were so easy and this motivated me to make the smoothies.

I joined the challenge because I needed to get back into drinking green smoothies on a regular basis. I loved drinking all the green smoothies. Most are ones I will blend over and over again. Only 1 of them was not enjoyable to me, but all the others were fantastic. I feel great knowing I put good stuff in my body these last 7 days. I am proud of myself for sticking to it and drinking all the smoothies. I loved seeing the pictures of other participants on the challenge page. It seemed more personal this time. I always enjoy seeing the others smoothies and their comments about each smoothie. I love the tips and hints. I have been inspired to make a green smoothie part of my everyday routine. Rawk on all.

I took the challenge to find some new green smoothie recipes and because it’s an easy and quick way to get my greens in for the day. Here is how I would rank this week’s selection of smoothies (best to not as good): #1 Detox Smoothie – Best one of the week! (used all spinach and no kale as I had no kale available) #2 Kale Smoothie – it was my favorite until I had the detox smoothie (had to use spinach as there was no kale available) #3 Island Green Smoothie – this was good, and I will do this one again (I also used pureed grapes instead of the coconut water and added oats and almonds to make it a meal replacement) #4 Avocado Banana Smoothie – this was good too (however, didn’t use avocado because I don’t like it – used peaches instead + 1/2 water and 1/2 pureed grapes because I had those available) #5 Best Green Smoothie – this one was ok but nothing special (I guess it’s basically the detox smoothie with added banana – guess I don’t care for the banana in it because I really liked the detox smoothie?) #6 Green Apple Smoothie – it was ok but thin and foamy?? (that may be because I used peaches instead of avocado, which I don’t like – may try it again using mango instead of the avocado which may make it thicker?) #7 Strawberry Mango Smoothie – least favorite and sort of boring (I had been looking forward to this one because I love strawberries but perhaps my organic frozen strawberries were too old and therefore tasteless? may have to try this again with better strawberries?) Overall, the smoothies were good – I’ve had ones that were barely drinkable, but these were all tolerable, or good, or great. I didn’t really notice any changes because I am WFPB anyway and often do smoothies for breakfast. I think I’m most proud of myself for drinking the Fat Burning Smoothie for Weight Loss every day at lunch (after having one of the “challenge” smoothies at breakfast). The reason for this is because I don’t really care for grapefruit so that was a bit strong – but I drank one every day along with this challenge. Thanks for including that recipe on your website. Thanks so much for putting this together!!! Loved having the grocery list too. Also, thanks for checking in everyday! That was very helpful to keep up the motivation and to be able to read everyone else’s comments (and adjustments – some great idea)

This green smoothie challenge was fantastic – I loved learning how to incorporate healthy ingredients and greens into my smoothies! I was excited to try each recipe and learned so much about how the different ingredients affect the taste and texture. I have some favorites – the “best green smoothie “ is an absolute winner and surprised me as my favorite! It will be a perfect starting point to create some of my own recipes with seasonal ingredients. I will definitely keep adding green smoothies as a regular healthy meal! I joined this smoothie challenge not long after completing a ten day juice cleanse (thank you Joe!) and the timing was perfect. I had a number of things going on with my health this year and have completely changed my diet. Unfortunately my good old (hand me down) juicer gave up recently so I am so happy to learn about green smoothies – I had a busy stressful week and truly felt fantastic drinking them each day! I highly recommend challenging yourself to a week of healthy food (a personal detox ) because the results are wonderful. Thank you so much for hosting this challenge and sharing your recipes. Note – I was also on a “digital detox” which is why I wasn’t my usual chatty self in the challenge group. But I was enjoying every day!

I’ve been making green smoothies for years, but these recipes were amazing! Learned some new tricks to making better smoothies and even some new flavor combinations. I was stuck in a rut of making the same smoothies repeatedly. Thank you Simple Green Smoothies for giving me the boost I needed.

I joined the challenge to get back on track with drinking a smoothie a day and to try new recipes. I tend to drink the same smoothie every day, so I really enjoyed the variety, and they were all so good! I always feel so energized after my morning smoothie, and plan to continue the habit now that the challenge is over. I also have Jen’s book and plan to continue to push myself to try new recipes.

I liked the challenge. I liked the new variety of smoothies. Will keep them for my smoothie rotation. I always feel good when I drink smoothies.

I joined the challenge to make life style changes to my diet for a healthier way of having breakfast. All the recipes were easy and fast to make. I’ve noticed an overall of feeling better with more energy and a little lighter. I am proud that I followed the protocol even when I turned my nose up when I saw kale on the list.

My friend invited me and it was nice to do it along with someone else. I liked almost all of the recipes – just can’t do kale although the other items masked the flavor. I lived learning different things that can be used. Proud to do it for myself!

I joined the challenge to turn it into a daily habit. I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. I feel more energetic than I have in a long time. I have felt more calm and happy. I am most proud that I did the whole challenge and plan to continue to do so

I joined the Smoothies challenge to try and change things up a bit. I love smoothies but I was eating a lot of oats and wanted to include some more fruits and veggies. I did like most of the recipes; the ones I didn’t like as much I know I could tweak. I feel great. I do feel like I had a little extra bit of energy and the main change is it’s been helping me wake up earlier. I am proud that I just stuck with it. Day 7 was a busy day and I ended up having the smoothie for dinner, so I was able to get that last one in. Overall, this was a very good and doable challenge. It’s fun to do with others in a community.

I joined this challenge for better health. I have noticed in previous challenges a real increase in energy. I feel better and get more done. The challenges help make healthy eating/drinking a priority. The prizes are a fun incentive. However, if I never get a prize, I feel hat I have won anyway just by participating and getting all those good things into my body. All of these smoothies incorporated healthy greens hidden behind the taste of fruits. That is not a bad idea. However, I happen to like cooked spinach and celery. What about trying some savory green smoothies that feature our favorite greens, taste and all?

I joined to commit to healthier breakfasts! Loved loved the recipes they are satisfying delicious and I feel energized! I’m proud I stayed with this challenge for 7 days and maintained an inventory of frozen fruit and fresh greens! Looking forward to “rawking” the rest of the month and beyond. Thanks for the challenge!!

I liked doing the challenge. I thought the recipes were mostly tasty and the smoothies were easy to make. I appreciated having the grocery list and the feature that automatically doubled the recipes. A problem I had was that it is getting very cold where I live and so an ice cold smoothie in the morning was not what I wanted to wake up to, I wanted something warm for breakfast. So I’m now looking for a soup challenge. Perhaps I will revisit smoothies in the summer time.

I loved this challenge! It was so easy and I feel so good in the mornings now thanks to it! I told everyone I knew how easy making a smoothie was and now have others joining me!