Low Fat Raw Vegan Green Smoothie with Grape Celery and Spinach (#9)

[CarolynCavanagh]

I tried your blueberry, grape, celery, spinach smoothie recipe this morning and I loved it!! Very delicious! Thanks so much :)

[LowFatVeganChef]

@CarolynCavanagh Oh excellent! Glad you liked it

[dfrisable]

Your hair looks great pulled back. Thanks for the great recipe! Also wanted to say I bought your savory dinners DVDs and the recipes are great. My whole family loved the corn chip recipe.

[LowFatVeganChef]

@dfrisable Thanks! I'm so glad you're loving the recipes. My friends were blown away by those Raw Mexican Cilantro Corn Chips, and they're super easy!

[NicoletteLynnMusic]

I typically do NOT like celery, but have tried adding a small chunk to my smoothie a couple times now, and while I find it pretty strong for even the tiny amount I add, I find that it adds a nice freshness to the smoothie!! Hoping I will build up a liking for more as I know it is so healthy!!

[NicoletteLynnMusic]

I think with a Vitamix it wouldn't matter if there were seeds in the grapes would it?

[LowFatVeganChef]

@NicoletteLynnMusic The Vitamix does not puree small seeds like raspberry or strawberry seeds. Globe grape seeds are bigger, but I wouldn't want those chunks in my smoothie. I've accident blended a date pit in the vitamix before and ruined smoothies having to pick it out. It's good for grinding plant fibres but not all fruit seeds in liquid. Better than a regular blender, but there is always some grit when you have seeds

[NicoletteLynnMusic]

@LowFatVeganChef thanks for the info!!

[LowFatVeganChef]

@NicoletteLynnMusic They don't pulverize seeds in smoothies completely. Raspberry and strawberry seeds are still there and probably grapes would be too, because they're so large. Because you blend a lot of fruit together for a short period of time it doesn't get 100% smooth and there is some grit to it, the more tough fibrous things you add to it.

[NicoletteLynnMusic]

@LowFatVeganChef - actually, I recently used some seeded grapes in a smoothie, and the seeds got pulverized just fine. I think this is because they are relatively large compared to things like blackberry or strawberry seeds, and also much softer. So if you ever buy seeded grapes by accident (and like me, you don't enjoy eating or fussing with eating around grape seeds) you can just use them up in a smoothie!

[LowFatVeganChef]

@ocergnairb Seriously I did bring this smoothie to the office years ago, after my co workers looked in disgust at my green smoothie container and made fun of me for drinking green food. So I just added blueberries to everything and then they shut up, because it looked more "normal" to them cuz it'd be red or purple.

[LowFatVeganChef]

I'm doing fruit smoothie and green smoothie recipe vids right now for my channel to show people the easy way to just use fruits and greens with no water, juice, milk, ice-cream, sugar or additives.

[goingwiththeflowww]

nice ingredients - but why dont u just eat the produce - i cant see any reason to blend it

[LowFatVeganChef]

@goingwiththeflowww Because not everyone has the time or desire to each plain spinach with celery and grapes and frozen blueberries. Plus if you don't chew it well enough you don't get all the benefits of the nutrition in the spinach. It's hard to chew well.

[ocergnairb]

Cool recipe!

Looks great, I liked the suggestion with setting it up the night before for taking in the morning

Also haha with the 'green alien concoction' :)

Thanks Veronica for making recipes that are not only delicious and simple but help promote healthy, 'real food' eating without making it some weird fringe cult thing, it's very appealing

Great vid!

PS When I get a Vitamix in the future I would totally use grapes in smoothies, my regular blender leaves too much fibrous texture tho

[LowFatVeganChef]

@ocergnairb Yeah the vitamix is pretty great with blending it very smooth. This is one of my favourite smoothies, it's really tasty. I gave it to my mom (who's never had a green smoothie) and she was like why do I taste celery? lol so if you like celery you will like this