Low-Carb Smoothies: More Than 50 Fabulous Recipes the Whole Family Will Love 

Smoothies are one of the most popular food trends%u2014they are healthy meal replacements, and easy, on-the-go snacks.

But, the problem is, most are high in carbs. Not anymore! Low-carb diet guru Dana Carpender offers readers 50 all-new recipes for smoothies along with beautiful full-color photos in this one-of-a-kind book. Readers of Dana's previous books will love it, and the millions of people on low-carb diets will welcome the chance to bring their blenders out to make delicious milkshake alternatives.

Low-Carb Smoothies: More Than 50 Fabulous Recipes the Whole Family Will Love

by Dana Carpender

Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)

My boys and I have had a smoothie every morning for breakfast for the past two weeks--we're hooked! I'm a type 1 diabetic, and find that a smoothie like this works perfectly for a great meal replacement. They keep me satisfied until the next meal, and most importantly, they really taste great. The carb counts are accurate and my blood sugar remains stable after having one. My kids aren't on a restricted carb diet, but they love the taste too! If you're already a low-carb dieter, you'll most likely have all the ingredients in your pantry. Enjoy!

Making Your Own Custom Smoothie Recipe or Strawberry Banana Smoothie 

It's easy to make great tasting smoothies by making your own recipe

The above blueberry smoothie is about 280 calories. Here is a great free calorie calculator if you're counting.
Free Calorie Calculator

First decide what type of smoothie you want to make. Is it for some quick energy, preworkout, low calorie, brain power boost, a whole meal or just a quick tasty snack?

Strawberry Breakfast Smoothie Recipe
Here's one I tried this morning. First I ground 1/4 cup quick oats into flour using a rotary coffee grinder. Remember to add the smoothie ingredients to the blender in this order. First the fruit juice.
1/2 cup orange juice
1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
1/4 cup oat flour
1/4 cup crushed ice
1/2 cup frozen Strawberrys
Blend until smooth. Sometimes an air pocket gets trapped in the middle of the smoothie ingredients and they won't mix. I then hold the lid on tightly and shake the blender back and forth until they begin mixing properly. When the smoothie is circulating nicely with a cavity in the surface of the mixture it is ready to pour into your glass and enjoy.
Meal Replacement Smoothie

Here is one that I've been experimenting with lately to make one that is more filling and healthy.

Add to your blender
1/2 cup pineapple juice
1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
1/2 cup applesauce

Blend these together then add the following dry ingredients after processed.

1 tbsp flaxseed
2 tbsp sunflower seeds
4 tbsp quick oats
Process these in a coffee grinder or processor into a flour type powder.
After those are blended in add 1/2 cup crushed ice and finish blending and enjoy.

Raspberry Meal Smoothie.

This granola mix adds more protein and calories.

Use a coffee grinder or food processor to make flour with
1 Tb flaxseed
2 Tb sunflower seeds
1/2 cup Nutty granola

Combine that in your blender with

1/2 cup apple juice
1/2 cup applesauce
1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
3/4 cup Frozen Raspberries (Fresh frozen without syrup)

Super Smoothies: 50 Recipes for Health and Energy 

Super Smoothies, a lusciously illustrated collection of 50 healthy drinks perfect for folks who do not cook but do look after their health.

The sisters give explanations of everything--such as how to peel and cut up all the fruits and vegetables involved--while introducing such unfamiliar ingredients as wheat-grass juice and calming kava. The easy-to-follow advice includes all sorts of tips, like using only the ripest seasonal fruit and crushing ice cubes before placing them in the blender.

Super Smoothies: 50 Recipes for Health and Energy

by Sara Corpening Whiteford, Mary Corpening Barber

Amazon Price: $11.53 (as of 07/25/2008)

This wonderful book is packed with delicious recipes that are good for you too. The book starts out with 10 tips to make your smoothie it's best. Then fruit and vegetable glossaries describe each fruit, its nutritional value and its health benefits. There is also a thorough explanation on fruit and vegetable preparation. Other ingredients used such as peanut butter and milk products as well as additives like wheat grass are also discussed in detail. A seasonal fruit chart and a brief overview of essential nutrients are nice bonuses

There are recipes for almost anything including energy, weight control, PMS, hot flashes, morning sickness, anemia, libido, bone building, stress and even some that boost your immune system when you get sick. There are also special sections for kids and men. Conveniently, each recipe contains complete nutritional information.

My favorite recipes are the constants craving, grape escape and protein jolt. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to make quick, easy, nutritious meals without cooking.

Eggnog Smoothie Recipes 

For the Holiday spirit try an Eggnog Smoothie

An Eggnog smoothie is very easy to make.
Combine these ingredients in the blender and blend until smooth.
1 cup low fat eggnog
1 cup plain or vanilla low fat yogurt
A dash of nutmeg
1 cup ice cubes

Chai Tea Latte Smoothie

1 cup Chai Tea (Sweetened to taste)
1 cup plain or vanilla low fat yogurt
1 cup ice cubes
Blend until smooth

Smoothie Maker Review 

Review of Hamilton Beach 50754 Wavestation 10 speed Smoothie Blender

I've been using this Hamilton Beach blender for over 8 weeks now mainly for making smoothies and it's been working great. It chops average sized ice cubes with ease and turns out a consistent slushy textured smoothie each time.
The plastic lexan double wall pitcher holds 7 cups worth of smoothie ingredients and has 2 baffles which create a up and down wave action which blends the mixture more thourghly. There is a dispenser spout which is handy for easier pouring of your smoothies. But I used the cap for that because I usually just make a single serving. The pitcher is easily removed from the base for easy cleaning. The dispenser spout requires some disassembly to clean properly. For the easiest cleaning be sure and clean the pitcher immediately after using.
Overall this smoothie blender is a great blender for only $30.oo

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Blend thoroughly from top to bottom for no large chunks floating to the top results. The Wave~Action System continuously forces the misture down into the blades for top to bottom thorough blending every time. Use it for anything from smoothies and icy drinks to milkshakes and soups. With a slanted jar bottom, the detachable spout gets you to that last half cup with easy. No more needing to tilt the jar with the slated jar bottom design. With a simple twist, the spout detaches for quick and easy....1 point

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Cocktail Smoothies 

If you love cocktails or are a smoothies devotee-or both-you'll love this innovative book.

Tipsy Smoothies: Over 150 Fabulous Cocktail Smoothie Recipes

by Donna Pliner Rodnitzky

Amazon Price: $11.16 (as of 07/25/2008)

Looking for a way to elevate your cocktail into an exotic and invigorating surprise? This is it! If you love cocktails or are a smoothies devotee-or both-you'll love this innovative book. Combine the right spirits with temptingly flavorful fresh fruit, sorbet, and other tasty delights, and you're ready to experience a great new taste sensation-a tipsy smoothie! Inside this unique concoction of tasty recipes, you'll discover more than 150 popular mixed drinks transformed into delicious cocktail smoothies, including:

Pineapple Margarita
Southern Fizz
Singapore Sling
Banana Split Martini
Mango Daiquiri
Fuzzy Navel
Flirtini
Coco Loco
Cosmopolitan
Mai Tai

More Smoothie Recipes and Tips 

There are many ways to make smoothies

Sweet and Sour Smoothie Recipe

I was just thinking of the saying "There wouldn't be sweet without the sour" and thought what about a sweet and sour smoothie? There was some sweet and sour sauce in the frig but I thought this doesn't seem right to add to a smoothie. The sour ingredients in it were vinegar and lemon juice so I gave it a try.

1/4 c. Pineapple juice
1/4 c. apple juice
1/2 c. vanilla yogurt
1/4 c. frozen blueberries
1/4 c. crushed ice
1 tsp lemon juice

I blended this until it was smooth and it was quite good!
Try it it was really good.

Smoothie Tip
Freeze unpeeled bananas so you will never run out of bananas when you have the urge for a banana smoothie.
To use frozen bananas microwave one for 10 seconds then peel and add to your smoothie mix.

Banana Blueberry Breakfast Smoothie

Here is another great breakfast smoothie recipe that I just threw together for breakfast this morning. I just bought a new Hamilton Beach Smoothie Maker and am quite pleased with it so far.

1/4 c. Pineapple juice
1/4 c. Applesauce
1/2 c. vanilla yogurt
1/2 c. fresh Blueberries
1 Tbp. ground flaxseed
2 Tbps. ground Sunflower seeds
1 frozen banana (peeled of course!)

This one was quite delicious and I think I'll go make another because it was so good.

Cool Smoothie Tip

Fill your ice cube tray with fruit juice and use the frozen juice to make smoothies.

Banana Pineapple Smoothie

1/4 c Pineapple juice
1/4 c Applesauce
1/2 c Vanilla Yogurt
1 banana unpeeled frozen
5 frozen juice cubes

Blend until smooth and enjoy!

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Smoothies are easy and fun to make!

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3 Great Tasting Smoothie Recipes That Kids Love 

Smoothies without fruit are good too!

Smoothies don't have to have fruit. Here is a smoothie recipe without fruit which is very good.
Peanut Butter Chocolate Smoothie

1/2 cup cold rice or soy milk
1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
1 tablespoon Nutella or chocolate syrup
1 tablespoon peanut butter
6 ice cubes
Combine in blender and blend until smooth.

Most smoothie recipes are pretty healthy and some kids are pretty picky about flavors. Here are several nutritious and great tasting smoothie
recipes. Prepare several ripe bananas in advance by peeling and cutting them each into 5 or 6 pieces and freezing them in a freezer bag or plastic container. Wax Orchards makes a nutritious cocoa spread without
sugar using mostly fruit concentrates and Dutch cocoa.

Chocolate Banana Smoothie

1 cup 2% milk or Soy or Rice Milk
1 cup Low fat Vanilla Yogurt
1 Pre-frozen banana
1 tbsp. Wax Orchards Classic Fudge (or chocolate syrup)

Blend all in a blender until smooth

Peanut butter Chocolate Banana Smoothie

1 cup 2% milk or Soy or Rice Milk
1 cup Low fat Vanilla Yogurt
1 tbsp. Peanut Butter
1 Pre-frozen banana
1 tbsp. Wax Orchards Classic Fudge (or chocolate syrup)

Blend all in a blender until smooth

Strawberry Banana Smoothie

1 cup 2% milk or Soy or Rice Milk
1 cup Low fat Vanilla Yogurt
1/2 Cup fresh frozen strawberries
1 Pre-frozen banana

Blend all in a blender until smooth

What is your favorite smoothie flavor? 

Please take this poll and choose your favorite smoothie flavor!

LightFull Smoothie, Strawberries & Cream 

LightFull Smoothie, Strawberries & Cream, 11-Ounce Units (Pack of 12)

* Case of 12 11-ounce drinks (total of 132 ounces)
* All-natural smoothie made with nonfat yogurt and strawberry puree
* 90 calories per serving; 6 grams of fiber; 6 grams of protein
* Surprisingly filling; excellent source of antioxidants and calcium
* Balanced, nutrient-packed snacks, women operated company in California

LightFull Smoothie, Strawberries & Cream, 11-Ounce Units (Pack of 12)

Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)

These are wonderful! Great strawberry flavor, no aftertaste. The label states that it takes 30 minutes to get the the full effect, boy is that the truth! These truly keep you satisfied through the afternnon doldrums at 90 calories with six grams of protien and fiber.

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Smoothie Recipes are so easy to create. Send me yours and I'll make it and post it.

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Smoothie Drinks How To Make

One of my family's new year resolution was to eat healthier. And smoothie drinks have definitely been a huge part of our weekly menu. I sometimes take a pitcher of strawberry smoothie to work. It stops me from going to the fattening vending machine.

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Eggnog Smoothie Fixins 

Eggnog in a bag and eggnog mixs

Aspen Mulling Eggnog Mix, 5.65-Ounce Cartons (Pack of 9)

Amazon Price: (as of 07/25/2008)

Lt. Blender's Eggnog in a Bag, 12-Ounce Pouch (Pack of 3)

Amazon Price: $20.96 (as of 07/25/2008)

Aspen Mulling Spices Eggnog Mix (1 carton)

Amazon Price: $2.79 (as of 07/25/2008)

Aspen Mulling Spices Cinnamon Orange Blend (1 carton)

Amazon Price: $2.79 (as of 07/25/2008)

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