Green?

More like brown.

This, my friends, is a spinach and blueberry smoothie. I've seen all these recipes recently about making "green machine" smoothies by adding spinach to them. This morning I woke up and realized I have so many things in my fridge that are going to go bad if I don't start using them, spinach and blueberries being two of those things (the problems with living alone...). I looked online and found this recipe that claimed you can't even taste the spinach in it, so I decided to try it out.

Spinach Blueberry Smoothie

• 1/2 cup frozen blueberries (I used fresh, because that's what I had)
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 cup fresh spinach 
• 1/4 cup fruit juice (it was weird to me that they don't specify which type of fruit juice, but since all I had in my fridge was Orange Strawberry Pineapple, that's what I chose =\ )
• 2-4 ice cubes

As you can see, the first thing I noticed was that it doesn't look green and pretty like the pictures on the recipe websites claim. More like brown sludge. Hmmm. The taste is actually not so bad. Not something I think is delicious, but not terrible. However, the recipe-writer lied when she said you can't taste the spinach. That's about all I can taste. That and a hint of blueberry mixed in. The fruit juice really doesn't matter, I guess, because I couldn't find that at ALL. 

I'm glad I tried it. It's not something I would probably make just because, but if I had things I needed to use up, I'd consider it. I also like that it's pretty good for you-- I always feel so accomplished when I make something that's actually healthy (usually because I spend the rest of the day sitting around... oops).

Now I just need to get motivated to start going out and buying items for pre-planned meals, and actually making said meals so that I will have things to bring for lunches and dinners when I start work... in two days! I won't need that stuff right away, because at first I'll be doing orientation and classroom, but once I'm on the unit for 12 hour shifts I will want some good meals to eat!