the idea: combine a green smoothie with a fruit smoothie

I am a generally a healthy person, at least as healthy as it’s possible to be on as a graduate student.  Mostly this is because if I’m not I feel awful.

Recently I’ve been talking to my mother the health-food guru about some things I can do to make sure that I am eating well.  Her first recommendation was to make green smoothies meaning take a lot of vegetables, blender them together, and drink it.   My past experiences with my mother’s green smoothies haven’t been all that promising but, as she hurriedly explained to me, her green-smoothies are about as intense as it can get.

And so last week I tried my own version.  Spinach, cucumber, avocado, pear, and apple sauce.  It was… palatable.  In more recent discussions with my mother I came to the conclusion that to make green smoothies something I actually enjoy and not just plug my nose and gulp down I have to make a fruit smoothie with a green in it.  Good choice, spinach.

Tonight was my first night attempting this mixture and it was delicious.  Healthy, sweet, and just generally the type of thing that you can tell is making your body happy.  The only problem?  When you combine green vegetables and red fruits you get brown.

Not like, a pretty warm brown either.  A murky, muddy combination of colors.

The color-theory teacher inside of me realized this as soon as I started to pour the berries into my as-of-yet green smoothie, but it wasn’t until the blender was finished that I realized I was about to drink a swamp.

Thankfully it was a delicious swamp, but I’ll still have to keep in mind other things I can do in the future to maintain color clarity in my smoothies.