Green Smoothies

These healthy and delicious smoothies were served at our gardening class in January. The smoothies are loaded with leafy vegetables you can grow in your winter/early spring garden and fresh fruit to make all those veggies go down a little easier.

Serves: 10 cups
Start-to-Finish: 5-10 minutes
Recipe by: Green Smoothie Girl

Ingredients:
1 large leaf of collard greens
1 large leaf of swiss chard
1 large leaf of kale (or two medium leaves; these leaves can run a little small)
2 1/2 cups of crushed ice with water
2 handfuls of spinach

Directions:
1. Blend all ingredients together in a blender until smooth. (You should have about 5-6 cups at this point.)
2. To this mixture, add:

Ingredients:
3 TBSP flax seed oil
3 TBSP agave
1/4 lemon

Directions:
3. Blend until well incorporated.
4. Now add any fruit that you like until it fills your blender container:

Ingredients:
2 apples (slice in fourths, take out stem and seeds)
1 pear (slice in fourths, take out stem and seeds)
1 banana
Other fruit choices, whatever you have on hand. These can be fresh or frozen.
stawberries
blueberries
mango (peeled and see removed)
kiwi (peeled)

Directions:
5. Add a little bit of water until you get a consistency you like.
6. Blend for 1 1/2 minutes.