Vegan MoFo Day 7: My (wannabe) morning ritual

At around the same time last year I read Kathy Freston's The Lean, and I bought a Vitamix.

Both created habit changes, even if I'm not perfect at doing all 30 Lean tips every single day. 

One of the most significant habit changes that I'm pretty faithful to is makeing smoothies. I would like to make one just about every morning as my breakfast, but I confess I'm not quite there on smoothie dedication.

I don't know why, given it truly takes about 3 minutes to make one with my beautiful, powerful Vitamix. And the Vitamix is super-easy to clean, which I do immediately each time I use it.

Like every good habit, practice will make perfect, so I'm going to try to practice what I preach and make more smoothies!

This morning I made a very typical morning smoothie:

Coconut Water (I use Zico, and I get a case auto-delivered every few weeks from Amazon)
1 Banana
1 cup baby spinach leaves
2 TB ground flaxseed
1 scoop of Vega Vanilla Almondilla protein powder (This is really the only vegan pritein powder I have found at all appetizing)
1 cup frozen strawberries 

Et voila:

And serious, if you don't have a Vitamix, you should consider getting one. It's magic. Grinds up frozen stuff like a champ. One things I haven't tried yet is to make soup in it. Apparently if you run the blender at high speed long enough it heats up the contents, so you can make pureed soups right there in the Vitamix. Crazy!!

And no, not being paid to say how much I love my Vitamix, which I bought with my very own money, although this is an affliliate link.

Another recommendation, wait for those 20% off postcards from Bed, Bath & Beyond and use that to buy your Vitamix. That's what I did.

Today is Day Seven:

Comments

[Julie]

I love my Vitamix too, but haven't established making daily or even close to daily smoothies. I would like to though. Another tip on the Vitamix, if you buy at Costco, you can return anytime if it really doesn't work out. Originally I bought the main competitor brand at Costco for the smaller design to fit under my cabinets, I am so glad I returned it for the Vitamix after a few months (but not too many uses). It was too loud for me and I now know it just didn't mix things as smoothly such as frozen berries.

PS your cooking looks amazing as usual. I admire how you keep up with the Veg Cookbook Club!