Avocado smoothies from Monday through Friday

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Monday: Golden smoothie with beets and avocado

Ingredients

  • 1 golden beet
  • 1 orange
  • ½ avocado
  • 1 ½ cup of water
  • 1 cup of ice

Instructions

  1. Scrub the beet and chop it, and place in a blender.
  2. Peel the orange and add it to the blender.
  3. Scoop the avocado flesh into the blender.
  4. Add water and ice, and blend until smooth.

Tuesday: Avocado smoothie with aprium

Aprium is a hybrid fruit developed by Floyd Zaiger in the late 1980s. It is the result of complex crosses of plums and apricots over many generations. Genetically, the aprium is 25% plum and 75% apricot. It looks very much like an apricot on the outside, but its flesh is denser and drier than most apricots. Apriums are renowned for their sweet taste and the flavour have hints of both apricot and plum. A fully ripe aprium tastes like an intense apricot with elements of plum and orange.

Ingredients

  • 1 aprium, pitted
  • ½ avocado
  • 4 oz cantaloupe melon
  • 1 ½ oz collard greens
  • 2 tablespoons of almonds
  • 1 cup water
  • 1 cup ice
  • ½ lime

Instructions

  1. Pit the aprium and put it in a food blender.
  2. Scoop out the avocado and the cantaloupe into the food blender. (You might have to cut the melon into chunks instead if it is too firm.)
  3. Add collard greens, almonds, water and ice. Squeeze over the juice from the lime.
  4. Blend until smooth.

Wednesday: Kiwi Avocado Smoothie

Ingredients

  • ½ avocado
  • 2 kiwis
  • 3 tablespoons coconut milk
  • 2-3 tablespoons lime juice
  • Honey, to taste
  • 3 ice cubes

Instructions

  1. Scoop out the avocado and the kiwis into a blender.
  2. Add 2 tablespoons of the lime juice.
  3. Blend. Add the ice. Blend again.
  4. Taste the smoothie, and add honey to taste, and if necessary, more lime juice.
  5. Blend until creamy and smooth.

Tip: You can vary this recipe by adding some ripe banana.

Thursday: Purple avocado smoothie

Ingredients

  • ½ avocado
  • 1 cup of coconut milk
  • 1.5 oz chard
  • 1 cup of mixed blackberries, raspberries and blueberries
  • ½ cup of ice cubes

Instructions

  1. Scoop the avocado into a blender.
  2. Add all other ingredients and blend until smooth.

Friday: Avocado smoothie with kale

Ingredients

  • 1 apple
  • 1 avocado
  • 1 cup apple juice
  • 1 cup kale, stemmed and chopped
  • (Possibly water)

Instructions

  1. Core and chop the apple, but don’t peel it. Put the chopped apple in a food blender.
  2. Scoop the avocado flesh into the food blender.
  3. Add apple juice and kale.
  4. Blend until smooth. If necessary, add water or some more apple juice to get the right consistency.