Kathy’s Green Monster:

Hi Angela!

Here’s my green monster story/recipe, and I’ve attached my picture!

When I started my internship this summer, I became heavily dependent on coffee. I wake up at 6 am every morning to go to work, and come home anytime between 9-11 pm. It’s almost impossible NOT to survive without coffee. However, a month in, I tried to stop drinking coffee, and I began to get MASSIVE headaches. I got headaches every afternoon without fail after lunch and was always on the verge of falling asleep after I ate. It was seriously terrible, and I knew I needed to do something about it! So I finally invested in a blender for the summer and decided to try some of those amazing green monsters I’d been reading about all over the blog world. In fact, I only came across Angela’s blog because Caitlin from Healthy Tipping Point had posted a green monster on her blog one day, and I wanted to know where that recipe came from! Anyway, after I began drinking green monsters consistently for about a week, there was a noticeable improvement in my energy and focus at work. I now never have crashes after lunch, or headaches. I am able to go from 6 am- 11 pm without fail, and that is pretty freaking amazing. Green monsters are seriously wonderful!

My favorite recipe is the following (which works especially well for those of you with ghetto blenders that can barely handle ice cubes in them):

-half a frozen banana (cut up into chunks before you freeze them)
-1 cup Almond Breeze Vanilla unsweetened
-5-6 large chunks of frozen canteloupe
-1 TBSP almond butter
-1 scoop Amazing Grass Chocolate Superfood
-2 cups of spinach

You can also substitute the canteloupe with kiwi for a more tart taste, and the seeds in the kiwi make the smoothie a really fun texture to drink! You might think that chocolate would taste weird with canteloupe or kiwi, but hey, chocolate goes with anything! That’s the whole point of chocolate fountains, right? 😉