{"id":123,"date":"2009-07-08T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T14:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/?p=123"},"modified":"2009-07-08T08:22:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-08T14:22:00","slug":"elizabeths-green-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth&#8217;s Green Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-124\" title=\"IMG_0321\" src=\"http:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/IMG_0321-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0321\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/IMG_0321-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/IMG_0321.JPG 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elizabeth&#8217;s Green Monster:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t remember how I first started adding spinach into my smoothies.\u00a0 I might have run across OSG and other websites simultaneously (Dr. Joel Fuhrman calls them &#8220;blended salads&#8221;) and it stopped seeming crazy to put greens in ma drank and started seeming logical.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like all fruit smoothies because I am hungry instantaneously after I finish them.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t find that is the case with GMs. I am satisfied for a couple of hours after my GM. I also find that they are very cleansing &#8212; I need to hop off to the bathroom within about 15 minutes of drinking one in the morning.\u00a0 For my girls who suffer from sluggish digestion, this is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>My morning smoothie is as follows:<br \/>\nFirst, 1 cup frozen strawberries and 1 frozen banana.<br \/>\n(freezing banana is KEY, I just realized it makes it taste sweeter)<br \/>\nThen, 1 cup cold water and 1 cup non-dairy milk (I have tried coconut milk, hemp milk, and almond milk.\u00a0 Coconut milk obviously rocks, but I usually settle for almond milk for the taste and low calories).<\/p>\n<p>I add 1 scoop Amazing Grass Green Super Food<br \/>\n1 tablespoon ground flax seed<br \/>\n4 drops vanilla stevia<br \/>\nand then I stuff the remaining space in the blender with fist fulls of spinach and\/or kale.\u00a0 I cram it in the remaining space.\u00a0 The order of ingredients is very important because if I put frozen fruit on the top, it doesn&#8217;t blend as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabeth&#8217;s Green Monster: I can&#8217;t remember how I first started adding spinach into my smoothies.\u00a0 I might have run across OSG and other websites simultaneously (Dr. Joel Fuhrman calls them &#8220;blended salads&#8221;) and it stopped seeming crazy to put greens in ma drank and started seeming logical. I don&#8217;t like all fruit smoothies because I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reader-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenmonstermovement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}