Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Home Show 2008: Vita-Mix Blender

Learn more about the VitaMix blender - how to use your VitaMix blender to make everything from soup to smoothies.


Blend, puree and mince your way to gourmet using the Vita-Mix Blender. This CIA Professional Series gadget comes with variable speeds, a snap-on lid to avoid splatters and a recipe book. Retail $499.
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How To Make a Fruit Smoothie

Learn how to make a smoothie.


While we can't recommend asparagus or cheddar-flavored drinks, we encourage you to experiment, using this road map to the ultimate healthy blended beverage.
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Ultimate Smoothie with David Wolfe

Creating the ultimate raw food smoothie. Check it out.

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www.passingthelight.info Part 1 of making the ultimate raw smoothie with author and raw food pioneer David Wolfe!
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Moms and kids love Vita-Mix green smoothies

Great video to watch if you want to learn how to make smoothies - especially green smoothies.

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Cute demonstration of how to make a great green smoothie recipe using the Vitamix machine. For the rest of the story behind this, go to www.vitamix.com
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Thursday, August 13, 2009

Learn How to Make Smoothies at Home

how to make smoothiesLearning how to make smoothies can be frustrating if you don't have a good quality blender. Good blenders are worth making an investment if you want to make creamy and easy smoothies. However, if you have a lower quality blender, you can still make good smoothies. You may need to cut up your fruit or use smaller ice cubes, as well as let the blender run for a longer period of time - but typically you can make smoothies in most blenders.

To learn how to make smoothies, simply gather your ingredients, add them to your blender along with liquid and blend. It's easy and fast. You can experiment and get creative once you learn the basics on how to make smoothies.

Smoothies can be similar to a milk shake or be a completely healthy meal replacement. It depends on what you add to your smoothie. You can include fresh or frozen fruit, yogurt, milk, flavoring, protein powder, greens, peanut butter, learn how to make smoothieshoney or a variety of other ingredients.

Adding protein powders to a fruit smoothie creates a good protein shake. Adding greens such as spinach or other vegetables will create a "green smoothie" with extra vitamins and minerals. Green smoothies are very popular and can help boost your immune system, increase energy and give you more nutrition.

Learning how to make smoothies at home is cheaper than purchasing one made in a smoothie store such as Smoothie King or Jamba Juice. If you make your own smoothies, you also have control over the type of ingredients added, the amount of calories, as well as the amount of sugars contained in your smoothie. Not only is it less expensive to make your own, but also much healthier.