Contents
Guide
Contents
THE
I LOVE MY
NUTRI
BULLET
RECIPE BOOK
THE UNOFFICIAL RECIPE GUIDE
200 HEALTHY SMOOTHIES
for Weight Loss, Detox,
Energy Boosts, and More
Britt Brandon, CFNS, CPT
AVON, MASSACHUSETTS
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Its not quite a blender and its not quite a juicer. Instead, the NutriBullet is a device that combines the best features of both to offer you a path to healthy living. Using it, you can create smoothies that contain both juice and fiber (unlike those created by most juicers, which tend to remove the fiber). The equipment is simple to maintain (cleaning takes around a minute), and its relatively inexpensive. And you can make up bags of vegetables and fruits beforehand in pre-measured amounts. All you have to do is pull them out of the fridge, put them in the NutriBullet, and voil! A healthy, wholesome smoothie.
Kick-starting a healthy lifestyle that revolves around powerful, supportive healthy foods may sound challenging. Those imagined obstacles can stem from a lack of knowledge about healthy foods, few ideas for healthy snacks and meals, or a dislike for healthy foods that is further compounded by cravings for unhealthy alternatives. Luckily, using the NutriBullet and this book will help anyone adopt a healthy diet easily and deliciously. The NutriBullets innovative extractor blades release the nutrients from within every cell of the superfoods combined in these recipes, unleashing powerful, potent nutritional benefits into every last sip of these super smoothies. By liquefying the superfoods, the NutriBullet makes their fiber, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, oils, and enzymes bioavailable for ultimate absorption into the bloodstream and utilization throughout the body. Countless delicious combinations of superfoods can be stacked into a NutriBullet and blended into smoothies for healthy meals or snacks. The NutriBullet not only makes a healthy diet tasty, exciting, and visually pleasing, but also makes healthy meal- and snack-planning simple. You can consume one of these smoothies in a fraction of the time that it would take to eat and drink all of the individual foods it contains. The NutriBullet is one of the best investments you can make for your health, no matter how much time or culinary experience you have.
Whether your goal is to get healthy, stay healthy, or improve a specific area of your health, the results you seek are well within reach. In the quest to achieve optimal health, the easiest and most effective lifestyle changes focus on diet and exercise. Moving your body has countless benefits and is a major part of any health-focus regimen, but diet is an aspect of daily life that can transform your health. After all, the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, amino acids, phytonutrients, fiber, and protein that your body needs in order to function are found in the foods you eat.
Consider the benefits of consuming a clean diet: By eliminating toxins, the excessive sugars, sodium, and preservatives in processed foods, and the unhealthy fats in the foods that litter the daily Standard American Diet (appropriately termed SAD), the body can use clean superfoods as high-performance fuel for every aspect of its functioning. It can more easily deal with health issues such as obesity and chronic fatigue as well as avoiding, minimizing, or eliminating diabetes, cancer, and other conditions that have been shown to be directly related to diet. When you feed your body natural foods that are packed with essential nutrition, you will not merely functionyou will thrive. With superfoods in your NutriBullet cup every day, all of your bodys systems work together to become an effective energy-boosting, hormone-maintaining, overall-health-promoting network that helps make every day healthier than the last.
With this book of 201 delicious recipes, you can quickly find the perfect smoothies for your tastes, needs, and goals, and begin enjoying all of the benefits of better health today!
Note about Juices
Throughout this book a number of the smoothies use juices, especially apple juice. Heres a recipe for homemade apple juice that you can use instead of the store-bought stuff. Packed with fiber, vitamins A, C, and E, minerals such as calcium and magnesium, and unique antioxidants like quercetin, this quick and easy supercharged NutriBullet version of apple juice contains no chemicals, preservatives, or harmful additions.
18 OUNCES
Fuji apples, cored
2 tablespoons aloe vera juice
14 teaspoon ground organic cinnamon (optional)
112 cups purified water
In the 18-ounce NutriBullet container, combine all ingredients.
Blend until all ingredients are thoroughly liquefied and combined, 3060 seconds.
Store the juice in the NutriBullet container with the included airtight lid in the refrigerator. Consume within 2436 hours to ensure maximum nutrition.
While many recipes have called for fruit skin to be removed, the NutriBullet smoothies use the skin as well as the pulp. The NutriBullets patented extractor blade technology is able to liquefy the skins of apples, pears, figs, and cucumbers efficiently, blending them seamlessly into your favorite smoothies. As well, nutrition contained within the skins of these superfoods is more potent than that within these fruits flesh. Core your fruits, but leave the skins on for an extra burst of nutrition.
CHAPTER 1
SUPERFOODS: SUPER FOR YOU AND YOUR NUTRIBULLET
A WORD ON NUTRITION
Carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals are the macronutrients and micronutrients that provide your body with the fuel and energy it needs in order to function. Antioxidants and phytonutrients support and protect the functioning of the bodys intricate systems. These macro-, micro-, and phytonutrients can all be found in the fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds that compose a healthy diet focused on clean, whole foods. The cells within these foods that store the major nutrients a body needs to thrive are encapsulated and protected by a cell membrane. NutriBullets extractor blades release those nutrients and its exclusive cyclonic action liquefies the ingredients, providing easily absorbable nourishment to the digestive system, bloodstream, and entire body. Every sip contains fiber, vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals that would otherwise pass through the body, losing much of the nutrition content.
When you consume superfoods rich in nutrients, you unharness the power of nature to develop benefits that can be seen everywhere from your skin and eyes to your teeth and hair, and felt everywhere from your muscles and digestive system to your energy levels and clear mental functioning. Specialized phytochemicals unique to certain fruits and vegetables can provide protection against illness and disease. You can tailor nutrition to your needs by selecting specific blends of fruits, vegetables, and additions. The superfoods that are combined to create these delicious NutriBlast smoothies will not only add delightful shades of color to any diet, but contribute to the new vibrancy experienced by the smoothie sipper.