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A few weeks ago I bought a stick blender and have been enjoying smoothies for breakfast since. I started with banana smoothies and ice coffee as separate entities, but soon combined them into a complete breakfast shake, and now I'm starting to wonder what else I can add for nutritional value to make it a proper complete breakfast, I guess with a similar mindset to that soylent guy except made out of real food, not powders and supplements. Currently my breakfast shake is more or less just this: 1 banana 1 egg 1 tablespoon coffee 1 tablespoon cocoa powder 2 tablespoons raw sugar 1 cup full cream milk 6 ice cubes If I'm already caffeined up, sometimes I will swap out the coffee and chocolate for a few strawberries. So my question is if I was going to have this every day, plus one other meal for dinner, what vitamins and nutrients are missing in that, and what can I add to it to provide those without spoiling the deliciousness. Googling around came up with flaxseed, sunflower seeds, wheatgerm and yoghurt, but I thought GWS might have some better ideas.
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Apr 17, 2015 03:34
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monkey posted:A few weeks ago I bought a stick blender and have been enjoying smoothies for breakfast since. I started with banana smoothies and ice coffee as separate entities, but soon combined them into a complete breakfast shake, and now I'm starting to wonder what else I can add for nutritional value to make it a proper complete breakfast, I guess with a similar mindset to that soylent guy except made out of real food, not powders and supplements. This sounds awesome. Maybe protein powder just for the extra wake up and go
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Apr 17, 2015 04:30
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I'm not much of a smoothie guy but if anyone has any good recipes for energy/meal replacement bars I'd love to hear them. Especially if they freeze well.
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Apr 17, 2015 04:41
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Apr 17, 2015 08:43
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Tofu.
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Apr 17, 2015 14:43
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I used to just mix milk with acai berry juice, some banana, strawberries and maybe blueberries or raspberries. One time I tried throwing some prickly pear fruit in, It was good but there were a lot of little seeds.
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Apr 17, 2015 18:33
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monkey posted:a similar mindset to that soylent guy except made out of real food Why not actually EAT real food? Chewing things is good.
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Apr 17, 2015 21:39
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Scientastic posted:Why not actually EAT real food? Chewing things is good. I'm not trying to replace food entirely. I like food and I like to poop. I still eat as much food as I used to. It's more like I'm replacing the instant coffee that used to be my entire breakfast with something quicker to make and packing more energy. The soylent mindset is just because I started to think "This is super convenient, what if it was super healthy too?"
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Apr 17, 2015 23:08
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cook some bacon and eggs and slice up a tomato and leafy greens and drink some orange juice and that should be pretty good.
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Apr 27, 2015 08:24
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I've been doing juice blends for breakfast the last month and gotta say, def feel better and its tasty to boot! Juicing isn't the same as smoothies but one of the big benefits is making a pitcher at a time and being able to pour a glass on the way out the door. I'm not a morning person... 2 cucumbers 8 sticks celery 6 apples, any kind will do 2 limes 1 lemon bunch of kale or whatever pile of leaves you prefer good size chunk of ginger it keeps with no change in taste for as long as it takes me to finish the pitcher (3-4 days). I guess you could put it over ice and make a smoothie if you wanted a second appliance to clean.
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Apr 29, 2015 16:27
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Juicing is delicious. The recipe above is pretty solid but add a beet to it for extra beety goodness. Beets are good.
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Apr 29, 2015 17:06
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