{"id":1284,"date":"2012-05-19T15:22:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T14:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/?p=1284"},"modified":"2012-05-23T01:49:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T00:49:35","slug":"eat-well-live-well-the-green-smoothie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2012\/05\/eat-well-live-well-the-green-smoothie.html","title":{"rendered":"Eat Well, Live Well – the green smoothie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"green-smoothie\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I have long been interested in \u2018eating right\u2019, though not always the best practitioner. As a child, Popeye sold me in the importance of eating spinach<\/strong>, but it has always been a struggle to actually eat it. It\u2019s not that tasty. Drench it in oil and vinegar or other fatty\/carb-loaded dressing and okay, yum. But that kind of negates the healthy aspect of it. Cooking it into things is good, from Indian curries to Italian tomato sauces, but I\u2019m too lazy to do that terribly often.<\/p>\n

And hence, the green smoothie. A couple years ago I began making these, and over the last 6 months they\u2019ve become more or less part of my daily routine. Today, Elephant journal posted a good article about the amazing \u2018green smoothie<\/a>\u2018 with countless tasty-looking recipes. Here is my recipe:<\/p>\n

1 cup yogurt (120 cal.)
\n1 banana, unpeeled (100)
\n1 small apple (seeds removed)\u00a0(50)
\n1.5 Tbs PB<\/a> (170)
\n25 g protein powder (100)
\n1\/2 Tbs. Spirulina (10)
\n1\/2 Tbs. Chlorella<\/a> (10)
\n3 cups fresh spinach (40)
\n1-2 cups water to adjust thickness<\/p>\n

600 calories of goodness; approx 300 carb, 200 protein, 100 fat.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

You might not need that much protein, of course, in which case you can cut out the powder. And the PB is high in fat, so if you\u2019re eating this as a snack (I use it as a meal replacement), you can cut that down or out completely.<\/p>\n

Other aspects of food that I am interested in are cost, human rights, animal treatment, and environmental impact (buying local, organic when possible, etc.). Needless to say, it\u2019s complex. But in terms of moral decisions, what we eat ranks amongst the very highest simply because it is a choice we make every single day.<\/p>\n

Reading about\u00a0https:\/\/www.livebelowtheline.com\/<\/a> recently has had me thinking a lot about the first of those aspects: cost. Despite what I\u2019ve just written, it turns out that billions of people don\u2019t have much choice at all when it comes to what they eat each day. Many of them face chronic malnutrition and\/or starvation while many of us stress out about which restaurant to go to.<\/p>\n

Living on less than \u00a31 a day for food and drink is not easy but it is possible. Across the globe 1.4 billion people do it everyday for everything- food, drink, healthcare, education, travel, everything. (from livebelow\u2026uk<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While I\u2019m not going to give up restaurants or urge others to do so, I have been thinking a lot about taking the challenge to live for\u00a0\u00a31 a day for food for one week. Supposing I don\u2019t eat out at all, most days I can get pretty far before hitting\u00a0\u00a31 in costs; but can I get through a whole day, let alone seven of them?<\/p>\n

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1 cup yogurt (30p)
\n1 banana, unpeeled (10p)
\n1 small apple (seeds removed) (20p)
\n1\/8 cup PB (10p)
\n25 g protein powder (50p)
\n1\/2 Tbs. Spirulina (10p)
\n1\/2 Tbs. Chlorella (10p)
\n3 cups spinach (40p)
\n1-2 cups water to adjust thickness (free)<\/p>\n

\u00a31.60. (about $2.50).<\/strong> It\u2019s often the most expensive meal of my day, breakfast being basic cereal and soy milk (about 30-40p) and dinner of pasta or something similar (under \u00a31 if I go easy on the Parmesan cheese) \u2013 and we can\u2019t forget my coffee \u2013 the liquid that keeps me alive \u2013 which probably runs about 50p\/day<\/strong>. All relatively cheap by our standards for a day, but still more money than many people spend on everything <\/em>in a given day.<\/p>\n

Again, this isn\u2019t to condemn anyone else\u2019s eating choices. However I do know people who complain\/worry about money and\/or struggle with their weight and yet eat and buy coffee out several times a week. And paying attention to costs and nutrition in everything we eat can become an unhealthy obsession in itself. But, as with so much of life, if we bring awareness to our decisions, simply paying attention without judgment, we might come to see things that we once felt were justified or easier in the past as unnecessary and even harmful<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Notes: I just found and might try kelp powder<\/a> at some point (and\/or fresh kelp depending on price and whether my blender can handle it), and I did get frozen spinach this week as a cheaper alternative to fresh, so we\u2019ll see how that goes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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