Do you ever go to the grocery store and sometimes end up buying a whole trolley full of fresh fruit and vegetables because you couldn’t make up your mind on what fruit you actually wanted so you just took a bit of everything?  Then you get home and after a week or so most of it has not been eaten and is starting to go off.  So you end up throwing most of it away.  Well here’s an extremely simple way of keeping those vegetables and fruit for a little while longer.

Juice them!

What I mean is this.  When you see some fresh produce of yours starting to go off; for example let’s take carrots or peppers, or even apples.  Take them and stick them in a blender/juicer and blend them up (with the skin on if its edible), then pour into a container or into a zip lock plastic bag and stick it straight in the freezer.  This way you can have a nice natural, healthy juice whenever you want and you avoid letting your produce go to waste.

Most vegetables and fruits cannot really be frozen, since when you defrost them they can come out all soggy.  Believe me I tried.  Don’t ever freeze a cucumber!

There are also many combinations of fruit and vegetables you can try making a juice out of.  You just need to find the ones which you like the taste of and stick with those.

Some combinations can be:
Apples and carrots
Banana and mango
Mango and orange and carrots
Beetroot and carrots
Cucumbers and lemon and Kiwi

But when all else fails just close your eyes and throw some stuff in and see how it tastes!

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Here is a recipe for a mouth-watering, nutritious, high protein smoothie which can be used ideally after an intense workout out, or even as a snack in between meals.

Just a small tip, if you want to make a sweet smoothie and have it thick and milky like a milkshake, opt for low fat plain cottage cheese instead of ice cream. High in protein and low in sugar!

The best smoothies are nutrient-dense, providing vitamins and oils necessary for good nutrition. Fat is required for biological functions and burned by your body for energy; a good smoothie should have some dietary fat. Simply blending a banana with ice and skim milk does not make a good smoothie; there is almost no fat for the body to use in assimilating the vitamins, and there is little nutritive content at all. A healthy smoothie contains egg yolks, coconut oil, cream or other nutrient-dense foods. Smoothies are a great, simple way to get in the extra nutrition you need. [1]

Reference:

[1] FACTS ON THE HEALTH BENEFITS OF SMOOTHIES

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