hello and welcome to
the first week of your 30 day
smoothie challenge we're doing this all
in preparation for global smoothie day
I am Danii Oliver of House of Juice
brand.  House of Juice Bar.
and I'm here to show you behind the
scenes of how I  get our smoothie recipes done.
first and foremost we work with the vitamix
it is a powerful blender it's a commercial quality blender
that gets the job done no matter what
you throw at it.
it can do cold it can do hot you can
make
ice cream and ice cream with it or even
soup with it
we love it because it it just blends up
everything nice and smooth and
consistent
every single time you're starting off
the 30 day challenge i want to remind
you every morning
start with at least four cups of water
i make it a little fun by using salsa we
make our own salsa you can also add
lemon to it you can add tea in it
you want to have pure water if you want
to flavor it with something natural
go right ahead but just be sure every
morning start off with at least four
cups of water what i have here is our
setup to get
smoothies ready for the whole family and
i'm going to start by telling you the
simple
beginner method to doing it all you need
is some nut milk
some juice and if you want to take it up
a little notch for your kids you can use
some green juice if you're a juicer you
can even throw some of your juice
into the blender but basically we're
using cashew milk here that we made from
scratch
in another video i'll show you how to do
it it's so super simple
and then we have some pineapple juice
here and then also for this recipe
it calls for mango so we've got frozen
mango
so that smoothie is nice and chill and
ready for everyone to enjoy
baby
start by adding everything in this is a
smoothie
size for the entire family so i'm
actually using
a full pound of mango if it's just for
you you can use about a half a pound of
fruit
it's for the whole family so i'm using a
full pound of fruit
8 to 12 ounces of the milk
you would normally do eight to twelve
ounces for one person
but because we're doing it for the whole
family
we're gonna use another eight to twelve
ounces of juice
now for our 30-day challenge we are
going to be working with the superfood
moringa
what are you doing son oh geez it's all
attached
here you go
proud 30 day smoothie challenge i'm
going to be working with the superfood
moringa
that is a human food it provides all the
nutrients we need
it's more potassium than banana more
calcium than spinach
more vitamin c than carrots which is way
more than oranges
and it's an all-around natural
food that helps to boost your energy and
to give you mental clarity
it's not a stimulant it's something that
simply feeds the body and gives it what
it needs
to go all parts of the moringa plant are
usable today we're using the leaves that
have been dried
and grinded up
now moringa has its own taste it's kind
of bitter
but when you use it with fruits and
juices you don't really taste it at all
so it's not really going to do much in
terms of changing the flavor of your
recipe
it's just going to change the color and
add nutrients i'm also going to go ahead
and add some green juice in here
because as you can see i have a strong
growing boy behind me
and i want to make sure that he gets all
his nutrients
if you're an advanced smoothie drinker
and you want to add an
extra boost into your smoothie for
instance you want to add protein
i recommend that you go ahead and use
spirulina
spirulina is an amino acid essential
amino acid
that's going to give your body the
essential building blocks that it needs
to make its own human protein rather
than trying to
process protein from an animal or a
synthetic source
you want to give it the true building
blocks you're going to get that from
spirulina
you're also going to get a heavy dose of
chlorophyll you don't need much
per person i recommend a quarter
teaspoon
because we're doing a double recipe here
i'm doing a half a teaspoon
now spirulina does have a strong taste
to it
so you don't want to go heavy on it you
want to start light maybe even start off
at an
eighth of a teaspoon just until you get
used to it because it does change the
flavor pretty
strongly all right so now we're going to
cap it now because it's so full and
we're using frozen fruit
we want to give the vitamix an extra
push so we're going to take off the top
here
and we're going to use the pusher
yeah can you stick the pressure in for
me
very good what i like about the
the vitamix is that you can go on the
variable setting
so it's not shooting up too fast too
heavy you're going to go lightly
and then you'll build up
all you really need is about 30 to 60
seconds to blend up the smoothie
to get it really nice and smooth and
everything
chopped up nice and fine if you find
that you're having a little bit of
trouble from the frozen fruit not really
being moving around
being able to move around or it's too
clunky you just use the pusher
back and forth in this motion and it'll
help to move it along and get it in
between the blades
all right we're all done there son
thank you you're welcome
now as you can see this recipe is one
that's very popular with the kids
he can't wait to get his cup so we're
gonna get that set up now
yes baby you have your smoothie song
look at that it's nice and smooth
did you stop the video what are you
doing
talk to me you want to get a close-up on
the smoothie okay
all right i'm gonna go ahead and pour
little man's first because he can't wait
Ivy stop here you go
come up and get it you want to show your
face to the audience you might as well
go ahead and show your face
fix get approved
yes cheers
thank you two hands
cheers
cheers
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