She's laughing at me.
Aright, hey, it's Lenny Gale, with
Life is NOYOKE
We're so excited.
We're at the Vitamix store
with Michelle,
our old friend and,
not old, our friend that
we've had for a long time.
And so instead of just making
something today, a green juice,
every other juice, I
want to ask the question that I love
asking
everyone, and that is
what's in your morning blend?
So, Michelle?
I'm just saying you asked for it.
So that's a common question.
People come in all the time when
they get into Vitamix
and they go well what do you make on
your Vitamix.
And when we were doing the the demo
we usually do the going
green smoothie. And that's a really
sweet green smoothie.
Yeah, that's a starter.
Yeah. And I tell them you're not
ready for this.
This is advanced level.
You can handle this.
You can handle this.
Well, so what are we making? What
you call it?
The girls here at the store call it
my icky green juice .
Because it does look kind of icky in
the container
and I will admit when I started with this
it was not so easy.
I kind of used this as like a
like a mid-morning
or early afternoon bridge and then I eat
lunch a little bit later.
It's my little boost.
But anyways there's not a lot of
sweet in here.
OK. That's great.
You know your taste
buds evolve.
Exactly.
You don't need as much sweet.
Well that's what I said with the
Going Green Smoothie, the one
that we demo in the store it's like
you just
kind of start easing back on that
and omitting what, you know, first
you use
half of one of the fruits
and eventually you can get to
something that is more
vegetable-based.
Sure. It's just a matter of letting
your palate adjust.
Yes.
So are you ready.
I'm ready.
Icky green
Icky green juice. Here we go.
All right.
I use almond milk
in my smoothies just because I
think it helps them
stay emulsified a little bit longer,
and I like the creaminess that it adds.
So liquids down first.
Always always always
liquids first.
And then next comes leafy greens.
I've got about two cups of spinach
and when I'm at home I just take
giant handfuls
right out of the bag
and I get just about as much as I
can
in there which is,
again, leads to the icky greenness
Always spinach. Do you ever change
the green
or just spinach?
I do depending what I have at home.
If I've got romaine lettuce
or a little bit of kale.
I don't do all kale.
Kale is like a stronger thing
and I usually like to blend my
greens.
I'm not for everybody
It is strong and when we
make
kale salads we let the dressing sit on it
to absorb and soften up a little bit.
Yes. The other thing I'm going to do
is juice of half a lemon.
Lemons are a really great
way to kind of wake up your
smoothie.
Depending on what
I've got going on at home sometimes
I'll use juice
of half of a lemon, sometimes I'll
just leave the rhine on
and use a slice of lemon, it just depends.
It just depends.
So for you I did the actual juice of a lemon.
And then obviously anything dense
which in this case is some celery,
some cucumber,
I didn't bother to seed it
or take the skins off.
Sometimes I use an English cucumber,
sometimes a regular one whatever is
on hand.
Half a pear. That's my only sugar
going into this.
And this also is going to help push
everything down.
You got it.
And then my frozen, some ice cubes,
just to
cool it down and thicken it up a
little bit,
although it's pretty thick on its own.
I went ahead and stopped the program
because I know this
was done already.
Alright.
It's really green .
It looks icky.
No, it looks really really good.
I don't know about that.
I can. Thank you.
I can smell the
vegetables.
The celery especially--
The cucumber will come through a
lot, too.
Cheers.
We'll have a taste.
You flinched.
No, it's very good.
It's not icky.
It is.
It is rare
vegetable juice. It's a vegetable
juice,
it really is,
and it doesn't taste like grass.
No.
It is quite good. It's really really
good.
I made it before when I haven't had
the lemon.
And the lemon, really,
the lemon is actually,
that's a key component,
because otherwise it's almost too celery-y.
Yeah, gotta do lemon.
You could spice it up.
You could do a little jalapeno in
here, too, if you like spicy.
Actually that's a great idea.
Yeah yeah.
And I like it. This is not... this
is not a treat.
This is not candy.
But you are treating yourself,
your body.
You feel it good afterwards.
Yeah. No really.
It's a good shot, too.
No, really, I feel great.
So this is not your
morning blend per se
but this is your little late morning
or early afternoon blend.
You've got to be awake to have a
thing like this.
I can't do this fist thing in the
morning.
It works better for me a little bit
later in the day.
But if you were going to make a
morning blind
maybe you'd maybe be something a
little sweeter?
Maybe.
Yeah, no, it's a cup of coffee.
I have to have a cup of coffee first.
Yeah. That's the oe thing I can't seem to get
rid of.
Yeah. Well we do say
that this type of thing can replace
coffee. That feeling of being
energized.
Yes absolutely.
I still love the taste of coffee
and having it in the morning even
though I don't need it.
I go weeks without it and I'm fine.
I just enjoy life with a little coffee, too.
You can have both, right?
Absolutely.
Have your green juice and eat your
coffee, too.
Icky green juice in the morning.
You don't share this with your
family,
your kids, right?
My kids cringe when they see it
coming out of the blender.
I like it. The only problem is you
can't tell the
difference between the look of icky
green juice
and a delicious green juice.
Yeah.
So we don't want to scare . people
When it comes, for the kids,
too, I always say a slice of beet in
there
changes it to purple.
OK. OK.
So if you're trying to get those
greens in for your kids I
always do that, too.
Hide the color.
Make it purple.
I'll keep that in mind.
My dad's afraid of green stuff, too.
Alright, Icky Green juice,
Michelle, Vitamix retail store in Solon, Ohio.
Life is NOYOKE. Thank you for
watching.
Cheers keep it icky.
We're so excited we're here in
Solon, Ohio
at the--
Right?
What's so funny?
No, you're like, we're so excited to
be in Solon
We are!
We're thrilled to be here.
She's laughing at me.
