By Melanie A. Albert, intuitive cooking expert, author, and speaker. Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC
Yesterday, I posted a quick smoothie with homemade sunflower seed milk as the base. Today, I created a similar smoothie with chia seeds and coconut water as the base.
Both smoothies were made with coconut water, raspberries, and a banana. The only difference being the sunflower seeds yesterday and the chia seeds today, as a thickener and source of protein and healthy fats.
CULINARY TIP: Be sure to soak chia seeds before you use them in a recipe, as they will expand about 12 times their size with soaking.
SIMPLE SMOOTHIE: Blend coconut water chia seed liquid, with frozen raspberries and a banana for a quick, delicious smoothie.
By Melanie Albert, Nutrition and food expert, author and speaker. Founder & CEO, Experience Nutrition Group, LLC
Inspired by the pomegranates sitting on my counter, I decided to create a smoothie. I wanted this smoothie to be special, since I’ve loved sweet juicy pomegranates since I was a young kid mindfully picking the seeds out of the fruit like crab meat, with the deep red juice dripping down my arms.
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Intuitively, I created the pomegranate smoothie with home-made almond milk, which is delicious, even by itself. Enjoy the process of creating this thick, creamy sweet smoothie.
Simple Ingredients
• 1 pomegranate, seeded
• 1 cup coconut water
• ½ cup almonds
• 1 Medjool date
• 1 frozen banana
Simple Steps to Get the Seeds out of a Pomegranate, without all the Mess!
Cut pomegranate in half
Place pomegranate in a bowl of water
Tear apart the pomegranate. Seeds will float to the bottom of the bowl and the tan membrane will rise to the top
Mindfully examine the seeds and take out small piece of membrane
Fresh Home-made Almond Milk
Blend coconut water, almonds and date in high-speed blender for 1-2 minutes
Enjoy a taste
Simple Steps: My First Ever Pomegranate Smoothie
Add banana to the almond milk in the blender and blend for about a minute
Enjoy another taste
Sprinkle pomegranate seeds into blender and blend for another minute
Pour smoothie into glass
Top with a few pomegranate seeds and almonds to add a crunch to the smoothie
Enjoy! Enjoy! Enjoy!
Fun with mise en place: All ingredients set up to prepare the smoothie.
by Melanie Albert, Nutrition & Food Expert, Author and Speaker, Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Holistic Nutrition & Whole Food Cooking Instructor Southwest Institute of Healing Arts, Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition
Create your own Trail Mix full of nuts, seeds, dried fruit & berries. A perfect snack for Super Bowl day.
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We first started creating organic trail mix for the Super Bowl XLIII VIP Tailgate Party at the Super Bowl in Tampa.
Over the years we’ve been honored to serve custom trail mix at numerous Super Bowl events & golf tournaments with NFL Alumni & NFL Hall of Fame Players.
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Try this simple, quick snack for an energy boost, full of protein and omega-3 rich nuts. Enjoy these during your Super Bowl party!
Experience Nutrition: 9 Ways 90 Days: Top 10 Super Bowl Healthy Recipes: 8 Hemp Seed Energy Balls
Ingredients
1 cup fresh or soaked dried organic Medjool dates
1/2 cup almonds
½ cup hemp seeds
1/8 cup chia seeds
3 TBS cocao powder
Simple Steps
Take seeds out of dates
Place dates, hemp seeds, almonds and chia seeds in high speed blender
Mix on high for about a minute until the mixture becomes soft and warm
Roll the mixture into small balls
Roll the balls into hemp seeds
Roll a few of the balls into cocao powder and hand mix it into the balls
Enjoy!
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