{"id":168,"date":"2015-08-24T16:27:46","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T15:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/?p=168"},"modified":"2015-08-24T16:27:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-24T15:27:46","slug":"smoothies-why-bother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Smoothies &#8211; Why bother?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Smoothie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-169\" src=\"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Smoothie-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Smoothie\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Smoothie-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Smoothie-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A little while ago we had a discussion in the group about having smoothies as part of a post-treatment healthy diet [ thanks to Sarah for opening up the discussion! ]. I&#8217;ll leave the experts to go into detail on nutrition but you can have all these health benefits in about 5 mins prep time:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A delicious drink!<\/li>\n<li>Fibre<\/li>\n<li>Anti-oxidants<\/li>\n<li>Vitamins and minerals<\/li>\n<li>Some or all of your &#8216;five a day&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>An easy way to get fruit and veg into your diet when swallowing is difficult<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The smoothie makers can be expensive at \u00a3100 plus but can also be had for \u00a320 if you shop around, for example:<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"fn\">Breville VBL075 Blend Active Blender &#8211; \u00a319.99 at the time of writing from ARGOS<\/h3>\n<p>The possible combinations in a smoothie are endless and well covered in articles elsewhere but there are two basic styles: FRUIT and VEG [ can be mixed of course ].<\/p>\n<p>A basic fruit smoothie might include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>small banana<\/li>\n<li>half a dozen ripe strawberries<\/li>\n<li>handful of blueberries<\/li>\n<li>fresh orange juice to thin it down<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whizz it till it looks right, pour and enjoy. Frozen fruit can be used and gives a nice chill to the finished smoothie.<\/p>\n<p>Fruit is not cheap, but grab it from a market just before they close, or get overripe fruit &#8211; often reduced for a quick sale. If it&#8217;s got a few knocks and bruises so what?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a &#8216;green&#8217; smoothie recipe including some veg:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cup and a half of apple juice<\/li>\n<li>Two cups stemmed and chopped spinach or kale<\/li>\n<li>One apple\u2014unpeeled, cored, and chopped<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"field-ingredient-name\">Half an avocado, chopped<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"panel-pane pane-entity-field pane-node-field-ingredients recipe__ingredients\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"panel-separator\"><\/div>\n<div style=''><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/headcases2\" class=\"twitter-follow-button\" data-show-count=\"true\" data-button=\"blue\" data-text-color=\"#800080\" data-link-color=\"#800080\" data-lang=\"en\">Follow @headcases2<\/a>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/cmsvoteup.com\/category\/wordpress-plugins\/\" title=\"Get Twitter Follow Button WordPress Plugin\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cmsvoteup.com\/images\/power_by_2x2.gif\" border=\"0\"\/><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little while ago we had a discussion in the group about having smoothies as part of a post-treatment healthy diet [ thanks to Sarah for opening up the discussion! ]. I&#8217;ll leave the experts to go into detail on nutrition but you can have all these health benefits in about 5 mins prep time: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/headcases-staffs.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}