If you asked me to choose just one thing to eat for the rest of my life at age 5 or 15 or even 25 my answer would have been very, very different from what I am choosing today.
After decades of sub-par digestive health and too many years of low energy levels and far too many winters with back-to-back head colds I decided to learn some more about improving my health through nutrition. This is something I had tried to do over the last decade or so with supplements and restrictive diets but it's only got me so far.
And since I'm still far more tired than I'd like to be and far less healthy than I'd like to be, I thought it was time to learn how to truly nourish my body more deeply than ever before. Enter stage left: The green smoothie.
In this post, I'll tell you what's in it through showing you what's in it. Are you ready?
First, a big, strong, powerful blender is required to make this nutrient dense liquid meal. I feel very fortunate to have access to lots of electricity and the money to buy this reasonably expensive piece of equipment. I couldn't do these smoothies without this amazing kitchen item.
On this day I filled it up to the 1000mL (or 1 litre) mark. But sometimes I'll even fill it to the 1.2 litre mark (as that's about the max I can do without having it thinking about spilling out). It turns out that the "8 cups a day" that most of us have been told to drink is the minimum that our body needs to just keep us alive. As soon as we want to reverse disease, reduce inflammation and heal our body we need more than that. Much more.
Next, I add my omega 3 rich seeds. The doctor I learned this protocol from suggests only using chia and flaxseeds (aka linseeds) as they are high in omega 3 and don't have omega 6 (which western diets already have too much of). But I do mix it up. Most days I have chia and linseeds (as they're called in Australia) but if I want some variety I add hemp seeds and/or walnuts. My reasoning for deviating from her (well considered) recommendations is that I'm also learning from another doctor trained in nutrition who puts a strong focus on fibre and getting a really wide diversity of fibre in your diet as a way to improve health. So... I'm taking the best of both worlds.
Next, a small amount of sweet fruit. I use different things each day. (I'm going to say for my "same one food every day" that I have a spot here for "fruit". Hahaha. That might be cheating but I don't care 😅). On this day I used up the rest of the strawberries and the other half of the banana from breakfast. I buy fruit each week I like an vary what I put in based on what needs using up. Common inclusions (apart from these) are: raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, pears, apples, lemon and mango. Usually I use fresh stuff, but sometimes I'll use frozen fruit instead or as well. The important bit here is that the amount of fruit is low compared to the amount of green leafy veg I put in!
Next! The all important green veg. This is buy choy (I think! It looks rather like pak choy and they're not always labelled at the fruit and veg shop. Sometimes the shelf they're on just says "asian greens". That's good enough for me!).
I chop off the very bottom that's holding all the leaves together. I give them a good rinse under warm water and then drop them in!
The next green veg was a leafy green, pre-mixed bag of lettuce type stuff. Again, not well marked at the store but I don't care. It's got a few different types of plants in there (so I'm getting my fibre diversity), it's full of green stuff and it's cheap! So I gave it a go.
Even when the packets say "pre-washed and ready to use" I... don't believe them 😂 so I get a big handful, I give it a really good rinse and then in it goes!
I've also started growing sprouts. This was at the recommendation of that second doctor I mentioned (Dr Will Bulsiewicz) who put me onto Doug Evans who very enthusiastically (and competently!) teaches about the nutritional power of sprouts. So... we bought a mini kit and organic sprouting seeds and started sprouting for the first time in our lived memory. And since I see no good reason that sprouts can't go into my smoothie 😅 I grab a handful of whatever is around and I chuck it in! On this day it was mung bean sprouts (on the left) and lentil sprouts (on the right).
Next. A regular and a favourite: kale!!! 🌿 I love kale! It's chock full of nutrients and I actually think I genuinely like the taste. I rip off big handfuls (a bunch this size usually only lasts two days) and, like it's other leafy green cousins, it gets a good rinse before it goes in.
When I learned this protocol (from Dr Brooke Goldner she emphasised just how important it is to stuff as much leafy green stuff into your blender as possible. "Pack it in. Use your muscles!" is something she commonly says when giving a demonstration. So that's what I do, I squash it in!
Then it's time for the blender to do the hard work for me! Zshoooooooooom! 💪👊👌
Ahhhh, it looks so cool, right? 😎
I also bought this supplement powder a few months ago to help rebalance my hormones. (Side note: 
Here's the awesome stuff that's in the supplement. Hmmmmm. Yum! 😋😄😍
This gets stirred into a glass of smoothie which I drink straight away as the supplement thickens as soon as it touches the liquid. So it goes in and gets drunk (drunken? ➡️ I then drink it!).
With the amounts shown in this post this is the final product. The 1 litre bottle is for me (and was drunk... drunken??? by me within an hour or so of taking that photo). The 600mL bottle is for my Mister. It goes in the fridge for him to drink in the afternoon when he gets home from work. He says it tastes awful but on the rare occasion I don't make one for my lunch (and therefore don't make one for him) he then asks, "Where's my green smoothie?". 😂😆😉
So that, my dear, is what I would eat every day if I had to choose just one thing. What about you? What's the one thing you would eat if you could only eat one thing for the whole rest of your life?
This post was created in answer to the latest question in the Ladies of Hive Community:
Our bodies require nourishment to thrive and we enjoy the taste of food. Keeping that in mind, if you had to choose just one food to eat for the rest of your life, what food would that be and why?
There are two questions each week in the LOH Community Contest (I choose the one that interests me the most, but some people answer both in one post).
As I write this, there is still about 20 hours left before the contest closes. So if you are a lady and you'd like to enter you can check out the contest here.
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Finally, I'd love to know what you would eat if you could only eat one thing every day for the rest of your life 