Summer is here! Running from your kids' early morning baseball game to the tennis courts for some practice in the afternoon sun requires you to be adequately fueled, nourished and hydrated.
Here are three simple, delicious and nutrient-rich drinks you can mix at home using just a blender! Unlike many store-bought, lab-created, "functional beverages" -- such as enhanced water (e.g. Vitamin Water) and sports drinks like Gatorade -- these homemade versions are all-natural.
Potassium and various electrolytes central to keeping you hydrated, as well as other nutrients in these recipes, come from whole and natural food sources, such as coconut water, sea salt and bananas. These yummy recipes take advantage of the deliciousness that comes with eating fruits that are fresh, in season and bursting with flavor!
Enjoy!
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Pooja Mottl is a Natural Foods Chef and Fitness Consultant. She is a graduate of the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts. You can find all her latest on healthy living, food and fitness at Pooja's Way.
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These drinks are messing up healthy foods.
What should you drink? WATER. Maybe some green tea or a little red wine.
But why take healthy fruits and veggies and blend them so you can drink them? EAT THEM. That's healthy.
Have a hankering for some blue berries? Why waste time blending them with something. They are juicy. EAT THEM. You know what else is really good for you and is juicy and crunchy? Celery. EAT THEM.
At least these aren't Juicing, which is taking out the fiber, one of the healthiest parts of fruit and vegetables, but straining still takes out too much.
Or why not just drink Coconut Water straight while eating some cucumber?
I don't get why all this blending or juicing is seen as so healthy when it's healthier to just eat the fresh fruit and vegetables whole and hydrate with water.
I agree these are a waste of time, but the first one may be good with some rum......
So celery is a great food. Of course you couldn't live on just celery. But I eat a bunch of celery a week. It's great just by itself. I love it in salads and in stir fries. You can also use it to eat humus if you've given up grain products like me and need a new delivery system for that wonderful food.
By the way, if you're concerned about eating low glycemic, avoid mirepoix, that French base for so many food where you saute chopped onions, carrots and celery in a little olive oil. You see carrots are healthy until they're cooked enough to be mushy, then they go from a low to a high glycemic food. Mirepoix adds so much flavor to things and is healthy except for the cooked carrots. So just vary it by leaving out the carrots and then adding them to the dish at the end leaving them in just long enough for them to heat up. They add a little crunch this way too!
Watermelon, bananas, pineapple, apple,mango, coconut milk and yogurt to give it that smoothy texture.
Nothing better than that...NOTHING!
I also put 2 teaspoons of apple cider vinegar and 2 teaspoons of honey in a bottle of water. The organic vinegar "with the mother", the processed vinegar filters out all the good stuff.
I haven't had a cramp so far this summer and I work as a bike cop wearing body armor and 20 pounds of equipment for a 10 hour shift in south Texas.
I agree, it would be better to call these recovery drinks and add a little protein to them.