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Week 2: Your Challenge -- Prepare a Summer Smoothie

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To: ALL     Posted: Jun-28 07:57 AM (1 of 123)
Take a break from your usual morning fare of egg and pancake dishes, and prepare a delicious smoothie. Smoothies make a nutritious summer breakfast meal and are easy if you’re on-the-go. Use a food processor or blender to give your smoothie thickness and a milkshake-like consistency. There are a variety of ingredients you can use in your smoothie, depending on the Phase of the plan you’re on. Use fat-free or 1% milk, non-fat or low-fat plain yogurt, and add vanilla or almond extract, no-sugar-added chocolate powder, sugar-free chocolate syrup, or granular sugar substitute for a boost of flavor and sweetness. If you’re on Phase 1, use fresh veggies, silken tofu, natural peanut butter, nut butter, nuts and flaxseeds to prepare a smoothie. Once you’re on Phase 2, you can use fresh or frozen fruit, such as blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, peaches, and bananas.

This Week: Prepare a homemade South Beach Diet-friendly smoothie. Search our database of more than 1,000 recipes or get your creative juices flowing and come up with your own recipe. Check out our Almond Energy Blast (Phase 1) and Blackberry-Banana Smoothies (Phase 2) recipes. After you prepare your smoothie, report back to us about your experience. Did you choose a South Beach Diet recipe, or did you create your own? What ingredients did you use? What would you do differently next time? Was it easy to prepare? Share your smoothie-making skills with other members here!

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To: ALL     Posted: Jun-28 08:32 AM (2 of 123)
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In the meantime, we have a winner for Week 1 of the Challenge! Krayzieshorty not only had a South Beach Diet-friendly picnic, she combined it with a healthy hike through the Maine woods! Read about her picnic here.
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To: Admin_Richard     Posted: Jun-28 10:02 AM (3 of 123)
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wow thanks! im very proud of myself :-)   but i was actually hiking in washington state where i live i recently took a trip to maine!      im looking forward to this second challenge as i am always eating the same breakfast.
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To: Krayzieshorty     Posted: Jun-28 10:22 AM (4 of 123)
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Congrats on the win Carrie!
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To: Admin_Richard     Posted: Jun-28 06:48 PM (5 of 123)
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This will be a fun challenge for me as I've never made a smoothie.  Will be looking at the recipe site and my SB cookbooks for some suggestions, I really enjoy summer fruit so I have a feeling my smoothie will involve the fruit that is in season here in Atlanta, GA.  Thanks for a fun challenge!!!
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To: Krayzieshorty     Posted: Jun-29 02:11 AM (6 of 123)
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Congratulations Carrie!!  Excellent job!
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To: Admin_Richard     Posted: Jun-29 02:13 AM (7 of 123)
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I love this!!  I haven't made a smoothie yet since I've been on SB, and this will be great!

Plus, I've been looking for an excuse to get a new blender.... :-)
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To: Krayzieshorty     Posted: Jun-29 08:14 AM (8 of 123)
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Great job Carrie!
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To: Krayzieshorty     Posted: Jun-29 09:01 AM (9 of 123)
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Congrats on the win, girl. You deserve it--anyone who hikes through the woods deserves it! The woods are almost--not quite, but almost--my perfect nightmare. LOL.

On to smoothies!!!

Annie
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To: Admin_Richard     Posted: Jun-29 09:20 AM (10 of 123)
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This is too freaky. By coincidence I made my first smoothie over the weekend.

I like to start these challenges with something negative (what can I say, I'm just your average, ordinary, half-empty-glass kind of gal), so here's how to ruin two fragrant, beautifully ripe South Carolina peaches:

BEWARE THE COTTAGE CHEESE

For some reason, this recipe (from the Food Network magazine I saw in a neighbor's home) called for 1% cottage cheese and milk. How healthy I thought. Delicious SB fare.

Not so much. Tasted like peach chalk.

So now that I've warned everyone, I'm off to explore the "real" SB recipes!

Annie
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To: aloman     Posted: Jun-29 09:45 AM (11 of 123)
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I like your post....I will beware of the combo (aka peach chalk)! thanks
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To: aloman     Posted: Jun-29 01:09 PM (12 of 123)
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LOL Annie!

I'm glad you posted that because I was searching the web yesterday for smoothie recipes and saw a lot of them that had cottage cheese. I wonder, was it the 1% cottage cheese or the combination of that and the peaches that created the infamous "chalk". 

Personally, I only eat the 2% or 4% cottage cheese. I know it's not the best, but I can't help it! The extra bit of fat makes a big difference.

Thanks for the post.

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To: Natalie1975     Posted: Jun-29 01:21 PM (13 of 123)
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You know, justme, I don't know what it was. I just felt the cottage cheese interfered with the fruit taste. Maybe there was too much of it? The recipe called for two ripe peaches, 1 cup of cottage cheese and 1/2 cup of milk, honey (I subbed Splenda) and ice. I tend to be a little flip, so don't go by me. Try it with your cottage (if you dare....) and see. Maybe it's just me.(to coin a phrase). I didn't like the ricotta creme either--too gritty.

 Personally, I think the cottage cheese would be great in a savory rather than sweet concoction. A soup, or maybe some kind of twist on gazpacho.

Be interested to hear if others try a cottage cheese fruit smoothie and what their reactions are.

Oh--and if anyone out there has a great smoothie recipe (I only found 3 on the site's recipe search) I'd love to see it. I'm going to try my peach smoothie again, with yoghurt this time, and see if it makes a difference,

Annie
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To: aloman     Posted: Jun-29 01:46 PM (14 of 123)
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Hmmm...It seems to me if there was a cup of cottage cheese and only 1/2 cup of milk that perhaps it wasn't enough liquid. I bet if you cut the cottage cheese to 1/2 cup, used 1 cup of milk and added crushed ice that might be less chalky. Also, in place of honey you could add agave nectar which would also add a little more liquid.

I've not completely abandoned the idea of cottage cheese - something to think about I guess. This smoothie stuff has really got my creative juices flowing. (ha, ha).

Here is a recipe I found yesterday, thought it sounded yummy.

Easy Energy Almond Butter Banana Smoothie
(Serves 2)

Ingredients:

2 cups almond or soy milk, vanilla flavor
2 frozen bananas, ripe
2 Tbsp raw almond butter
1 Tbsp agave nectar or sugar free maple syrup
1 cup ice
1/2 tsp cinnamon

Preparation:

Place all ingredients in a high power blender. Blend on high until smooth and thick. Pour into glasses and garnish with roasted almonds.

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To: Krayzieshorty     Posted: Jun-29 04:26 PM (15 of 123)
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WOOHOOO!  Gratsies, Carrie!  Way to GO!
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To: Admin_Richard     Edited: Jun-29 05:11 PM (16 of 123)
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Okay!  Strep and goopy eyes have run the gammit at the Calder house and I am finally all well AND all done worrying over sick little ones.  It tossed a wrench into my plans for the Week One challenge, but I won't let that little setback keep me from the next few weeks!  :)

Here's my very own "Heidi's Garden Smoothie" that I just invented and am drinking as I type this post!  :)  I cut up a small cored apple (peel and all - i never remove edible peelings from my food), tossed in about 10 pitted cherries (picked from my own tree less than an hour ago), a cup of Indian Black Matpe Beans that I sprouted over the weekend, 2 sugar-free fudgesicles, 6 sprigs of mint from the garden, 1/2 cup skim milk and some ice cubes.  Gave it all a whirl in the blender and VOILA!

Delicious!

(PS - Pay no attention to the faulty date on image - I changed the camara battery and need to get hubby to reset that)

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To: aloman     Posted: Jun-29 07:44 PM (17 of 123)
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Ooooo...  I was thinking peach, too.

There used to be a restaurant in Austin, when I was spending my summers down there, that had a peach cobbler that was to-die-for!!  It had a softer, more cake-like crust rather than a pie crust type crust -- they served it warm with a scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream on top.  It was heaven!  I've been craving it since the weather's warmed up and I was in Austin last week.

The neighboring county's peach festival is a couple of weeks away and I'm already seeing peaches at roadside stands.  I'm going to get some and see how close I can come to imitating that peach cobbler!

If anyone runs across a recipe that sounds like it might work, let me know!

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To: themilkmaid     Posted: Jun-29 08:34 PM (18 of 123)
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GREAT SMOOTHIE RECIPE....How was the texture? I love cherries, this looks fabulous...You're unbelievable !

Did you share with hubby?
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To: Admin_Richard     Posted: Jun-29 09:32 PM (19 of 123)
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I have been making smoothies for my morning meal for many years.  I especially enjoy them more in the summer.  I use 1 cup plain yogurt, one cup of mixed berries, some splenda to taste, one-half cup ice, and another one-half cup skim milk.  Put it all in the blender and whirl around until smooth and fluffy.  I can change the fruit to any SBD Phase II approved fruit for variety.  My smoothies are not anything fancy, just plain and simple, which works for me on busy mornings.  I sip my smoothies while I am getting ready for work and it saves me so much time.  The more foods that are simple, and quick and SBD friendly the more I rely on them to help me save time and keep me on the beach sailing along just fine.

Tami
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To: Admin_Richard     Posted: Jun-29 10:50 PM (20 of 123)
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Tonight I whipped up a pumpkin smoothie. I wanted to whip up something that might mimick that pumpkin ice cream I used to love so much.

Here's the recipe

1/2 cup organic pumpkin puree
1/2 cup part skim ricotta cheese
3/4 cup no sugar added vanilla soy milk
2 tablespoons agave nectar
1 heaping tablespoon flaxmeal
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie seasoning
Lots of ice to thicken

This made 2 nicely sized servings. The texture was a little grainy, I think next time I'll omit the flaxmeal. I was going for a super fiber filled smoothie. It tasted fantastic. Just like the pumpkin pie ice cream, but lots less fat and sugar for sure!

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To: themilkmaid     Posted: Jun-29 10:52 PM (21 of 123)
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Good thinking to use the fudge pops! It looks very tasty.
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