Lately my husband and I have enjoyed so many delicious superfoods in our smoothies, like spinach, kale, spirulina, hemp, ground flax, chia seeds and keifer. But we noticed that our smoothies became kinda chewy in our Ninja.
Don't get me wrong, we love our ninja, but decided to do some research on better blenders since we have smoothies almost daily. The results were pretty remarkable: Vitamix is the way to go!
But, those blenders are hundreds of dollars. Those videos that compared ninja vs vitamix in green smoothies, berry smoothies, frozen drinks, homemade nut butters and soups blew us away. There seemed to be no comparison to a Vitamix.
We're not really impulsive buyers but this product sold itself! For consumers like us who use their blender on average more than once per day, we wanted quality.
Lucky us, we find the Vitamix 5200: Getting Started on sale for $150 dollars off, plus free shipping from Target. Wow! We would have paid the full price, but that's am amazing deal!
So, 2 days later we have a new blender and we are living happily ever after :)
In reality, we're trying out new recipes and using the heck out of it!
Here's what I tried this morning for breakfast:
1 cup strawberries
1/4 cup blueberries
1/4 cup pineapple
1 carrot
1 cup spinach
1/4 yogurt
Optional: 1 Tbs ground flax seed
Optional: 1 Tbs hemp hearts
Optional: 1/2 tsp spirulina
Add orange juice until desired consistency.
Dump it all in the Vitamix, gradually blend up to variable speed 10 for 30-60 seconds. And ta-da, a Green Good Morning Smoothie!
Enjoy!
