3 Superfood Smoothies to Enhance Your Life

3 Superfood Smoothies to Enhance Your Life by Leanne Wierzbicki

Superfoods have hit the mainstream, and rightly so. So, what is a superfood anyway? Simply put, superfoods are highly nutrient dense foods.

Most people in our modern world are consuming large amounts of nutrient-devoid foods, and find themselves constantly hungry, craving more, because they are not satiated. The body has not received the nutrients it needs to function optimally. High quantity of food consumption with a small amount of nutrients.

Superfoods are added to their more mainstream produce counterparts (fruits and vegetables) in very small quantities, but pack an incredible nutrient punch. Small quantity of food consumption with a large amount of nutrients.

Think of superfoods as your insurance policy. You consume organic whole foods, such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and healthy oils as the bulk of your calories in a day to provide your body with the clean energy it needs to survive. You add in the superfoods to ensure you are getting all the nutrients your body needs to thrive.

The great thing about superfood smoothies is they enable you to get your daily nutritional requirements in (and then some) in one easily digested meal. By blending and masticating the ingredients, they are more bioavailable and easier to absorb, making it more likely that the body will actually absorb and use what you are putting into it. It’s all about absorption. Take the time to ask your Self, “Do I want to just survive, or do I want to thrive?”

These 3 superfood recipes below can help you take the steps to enhance your life. 

Get creative. Use them as a launch pad. Focus on adding in the good. Your body, mind, and Spirit will thank you.

  1. Sweet Strawberries and Kale

Not just another kale smoothie! Together with the powerhouse nutritional benefits of kale, the benefits of blue pigments from blueberry and phycocyanin, and clean protein from spirulina, this smoothie is a winner in the nutrition department. Plus, it doesn’t taste green. Who doesn’t love strawberries and vanilla?

  • 2 big leaves of kale, destemmed
  • 2 bananas
  • 2-3 cups frozen strawberries
  • 2 tbsp raw wild blueberry powder
  • 1 tbsp raw lucuma
  • 1 tsp spirulina
  • 1 tsp blue pigment phycocyanin
  • ½ tsp vanilla bean powder
  • Pinch Himalayan salt
  • 2 tbsp raw honey
  • 2 cups raw nut milk of choice

Add all ingredients to your blender and blend until thick and creamy. Serves 2 – 3.

  1. Winter Delight

Bet you didn’t think of putting squash in your smoothie! Well, you can and it’s delicious combined with these warming and healing anti-inflammatory spices and immune boosting medicinal mushrooms. Alas, one more way to use up those beautiful winter squash hanging around in your pantry from the autumn harvest. Toss the squash in the oven and cook it as you would normally – no need to puree it after. Cut it into blender sized chunks, freeze in freezer bags, and you’re ready to rock this smoothie! Remember that pumpkin is a variety of winter squash too. Most varieties will work out fine, but I prefer the ones with deep orange flesh! So, go ahead, give your soup pot a wee break.

  • 2 frozen bananas
  • 1 cup frozen cooked squash
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp nutmeg
  • ½ tsp cardamom
  • 1 tsp 14 medicinal mushroom blend powder (or plain chaga powder if you don’t have a blend)
  • 1 tsp vanilla bean powder
  • 1 tbsp hemp seeds
  • 1 tbsp pure maple syrup
  • 3-4 cups almond milk to reach desired consistency

Put all ingredients in the blender and blend until smooth and creamy. Serves 2-3.

  1. SuperBerry Smoothie

Antioxidants galore, green goodness, gut-healthy probiotics, plant based protein, and nourishing fats, in a base of immune strengthening forest tea – what more could we ask for?

  • 2 frozen bananas
  • 2 cups frozen Power Fruit Blend (cherries, blackberries, blueberries)
  • ½ cup hemp hearts
  • 1 vegan probiotic capsule opened
  • 1 tsp Berry Power Blend powder (goji juice, wild blueberry, acai juice, acerola cherry, schizandra berry)
  • 1 tsp spinach powder
  • 1 tsp E3Live AFA blue-green algae, or substitute with spirulina and chlorella
  • 1 heaping tbsp virgin coconut oil
  • 1 heaping tbsp raw honey
  • pinch sea salt
  • 1/3 cup kombucha
  • 1 cup (or more as needed) chilled medicinal superherb forest tea blend (Chaga, reishi, nettle, clover, cranberry etc.)

Blend until smooth and creamy. Serves 2-3.

Enjoy!

-Leanne Wierzbicki,

Hatha & Yoga for First Responders teacher, High Vibration Living Coach, David Wolfe Certified Nutrition Coach, author, owner of Breathe Live Believe. I offer Hatha style and Restorative therapeutic private, semi-private and corporate Yoga, trauma sensitive Yoga for First Responders, High Vibration Living and Holistic Nutrition Coaching services, Plant Based Whole Foods Classes, Workshops, and Retreats.

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