Hooray!!!! GREAT interview!!!!

My goal is to eat 60-80% raw, but what do you do when it’s cold outside? Smoothies and salads are not what my body is screaming for when it’s cold. So, what do you do during winter? What types of foods or how do you prepare your foods during the winter? Thanks!

This encourages me to keep doing what I’m doing. I’m not 100% raw yet but I’m working on it. Right now I’m drinking 1/2 gallon of green smoothie a day (sometimes less) and my kids (adult still at home) drink about a qt. We try and eat more salads, fresh fruit, raw crackers and cookies (lots of fun to make), sprouts, rejuvelac and are doing less meat more vegetarian at this point. After 61 years of being sick and tired (long story which begins at birth) I’m on the slow road to being completely well. Enough so that I’m sticking with it. YEA!

great job, there is some great info here.

Thanks, very informative, love those green smoothies, also juicing fresh veggies and fruits.

Keep it up Robyn, you’re changing the world! You’ve already changed our family’s world. I’m glad my wife stumbled on to you several years ago. Thanks!

I have found that my Hamilton Beach blender works fine for green smoothies. I just add a little bit at a time and blend, blend, blend with water. I like it thicker and my husband likes it thinner. I pour out what I want and add a bit more water for him, blend and it’s done!!

I have a 600 watt Oster Fusion blender with 6 blades that makes good smoothies. But of course I’m waiting for the day when I can buy a BlendTec.

I tried my first green smoothie today:) and I did it in my old blender an oyster. Since I don’t know what it would be like in a Blendtec, I don’t know any better and it blended well enough for me, I could drink it through a thin straw, just put in more water. Yes I would love a Blendtec, but that’s not going to be possible for awhile so I’m just glad that I can make them with what I have. I used your original template Robyn, but didn’t use as much greens or water as that called for and used 2 think slices of lemon. That was the only part I didn’t care for, I’ll see what it’s like without the lemon or just a thin quarter. I’m excited to start on this journey

The best way to entice kids to drink green smoothies is just by example. When they see you drinking them everyday, eventually they will be curious enough to try them. Offer to make them a smoothie that is milder tasting w/ more fruit. I find the combination of green kale, ripe pear, banana, and kiwi to be a really good starting smoothie. Start w/ more fruit than greens until their taste buds become more accustomed to the taste of the greens, and start w/ the milder tasting greens first: green kale, parsley, romaine, baby spinach, young chard. A clever idea that a friend of mine came up with is to make a quart of a mild green smoothie and turn it into freezer pops! Her 4 year-old goes ga-ga for freezer pops, and he is all over those!

I think your answers are fine. But I have grown up on this type of diet for 58 years. I used to call them green drinks and were not mixed with much fruit. I hated juicing since it was a waste of all that good fiber etc. Smoothies are sooooo much better. We ate mostly raw growing up, never went to the doctor, and never had cavities until I was in my 20′s, when I had been on a standard diet for a few years. I am back doing better again. My cheapo Walmart blender works find, blends smooth, the longer I blend the smoother it becomes. I like mine a little more liquidy so I can just easily drink it. Good times.