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Today's smoothie (definitely a keeper):

Bananas-2
Spinach-about a cup (bonus points for being fresh rather than limp and rubbery)
Frozen strawberries-about a cup
Frozen raspberries-about a cup
yYogurt-one single serve carton (the cream top stuff again. Wow is that good. Still no idea what it means)
Almond milk-about half a cup

So today's smoothie is brought to you by the letter "N" for Nauseous.

Bananas-2 (overripe)
raspberries-not enough
spinach-too much
yogurt-the last of the carton
milk-about a cup

The bananas were a bad idea. At least they got used up, but this wasn't a good day for smoothie experiment posterity. Tomorrow is another day, I suppose.

I poured in a cup of tomato juice I thought was normal and I didn't discover that it was actually the spicy variety until I'd already finished dumping it in.

Nevertheless, I managed to make it taste okay.

Ingredients came out to:

banana-1
tropical fruit blend frozen fruit (strawberries, pineapple, mango)-about a cup
spinach-1 large handful
yogurt, cream top (I'm not actually sure what this means, but it tastes amazing)-three large tablespoons
tomato juice (spicy)-about a cup
blueberry pomegranate juice-about two cups (to cover up the tomato juice)

It tastes okay now, but it took much more of everything else than I'd been expecting.

Today's smoothie:

banana-1 & 1/2
fresh strawberries-5
snap peas-10
sliced pineapple-about a cup
yogurt-five tablespoons
1% milk-about two cups
baby carrots-about half a cup

(The reason for the extra everything is hide the taste of the carrots, which I hate, but I'm told are good for me.

Prognosis: It tastes like carrot. Fuck today.

I make smoothies most days, and I never use a recipe. They are, without fail, thrown together from whatever (usually ridiculous) assortment of foodstuffs I happen to have lying around the house on any given day. Hence this post, and any others like it, which I suppose I'll use as something of a digital recipe book. So, for today's ingredients:

spinach-three handfulls
plain non-fat Greek yogurt-three large tablespoons
banana-1
frozen fruits: blueberries, raspberries, blackberries-about a cup and a half
unsweetened vanilla almond milk-about two cups
tomato juice-the last of the bottle (so about a cup)

Prognosis: Not bad, though the almond milk made things a bit more flat than I'd hoped, and the tomato juice gave it a...density of taste that drowned out the more simple tartness of the yogurt and berries. I like it.

We'll see where this goes.