© mizina
As I’m writing this blog post, I’m sipping a glass of green smoothie. How apt. Indulging in what some people would call “drinks wankery”. 😛
I’ve always called green smoothies “green juice”. I didn’t know that “green juice” meant cold-pressed juice or just juice that’s extracted from veggies. I’ve always called them green juice. But now I know that what I’ve been drinking daily for the past couple of years are green smoothies. This means that I drink all of the fibrous pulp that are blended in the blender too.
Just a little over two years ago, Tim bought a fancypants blender for green juicing. Prior to that, we were not green juice/smoothies drinkers. We’ve never purchased any from vendors in shops. I didn’t know what got into Tim to buy an expensive blender (while it’s not a Vitamix blender, it’s still an expensive one from Bio Chef that costs well over $300) given that we don’t have the habit of green juicing. But I figured it wouldn’t hurt if he enjoys drinking green smoothies because he’ll get to meet his daily intake of fruits and veggies.
Me, I wasn’t so into the idea because I wasn’t a fan of green smoothies. I once had a badly blended one and I had to eat the very “green” tasting bits of beaten up spinach that was floating in the smoothie. It tasted pretty bloody awful and I told myself I wouldn’t drink another green smoothie ever again. I even had bits of spinach pulp stuck in my teeth! Why the heck do people even enjoy such drinks? *shudder*
