Green Smoothie Magic - 132+ Delicious Green Smoothie Recipes That Trim And Slim [Kindle Edition]

Gabrielle Raiz (Author)

Book Description

* * Amazon #1 Best Seller! * *


Green Smoothies are a fantastic, easy and delicious way to reap the rewards of superb healthy and natural food AND take full advantage of the family-friendly nature of smoothies! If you've ever wondered how to include more raw and plant-based foods into your diet, then learning to make delicious green smoothies in seconds, using easy-to-find ingredients is an essential skill.


While some smoothie books depend on 'superfoods' or require difficult to find ingredients, Green Smoothie Magic solves this problem admirably by giving you over 132 recipes with ingredients that you can find just about anywhere that won't break the bank.


With a down-to-earth approach, Gabrielle shows you how to adapt green smoothie recipes, substitute ingredients and impress your family and friends with your extensive repertoire! This is an incredible time-saving way to gain all the benefits of a healthy, nutritional diet, without *having* to eat a mountain of salads every day.


You'll discover:

• 132 tested green smoothie recipes (plus suggested variations)


• How to adapt and substitute ingredients depending on availability and taste


• Introducing smoothies to you and your family's lifestyle with no 'taste shock'


• How to add superfoods to any smoothie


• Best ways to wash and store ingredients


• Blending and blender recommendation


• 219+ pages of practical information

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Gabrielle Raiz is also known as "the Hot Yoga Doctor" and also the Author of the best-selling "Hot Yoga MasterClass" - a Reference Manual for Hot Yoga fans around the world. An ex-dentist, Gabrielle is a keen student of "holistic health" and loves to create the best healthy and delicious food for her family - and with the recent launch of "Green Smoothie Magic" is now sharing these simple and easy recipes - and her secret techniques - with the world! Something you may not know about Gabrielle (and rather unusual for a yoga instructor) is that she used to race motorcycles!

Product Details

• File Size: 2942 KB
• Print Length: 196 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Gabrielle Raiz; 1 edition (September 1, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00952UYLO
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,259 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #14 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Special Diet > Healthy
  • #48 in Books > Cookbooks, Food & Wine > Special Diet > Healthy
  • #64 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Health, Fitness & Dieting > Diets & Weight Loss > Diets

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

61 of 62 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Practical advice for making your own green smoothies September 7, 2012

By Koreen Clements

Format:Kindle Edition

FULL DISCLOSURE: I know Gabrielle from attending her hot yoga teacher training program in 2011 and assisting in 2012. During which time she drank a green (or often red) smoothie every morning of the >60 days I've spent living alongside her - so she definitely knows her smoothies.

I also have to confess that my previous experience with green smoothies has not been fantastic. I have purchased other green smoothie books that promised a variety of magical health recoveries. Whilst I don't doubt the authors were sincere in their recommendations and I really wanted to incorporate them into my diet, the recipes left little to be desired by way of taste with no indication as to what went wrong. So I was greatly pleased to discover that Gabrielle devotes over a third of the book to background information that is highly practical, which will allow you to get the most out of the recipes. There is a lot of information in the book including advice for storing your greens, superfoods to add, how to freeze fruit, and even suggestions for choosing a blender. In particular, I thought the following sections were especially helpful.

HOW MUCH OF MY SMOOTHIE SHOULD BE GREEN? and HANDFUL, BUNCHES OR CUPS -
In these sections, Gabrielle discusses the ratio and measurement of greens, which is something that tends to get glossed over in other books and therefore when you go to make the smoothies you won't be left mystified as to how much to actually put in of the various ingredients.

NOT ALL GREEN SMOOTHIES ARE GREEN and KNOWING YOUR GREENS -
In these sections, Gabrielle lists a variety of greens and other ingredients that you can add and gives you an indication as to how varying these will impact on the flavour and texture of your smoothie.

GREEN SMOOTHIE MAGIC 101 and GREEN SMOOTHIE RESCUE -
This is a great place to start if you just want to jump into making smoothies... Gabrielle gives you the basics of where to begin as well as giving you over 3 pages of suggestions for what to do if your recipe doesn't work out.

In the recipes section, I liked how Gabrielle gave suggestions for how you could alter specific recipes depending on your mood or the ingredients you have available because this will get you experimenting and creating your own smoothies in no time at all.

Aside from the information and recipes, I would have liked to have had a more obvious grouping of the smoothie recipes so you could easily reference them, or at least a glossary so you could look up what fruits/veggies you have available and easily find a recipe that has them in it. I know this is something Gabrielle is working on adding in a later update. I think this book will appeal to people who want to feel as if you have a knowledgeable friend sitting at your kitchen table offering advice for when you first start out and then you'll soon be making up your own green smoothies.

42 of 45 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars "Chew Your Drink And Drink Your Food" Gandhi September 3, 2012

By Wendy Ann Walker

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I've spent thousands of dollars on raw food related trainings and education over the past year. I read Green Smoothie Magic and felt like someone condensed and summarized the content in each of my formal trainings in one book, in very simple, "family friendly", easy to understand language for only $2.99. That's absurd. This book is worth 10 times that price! While reading the book, I felt like I was being taken on a personal journey into the "lifestyle" of an experienced, vegetarian, vegan, raw foodie who figured out how to get her child to eat more greens by drinking "green smoothies" long before drinking green smoothies became the most popular, healthiest way to lose weight, feel great and maintain great health. Gabrielle doesn't miss anything on Smoothies, Raw Food, Greens or anything in between! From her heart and YEARS of experience she shares the CLEANEST, most up-to-date, not internet regurgitated health information available. As a Raw Food Chef/Educator I teach classes on the benefits of Green Smoothies and how to incorporate them into your daily life. Going forward I will purchase copies of Green Smoothie Magic for my students because the recipes it contains are reliable, DELICIOUS and very EASY TO MAKE! This is a must if you want to make Smoothie-ing a lifestyle and my success as a teacher depends on this outcome for my students. Thank you for this book Gabrielle.

28 of 33 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Know EVERYTHING or NOTHING about smoothies? Get this book anyway!! September 3, 2012

By Smoothie Lover

Format:Kindle Edition

I'm a 25 year old yoga teacher and I am passionate about healthy food, thus I LOVE smoothies! I have been making smoothies for a few months now and they have become an essential part of my life (got my family hooked on them too!).
The reason I highly recommend this item, is that it's very educational. It's straight forward so even if you are brand new to this, you'll get it pretty much immediately. If you already are a pro, you need to see these lovely concoctions! Also, I am certain you'll learn new things that you have never even heard or thought of.
I thought I was very creative with my smoothies and then I read these recipes...boy! I don't think one could possibly think of a question regarding smoothies that doesn't get answered in this book. Nut milk, seeds, nuts, spices, veggies,fruits,storage, blenders...you name it, Gabrielle Raiz talks about EVERYTHING to help you get the hang of being a smoothie master!
Everyone needs a copy of this book, your family/friends/kids/ YOU will love it!

More About the Author

Gabrielle Raiz is an author, a keen foodie and health-loving educator who perhaps surprisingly started her working life as a dentist. She has a knack for making things practical and understandable and has a flexible approach to her food and her yoga.

Gabrielle has recently expanded her food writing to publish 2 top selling books "Green Smoothie Magic" and "132+ Delicious Salads, Dressings and Dips". All of her recipes are fuss-free adaptable recipes which most importantly use easy to find ingredients that anyone can make. Some embody beautiful simplicity of 1 or 2 ingredients while others are marvellously complex, but never hard to make!

Gabrielle's talent as an author was crystallized through much online writing and of course with the publishing of her highly successful first book: "Hot Yoga MasterClass" (which is now finally, recently available on Amazon).

Her hallmark style has an easy, intelligent and conversational tone with a touch of humor!

In both her currently chosen fields (!) of nutrition and yoga she has built a solid reputation for creating products of beauty and above all, quality. "What you eat and how you move are 2 fields in which being mindful and present are vital", Gabrielle says. "I love that I help people do both!"

As the "Hot Yoga Doctor" she helps tens of thousands of people every month in every corner of the planet improve their yoga practices by demystifying all things yoga, hot yoga and Bikram Yoga™.

Something you may not know about Gabrielle (and rather unusual for a yoga instructor) is that she used to race motorcycles! But as she's been known to say "the last time I rode a motorbike was to go and buy a pregnancy testing kit". Her daughter is now 10!