I’ve tried juicing and after a while felt it wasn’t really for me, but now I’ve truly found my soul blending mate in the form of a NutriBullet.
Why I love my NutriBullet
What I love about the NutriBullet apart from the fabulous smoothies, is the science behind it. The thing is you see, it has a complicated sounding Nutrient Extraction mechanism to break down fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and other plant foods into their most absorbable state.
It’s a bit different to juicers (which don’t break down the pulp) and different to blenders, which don’t have the mechanism to break down the cell walls of fibrous plant foods, to release vitamins and minerals. So you can put in raw chopped up vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, and any superfood you have to hand and the NutriBullet will magically transform them into fabulous liquid fuel for your body.
The NutriBullet reduces the fiber, pulp, seeds, and skins into a really smooth texture, so that you have a digestible, easily absorbable smoothie and you should get the highest nutrition the food you put into it can offer.
For me, that spells Healthy.
Really you’re only inhibited by your own imagination or taste. We’ve tried lots of recipes not only from the handy accompanying recipe book but also from just making them up ourselves. Beetroot and spinach and apple was pretty interesting.
I’ve been drinking one NutriBlast smoothie a day – I pack mine with kale, or spinach, fruits like passion fruit, berries, and pineapple, yoghurt, milk and seeds and so before I even reach lunchtime I know that I’ve had my fruit and veggie serves for the day. I love that.
And you can come up with some crazy colours!
What’s more it’s easy to assemble and not difficult to clean (that point is pretty mammoth for me). The compact base sits on the sideboard ready to go and to tell you the truth, I quite like getting up in the morning these days (I am so not morning person) … just so I can get my fix of a fresh NutriBullet smoothie.
Tip: You could chop up the fruit you want to use and pop it in zip lock bags – freeze in convenient portions so they’re all ready to pop in the juicer.
Did I tell you that you can also make super-doopa soups and sauces too? Well, maybe that’s for a later post when winter is in full swing.
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Ha Ha, I’ve just been reading the other comments and had to laugh, because I had a cheaper version as well which broke! Seems to be a message in this!
Haha Jan! Message in A Nutri!
Haha Jan. Message in Nutri!
Coping without kids – as children start to become independent and the weekends loom, what do you do?
Fashionable fifties – as I age I become more aware of the ‘mutton dressed as lamb’ comments and wonder if I am dressing too young for my age. Is there a time we should swap sexy skirts for slacks? Or do we dress how we want to dress?
My first suggestion may end up being a series – perhaps a weekly post for the 15 weeks as I’d like to know more about your fellow passengers:
“Cruising Conversations – Interviews with passengers while sailing around the world”
(Background stories of fellow passengers to find out the where, when, why, what and how… ie Where they’re from. Why they’re doing it, and What they’re looking forward to the most – what is the dream they’re trying to fulfill – are there similarities or is everyone chasing something different… although that’ll most likely be a post at the end pulling together the threads you’ve been weaving throughout the series and so:
“Are you a Cruiser? Is there such a thing as a cruising type?”
My second entry is…
I think you said that 1,300 were doing the full cruise – I’d love to then see answers from the same handful of passengers to the same set of questions at the start, maybe half way through and close to the end so as to get the mood as the cruise progresses to questions such as:
What are you most looking forward to (and did it live up to your expectations)
Why are you most looking forward to that? (Was it in fact or did something else superseded it)
At the end – What in the end was the highlight?
Did what people thought would be the highlight in fact turn out to be that or was it a travelling serendipitous moment or eventuality that hit the jackpot for them?
“Can a cruise really live up to your dreams?”
and
“Getting more than I bargained for, by going on a cruise”
People stories are always interesting!
Bon voyage 😀
Fab suggestions! Thanks Linda. Good luck 🙂
So thrilled to have won this Nutribullet Jo
Can’t wait to read some of the suggestions on your blog soon 🙂
Thank you!
Coming up Linda! And well done and Thank You for some great post ideas!
Here’s a couple for you Jo.
– How to make each day different on a cruise..
– You’re not a cruise type person? Let me change your mind.
Love them, thanks Pam. Good luck for the comp 🙂
Great suggestions! Thanks Pam.
I also have a cheaper version and not expecting it to make the distance!
Seeing that you’re going to be privy to a once in a lifetime cruise, it’s only fitting that we hear more about it:
– How to make friends and keep your husband on a 100-day cruise (this is meant tongue in cheek, my father always jokes that if he and my mother went on a cruise only one of them would come back).
– Packing essentials for the cruising life: what you need and what you can ditch
Haha Nina, I love your Dad’s words, because we’ve looked at each other on occasion and thought the same thing in the stress leading up to the ‘off’!! Love your suggestions too. Good luck in the competition!
I would love to win a Nutribullet as my other cheaper version just broke a few months ago. So here goes ……..
1. Around the world in 104 days
2. Putting pizazz back into your life!
Good luck Kathy. It’s horrid when you have a device you use and love and they go “kerpoof”. Loving your post suggestions 🙂
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Very apt, on point Jan! Great suggestions 🙂 Good Luck!
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Loving your suggestions Shari! Good Luck1
Loved these post ideas Shari! Good luck 🙂