Thursday, April 28, 2011
PB & J Smoothie...but Hold the PB & J!
4:53 PM | 
Posted by
Kaplan Center for Health and Wellness
by Lisa Beach, Ph.D.
Along with my passion for ice cream, my blender, and more recently, for brewing kombucha…I am equally enamored with sunflower seed butter. I stay away from peanut butter due to the high mold content (aflatoxins—cancer causing mold in peanuts), and sunflower seed butter is the closest-tasting nut/seed butter to peanut butter. That said, my eye is constantly on Wild Jungle Peanut Butter online, which is made from heirloom peanuts said to be lower in mold. I bought some jungle peanuts online—they’re so pretty with their tiger stripes (I’m a sucker for pretty packaging and attractive unique products) that I don't want to grind them into "butter!"
Along with my passion for ice cream, my blender, and more recently, for brewing kombucha…I am equally enamored with sunflower seed butter. I stay away from peanut butter due to the high mold content (aflatoxins—cancer causing mold in peanuts), and sunflower seed butter is the closest-tasting nut/seed butter to peanut butter. That said, my eye is constantly on Wild Jungle Peanut Butter online, which is made from heirloom peanuts said to be lower in mold. I bought some jungle peanuts online—they’re so pretty with their tiger stripes (I’m a sucker for pretty packaging and attractive unique products) that I don't want to grind them into "butter!"
This week, I’m trying to use what I have in my kitchen—and this means my smoothies may be a extra weird creative for the rest of the week. I am always tempted to be creative (and considered putting figs and avocado together yesterday), but I also like to keep it simple.
Figs---way better like this than their processed fig newton counterparts, so if that's your only experience with figs you're missing out!
Un-PB&J Smoothie: 4 figs, huge scoop of sun butter, 1 cup water, optional: 1/2 scoop sun warrior protein powder, 1 tbsp maca, 1 tbsp lucuma, 1 tbsp yacon. 1/2 tsp guar gum. Blend till smooth. Add 8 ice cubes or more. I ate this with a spoon, but it was more straw drinkable.
Why figs instead of jelly? Figs are high in fiber and iron, not to mention various other vitamins and minerals. The smoothie was a pale purple color with flecks of dark purple—it’s as delicious as it looks!
What's your weirdest smoothie combo?!
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