Healthy Smoothies Made Easy with Green Blender {Review}

Smoothies. They’re kind of a never-ending obsession in my household. It’s an almost daily occurrence in my diet to blend up a bunch of goodness into one nutritious, delicious cup.

While my hubby has his standard go-to smoothie (a chocolate peanut butter protein shake), I like to switch it up. However, sometimes in the busyness of life, I feel like I lack smoothie creativity. I’ll get into a routine of making my same few smoothie favorites. Don’t get me wrong, they’re delicious, but I could use some new smoothie ideas sometimes.

And that’s where Green Blender smoothie delivery service comes in. Recently the NYC-based company reached out to see if I’d like to try them out, and I happily agreed to see what they’re all about. When my delivery arrived, I was like a little kid in a toy store excited to see what was inside.

The box contained pre-portioned fruits, veggies, herbs, nuts, spices, and coconut milk for me to make 5 different smoothies (each make 2 servings). Included in the delivery is a recipe sheet for those smoothies, along with info about the smoothies’ benefits and nutritional content.

What I dig about Green Blender is that they make it so easy for their customers. A package arrives weekly with organic, pre-portioned ingredients and vegan recipes. All you have to do is follow the directions. Toss your ingredients in a blender, pulse, and voila! I may love cooking, baking, and food in general, but I’m also super busy… so I can also appreciate the concept of healthy made easy as much as the next person.

I also like that the service makes it easy to get out of a smoothie breakfast/lunch/snack rut. Not only is eating the same meals every single day kind of boring, it can also be detrimental to your health. You’re limiting your body to the same foods with the same vitamins and nutrients, which over time may lead to deficiencies.

With Green Blender, new ingredients and combos are outlined for you – giving you the power of variety through whole foods! My smoothie delivery kit kind of persuaded me into putting greens into my smoothies that I normally don’t include, like swiss chard.

The only downside that I experienced with Green Blender was the ripeness of some of the produce. I understand that this can be somewhat out of the company’s control and more in the hands of their growers, but some of my produce arrived pretty ripe, while other things were not ripe at all. This can be an inconvenience when you want to make one of the smoothie recipes but don’t have all of the ingredients ripe enough.

This happened when I wanted to make a kiwi coconut smoothie. The kiwis were still too hard, while the pineapple I had received was getting overripe, so I wound up subbing the latter for the former.

This also brings me to the point of discussing my problem with just following recipe directions. I’m seemingly unable to follow a recipe to the tee. I suppose it’s a curse of a recipe developer to always be modifying ingredients, eh?

But that’s also the beauty of a smoothie delivery service like Green Blender. You’re given all of the ingredients and suggested recipes, but you can modify things to fit your taste. Hate walnuts? Then leave them out of the smoothie recipe, no biggie.

I like the sound of this Luck of the Eye-rish Smoothie recipe. 

All in all, I love the concept of Green Blender & their mission to make healthy eating simple and convenient for people!

Starting at $3.90 a serving, Green Blender works as a subscription service, sending its customers weekly shipments that can be paused or cancelled at any time. If you want to try out Green Blender, use the code FOODIEFITNESS for 20% off of your order.

Green Blender currently delivers to most parts of: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Southern California, Delaware, Georgia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Vermont, Washington DC, Wisconsin and West Virginia. Check out their website for more info.

Disclaimer: While this post is sponsored by Green Blender, as always, all opinions expressed are genuinely my own. 

Tell me.. Have you ever tried a smoothie delivery service? What’s the most creative smoothie you’ve had lately?