What's in your smoothie?

Smoothies are easy to make; maybe too easy:)  I used to just toss stuff in a blender and not think much about the individual items or the total quantity of food and nutrition. As a result, while the individual items (e.g., kale, banana, etc.) were all "healthy", they were sometimes too much of a good thing:) For this reason, and to eat mindfully, I  sometimes set out everything that goes into my smoothies before blending.

This morning's smoothie contained a banana, 1 carrot, 3/4c almond milk, 1/4c rolled oats (soaked in the milk for 30 minutes), 1 heaping cup of blueberries, kale, 1tbsp flax meal, 1 tbsp unsweetened coconut, 3 tbsp raw wheat germ, and 1/2c plain, fat free, Greek yogurt (forgot to include in photo). This is a lot of stuff when you set it out and think about sitting down to eat it in one meal.

The blueberries won over the kale in making this beautiful purple color smoothie.

Didn't feel like cooking dinner (too hot) so tonight I made a smoothie consisting of cooked sweet potato, banana, almond milk, 1 orange, 1 small carrot, kale, and 2 tbsp of pecans - yum!