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Welcome!

I hope you find these recipes helpful and inspiring during your journey to better health,
and beyond.

In the pages below you will find a set of smoothie recipes that I designed specifically to
support a healthy lifestyle, and for people who want to eat clean but still have a sweet
tooth. All recipes can be adjusted to suit your needs or tastes, there are no rules when it
comes to making these, only that you ENJOY them!

As you already know our healthy eating plan is teaching you to think about what you
want to eat instead of reaching for fast food, or microwave meals or cereal bars.

I have also added in some nutritional information around some of the ingredients for those
of who you are new to trying some of the fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts in these
recipes.

I’m happy to have any feedback on these smoothies, or if you have a new recipe you
would like to have added to the plan let me know, I do try everything here first, so all the
recipes in this guide have been tried and tested by me first.

All recipes are for 1 serving, however if you are sharing, just double it, also if you want a
little more sweetness to some of the recipes you can use locally sourced honey, or high
quality Manuka, but no more than 1 teaspoon per smoothie though (per single serving) or
try agave nectar as a healthy alternative.

You can use frozen fruit in your smoothies, but unfrozen is fine as well. You can also add
more water to any recipe if you prefer a less thick smoothies, or add ice if you want a
more frozen style, some of these recipes can be turned into a frozen yogurt style treat. If
you like to use fresh fruit because of better variety, all you need to do is spend a little time
preparing it, make sure you clean your fruit well and chop it into pieces that are easily
blended, then put it into little baggies, bag the portions listed in the recipes so you know
that you always have the correct portion size for your smoothie.

A few recipes have coconut oil in them as well as a few other things, adding coconut oil
gives you a fantastic health boost, but you can really add anything you want to a
smoothie, the rule with using a good quality protein powder is to end up with a ½ cup nut
milk, and ½ cup water per serving, then you can add whatever else you want. Just
remember to add a bit more water to thin it out where needed.

In my recipes, I use Koko brand coconut milk, it has he mildest flavour, and the thinnest
consistency, and uses grape juice to sweeten it. Hemp seed milk is very nutritious, high in
Omega’s and also has a mild nutty flavour, but you can use any nut milk that you would
like to use to adapt the recipes, as long as they do not contain processed sugar in them!
I would suggest staying away from soya milk completely as many of them are not
processed correctly, and are harsh on the digestive system. There are a few that are GMO
soya which is also even harder to digest. Alpro brand products seem to cause the most
digestive issues I’ve found so stay away from them, and there many other alternatives on
the market nowadays.

I also add chia seeds to most shakes, as well as hemp seeds, however hemp seeds can
add a nutty flavour to your recipes so just keep that in mind when making some of the
citrus based smoothies. I have also added a section with naughtier flavours like After Eight,
and Bounty bar, just because we eat cleanly doesn’t mean we don’t enjoy the taste of
naughty treats, this gets the craving curbed without indulging in the unhealthy option.

Enjoy!