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Wheatgrass and another Sagz-to-Sexy Smoothie
January 10, 2010 | 25 Comments
Wheatgrass
Sagz = Saggy Ass.
When I was growing up, I used to watch my mom display masochistic behaviour. It was consistent and inexplicable. She used to juice bitter gourd. And wheatgrass. Bitter gourd (karela) couched in spices and cooked crisp was my favourite veggie, but there’s no way in heck I can drink its juice raw. I still don’t know why my mom juiced those things. She wasn’t diabetic or ill. As I said, she just liked to torture herself.
It’s the same with wheatgrass. I once had a sip of the juice and that memory scarred me forever. It tasted like grass on which some dogs had done their business. I can’t manage to gulp down wheatgrass juice, but it’s quite palatable in smoothies in small amounts.
Tender wheatgrass, if you chew it, is quite sweet. It’s when you swallow it that the bitterness takes over. Wheatgrass is rich in chlorophyll, calcium, magnesium & potassium. Chlorophyll increases alkalinity while cleansing, detoxifying and healing the body.
Putting a small bit of wheatgrass in a smoothie makes me feel quite virtuous. Plus I like the idea of growing something in winter. It’s super easy to grow indoors, even when it’s freezing and dark outside.
Sprouted Wheat
1. Get whole wheat berries (preferably organic) and sprout them. (HOW TO SPROUT WHEAT)
2. You want the tiniest sprouts, not long ones. Put a handful of the little sprouted wheat berries in a pot with organic potting soil, spread them out evenly and add 1/4 inch of soil on top.
3. Water until the soil is damp, but not soaking wet. Cover the pot with a plastic cling wrap so that the light gets in, but the moisture does not get out.
4. Keep in a warm spot with some natural light (near a window) and on the third day you should see little green shoots. Take the plastic wrap off. Water every two or three days.
5. Cut the wheat grass on the seventh or eighth day. It can take three of four haircuts before you need to sprout and grow new seeds.
Jai went out for Italian with his friends tonight, leaving me with a Sagz-to-Sexy Smoothie. I consoled myself in the knowledge that white bread and panna cotta make your ass saggy.
Sagz-to-Sexy Wheatgrass Smoothie
It has
A handful of wheatgrass
half cup Butternut Squash
a handful of organic frozen strawberries
1 Apple
1 Kiwi
2 scoops Pea and Rice Protein Powder
1 tbsp Flax powder
1/2 cup light coconut milk
Tasted quite good, actually.
Wheatgrass Sagz-toSexy-Smoothie is our entry for Grow Your Own. This month’s hosts are Nate and Annie @ House of Annie.
- bee
Filed Under: Apple, butternut squash, Coconut, coconut-milk, fitness, Flax seeds, GARDENING, Kiwi fruit, NUTRITION, Pumpkin/Squash, smoothie, vegan athlete, vegan recipes, Vegetarian Athlete, vegetarian recipes, Wheat, Wheatgrass
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25 Comments
Thanks for your entry! Looks like a really tasty smoothie, though I hope the cosmetic effects are temporary
We get wheat grass powder in Singapore. I am currently taking it with plain water. Tastes more like green tea. Smoothie looks yumm!
Bee first thanks for appearing here in this sexy avatar! Rest we will imagine. LOL.
And where is the wheat grass in all those yummy things?
That picture of you is hilarious!
Ha ha I just love your sazzy picture, it made my day.
I was about to say “But why are you looking so surprised?” but then you reassured us about the taste
I have some butternut squash at home… maybe time to put that in the smoothie.
I recently got back to my smoothie breakfast and I’ve been adding greens to it. All credit goes to you guys. Thanks very much for writing about all these goodies.
LOL @ white bread and pannacotta making your ass saggy! Can’t help thinking that this is one time, the grass is greener on your side! ahem, the wheat grass that is.
Looks like u surprised yourself with the good taste!!! Looking Good , Bee!
Bee you are so funny!!
I never tasted wheatgrass – LOL of ur face
It look like peanut butter.
No wonder your hair is on end and spiked up. Heard that Wheatgrass does that to people…
I have been thinking of sprouting these for quite sometime..
I remember one of cousin used to drink wheatgrass extract to stop her hair-fall. I heard that it’s v.good for your hair.
what a RIOT!!!!
In Azerbaijan, we grow wheat grass on spring holiday and we call it Samani. In some regions they also make a special kind of halva from it. I have never tried it, but they say it is good. Thank you for your very interesting recipe . Your picture at the end made me laugh for a very long time:)
Bee you just rock … let it be your recipes or the photographs I am a big fan of yours
And you said in a previous post that you are not creative and you wanted us to believe it
Bee, after getting into the grass and vegetable,green smoothies business its right time to change the gorilla face to a cow’s
But the smoothie does not look bad !
Now the description of wheat grass along with that morphed picture is not doing anything for me to like the smoothie!
my mum once put me on a strange wheatgrass therapy, it was like a 7 day therapy or somehitng and each day being worse than the previous. started with the wheat being soaked the first day, i was supposed to drink the water on an empty stomach first thing in the morning. second day same thing, 3rd, the sprouts, then the grass i dont know but i just had to keep drinking and drinking this everyday. i think she was trying to purify my blood or something, anyways i am glad i didnt die.
hahaha, I love the photo!
post holiday sag smoothies? happy new year!Hope u don’t have drink too much of these.. ur face might distort even more.
What a funny pic! I grew wheat grass last summer. I must have let it get too tall because the juice (although mixed with carrot juice) was quite bitter. I sowed seeds directly into the soil without sprouting them, it takes a few extra days that way. It’s very healthy and easy to grow, costs a lot at health food stores.
Ah..finally we get to see the real you Bee..:)
you site is opening for me after many months..will catch with the posts!
Wheatgrass Powder is a wonderful way to take wheatgrass it it a lot less fuss than growing it and then juiceing it. And its not yet made me look like a monkey, Ha ha. Great blog I really like it.
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