Are the oranges and banana peeled or whole?

I blend:
-Frozen mixed fruit
-Frozen sliced bananas
-Organic Flax seeds
-Flavored Whey

And I recommend using as little ice or water as possible, because it dilutes the flavor.

I read this woman’s vegan baking/cooking blog and she recently got her hands on a vitamix. Here’s the links:

http://bittersweetblog.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/viva-la-vitamix/

http://bittersweetblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/viva-la-vitamix-part-two/

Earthling, I am Turdon from the planet Voltron and I *command you* to purchase the vitamix!

seriously though, banana peels are disgusting tasting.

do not blend apple seeds as they have arsenic in them. seeded appples only please!

If you make, say, Bruno’s shake (from his comment above) with flax seeds in it and use a vitamix to blend it, the flax seeds will be blended into unnoticeable little bits, even though they are swirling around in 3 cups of liquidfied vegatable matter. Again, in 10 seconds or less.

Basically, if you get a vitamix you are getting the same blender they use at a professional juice bar (except not designed for continuous, all-day blending, but for more intermittent household use) It is also safe(r) to blend hot liquids in it than in most household blenders because there is a pressure vent in the cap that prevents the cap being blown off by a change in pressure created by the energy of the blades whirling about.

As you make more and more, you’ll be able to up the greens/fruit ratio.

Endless combinations. We held off buying a Vitamix for a decade because of the cost. Get on their email list. We bought a refurbished/demo unit for a great price. Buy one, at the best price you can find, buy it now. You’ll never regret it.

I’ve never heard of Vitamix so I checked it out. In my research I heard also about Blendtec and here is a simple comparison worth watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO7bkHxiQEM

Vitamix is definitely an investment especially if you have young children and want to save money on baby food. We have a Phillips Juicer which we use all the time to juice everything that we grow in our garden, our health is constantly improving and our wallets are bulging as we speak. Great recipe, thanks for sharing Jacob.

Get the Vita-mix. Don’t wait for your old blender to die to do it. Just spend the money. Buy refurbished if you have to.

The Vita-mix is my most used appliance. The quality of smoothie it makes is unsurpassed, and in my opinion it does a better job of pulverizing the things you put in, making the nutrition more bioavailable.

I would think you’d more than make up the money for the blender in terms of better daily nutrient absorption over the course of a year’s worth of smoothies. Not to mention that your smoothies will taste much better in it. Furthermore, you can “pulse blend” at low speed to limit oxidation of the food, which retains even more of the flavor (and potentially nutrition, not sure about that though).

Just my opinion….

Sounds pretty good. Maybe a little too much sugar for my taste, with all the fruit you mixes. I usually mix a protein drink before exercise with:

1 frozen banana (makes the drink creamy)
Peppermint Oil
1 tbsp cocoa
A handful of spinach
quark
Stevia
1 dl whey powder
glucose

when we first saw a blendtec demo, the demonstrator said a phrase:

“If it’s thin leave it in, if it’s thick it can make you sick”

Orange/banana peels and similar thickness – they’re considered thick..

apple, pear, etc… – considered thin…

execute accordingly.

Our daily routine:

– frozen fruit (strawberries, blueberries, berry mixes, pineapple, frozen cherries…some mixture thereof..)
– vanilla whey protein
– hemp seed
– kale, spinach, cucumber, carrot (usually in some combination not all together)
– coconut water
– a few drops of iodine
– peaches from local market, strawberries…

all sorts of fun to be had with this…Been at it for almost 3 years. Too many positive benefits to stop.