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hey this is Leo for actualised org and welcome to my kitchen today we're doing some a little bit different I'm going to show you a very practical recipe for my super healthy blueberry spinach smoothie this is what I try to eat every single morning to get my day started this is what you should be eating if you're trying to do any kind of serious consciousness work you need to be cleaning up your diet and cleaning up what you're feeding your mind it's very important that you get the right diet to get the clean kind of mind that you're shooting for to be able to do your meditation your contemplation your self inquiry and so forth so without further ado let's get started let me introduce to you all the stuff we're going to be working with and then I'm going to mix it all for you together here and it's it only takes about five minutes to make this thing so what we first start with is you need a high-quality blender I'm using a professional-grade Ninja Blender it's a thousand watt blender this is the base this is the attachment part I've got a pretty serious industrial grade blade attachments very sharp and it can fit a lot of stuff in here I recommend it you do invest a hundred to two hundred bucks in a high-quality blender like this because if you buy the cheap ones they're not going to last you very long they're not going to properly blend your food I find that this thing here works way better than any kind of cheap blenders so we've got that what else we got is we've got some frozen blueberries which is one of the key components here organic frozen blueberries these are nice and that you can store them in your freezer for a very long time you can buy them ahead of time that means you're you always have all the ingredients you need in stock I also have one ripe banana which is going to give us the good consistency the texture that creaminess and also it gives you the sweetness because that's the only source of sugar aside from the blueberries in this entire recipe what else we have is we have almond milk and this particular brand it's got a flavor of coconut in it as well so it's basically almond milk with a little bit of coconut cream and then some some trace elements and stuff some salt and and whatnot but other than that it has no sugar or anything else in here that junks it up so this is a high quality almond milk then of course we've got baby spinach leaves these are organic they're already pre-washed we're going to put those in there and those are the main ingredients and then what I have is some additional supplement type things which I like to put in there so I use a matcha green tea as a supplement for antioxidants also a freeze-dried beet juice powder it's just a powder and I'll show you this what I'm assembling I'll show you the powders what they look like this is also healthy I've got some fresh ground vanilla bean here which gives it a little vanilla flavor and then I use some raw organic cocoa powder just a little bit also for the antioxidants so let's go ahead and start to assemble all these things together so first what am i measuring with here I have a 1/2 of a cup scoop and this is what I use to make all my measurements so I'm going to start with the blueberries and I'm going to take 1/2 a cup and then half of a half of a cup so this ends up being in total 3/4 of a cup of frozen blueberries then I will measure out my almond milk let me get this a little closer here the almond milk I do the same amount is the blueberries so it's going to be that's half a cup right there and then another half so that's 3/4 of a cup total of almond milk and then we're going to do the banana I find that if you have one very large ripe banana that ends up being the perfect quantity and consistency and sweetness level at least for me you can of course experiment and find your own proportions of all these ingredients it's pretty flexible here the more banana you do the sweeter is going to be and the smoother and creamier it's going to have that texture so we have that then what I do is I add all the supplement stuff so I have one half of a teaspoon here that's what I measure my beet juice it's just like a dark red powder I put one and a half scoops in [Applause] then the matcha green tea this is also a powder it's just a dark green powder like this so I put about one and a half scoops of that the ground vanilla you only need a little bit this is just kind of like for flavor almost like you're just peppering or salting your food just a little bit of that in there to give it a nice flavor and then the cocoa powder raw cocoa powder can be rather bitter so I don't put much in there this is what it looks like okay and we're almost ready the only thing we need that's left in the spinach if our spinach goes I like to put in about two handfuls so I would consider like that's like one handful two handfuls maybe a little bit more so the more spinach you put in there the healthier it's going to be but the less sweet is going to taste and also the texture is going to be kind of chunky so you want to find what what level of healthiness you are willing to tolerate at first you're going to probably want to go light on the spinach and then you'll want to increase more spinach as you accustom yourself to this to this kind of health food so we've got that let me get the lid to close it up alright and now we're ready to blend all right here we go [Music] [Music] okay and there it is that's done let me now pour it into a cup for in so this makes a little bit more than a cup there's still some left in there but it makes basically one tall glass bowl and it looks kind of purplish because of the blueberries and the beet juice powder it gives it that color and there you have it because of the banana and because it was fairly ripe it tastes pretty sweet so this is definitely not how most people start their morning most people start their morning with cereal bagels a heavy breakfast or just like sugar candy bars protein bars all this sort of nasty stuff so what you've got here is you've got a completely raw fresh alive drink this thing here will give you at least a couple of hours of no hunger in the morning so you can start this drink this on your way to work if you're sitting at the computer and you're just checking your emails it's perfect for chugging down while you're doing that it only takes about five minutes to make this a very practical recipe so what the point of all this is is that you actually need to not just have more recipes more healthy recipes in your life of course but you want recipes that you can use almost every single day so that you're automating your healthy diet so that it just becomes automatic effortless and you're just doing it every single day without any problem now here's the trade-off the trade-off is that you're not going to get as much variety in your diet and hey I'm like the average person I like to have a lot of variety in my diet but what I've also discovered is that what are my highest priorities if my highest priorities are self-actualization growth raising the quality of my consciousness and maintaining it throughout the day getting the results that I want with my meditation practice with my self inquiry with my contemplation and so forth if I want to live a philosophical kind of lifestyle the sagely kind of lifestyle I need to make sure that my diet is proper it's very difficult to do that on your standard American diet so over the last decade I've been cleaning up my diet a lot compared to the average person my diet is extremely healthy but it could still be a lot healthier so over the next year I'm committing to to finding more practical healthy recipes that I can just put in place and make my meals very routine so I take a sacrifice in terms of variety of flavor because if I'm drinking this every morning it might seem kind of boring to you like oh well Leo I have to drink that every single morning now yeah it's boring compared to eating all the different junk food that you eat but it doesn't taste that bad and the performance results that you get outweigh any short-term cost so you have to have the vision of what you're shooting for if you have nothing that you're really working on in your life you don't have a life purpose you don't have a meditation practice you're not really raising the quality of your consciousness then you've gotten you've got no reason to be eating healthy you see but if you do then these sorts of recipes are very important and what I find is that I need recipes that are fast to make that are very practical ingredients that I can go by quickly ideally ingredients that I can stock up for a long time so they don't have to be going to the store every single other day stocking up on these ingredients so this smoothie qualifies for most of those on most of those points it's pretty easy to make it's fairly inexpensive one of these smoothies cost is just a couple of dollars to make and that's if you're using organic ingredients if it's non organic ingredients it'll be less than a buck to make this thing give this a shot try it out for the next week try it out for the next month one smoothie every single morning replace your breakfast with it whatever your standard breakfast was and just take a look at the performance benefits that you get and then at the end of that trial period ask yourself is that worth it to you and if you're really into self-actualization I think you'll find that it is so in the future I want to share some more practical recipes that I've been putting into place in my life just stuck that's very healthy very easy to make I can make large batches of it and then just store it and keep it for a long time and it makes my meals very easy and then it allows me to free up the time and the mental and physical energy so that I can do the self-actualization work that I need to be doing every single day so try it out let me know in the comments below what you think and what it tastes like if you are actually experimenting with this and I'll have some more healthy recipes for you in the future so stay tuned you