I echo your choice of "green smoothies" - they're an outstanding solution to the cheap, fast, and healthy requirements. Though like you, the reactions I get from people generally involve disgust, even when those same people will happily pay $4 or $5 for essentially the same concept/drink at a health food store, for a quarter of the quantity and quality. Hell, half the drink may be ground-up ice and they only get half a banana too.
Most people are not rational, especially when it comes to food.
I love green smoothies. I use other fruit in addition to bananas, also use collards, kale, dandelion and other dark leafy greens, and I don't skip the dairy. They are delicious and very filling.
Re:Ask HN: got any food hacks?
by dpapathanasiou on Saturday April 03, 2010 @08:41PM
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Vegetables are gross
What kind of bizarro, fast food nation, high fructose syrup environment did you grow up in to make a statement like that?
Visit a farmer's market and check out the vegetables on sale there; almost all are edible raw, and all are terrific.
Solution: vegetable smoothie. Ice, a banana, yogurt, milk, and a whole bunch of spinach, in proportions according to taste. This sounds disgusting, but it actually tastes really good. Make sure you have a banana though. Otherwise it will tastes like spinach, and that's not the goal here.
After trying to report my discovery to the world, it seems I'm the only person who thinks spinach smoothies are a good idea. For some reason, everyone thinks it's disgusting to fill a blender with spinach and other things and then drink it. I can't imagine why.