Sometimes Colors Don't Play Well

Today's smoothie tastes great, and that's the good news.  The bad news?  Well...have you ever mixed crayon colors or paint colors to see what would happen?  Green/Purple/Orange/Red/Yellow  This is kind of like that.

First the ingredient list:

• 2 cups water
• couple handfuls of green lettuce
• 3 or 4 slices of frozen yellow squash
• couple slices of frozen red cabbage
• frozen collard greens
• 1 medium carrot
• 1/2 fuji apple
• 1/2 frozen banana 
• 2 or 3 chunks of frozen pineapple
• 6 frozen grapes
• 6 frozen pitted cherries
• 2 tbsps of flax seeds
• dash of stevia for added sweetness

Because several of my fruits and veggies were already frozen I didn't need to add ice.  The mixture blended well and came out uniformly smooth.  It made 1 quart.

The taste is yummy.

Ugly Duckling

The color?  Let's just say this is not the smoothie to serve any guests.  It's a horrible shade of brown/green.  It's the ugly duckling of smoothies.  There is nothing remotely appetizing about its color.  If you mix these particular ingredients you have to ignore the color and just know you are getting good nutrition and of course the taste is the most important thing.  It smells good too, very fresh.  Just don't look at it, and if you have company, make them a smoothie that won't turn into a color both Crayola and the US Army rejected. :-)