Healthy Smoothie Recipe Roundup has a February focus. Check out the link to The Herbal Kitchen’s FREE smoothie making webinar below!
It’s a part of the 52 Weeks of Seasonal Eating in 2020 project here at Lorrie Season.
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February Seasonal Ingredients
I was sick almost every February as a child. This wasn’t your average rhinovirus! I mean knock-down, drag-out, weeks in bed sick.
Looking back, I rest the majority of the responsibility of this late winter malaise on my parents and their totally absent cooking skills. TV dinners, packaged foods, sugary drinks…ugh.
That experience of habitual and predictable poor health is one of the drivers for my current obsession with seasonal eating in the off-season and 4-season growing.
That, and the way my body was completely unprepared for midlife changes because of these poor eating habits established in childhood. Food really is medicine, and we can eat for wellness, every single meal, with less planning than you might think.
An Herbal Kitchen Approach to Smoothies
One of my seasonal kitchen hero’s is Kami McBride of the Herbal Kitchen. I’ve used her book and online resources for years, and I continue to keep learning ways to bring healing and flavorful herbs into my meals.
Kami offers a free online webinar on crafting green smoothies with healthy herb-intensive smoothies. You can take it at this link!
In the course, Kami offers a base recipe that you can use to create seasonal herbal smoothies. I used her recommendations as a guide for selecting smoothie recipes that are nourishing, flavorful, and perhaps healing.
February Flavors
Seasonal eating in February is interesting because we have all the winter ingredients from our pantry and freezer, some locally sourced ingredients from winter farmers markets, and the emergence of new growth in our 4-season kitchen garden.
Use this list of seasonal foods for the month of February to create healthy smoothies for breakfast or lunch as part of your seasonal eating meal plan.
February Smoothie Recipe Roundup
Working with nutrition, flavor, and healing as the motivation for having a smoothie as a meal in the month of February, I created this handy roundup of online recipes that focus on the seasonal flavors of late winter.
My absolute favorite smoothie! Use what you have with this as a base recipe. Mine will start with my handcrafted, canned Bloody Mary Mix, and include lemon, avocado, celery, onion, winter greens, and hot sauce!
Berries for this recipe come from my freezer and include low glycemic berries like blueberries and blackberries.
Drop the maple syrup from this recipe and you'll have a real sweet winner. The apples and pears bring all the sweet you need!
There have been a lot of beet smoothies in my life recently. The local farmers market has plenty, and they are very affordable. Ginger and beets are one of my favorite flavor profiles! Substitute cherries with any low glycemic, organic berry.
Honestly, you just can't go wrong with any recipe from the Minimalist Baker!
Just need a quick pick-me-up one February morning? Go ahead, make this coffee smoothie. I would recommend that you don't need both the banana and the syrup. Drop the sweet!
Another basic herbal smoothie base recipe and then an herbal lemon verbena smoothie recipe.
Kid-friendly smoothies using Kami McBride's Herbal Kitchen method.
Use this Healthy Smoothie Roundup for February with any of the winter meal plans we offer!
52 Weeks of Seasonal Eating is a year-long project from Lorrie Season that explores the practicality of eating seasonal every week of the year. You can find all the meal plans by clicking the image below!
There’s a party happening and we’re waiting for you to arrive!
A bunch of us meet every day in the Create Your Seasonal Life Facebook Group and over on Instagram!
We also gather over email once a week to focus on one specific garden, kitchen, or wellness topic in-depth, with lots of step-by-step how-to’s. The best way to jump into the email conversation is with the Seasonal Living Workbook, you can download it here and explore the seasonal living framework with an email course!
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