Jan 13, 20202 min read

My Favorite Meal Replacement Recipe!

Updated: Jan 13, 2020

I started something new this year - a podcast. Check out my Podcast page for more info.

I also created a Facebook GROUP CHAT community to share discussions, ideas, challenges, victories and questions from those who listen.

One of the Posts I have ongoing is "Whatcha Wanna Hear?" where I ask my listeners to ask questions and then I'll answer them in a future podcast.

One question came in from Gina and I felt it needed an answer immediately.

The question was about meal replacements and my thoughts on them.

Here is the answer, summarized:

Pre-Packaged meal replacements are garbage.
If you do a plan or program that calls for daily "meal replacements", then they are not meal replacements - they have become your meals.
You need to eat your nutrients for satiety reasons, not drink them every day.
Meal replacements are great if they are truly used to replace a meal on occasion and contain the nutrients of a meal including the fiber.
Meal replacements should be made from real, whole plants as clean/organic as possible.
Meal replacements can be changed up depending on the needs for the time - so experiment!

I use what I call my, "Power Punch" as a meal replacement two or three times a week. Typically it is used for my dinner when I need to leave to teach my REFIT® or REV+FLOW class. I made one today and decided to share it with you - and with Gina.

This is my typical recipe - although it does vary some from time to time.

I call this my Power Punch because it gives me a burst of energy!

(Side note: two of my most valuable investments in healthy equipment I've made is in a Vitamix - and Berkey Water filtration system, will save that info for another time.)

Using my Vitamix, I load it with these items in this order:

(all ingredients are organic, minus the orange because it's a clean 15 item which I'll share about later.)

Frozen mango pieces and frozen pineapple pieces (any frozen fruit will do)
Kale, chard, spinach (stems and all - nutrients)
Carrots (don't peel if organic - nutrients)
A wedge of either ORGANIC lemon or lime WITH peel (loaded with nutrients)
An inch slice of fresh turmeric or ground
An inch slice of fresh ginger or ground
A sprinkle of ground flax seed - approximately 2 teaspoons
A sprinkle of mint leaves or fresh
A sprinkle of cinnamon - approximately a teaspoon
2-3 Tb of apple cider vinegar
A scoop of beet powder
An orange, peeled
3 cups of cold filtered water - this makes enough for two smoothies aka Power Punch