Green Smoothie for TTC and Pregnancy! | What I have for lunch each day
Hey friends!
Figured I’d make this little video in case it offers ideas to anyone looking to make a simple, yummy, super healthy fertility- and pregnancy-friendly meal idea 🙂
As promised, here are the ingredients and the nutrition facts based off of the SparkPeople Nutrition Calculator website. Also, here is the information on Nutiva re: California Proposition 65 (which I referenced in my video): https://kitchen.nutiva.com/what-is-california-prop-65/
*RECIPE* (this makes 4 SEPARATE SMOOTHIES)
2 medium bananas
2 apples (I prefer Golden Delicious or Granny Smith, but you can use any!)
2 kiwi fruit **with the skin on**
1 large avocado
64 Seedless Green Grapes
The juice of 2 lemons
4 cups of frozen peas
8 giant handfuls of fresh spinach (approx. 250g)
Nutiva Hemp Protein Powder (unflavored / unsweetened – 2 full servings in total)
Approx. 4 handfuls of frozen cauliflower (I actually prefer to use frozen broccoli instead!)
NUTRITION FACTS **per serving** (recipe above makes 4 servings):
• Calories: 410.7
• Total Fat: 9.4 g
• Saturated Fat: 1.2 g
• Polyunsaturated Fat: 2.8 g
• Monounsaturated Fat: 4.3 g
• Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
• Sodium: 222.9 mg (30.5% RDA for pregnant/nursing women)
• Potassium: 1,431.6 mg
• Total Carbohydrate: 73.8 g
• Dietary Fiber: 22.3 g (79.6% RDA for pregnant/nursing women)
• Sugars: 30.7 g
• Protein: 19.2 g (20.8% RDA for pregnant/nursing women)
• Vitamin A: 181.1 %
• Vitamin B-12: 0.0 %
• Vitamin B-6: 39.9 %
• Vitamin C: 180.3 %
• Vitamin D: 0.0 %
• Vitamin E: 12.9 %
• Calcium: 12.9 %
• Copper 22.6 %
• Folate 65.4 % ~~~ this is based off of the RDA for an adult. This quantity is approx. 32.7% – 65.4% RDA for a pregnant woman based on if you are aiming to have 400mcg of folate in your diet, or 800mcg.
• Iron: 46.0 %
• Magnesium: 61.7 %
• Manganese: 60.1 %
• Niacin: 21.2 %
• Pantothenic Acid: 10.2 %
• Phosphorus: 19.6 %
• Riboflavin: 23.7 %
• Selenium: 5.9 %
• Thiamin: 32.4 %
• Zinc: 25.6 %
