Fed Is Better

You ever go to an event and you run into some acquaintances there and they ask you how you are and you say something cute like, "Well I don't know if you read the news at all..." and you all laugh quietly at your shared horror of being alive in the present moment?

And then you say something else like, "I'm having a hard time feeding myself lately! Not because of money or anything I just can't bring myself to do it. I'm eating a lot of toast. I was thinking about making a big pot of vegetable soup to just have on hand." And they nod and go, "Hm yes, soup sounds good, we were also talking about making soup." And you feel a little bit insane but at least you're being authentic and not presenting some kind of polished, Instagrammy version of yourself? You ever do that?

Anyway. This was me a couple of weeks ago and then I remembered I have a fancy blender I can use to make healthy slop to jam into my face at any time of day, not just in the morning. So here's a recipe for a green smoothie which I find palatable enough to have made and consumed every day this week after work.

The measurements are extremely approximate and my smoothies are usually pretty vibes-based. I try to write down a "recipe" when I hit on one I like because a year from now I'll be like, "What was that spinach smoothie I was making all the time last winter, what were the proportions?"

Mary Green Smoothie (get it?)

Ingredients:

• 1 cup mango juice (or water or orange juice or whatever)
• 150 g cottage cheese (or silken tofu or plain Greek yogurt)
• 150 g frozen mango chunks
• 100 g frozen avocado chunks
• 125 g cucumber or a small apple, cut up as much as your blender requires
• 2 or 3 hand fulls fresh spinach (or arugula or kale or Swiss chard)

Optional:

• Throw a ripe banana or a pitted Medjool date in there before the greens if you like it sweeter.

Directions:

Add all ingredients to your blender in the order listed. Blend until smooth.

Yield:

One big smoothie, usually between 750ml and 1L. I'll gobble this all up myself but I guess you could share with a friend.

Remember: it won't always be like this.