How To Make Green Smoothies While Traveling

Green smoothies have fabulous benefits for the human bodies: they prevent kidney stones, provide a feeling of fullness and fight bowel problems. Also, they help with mitigation of the gastric acid’s reflux. But how can we maintain our helthy habits when we can’t enjoy the confort of our homes? How to make green smoothies while traveling, regardless the travels are for business or pleasure? Check out some helpful tips in the following post.

Book Hotel Rooms With Mini-Refrigerators

This step is usually easy to complete and requiers minimum effort. A mini-refrigerator keeps the essential smoothie ingredients ( leafy greens, milk, fruits and veggies) crisp and fresh. If you have a supermarket close to the hotel, buying all the ingredients will take little time and serving at least one healthy meal per day won’t be a challenge.

Mini Smoothie Travel Kit

To prevent spending more money than neccessary, before packing all your bags, take time to make this mini smoothie travel kit: a small cutting mat, a spoon for measuring,  a small knife, a plastic cup- even better one of those container cups for smoothies “to go”, a roll of paper towels to wipe any drips or spills. If you use special powders to flavor your smoothies (Wheatgrass Powder, Camu Powder, Acai Powder, Goji Powder, etc)  make sure to add those too.

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Find the Perfect Travel Blender

The real challenge of “How To Make Green Smoothies While Traveling” appears when you can’t find the perfect travel blender/ portable blender to satisfy your needs. Before making any purchase, you need to understand that a portable blender can’t compare with the performances of a heavy-duty blenders like Vitamix, Blentec or Ninja. To protect it from quick “burn-out” cut the vegetables in small pieces, blend maximum 1 minute at a time and stir manually.

Best Travel Blenders

Hamilton Beach Personal Blender

Features

  • Efficient 175-watt motor provides all the power you need for fast, reliable performance
  • Compact design ideal for small living spaces and on-the-go portability
  • Great for making smoothies, shakes, baby formula, marinades and salad dressings
  • Simple one touch pulse operation for fast, easy blending
  • 14-oz. blending jar also functions as portable travel cup that fits most car drink holders

Cuisinart SmartPower CPB-300

Features

  • Powerful 350-watt motor with a sleek electronic touchpad and LED indicator lights
  • ABS housing with stainless steel front panel
  • Standby Mode; Safety interlock and Auto Stop features
  • High, low and pulse controls with a patented ultra sharp stainless steel blade
  • BPA-free tritan 32-ounce blender cup, 8-ounce chopper cup and a set of four 16-ounce “To-Go” cups

Oster Blender

Features

  • Powerful 250-watt motor with One Touch blending
  • Blend your favorite smoothie or shake right in the sport bottle
  • Built-in, resettable fuse will revive the motor in 15 minutes should it overheat
  • Recipes included in the instruction manual
  • Dishwasher-safe 20-ounce BPA-free plastic sport bottle

Tribest Personal Blender

Features

  • The powerful 200 watt motor easily blends all your favorite ingredients, including ice, and grinds all your grains, nuts, and seeds
  • Compact blender set, with 2 large blend-n-serve cups and lids
  • Blending/grinding blades are completely enclosed during operation, making it impossible to come in contact with spinning blades
  • 2 modes of operation: one touch pulse and press/ twist continuous modes for blending and grinding to that perfect consistency
  • The polycarbonate blend-n-serve cups are virtually unbreakable, they are made from the same material used in bullet-proof glass
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Nutri Bullet

Features

  • High-torque power base and 600-watt motor
  • Effortlessly pulverizes fruits, vegetables, superfoods and protein shakes into a delicious, smooth texture
  • Power, patented blade design and cyclonic action combine to extract all nutrients from food helping to achieve the healthiest lifestyle possible
  • Includes a power base, 1 tall cup, 2 short cups, 1 flat blade and 1 emulsifying blade, 2 re-sealable lids, pocket nutritionist and manual with recipes

BELLA Rocket Extract Pro Personal Blender

Features

  • Powerful 700W motor
  • High Performance Stainless Steel Blending and Grinding Blades
  • Dishwasher safe parts for easy cleaning
  • Includes Three 24oz BPA-free tumblers, Two 12oz BPA-free tumblers, Emulsifying blade, Grinding blade, and travel lid for drinks on the go