Are you looking for more ways to incorporate healthy green superfood into your diet? Or do you want some new ways to shake up your meal and snack rotation? A fun, easy way to accomplish both is by adding some healthy and green spreadable recipes to your regular staple of snacks and meals.
These spreads are versatile. They work on morning bagels or toast, as a dip for crackers or veggies, or as part of your favorite sandwiches, burgers, tacos, and any favorite recipe you can think of.
These healthy and green spreadable recipes are an easy way to add a new, fresh flavor profile to familiar snacks, while also incorporating more greens into your diet.
Healthy and Green Spreadable Recipes
Green Spread with Leeks and Peas
Ingredients
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 3-4 cloves garlic
- 2 tablespoons chopped chives
- ½ cup chopped leeks
- ¼ cup fresh spinach
- 2 tsp linseed oil
- 1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
- 2-1/2 tbsp Dijon mustard
- Salt and pepper
Instructions
- Cook the peas on the stovetop in salted water.
- Once cooked, drain peas and transfer to a blender.
- Add spinach, linseed oil, lemon juice, and Dijon mustard.
- Blend until smooth.
- If the mixture is too thick, add a little bit of water and blend until it reaches a preferred consistency.
- Once you’ve reached your desired consistency, add chopped chives and leeks.
- Stir well, and spread on top of rye bread (or your favorite bread or cracker) to serve.
Avocado Spread
Perfect for your own at-home avocado toast, as a dip or dressing, or as a roasting sauce for meats or roasted vegetables, this avocado spread is a delicious, versatile, healthy, and green spreadable recipe.
Ingredients
- 1 ripe Haas avocado
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 lemon, juiced
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 cup fresh parsley (stems included)
- 1 tsp Olive oil
- ¼ tsp red pepper flakes
- Pinch black pepper
- ¼ tsp fine sea salt
Instructions
- Peel and pit the avocado.
- Add avocado and all other ingredients to a blender.
- Blend until smooth, and enjoy!
Is Avocado Toast Healthy?
When it comes to green superfoods, avocados are considered among food royalty. This fruit is nutrient-rich, providing a good source of vitamins, minerals, fiber and healthy fats. They’re great for people on a low carb, high fat diet like Keto. They also aid the body in absorbing fat soluble vitamins like A, D, E, and K from another nutrient-dense green superfood – spinach.
Is avocado toast healthy? The short answer is yes! Try spreading this mashable green superfood over whole wheat toast or a low carb wrap, adding other proteins such as eggs or plant-based tahini, sprinkle on lemon juice, and salt or various spices to taste. It’s a great snack and a way to recharge your day.
Green Cream Cheese Recipe
If you want a lighter, healthier green cheese option for bagels and more, look no further than this green cream cheese recipe.
Ingredients
- 8 oz cream cheese, soft
- ½ ripe avocado
- 2 tbsp fresh parsley
- 1 tbsp fresh chives
- 1 tbsp fresh basil
- ½ lemon, juice only
- Pinch of salt
- Bagels (or your preferred snack) for serving
Instructions
- Add parsley, chives, and basil to a food processor. Pulse a few times to chop.
- Add cream cheese and avocado to the herbs in the food processor.
- Start the food processor. As it is running, add the lemon juice until the mixture is light and fluffy, and well-combined.
- Season with a pinch of salt.
- Best served on toasted bagels.
Another way to make sure you get your greens is with these natural supplements from Healthforce Superfoods, Amazing Grass, and Genestra.
Green Superfood Dietary Supplements
Healthforce Superfoods Vitamineral Green Capsules
Vitamineral Green Capsules by Healthforce Superfoods is a blend of organic herbs, sea vegetables, superfood greens, and enzymes. Vitamineral Green Capsules contains land plants, such as nettle leaf, carob pod, alfalfa leaf, horsetail leaf, ginger root, barley grass, parsley leaf, wheatgrass, basil leaf, and more. It also contains water plants, including spirulina and chlorella, kelp, dulse, bladderwrack, alaria, and lavar. There is also an enzyme concentrate that provides protease, Alpha-Galactosidase, amylase, cellulase, lipase, bromelain, and papain. Best of all, they all come in a convenient capsule form.
Amazing Grass Green Superfood
Amazing Grass Green Superfood contains a powerful blend of nutritious greens, phytonutrient-packed fruits, veggies, cereal grasses, digestive enzymes, and probiotics. The Amazing Grass Green Food Blend includes a proprietary combination of organic, non-GMO Green Food Blend, Antioxidant Blend, EFA Fiber Blend, and a Digestive Enzyme & Active Culture Pre/Probiotic Blend. Every serving of Amazing Grass Green Superfood helps achieve recommended daily servings of fruits and veggies, and each scoop is chock full of all the necessary vitamins and minerals you and your loved ones need to start and finish the day feeling at your best. Amazing Grass is a trusted brand of vitamins and minerals, available from Natural Healthy Concepts.
Genestra Phyto Greens Powder Organic
Phyto Greens Powder Organic from Genestra is an herbal supplement with a broad-spectrum blend of phytonutrients. Phyto Greens Powder Organic contains an organic fruit and vegetable blend including apple fruit, beetroot, spinach leaf, strawberry fruit, kale, red cabbage, brussels sprouts, ginger root (and much more), as well as spirulina, chlorella and oat grass, millet sprout, alfalfa, barley, and wheat leaf, making for a powerful superfood blend to support energy and overall well-being throughout the day.
What are your favorite healthy and green spreadable recipes?
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Lori Bray-Levinsohn was born and raised in a large family in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. Her family had the tradition of all sitting down for dinner together each night, and the meal usually consisted mostly of the typical Midwest diet of meat and potatoes — and, being in Sheboygan County, a lot of hamburger and brat cookouts with fresh corn on the cob from local farmers on summer weekends. She hopes to see that tradition of the family dinner return to homes everywhere. They also lived in a house right on Elkhart Lake, which kept them busy with a lot of outdoor and lake activities.
She moved to the Chicago area and worked as a Flight Attendant for 20 years. Lori stopped flying when she got pregnant with her son at 44 years young. She struggled with earlier pregnancies and miscarriages before having a healthy baby. Due to this, Lori became a stay-at-home mom, content to spend as much time with him as possible. As her son was getting into his double digits, she decided she wanted to do more to help and inspire herself and others.
Lori decided to become a Certified Holistic Health Coach and received her Certificate from The Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN). Through her struggles with pregnancies, she got inspired to help other women navigate their journeys to become healthier and happier and to become parents, as well as guide them in making better choices for themselves and their children’s health. Being an older mom has also made her realize the importance of staying healthy for your family, and she also has a quest to keep kids healthy and centered with all that kids face in today’s world.
At IIN, she studied dietary theories, contemporary health issues and topics, and Eastern and Western nutrition with some of the world’s top health and wellness experts. While recognizing each client’s bio-individuality, Lori works with people, helping them discover their primary & secondary nutrition choices as they create a healthier lifestyle.
Lori loves getting out and doing activities with her family, especially watching car racing at Road America. She has taken up paddle boarding as a hobby and loves to get out on Elkhart Lake and Lake Michigan whenever she can.