Nutribullet?

[Florian]

I'm trying to gain weight (healthily), I suppose this is the last thing I need.

Depends. You could always use it to blend up your brown rice/pea/hemp protein shakes with essential amino acids and some fruit and veg to mask the unfavourable flavours.
That's what I've been doing anyway as I'm in the same boat as you. (with the $30 kmart equivalent)

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

I'm trying to gain weight (healthily), I suppose this is the last thing I need.

Stop work, stay at home, eat junk food and play on-line games/porn. You will be fat in no time, and you dont have to worry about what variety of lettuce you need.

 

[StalkingWilbur]

That nut rivulet (calling it that from now on) add is ******* ridiculous.

However, a banana, baby spinach, protein smoothie after you've done some exercise is amazing!

Or a kale, celery, ginger, apple, cucumber and if you want to get crazy, garlic shake with a bowl of porridge is a perfect way to start the day with plenty of sustained energy.

 

[Phoney]

Stop work, stay at home, eat junk food and play on-line games/porn. You will be fat in no time, and you dont have to worry about what variety of lettuce you need.

I had a mate who worked as a courier, he got addicted to iced coffees. He would guzzle down 3, 4, 5 or more a day in his truck. He went from being skinny as a rake to a tubby bitch. I think it was like 30 kilos or so in 9 months - before his brother gave him an intervention. :lol: Then he stopped drinking them, got a different job, started exercising and lost it all. He was like a human puffer fish it was incredible.

Still I guess there's worse things to get addicted to.

 

[Bribie G]

What I like about my smoothies is that I can blend up combinations of stuff that would be pretty weird eaten individually, but actually work well together as a thick drink:

Celery stick
half avocado
half pear
sprig broccoli
some leek
four grapes
tsp almond flour
tsp linseed shyte
top up with kefir to the Max line and blitz

Not too bad. However three days into the program I learned the hard way "never trust a fart". Fortunately was near the loo so no harm done mmmmm cleansing......


edit: how do you get a whole bowl of porridge into a blender?

 

[Florian]

What I like about my smoothies is that I can blend up combinations of stuff that would end up in thew bin otherwise, like that half eaten banana from the kids, the apple pieces that they nibbled on, the almonds they fished out of the muesli because they are 'too hard'. I just chuck it all into the bullet thing and serve it to them as a drink. They love it and think I'm the greatest dad in the world for making them a 'healthy juice', and tell mum and all visitors about it.

 

[Dave70]

If you are growing that plant which is closely related to the hop plant, 8 leaves blended into 1 cup of water is apparently good for arthritis.

So I gave it a whirl last night. This morning I'm crook in the guts and shitting like a mink. Is a bowel cleanse one of the side effects benefits?


I assume the plant you were referring to is ivy.

 

[StalkingWilbur]

If your body isn't used to getting a massive dose of nutrients (on the cellular level!) and fibre, then yes. You will adapt to it pretty quickly, or I did anyway.

 

[syl]

This thread sucks!

 

[Dave70]

This thread blends!

 

[syl]

This thread blends!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b4Z5Kg08PY

 

[Airgead]

You guys do realise that blending stuff up doesn't actually make it any more nutritious than just eating it, don't you? You would get exactly the same "massive dose of nutrients" though chewing and swallowing without the aid of a fancy gizmo.

Any claims of magical extra nutrition through intense blending are bunkum of the highest order.

 

[Forever Wort]

I think the benefit is that most people will never go to the "effort" of eating the individual ingredients, but will slam a drink down if the ingredients are blended.

 

[stakka82]

Surprised that took 32 posts

 

[Airgead]

I think the benefit is that most people will never go to the "effort" of eating the individual ingredients, but will slam a drink down if the ingredients are blended.

Really? Because gathering the ingredients and chewing is such a high intensity activity? Compared to the effort involved in gathering the ingredients, stuffing it into a machine, hitting a switch, waiting, pouring the sludge into a glass then drinking it?

First rule of marketing - Create a problem. Then sell someone a solution.

"Too busy to chew? Try slurping sludge through a straw instead".

And the whole slamming a drink down is part of the obesogenic environment we live in. Who would eat 10 oranges in one go? But we will happily slam down a large orange juice...

 

[wide eyed and legless]

The only thing wrong with the blenders over actually eating the fruit is the fibre advantage from eating the fruit would be greatly compromised.

Dave I don't think poison ivy is related to the hop plant, though the Dutch use it for stabilising Dykes, or was it Dikes.
Ground ivy was once used in brewing beer for bittering along with other bitter herbs until hops to over as the bittering agent.

 

[Dave70]

The only thing wrong with the blenders over actually eating the fruit is the fibre advantage from eating the fruit would be greatly compromised.

Dave I don't think poison ivy is related to the hop plant, though the Dutch use it for stabilising Dykes, or was it Dikes.
Ground ivy was once used in brewing beer for bittering along with other bitter herbs until hops to over as the bittering agent.

Just between you and me, I know you were talking about cannabis..

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[StalkingWilbur]

Ohhh I love a sceptic that's ready to slam everything just because they don't agree with it.

It takes me less than a minute to prepare a baby spinach and banana smoothie. I cram that sucker full of baby spinach. It would take me longer to put it on a plate (not that it would fit) and eat it. Further more, baby spinach (even though I enjoy it and eat it in salads and sandwiches) tastes a dickload better when blended with banana, ice, chocolate whey isolate and water.

No body in this thread is claiming it magically intensifies the amount of nutrients you get from it. In fact, we quite blatantly mocked the claims made by the add.

The only thing that is bunkem of the highest order is people commenting on stuff they've never tried or have no idea about.

 

[Mardoo]

Sounds like this thing would be great for mull. Et.

 

[wide eyed and legless]

Yes Dave I know your sense of humour by now.
Mardoo, yes people do put mull through the blender but as you know I made the Phoenix tears oil with it using Diggers Isoprpyl and a coffee grinder and my BM, had a bad experience though my wife who believes she is immune to mull wanted a taste, one tiny bead on a cocktail stick was enough to send her on a mega trip of paranoia, she told me afterwards that she thought I had poisoned her and I didn't make matters any better when I said, 'Hold on I am going to take my dose and I will be coming with you, meaning tripping out which made her think is was some sort of suicide pact without her approval :unsure:
Needless to say I have about $2000 worth of oil just sitting in the fridge, which she has barred us from using, I must also add that I have never seen housework done so thoroughly the next day