Last week we heard about how to improve our favorite breakfast smoothies by blending in kefir, with all its “good” bacteria, instead of milk. Now there’s a solution for the less pleasant part (which we suspect may be why some people avoid smoothies in the first place): cleaning the blender. All that pulp, all those seeds (from your beloved all-season frozen berries), all that time down the drain. So we’d like to thank family physician and author Jill Grimes for a great shortcut. What nugget of advice often sticks with her audience when she gives a nutrition lecture? Yep, it’s how to clean the blender. Jill says: “After you pour your drink, take the pitcher straight to the sink. Put in a little water and a drop of dish soap, put it back on the blender, and turn it on for 20 seconds. Rinse it out and you’re done.” “And you know what?” she adds. “If that will get you eating a regular breakfast, it can change everything.”
–Jill Grimes is author of Seductive Delusions: How Everyday People Catch STDs.
