The Rolls Royce of Blenders

Last weekend I wandered into Whole Foods to pick up a few things and met the Vitamix Blender. Whoa! What a machine it is! I had tried to make a green smoothie in my food processor several weekends back and it was a disaster. I ended up with a horrible dark green ,thick, goopy, weedy mess of spinach, bananas, and coconut water. It tasted mostly of bananas and was the most hideous thing to try and swallow and digest. I am a texture eater. I have had to train myself to accept Chia seeds and had actually gotten used to it, but lumpy green stuff was so not something I really could get down. I stopped after 8oz and tossed the rest. At that point I decided green smoothies may not be in my future as long as I had cheap equipment.

All hail the Vitamix!

The man who was giving the demos and sales pitches for this blender had a wide assortment of fruits and veggies at his fingertips. He made me a smoothie that was so good. It consisted of Red seeded grapes, 2 handfuls of spinach, a few kale leaves, a slice of lemon with the rind on, lime juice, pineapple skin removed, a whole strawberry, and ice cubes. He put all of this, save the ice cubes, in the blender and started her up. About 5 minutes later I had a bright spring green smoothie that was smooth as silk. It was literally like drinking water! There were NO lumps or green goop in the pitcher, no froth, the mixture was a perfect even texture and what blew me away was that while it was green and I had seen the spinach and kale go in to the pitcher, it tasted of fruit.

Sadly, the Whole Paycheck package was $449 and that is not an amount I spend without consulting my other half. But I sure as hell debated it. I came home and got on their website and found that low and behold the vitamix site actually has payment plans for those that want a Vitamix, but coming up with $600 all at once is a bit of a challenge. They also have refurbished blenders that are about half of the price of new that come with a warranty of 5 years.  I think I see a Vitamix in my very near future :)