{"id":12045,"date":"2013-06-11T02:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=12045"},"modified":"2013-06-11T11:12:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T18:12:48","slug":"12045","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/12045\/","title":{"rendered":"Blendtec Home Blender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m tempted to say that this tool is a life changer, but I&#8217;m prone to exaggeration, so I&#8217;ll just say it&#8217;s a game changer. The game being that by mid-day I&#8217;m usually rolling with my writing or book layout and don&#8217;t like to take the time to make a decent lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the Blendtec and &#8220;green smoothies.&#8221; I combine greens plus fresh or frozen fruit, vitamins, protein powder, almonds, hemp seeds and whatever else I see around, turn on the Blendtec and have a delicious drink while working. I do it 2-3 times a week.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting fresh-from-garden raw greens &#8212; parsley (which is fragrant in drink), kale, chard, or lettuce, whatever looks good, plus fruit, protein, carbos, vitamins. There are tons of recipes for green smoothies. I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B003KD8B14\/?tag=cooltools-20\">Gold Standard vanilla whey protein<\/a> &#8212; good flavor, high protein (something like 55 grams in 2 scoops).<\/p>\n<p>This is a big powerful machine and it can be used for any number of things. It&#8217;s nothing like the blenders most of us are familiar with. In addition to smoothies, you can chop, juice, grind grain, and make soup or ice cream.<\/p>\n<p>I got it for $400 from Amazon. Expensive, but high quality, highly useful, long lasting.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blenderbabes.com\/blender-babes-101\/blender-reviews\/blendtec-vs-vitamix\/\">omparison between the Blendtec and the other super blender, the VitaMix<\/a>. You can also do a search for &#8220;Blendtec vs. VitaMix&#8221; in Google for more comparisons. <\/p>\n<div class='ctx-module-container ctx_default_placement ctx-clearfix'><\/div><span class=\"ctx-article-root\"><!-- --><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powerful home blender can chop, juice, grind grain, and more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[1537],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12045"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12371,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12045\/revisions\/12371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}