I've never been much of a smoothie person. Maybe it was that I didn't enjoy drinking for nutrition. Maybe I always figured that food should be, well, food. I've come to realize that smoothies can be a nutritionally dense part of a balanced diet, especially for those that maybe don't eat much.

I've been eating gluten-free for about seven years now. For most things, there are reasonable substitutes, even if needing to be made from scratch. You can even get genuine gluten-free Oreos