A good meal replacement smoothie rarely happens by accident. Those runny chocolate milk wannabe mixes won't tide me over until lunch. I prefer a thick milkshake style meal that I can sip slowly.  To save time, I pre-mix the dry ingredients and store them in pint size mason jars. If you need a quick way to sneak a few green things into your family's smoothies, this is the fastest, most subtle way to do it. 

It started off innocent enough. I tossed one baby carrot into the blender when I was making our chocolate breakfast smoothie. Then a couple of leaves of lettuce, after that, it became a challenge to see what I could get away with.  My husband was the first to notice. It was bad timing. He came into the kitchen earlier than usual, right after I tossed a handful of lettuce in the blender. "What's that green stuff?" It helped that he had been drinking lettuce for at least a year at that point.  These are not the droids you're looking for" I said .