Carrot Cake Smoothie, and Tribest Blender Giveaway!!
By Gena Hamshaw on
February 9, 2010

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Hello readers!

I’m often asked whether it’s necessary to own a Vitamix to enjoy a high-raw lifestyle. The answer is no, absolutely not! I was eating raw foods long before I got my Vitamix. This said, having a good blender will enhance and contribute to a raw or semi-raw lifestyle immensely. With a decent blender, you can make soups, smoothies, and salad dressings; you can grind nuts, chop vegetables, and even whip up raw ice cream. Yum!

The only downside of having a good blender at home is that one tends to become spoiled; as soon as I grew accustomed to my blender (and, later, my Vita), I found myself longing after homemade smoothies and soups when I was traveling.

Enter the Tribest personal blender. This incredible little contraption allows you to whip up blended foods and beverages wherever you may roam. Small, transportable, and super high-powered, it’s an unbelievable tool if you’re looking to bring healthy habits on the road. My Tribest has lived under my office desk, has traveled home for the holidays with me, has accompanied me on two business trips, and is a terrifically easy to clean alternative to my Vitamix. In many ways, I depend on it more than the Vita, if only for its conveniance. To operate it, you need only put food or beverage contents in the custom cups that come with the blender, screw on the blade attachment, put the blade and cup into the motor base. You press and twist the blending cup, and in moments you have homemade soup, salsa, tapenades, smoothies, or ground nuts and seeds. Best of all, the pieces are easy to dissassemble and clean up–a rarity among appliances!

Various raw foodies have blogged about and promoted the Tribest blender. You can check out my girl Ani Phyo’s review here, and my friend Ingrid‘s review here. Suffice is to say, the blender is super popular in the raw community, and with good reason!

Now, you all have a chance to try the Tribest out, too. The good folks at Tribest have generously agreed to share not one, but two models with me.  They have models to suit a range of needs, and models PB-150, PB-250, and PB-350 all feature BPA free blending containers.

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The PB-350 Mason Jar Personal Blender, which Tribest sent me to sample and review, offers glass containers with blending and grinding containers. In the past two months, I’ve used it to make the following:

Green smoothie for Christmas morning:

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Salad dressing with fresh basil:

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Ground almond meal:

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…in addition to a ton of raw soups and dressings. Check out the incredible glass jar collection:

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The verdict? The PB-350 is an awesome home kitchen device. Best of all, it’s allowed me to bring raw soups and smoothies to the office!

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As if this gift wasn’t generous enough, Tribest has sent me a second model, the PB-250, to share with all of you! This blender features:

• Personal Blender Motor Base – 110V
• one Blending Blade Assembly
• one Grinding Blade Assembly
• two 16 oz BPA Free Blending Containers
• two 8 oz BPA Free Grinding Containers
• one commuter sipping lid
• three Regular Lids

It yields about two servings, and of course you can take it on the go anywhere, anytime.

So, what do you have to do to enter this giveaway? I dislike being forced into fourteen various entry steps, so I’ll keep it pretty simple:

1) Leave a comment on this post, telling me what the first thing you’d make with a new Tribest blender would be

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2) If you want an additional entry, Tweet OR mention the giveaway on your blog and then leave a comment saying you did it.

I will announce the winner on Wednesday, Feb. 24th!

I wish you all luck!!

Finally, a friend and client emailed me on Friday with the following request:

Hey Gena! I have really been wanting carrot cake type flavor lately…think there is any kind of smoothie recipe for that??

I’m sure there are a ton of options, but my own kitchen fiddling gave birth to this one. Of course, I used my Tribest blender to make it!

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Carrot Cake Smoothie

1 1/2 cups carrot juice
1 cup ice
1/2 cup cashews, raw
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp allspice

Blend all ingredients on high. This will yield at least two servings.

OK, guys. Enough about me. Get commenting, and good luck!

xo

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  3. A strawberry-chocolate green smoothie! Strawberries, spinach, almond milk, choclate hemp protein, stevia, and almond butter. So good, and I really need my own blender!

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  5. I would make the banana soft-serve first!! =D My food processor always jams up and takes forever to make it.

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  6. Neat! What a convenient little gadget!! I’m thinking my first go might have to be this carrot smoothie recipe. Yum and a HALF!

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  9. Nut milks and raw cookie dough! My blender has trouble with too many nuts.
    Your carrot cake smoothie picture made me crave a creamy orange smoothie… maybe orange, coconut, and cashew?
    You must have a record response on this one… what a great giveaway!!

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  12. I have been searching for something just like this!! We are a military family and travel quite a bit to visit family, and taking a huge, heavy blender is such a hassle.

    The first thing I would use it for is to make my daily green smoothie, because it is how I always start my day. 🙂

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  17. I would make salsa for fish or I would make a berry smoothie with my homemade yogurt!!! Plus I tweeted!

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  18. I would make salsa for fish or I would make a berry smoothie with my homemade yogurt!!!

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  19. I would probably make a green smoothie…because I love them.

    Awesome giveaway, Gena! Thanks for hosting this. : )

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  20. I would make a SMOOTHIE, no doubt. If I had that cute little blender, I wouldn’t have to feel absurd for hauling my Vita-mix to places like my family Christmas camping vacation – I was roughing it alright!

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  24. I’d make something whipped. My current blender is slow and overheats quickly so I’m never able to whip or even blend anything hard (such as cashews)! I’d love to be able to solve that problem!

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  25. OMG I am in the market for this blender. I am going overseas to Paris to visit my boyfriend and need this to make me some food!! I think it is the perfect traveling companion ; ) I will blog about this tomorrow and tweet it!!

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  26. Gena! I was just thinking about you 🙂 I would absolutely love to win this little blender… God knows I’d find places to take it. I would definitely try making a raw pesto sauce, it just sounds amazing comforting at this time in the year.

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  28. What else?…Green smoothies!!! I’m in college and hav a lil, not-so-good, $20 blender. I would LOVE to win this givaway 🙂

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  29. The first thing I’d blend up would be a peanut butter banana yogurt smoothie!!

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  30. I would dump a huge lump of assorted berries & there and make the fruitiest smoothie ever, and then proceed to try every smoothie concoction I could come up with!

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  31. I think the Tribest Blender is exactly what I need. I really can’t afford a Vitamix.
    The first thing I would make is a smoothie with greens. I’ve never tried one before because I’ve never had a blender tough enough to do it. I have, however, collected a zillion recipes, and a couple of books in anticipation of finally being able to try a green smoothie.
    Thank you so much for the chance to win, to you and Tribest 🙂

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  34. the possibilities are endless!! I would definitely use some of the raw cacao powder I just got from whole foods to make an choco-mazing smoothie!! I love that my favorite indulgence- CHOCOLATE- is even better raw!

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  43. I would love to be able to whip up creamy peanut butter – would this blender be able to handle grinding up nuts to a paste?

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  44. I’d bring this to work and make a mid-morning green monster!!! Or soup for lunch! Yum!!

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  46. I would use it right away to grind up flax seeds and nuts for all my raw treats. Yum yum yum! I love the glass jars!

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  47. So many things I could make. I would probably start off by making some chocolate nut milk sweetened with stevia.

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  48. I love the jar containers that the Tribest Blender has. The only thing annoying about the vita mix is how hard it is to get some things out of it.

    First thing first, I’d make a green smoothie!

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  54. Hi Gena-

    This would be so perfect for making smoothies for breakfast while traveling for my son’s baseball tournaments! Before that, however, I would make a batch of pesto and graze on veggies and pesto all afternoon.

    Also, I’m tweeting this…

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  59. The very first thing I would do with a tribest blender is take it to work and make a green smoothie for myself half way through the day – just when I find myself needing it most, a beautiful blend of organic baby spinach, apples, celery and parsley!!! Oh the thinks I could think when I think about a new portable blender!!!

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  62. Hi Gena! This could not be more perfect timing! I am travelling to Flordia and was panicking about how I would whip up my green smoothies! I am definitely going to look into getting this product. Unless of course I am lucky enough to win, then the first thing I’ll whip up is a refreshing Green Smoothie!!
    xoxo

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  65. Oh too funny, I was just wondering what I will do on two travel road trips without my Vita-Mix.. My whole family is addicted to our morning Green Smoothies. So this would be PERFECT for that task..

    I will say Green Smoothies on the Road, will be my first thing!

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  76. I’ve never heard of these blenders until now. How great! I’d probably first go on a salad dressing making spree, but I would also switch to making my breakfast smoothie in this as well.

    Thanks for hosting such a great giveaway!

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  78. Thank you for sharing this great opportunity with us! I would make a green monster smoothie first with the blender… with lots of frozen fruits that can jam up my current blender. 🙂

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  79. Wow. I would LOVE to have a blender I could do something quick in or travel with. My husband always asks if the big motorboat blender is going to be coming with us on trips. 🙂 I think the first thing I would try making is your zucchini cheese sauce…I’ve been wanting to make that since you blogged about it.

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  80. i would make banana ice cream. i have been craving it like crazy but it is kinda impossible to make in a dorm room without a tiny blender.
    emily

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  83. I would finally make a green smoothie without having to do a transfer of my main ingredients (spinach/some type of fruit) from the food processor to my cheapo blender for final mixing. My blender can’t handle the spinach and frozen fruit so I have to food processorize (my special word!!) first….heck, my blender can barely handle ice!
    By the way I love your raw cashew cream recipe! So does everyone else I make it for…course that is a fun process too with my blender!! 😉

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  85. EEEE i JUST purchased a cheap blender from amazon..i was in dire need of a personal/small blender that has the power for grinding and blending.
    I was debating whether to get this one..but i didnt have $$
    I would make my delicious b-fast smoothie & then a raw soup..mmmm!

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  86. Did I miss something? Did I have to mention my retweet in a second comment here? …I tweeted it. 😛 Clearly, I just want to replace the antique I currently use.

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  88. That smoothie looks perfect–I am on a smoothie kick these days! Of course I’d make a smoothie with my new blender. Perhaps apple pie? 😉

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  97. I would make my morning green smoothie when I am on the road. I travel a lot for work and really really miss my Vita-mix when traveling. 🙁 it is too big to take with me. Then I would use it to make dinner too when I got back to my hotel!!! Maybe even take it for the day with me. Then I could show it off to others.

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  98. Ooooh, thank you! Okay, here’s what I’d do…something sweet then something savory. First I’d make a green smoothie with kale, banana, cherries and hemp seeds and then I know I’d be dying to whip up a batch of salad dressing to dip romaine in, which is my latest obsession. I can’t get enough of it!

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  100. And I just tweeted too! Woo hoo! Oh and btw that carrot cake smoothie sounds divine. Did you know carrots are not meant to be orange???? 😉

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