Pear-licious Perfection Smoothie

Ingredients

• 3⁄4 cup (180ml) unsweetened hemp milk, or other nut, grain, or seed milk (strained if homemade)

• 1 tablespoon Growing Naturals vanilla protein powder
  

• 3 ripe pears, skin on, cored and diced
• 1 cup (27g) loosely packed baby spinach
• 2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lime juice, plus more to taste
• 2 teaspoons minced ginger
• 1 teaspoon shelled hemp seeds
• 1 chopped pitted date, soaked
• 1⁄2 medium frozen sliced banana
• 1 cup (125g) ice cubes

Optional boosters

• 1 tablespoon raw almond butter (not peanut butter; it’s overpowering)
• 1 tablespoon chia seeds
• 1⁄2 teaspoon wheatgrass powder