You leave your home, reusable bag in hand, to take your weekly stroll over to the local farmers market to load up on farm fresh organic produce. There is a slight chill in the air but the weather has yet to make an impact on your life. And suddenly, now it has. Your farmer's market is shut down for the season. For the next 6 months it will be markedly harder to get green greens into your diet. What's an organically obsessed veggie lover to do? You've got a couple of options:

1. Frozen organic veggies. I know, they aren't ideal, but they deliver the goods without the chemicals.

2. Canned organic veggies. Since the store-bought options are often soaking in salt, preserve your harvest yourself by jarring or canning your own veggies now before the chill sets in!

3. Green Powder. Again, not the most ideal, but a dose of green powder honestly does do a body good summer or winter.

Regardless of your delivery method, you've got to get in your greens. America is in a horrible state of nutrition (or rather, lack thereof). The average person subsists on a nutrient-depleted diet composed primarily of processed foods that are making us sick and fat. With obesity and diabetes on the up and up, especially in children, it's essential that we start paying attention to the quality of our diet.

Particularly when organic produce is hard to come by (like during the frigid months when our local farmers go on hiatus for the season), it's essential that we maintain a healthy, fruit and veggie-rich diet delivering vitamins and nutrients into our cells. After all, it's simply not okay to stay healthy for only half the year then use the cold season as an excuse to subsist on sub par foods.

Sure, you can choose to spend a pretty penny and swallow a handful of processed vitamins and supplements, but the delivery system is inherently flawed and our bodies have a hard time breaking them down in order to really experience the nutritional benefits (hence hyper-yellow, vitamin-enriched urine). So instead of flushing your money down the toilet (literally), drink a green shake in the am (or mix it with yogurt and frozen blueberries- yum!). Green powder superfoods are one of the easiest ways to deliver the body its vital produce-derived nutrients. But here's the key: finding organic green powders. Well, I happen to have found one called Boku Superfood that's certified organic, Kosher and vegan and seriously not bad (which is saying a lot if you have ever tried others...)

Want to know the best part? One serving of the grassy-tasting stuff and you're getting a serious dose of fruits and greens including organic spirulina, organic kelp, organic broccoli, organic spinach, organic cabbage, organic parsley, organic sprouted flax, organic mushrooms, organic goji berry, and organic strawberries.

Prefer to blend your own concoction of greens? Great! Here's a green smoothie recipe full of winter and fall's tastiest green greens:

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