I love my Vitamix, but I've never had a green smoothie without fruit. I don't think it would be palatable for me, but everyone is different! If you drink pure vegetable juice already you may be ok. Is there a smoothie place where you can try one before investing in a heavy duty blender? You'll need a good one especially if you are just doing veggies.

I do about 2/3 - 3/4 spinach and kale but the last part I use some fruit. I haven't heard of doingonly veggies but you might find some info on google. Let us know how it turns out. I am trying to eat more veg and less fruit these days (trying to do Atkins for a few months)

As far as I know, we don't have any smoothie places in this backward part of the country, Chi83. :-)

I usually juice carrots, kale, celery, and red cabbage. Frequent additions include beets, romaine, ginger root, and lemon. I imagine if I blended these ingredients the taste would be the same; only the texture would be different.

The commercial for the Nutribullet shows them blending up a bunch of different stuff, including almonds. But lots of fruit.

Chi, I think you're right about needing something heavy-duty. I definitely can't afford a Vitamix (plus I don't have the space to store one), but my birthday is next month and I was thinking of asking for a Nutribullet or a Ninja. Maybe I should rethink this.

I do use the almond breeze "milk" in mine some times. I don't do just veggies usually if I don't add some fruit I will add berries, blue berries, raspberries, strawberries. You could try doing the veggies and add a little of the almond milk and maybe a little blue agave nectar to help take the edge off of just veggies.
I like to throw a little granola in occasionally or flax seeds or other seeds. They now have an almond breeze coconut milk blend now too.
I have used various yogurts, kefir, coconut milk etc in them too.
I have been wanting to try the new almond breeze iced coffee in the mocha or Caramel Macchiato. I prefer iced coffee or frappachinos over hot coffees.

just a drop of that blue agave nectar really makes a difference.

Thanks for the input. I almost forgot liquids have to be added to these mixtures. I'm leaning toward sticking with juicing, I think. I do consume soy milk and almond milk, but only in coffee or tea or on oat bran. I like juicing, so I probably should leave well enough alone. "If it ain't broke.....etc." :-)

Incidentally, I threw out my agave nectar (including the bottle I had just bought for my daughter-in-law) after learning that our bodies react to it the same as if it were high-fructose corn syrup. My health food store sells agave, but they post a warning advising people that it's not a healthy product. (I don't know why they continue to sell it.)

WebMD has this to say:

Nutritionally and functionally, agave syrup is similar to high-fructose corn syrup and sucrose (Karo) syrup.

I'm a thrilled NutriBullet user. The fiber is just as essential to me as the juice.

I've never made one with just veggies, the fruits add so much flavor, brightness, and healthy nutrients.

In this morning's 'sludgy ' I used about a cup (packed) of spinach, a small MacIntosh apple, several fresh strawberries, sunflower seeds, a slice of lemon, chia seeds, coconut milk and water.

Funny you should mention juicing. I watched the documentary Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead today and the fellow lost so much weight by consuming only juices for a month or more. His web site has several recipes, but all the green ones have fruit. I suppose you could just leave it out, but bleah. Perhaps using carrots would help since they are rather sweet. Maybe put a scoop of mint chocolate chip ice cream -- it's green!

Look for www.rebootwithjoe.com

Thanks for the link! I loved that movie. I watched it last year after someone (Chi83, maybe?) mentioned it here. It got me back to juicing after a long hiatus, and I've been juicing ever since. They use a Breville juicer in the movie, and if my 30-year-old Acme ever gives up, that's what I'll replace it with. But the Acme is a big, expensive workhorse, and so far so good.

The "Dark and Stormy" juice recipe at the link contains a whole beet. As much as I love beets, and love adding beet to my juice, I learned the hard way that putting too much beet in my juice burned my throat--for more than a day. And "too much" was a lot less than a whole beet. But it doesn't affect everyone that way.

I read the A to Z instructions for juicing prep, and learned that I should leave the white pith on when peeling lemons, and also leave the pits. I'll do that from now on.

We have a Blendtec blender, with both the FourSide jar and the WildSide+ (5-side) jar. We got it when Costco had an awesome online special price. We love it, and make smoothies all the time.

Both the Vitamix and the Blendtec web sites have great (and downloadable) recipes for juices, smoothies, and lots of other stuff. Even if you don't get either brand product, you can still use their recipes. :-)

Hubs and I are big milk drinkers, but we haven't had cow's milk in over a year. I read The China Study, and we watched the movie Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead, and those both convinced us to change our ways. Hubs now drinks only Almond-Coconut milk, and I only drink Coconut Milk. I also like my coffee sweetened, and for years had been using sugar substitutes (Equal, Splenda, etc.), but for over a year have used only Coconut Palm Sugar. I also eat a lot of yogurt, but (yep, for over a year) now only eat yogurt made from cultured coconut milk. And we use the coconut milk yogurt in smoothies. And when a smoothie recipe calls for ice cream, we use coconut milk ice cream.