Are smoothies a healthy meal replacement?

I chuckled at Karin’s answer but COMPLETELY AGREE with her! Webster’s defines a “meal” as “an act or the time of EATING…” it also says “the portion of food EATEN…” (my own emphasis added here). For me to to consider something a meal, the first threshold for me is that it is something that I chew/eat (absent of course some medical or health reason for me to intake only liquids for my diet). So, for me, whenever I intake a smoothie, it’s with the idea that it is a “snack” that is tiding me over, or “supplementing” (I don’t mean this in the way that some speak about “supplements” because I don’t believe in them) my regular meal.

LaRue, CSCS
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