Can't you just eat the stuff straight? Does a Vitamix really make it more appealing to consume? I've heard people rave about it, and I hear they have a lifetime guarantee, but it's a $400 blender.
I'll honestly never look back. This thing's a gold mine and I make a lot of smoothies, bean dips, soups, and chop vegetables in this thing. Also, I don't know if you saw from the original post but this thing make ICE CREAM. I made blueberry ginger ice cream and could cut back the sugar a bit because that's how I roll. I make frozen yogurt with frozen berries and yogurt. I make almond butter... I need to sell these things.
All kidding aside, the leafy part of celery, the bottoms of carrots, the outside, crappy leaf of a head of cabbage after a week or more in the fridge, wilted lettuce, the stalks of kale, broccoli, and cauliflower, the rinds of citrus, apple skins (on the rare occasion you
have to peel them) can be used in vegetable stocks but in the summer I just like to blend them up and down them. A lot of fibre, vitamins, and beneficial micronutrients we haven't even identified are a welcome addition to almost anyone's diet and it cuts back on waste.