I absolutely love my Vita-Mix.  My husband and I made a pledge to start eating better and this blender has helped us keep our pledge.  I have been using it for the last 5 years.  It comes with a video and cookbook.  The recipes, beverages, soups sauces, salad dressings, batters for baking to desserts, are very tastie.  There are also vegetarian items and also they provide nutritional information so you need to  calculate sodium or sugar intake or just want to know the calorie count of a recipe, this is very handy tool.  We also purchased the grain container.  This is great for grinding...