Day 3, 4, 5, 6

The past few days have been made up of lots of smoothies or “SUPER FOOD” as my boys like to call them. Any of you who have thought that maybe I am lying and these smoothies really taste like dirt, I have major proof that they really do taste good.

Day 3, 4 and 5 was Orange, Banana, Spinach Smoothie. And today was a Orange, Banana, Raspberry, Spinach Smoothie. Both are yummy!

Oh and I have a new trick. If there is left over smoothie, I pour it into an ice cube tray, freeze it and add it to the next days smoothie.

Day Two.

So this mornings smoothie was not as good as I would have liked it to be. But I am feeling a little under the weather, so that probably attributed to it. It is not that I disliked it, but ummm it was interesting. I have never had a smoothie with kale in it, this morning was the first time. I think next time I will puree the kale first. My blender is pretty junky and it sort of felt like I was drinking thick lettuce. YUCK! So I blended it for about 4 more minutes and it was much better.

However, even though I am on the brink of sickness, I feel pretty good.  Starting the day off with a ‘green’ smoothie was a great feeling.  I am a diet pepsi addict (an addiction I am trying to kick) and yesterday I drank very little diet pepsi (for me)…My goal is at the end of the 30 days of smoothies, I am completely diet pepsi free.

Here is todays recipe:

2 handfuls Strawberries, 3/4 banana, two handfuls romaine, 1 stalk kale, 1/4 lime and water.

Tomorrow I am going for something more tropical, definitely adding in some wonderful Minneola Tangerines we got yesterday.

Green Smoothie Challenge!

*We have been out of town and I have lots to blog about, but can’t seem to find enough time to do it, so I am jumping in here and will talk about our trip and what we have been up to the past 10 days later

As of today I am on the Green Smoothie Challenge. Thanks to Sara of Happy Foody, Walk Slowly, Live Wildly and The Live Lightly Tour for challenging us (as in the whole world, hehe) to drink a 16oz Green Smoothie each day for the next thirty days.

This morning I awoke and made a banana, mango, strawberry, romaine and spinach smoothie. It didn’t *look* green, but it tasted a little green. It was oh so yummy.

I am so excited to be teaming up with my mom and best friend for this challenge. I am excited to see how we all change over the next 30 days!

It’s not to late to join, come on you know you want to!

Meal planning squared.

Meal planning to the next level or crazy as my step-dad said. Tomorrow I am embarking on a new journey, an in-home, labor intensive journey. I will be assembling twenty freezer meals, yes TWENTY. For a long while I have wanted to take meal planning to the next level, but never did and it was for good reason. Our family is primarily vegetarian and all the freezer meal menus were for meat-eating families. So I bugged and bugged and poked and prodded the ladies at Saving Dinner and viola, TWENTY VEGETARIAN DINNERS, complete with start to finish instructions, shopping lists and recipes. Hooray!

So today I went to three stores to get all that I needed, such are the joys of living in a small area, not one store has everything you need. The kids were wonderfully behaved, they toughed through almost two hours at Fred Meyer. Then I did the next two store while everyone was asleep. I am wiped out and the preparing hasn’t even begun. Cool thing… I got everything I need for about $125.

Well I am off to bed. Please say a prayer for well-behaved children tomorrow, so I can complete this task without wanting to rip out my hair, haha.