I gave myself a challenge over the last 7 days to see if I could stick to one green smoothie per day for breakfast and it has been...awesome. My skin is glowing, my tummy seems to have gotten acclimated to the huge rush of veggies, and I've gotten to try all kinds of new smoothie recipes and experiment with a few of my own. In other words, Green looks damn good on me!
Now I am not a completely what you would call a crunchy mamma so normally my cupboard does not include things like spirulina, chia seeds or flax oil.
But now days my house is chock full of that yumminess, not to mention hemp protein, almond milk and every type of kale Whole Foods carries.
Since these things are not normally on my standard shopping list I came up with an excel spreadsheet that I use to plan weekly shopping for meals and the bottom half is a list of preprinted items we should have on hand. That way I can just circle or highlight the item we are currently low on, instead of having to come up with the list every week. It is working like a charm and seriously cuts down the time it takes to shop without a list.
For my smoothies I've been using Kris Carr's 3:1 ratio, meaning three veggies for one fruit. For smoothies where I know Emma will be partaking I occasionally add an additional fruit to sweeten it up, like the one pictured here.
Although it was pointed out to me that avocado is a fruit to which I replied "duh", even though inside I was thinking "omg I totally forgot about that". Lesson learned!
Sweet pea and I have had fun finding out what color the smoothie will actually turn out to be. On Monday it was purple because we used frozen blueberries and yesterday it was quite orange since we used a lot of carrots.
It's been a very cool week and I plan to just keep on doing it. Especially since my refrigerator has enough mint, basil, cilantro, arugula, kale, spinach, romaine, radish, carrot, ginger and mango to last another week! :-)
Next stop, juicing!
Wheat grass shots anyone?
p.s. it was actually not that bad!
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