....Keeps the Doctor Away!
Really, it's working in our family. Ebear has only missed one day of school this entire year and Gbear has missed two. That is a miracle, especially for Ebear. She normally gets many colds during the winter and coughs for 6 months straight. I can hardly believe it.
Just today I noticed she has a little bit of a runny nose.
I blame it on all of the Valentine candy: sugar, HFCS, synthetic food colors. Yuck!
Time to load her up on green smoothies and carrot juice (our new favorite).
I get a lot of people asking me what we put in our green smoothies.
The truthful answer is:
whatever we have on hand.
I almost always have spinach in the fridge or freezer.
Greens are always the base and bulk of the smoothie. If not spinach, then I use collards, beet greens or kale. If using kale, I will put a quarter of a lime (peel included) to balance the bitterness of the kale.
I try to put in as many veggies as possible:
carrots, a tomato, a small zucchini, a little wedge of a beet, sweet potato, butternut squash, cucumber. We have tried all sorts of combinations. Some turn out, some don't. We still drink them anyway.
I almost always put 1/3 cup of flax seed in the smoothie.
Sometimes I'll put in some greek yogurt, coconut water, peeled oranges, clementines, bananas, pineapple and/or mango.
If the kids are drinking it, I will often put in a little juice:
orange juice, acai, odwalla, vitamin water.
And sometimes I top it off with some frozen berries or ice cubes to cool it down.
They taste better nice and cold!
(If you're trying to convert newbies or kids, or resistant husbands,
you can try a pinch of stevia or a little spoonful of agave or honey to sweeten the smoothie.)
