Breakfast smoothie

Good morning all, and happy Saturday! I hope your weekend has started off on a good note. I know that I didn't post yesterday, so I'll be doing two posts today to compensate for that. I hope that you guys like them!

The recipe this morning is a little different, in that it includes spinach (rather than kale) and a banana. Usually, I can't stand the taste of bananas, but I know that they are very nutritious, so I need to somehow get around that. This recipe is great for breakfast, and is one I have named my NanaBerry smoothie (working title, don't judge me!). If you guys have a suggestion for a better name, let me know!

Here are the ingredients:

Handful of spinach 

1/2 of a ripe banana

1/2 cup mixed (frozen) berries

1 tbsp honey

1/2 cup distilled water

I'd gotten a little too excited, and drank half of it before taking the picture. My overall feeling on this smoothie is that it's delicious! The spinach has a much less imposing flavor, so the fruit is able to shine through. In addition, this drink is helping with a headache that I woke up with this morning! I'm very happy with the results, but I'm going to keep working with the kale - I'm determined to make it work! Remember to live life, and eat well!

Juicing Two-For-One!!

Good evening everyone! I hope you all had a merry Christmas yesterday, and were able to spend time with your families. Since I had the same juice two days in a row, I decided to combine the posts for yesterday and today. Here's the recipe:

2 ribs of dino kale

1/2 cup frozen berry mix

1 cup orange juice

3 tbsp honey

1 cup distilled water

It's the same procedure as my other juices this week (going forward, I'll just post the ingredients for the juices - you guys are smart enough to know what to do!)

Here are my thoughts on this juice:

1.) The flavor is definitely getting better - I think the citrus juice helped to tame the flavor of the kale some.

2.) I'm going to try spinach as my green - I know the kale is healthy, but that flavor is STRONG lol!

3.) Using frozen berries is definitely the way to go - I was able to use an organic antioxidant berry blend, and I really like how it tastes.

I like this juice, but I've still got a lot to learn! Remember to live life, and eat well!

Day 2: Hit or miss?

Good evening and merry Christmas Eve y'all! I hope you guys are as excited for tomorrow as I am. I may have gotten my presents already, but I couldn't be more grateful for the people and blessings God has placed in my life. So I look forward to celebrating the real reason for the season, the birth of Christ, even though I'll have to work.

For today's juice, I wanted to make something easy and a little sweeter than yesterday's juice. I was also interested in trying blueberries and peaches together. Side note: fresh berries keep horribly, so from now on I'll be buying frozen ones for juicing. 

Here's the recipe for today's juice:

2 ribs of Dino kale

Handful of blueberries

Half of a can of peaches, drained (or 1 large ripe peach)

1.5 cups of distilled water

I blended all of the ingredients together in the tall Magic Bullet cup until fairly smooth.

Here are my thoughts: 

1.) I honestly wasn't really a fan of this juice - it was way more sour than I'd anticipated, so I know I'll have to add honey to the mix next time.

2.) I didn't really like the fact that the peaches tasted canned in the mix...next time, I'll try a fresh (or frozen) peach, and see how it tastes.

Overall, it was a miss today. *Kanye shrug* it happens! Hopefully the mix will be better tomorrow. Good night, live life and eat well!

My first green juice!

Good afternoon!I hope you guys are doing well...I just wanted to quickly share an experience (and personal challenge) that I've recently come across! My parents were kind enough to give me a MagicBullet system as a Christmas present yesterday, and I absolutely LOVE it!!! In addition, they gave me various kinds of produce, so that I could start experimenting with green juice recipes. I love you guys! <3 

Anyone that knows me, knows that I am not really a salad kind of girl. In my mind, it is, and probably always will be, on the level of "rabbit food". (My brother and I used to have rabbits as pets, and we would actually feed them salad mix from time to time!) So, any chance to get some veggies in, have it taste good, and NOT have it in a salad is good in my book! That's where the Magic Bullet comes in. Now, I can blend up a green juice as I get ready in the morning, and drink it rather than a cup of coffee.

So, I've decided to try something new. I'm going to do my best to have a green juice every day for at least the next week, and see how my body feels! I'll be posting the recipes here, and letting you know my thoughts on them. Once I've gotten a recipe down to where I'd like, I'll even give the juice a name!

Here's the recipe for my Day 1 juice:

3 ribs of dino kale

7 raspberries

7 blueberries

7 blackberries

3 tbsp honey

1 cup of distilled water

I added the ingredients to the Magic Bullet tall cup, and blended until the mixture was fairly smooth.

My thoughts? I loved it! I was so excited to make this juice, that I forgot to take a picture of the ingredients before I blended them. The kale has a pretty strong flavor and smell, and the fruit wasn't enough to completely mask it, but I don't mind that. I may put in 2 ribs of kale though, just to see if that helps. I'm going to try a different fruit combo in the morning - I'm excited! Live life, and eat (and drink) well!