30 Day Smoothie Challenge

Hello! Happy April everyone! I especially love April because it's my birthday month =). The 6th to be exact, and I am excited because some friends are going with me to Berkeley Springs, WV to the natural hot springs that George Washington frequented. I'm not a history buff but I've always wanted to go here and passed it many times on the way to lovie's unit. It's a few hours away though so it was never something I took the time to make an extra trip for. The town also looks super cute so I'll definitely share about my day there once my birthday arrives.

In the mean time- I joined the 30 Day Green Smoothie Challenge over at simplegreensmoothies.com. After getting all my supplies I set out to make some more ready-to-ninja smoothie bags.

I had these frozen mixed berries already, but I bought frozen peaches, frozen raspberries, a few avocados, bananas, pineapples, and mangoes, and of course the green - kale. Or you can use spinach, bok choy, etc. but I already had kale so that's what I'm using this week.

I added my ingredients in each bag then into the freezer and every morning I pull one out and plop them into the ninja along with some water, coconut milk, regular milk, or whatever low sugar liquid you like.

As you can tell I had every thing in a complete haphazard smoothie-making masterpiece mess while taking the photos =)

I've posted about smoothies before and I'm excited to be doing the challenge to add more super greens to my diet everyday and to get a variety of fruits and veggies. It also is great to kick-start your metabolism if you have one of these within the first hour when you get up. You should be eating something very soon after getting up... no breakfast skipping allowed here.

Have you tried making any smoothies yet? Don't be afraid of the greens, they really aren't bad mixed in with everything else.

Happy slurping!
xo
JC

Green Smoothie in the Ninja!

Hello!

I am so excited to be starting my own smoothie challenge-ish thing. I had a wonderful smoothie a few weeks ago at my aunt's house and it inspired me. I also found a pin for a green smoothie (adding fresh greens to a fruit smoothie) and I just couldn't resist.

My parents are both losing weight and we have more fresh ingredients around the house than usual, but they still tend to waste some, so before that could happen I grabbed the spinach and away we went.

Here's how I made my smoothie. In the NINJA combine:

• handful of spinach
• handful of frozen blueberries
• about 1 cup of milk
• 0.5tsp vanilla
• 3 cubes of ice

Combine until it's the consistency you want. After a few pulses it was too thick for me so I added more milk and pulsed some more. It was super delicious!! I am excited to play around with different fruits and vegetables and create some freezer bags full of ready to go ingredients so I can just pop them in every morning and go. Hopefully we can get everyone in the family on smoothies before you know it! I'm sure once my little man is a little older he will love these, and in popsicle form too!

We will have to wait and see if lovie likes them when he returns.

Sorry I don't have any more pictures. When I am in a creating mood like this I am really just wingin' it so I don't think about taking pictures until it is actually all said and done and I like the end result. haha.

Anyways, here's the pic- It looks gray and brownish in the picture but in real life it was purple from the blueberries. Not sure why the color didn't show better but that's okay. (yes this is my instagram pic)

 

I signed up to join the simplegreensmoothies.com 30-day Challenge that starts in April, but I will definitely be drinking plenty of smoothies between now and then. I know many people don't use dairy in their smoothies, but I love it so I will use milk and yogurt in some of mine. 

The Challenge is to replace one meal per day with a green smoothie! 

xo JC