Smoothies, Juice and Soft Serve

Lemon Balm Green Smoothie

2-3 c. water

4 c. kale

1/4 c. lemon balm or mint leaves

1 1/2 c. blueberries (frozen or fresh)

 1 c. of mixed fruit blend 

(I used  frozen mango, strawberries, peaches & pineapple)

2 T. hemp seeds

Blend & Enjoy!

This made about 2 quarts  my daily dose of green smoothie. I normally drink 1-2 quarts of green smoothie per day. This is a good way to get a significant amount of nutrient dense greens into your diet.  

Green Juice

kale 

spinach

romaine

leaf lettuces

beet greens

cucumber

zucchini

2 radishes

ginger

lemon juice

Juicing is another way to flood your cells with nutrients.

This is for pure pleasure!

Strawberry Soft Serve with Cacao Sauce

1 c. fresh almond milk

2 frozen bananas

frozen strawberries with greens

Blend in a Vita-Mix or food processor.

To make this more nutritious you can add some spinach or green powder.

Cacao Sauce

2 T. raw cacao or cocoa powder

1 t. vanilla 

agave to sweeten and blend to desired consistency

I made this soft serve the next day.  

Chocolate Sunbutter (taste like peanut butter) Soft Serve. 

1 c. almond milk

2 T. sunbutter

2 frozen bananas

vanilla

blend in Vita-Mix or food processor 

Banana Soft Serve can be made into any flavor you desire.  Just remember the almond milk & frozen bananas are the base.  Use your imagination and enjoy!

Daily Greens

Cheezy Kale Chips, Beet Salad & Tabbouleh

Pictured above is kale with the tahini dressing prior to massaging this mixture..

CHEEZY KALE CHIPS

                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

2 bunches of Kale washed and large stems removed~place in a bowl and sit aside

In a blender or Vita-Mix  add:

1/4 c. Bragg's Apple Cider Vinegar
1/4 C. Bragg's Liquid Amino's
1/2 c. filtered water
*you may need a little more water~you need to be able to pour this out of the blender,
but you don't want it runny.
3/4 c. Tahini
1 garlic clove
2 T. dried onions
1/4 t. sea salt

1/4 c. nutritional yeast

Blend until smooth, pour over kale and massage dressing into kale.

Place on Teflex sheets in dehydrator and dehydrate for 6 hr @ 115 degrees.

 

Today's green juice was an endeavor to clean out the fridge.

pictured:

swiss chard

cucumber

zucchini

kale stems

beet tops

celery

ginger

I added lemon juice and liquid stevia

This juice was extremely GREEN!!

This made one gallon of juice

Beet Salad

1 bunch of raw beets shreddeed

2 large garlic cloves

dash of ground cloves

salt

1/4 c. lemon juice

1/4 c. extra virgin olive oil

Mix in a large bowl and allow flavors to marinate before eating.

Did you know that  CLOVES neutralize garlic breath?

Remember clove gum?

I used to love it!

This is not garlic clove. 

Cloves are sometimes used by the dentist to pack a dry socket when in pain.

Tabbouleh

1 bunch of parsley chopped fine

1 bunch of celery cuttings chopped fine

2 small sweet onions diced

2 bell peppers dicd

4 cucumbers seeds removed and diced

2 c. soaked bulgar

4 t. spearmint

black pepper

Himalyan salt

6 T. lemon juice

6T extra virgin olive oil

Blessings to you today!

Juicing and loving Crispy Dulse

Ingredients for my juice today:

top left~clockwise

celery

swiss chard & zucchini

peeled cucumbers

broccoli and ginger

100% organic Volcano lemon juice

 (there is the juice of 40 lemons in this bottle.. $3.89 at Costco!)

This made 1 gallon of Green Juice

Bottled and ready for the fridge

Mid afternoon meal~

Cheezy Kale Salad

Beet Salad

Not Tuna Pate

Cabbage with olive oil, lemon juice and Himalyan salt

Topped with Spicy Cheese

After the picture I sprinkled granulated dulse on top and then ate it with strips of dulse...lovin me some crispy dulse

This is my Dulse!! 

 A yummy Sea Veggie

Dulse is full of Iodine... the natural kind...

(I do not eat iodized salt, it will harden your arteries)

and potassium, iron, calcium, vitamin C, vitamin A

When you crave something salty and chewy..like jerky...just eat some dulse!

Liquid-y Day.....Lori Painter~Yoga for Back and Hips!

I hope you all are having a good day!  I've been busy around the house today.  I love home! 

Routine cleaning~food prep and some schooling with my daughter

Pictured above are part of my liquids for the day. 

Two bottles of Cucumber, Celery, lemon, ginger juice and a green smoothie.

Daily Green Juice

2 whole cucumbers

4 cups of celery

about 1/3 c. lemon juice (I didn't measure)

1" piece of ginger

squirt of stevia

I just blended this in my Vita-Mix and strained it!

Easy peasy!

this made a little over 32 oz.

I already had one 16 oz prepared in the fridge (not pictured) that I drank this a.m.

This juice is hydrtating, cleansing and beautifying for the skin! We could call it an anti-aging juice.

You can add a granny smith apple, pear or pineapple to sweeten it up if you like.  I prefer the fruit in my smoothies and not in my juices most of the time.

Green Smoothie

1 container of blackberriess

2 mango's

2 banana's

1 c. pineapple

1" piece of ginger

4-5 oz of spinach

few ice cubes

Blend in Vita-Mix or high powered blender

All of this should keep me going until dinner tonight and then I will prepare a savory blended soup or salad with some hemp seeds and/or tahini.

Lori Painter from Inspire 2 Act has posted a great video for stretching and lengthening lower back and thigh muscles.

Check it out!

Remember to warm up before trying these poses!!!

If you are interested in learning the other poses Lori mentioned you can find pictures of them and instructions at About.com Yoga pages