growing up girl

Tag: superfoods

the smoothie..intro to the beet.

  it is a another smoothie morn. a little addition today – the beet! i love beets. i love the deep happy color, the taste. i love them as harvest, pickled and plain. and i made sure to snip off some greens and add those too. “Beets are loaded with vitamins A, B1, B2, B6 [...]

the smoothie morn.

it has been a week of staying on the smoothie train. i can truly tell the difference when i am eating better. yesterday we took my nephew mac to culvers for lunch. an hour later, i felt buzzy, lethargic and just plain crappy.  while i enjoyed the sweet crunchy onion rings, my body said otherwise. [...]

spirulina & the smoothie..

the green smoothie seems to be quite the happy topic! so…i will be sharing a recipe here and there and talking about some of the extra “spicy” things i use to fill me up. the pear smoothie . . . . . 1 bartlett pear 1/2 banana 4 chunks fresh pinapple (typically i would use [...]