Hump Day

Haven't had a green smoothie in a while and thought I was due...I forgot how tasty these are!  I've tried several versions, but this one is by far my favorite.

Tropical Green Smoothie

1 frozen banana, sliced

1.5 C frozen fruit (I used the mango, peach, pineapple, strawberry blend)

1 C non-fat vanilla Greek yogurt

2 handfuls of fresh baby spinach

Enough water to get everything blended (I used about 1.5 C)

 

 Even Lon likes this one and he absolutely HATES pineapple (I know, crazy right?)  It does have a lot of fruit and some people might look at that as too much sugar, but I have to mow and trim the yard this morning so I need some energy (and motivation!).  Since our yard is one big slope from front to back that will be my workout today.

  Here's the latest harvest from our little tomatoes plants (which are wild and crazy now) we got as a housewarming gift.  They are super delish...especially the Sun Golds (orange cherry tomatoes). We finally have enough basil to make our own pesto, too.  Lon is the pesto pizza king and he makes his own crust!  One of our favorite meals.  Yummmmm....

  Well, I guess I need to finish this smoothie and get outside.  One of the one days we've had in a long time (and are going to have) without rain in the forecast. Where is Fall????  This humidity sucks.  Guess I'll appreciate my cooler, drier weather that much more when it gets here.  Happy Hump Day!

Green Smoothies

Thank you to Sara Janssen for introducing me to the Green Smoothie. I'm enjoying my very first one right now. Think I'm going to make a trial run of these and have one every day and see where it takes me. She issued a challenge several years ago (before I found her super-happy, always fun, inspiring blogs) to have a green smoothie every day for 30 days. Great idea, I think. Should I issue that challenge to my (5) followers? I think I will. I like to throw that gauntlet thing around. :)

Here's my challenge (and this is new to me, too!): Drink a green smoothie every day for 30 days and let me know the good, the bad and the ugly of it. (The only ugly I can imagine is either a food pairing you don't enjoy or an amped-up bowel!) What do you say? Any takers???

So far my first one is DE-licious! One thing I've found repeated over and over online is to mix it up and not have the same ingredients day after day. Sara included several different recipes on her challenge...this morning I'm enjoying a banana-spinach smoothie and can't believe how easy it is! One filling tasty (and very pretty) beverage is supplying me with 13 grams of fiber! I've already gotten four servings of fruit/veggies this morning...that puts me ahead of the game.

Banana-spinach
2 bananas
2 handfuls of fresh spinach
Ice water to desired consistency

I just dropped the bananas in my blender, topped them with the spinach and poured a little water in to get the blending going...and presto! Done. I was worried about the taste...so I stuck a spoon in to try just a tiny little bit. Banana. That's all I got. Apparently if you stick to the 60/40 fruit/veggie ratio the fruit flavor will always overpower the greens. What flavor should I try tomorrow?