So Mr. L took two steps today...naked, by the pool, chucking every single toy he could find into the water. Good thing the girls were actually in the water and happy to retrieve them all!
Speaking of Mr. L - his skin has become so red and irritated and itchy that I can no longer ignore the fact that he is reacting to something. Since we already went through this with E, I am assuming it is wheat...however, he has been eating lots of yogurt lately, so we're eliminating all wheat and dairy from his (and therefore from MY) diet. Hopefully in a week or so we'll see improvement.
As for the green smoothie part of my title...I've been playing with our Vita-Mix in full force lately. My last few "smoothies" have been simply awesome! I take a big handful or two of spinach (or any other green on hand - one day it was Romaine), blend with this pomegranate-blueberry juice from Fresh and Easy until it looks like plain juice. Then I add whatever fruit we have or need to use up. Today's combo was:
Spinach
Pomegranate-blueberry juice
a handful of green grapes
approx 1/2 an apple, including skin
some watermelon chunks
a banana
some ice cubes
I have made similar combos with spinach, pom-blue juice, mango, frozen berries...they have all been great! You could also add yogurt, flax, etc. to really up the punch.
Tonight for dinner I Vita-Mixed (is that a verb LOL) spinach, black beans, tofu, salsa, avocado, taco seasoning and cumin to make "refried beans" on tostada shells...again - yum!
I love that I can sneak these extra nutrients into my kids (for example, E won't touch avocado, though big sis and little bro both love it), and it tastes amazing...
Watch out Jessica Seinfeld...here I come!
3 comments:
Did you and Kelly conspire to write simultaneous posts about smoothies??? LOL Plus you read my mind too, I was just thinking about that book on my morning walk here (to work)!
Ahaa, L is walking! How cute! Get the cam out! Toldya it won't be long after freestanding :-)
A Vita-mix is one appliance that I would LOVE to get my hands on. Unfortunately, all I've got is a common blender, though it is a good one being from Kitchen-Aid. Still, hopefully one of those is in my future.
I love the idea of the smoothy you made. I like adding greens to our smoothies, though I find it works best at our house to serve them in opaque glasses because the kids always seem to know when I've been adding the "healthy" stuff. *rolling my eyes* :)
The smoothies sound PHENOMENAL! I am so sorry to hear that Liam is having these skin issues! I remember the Elf's skin problems oh so well! Poor bebe!
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