This is one of the current meals in my breakfast rotation. I call it a “Breakfast Bowl” because it’s not cereal or oats, it’s just a bowl full of stuff. And it’s for breakfast. Today it was a Strawberry Coconut Banana Chia Breakfast Bowl, but your choice of toppings/adjectives is completely up to you. Tailor …
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It doesn’t look like spring outside, but for now it can look like spring in my kitchen. My forsythia exclamation mark was dotted with today’s green juice breakfast. Good morning Greener March Challenge Day 20! Here in the northeast we’re all reeaaally ready for some greenery outside too. Today’s juice was so bright green it …
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Today’s green smoothie was sponsored by a bunch of baby kale that’s been hanging out in my fridge and was “Best By” – uhhh, yesterday. Time to get a move on here with this thrice washed kale! I found some frozen peaches in the freezer and grabbed the container of peach kefir from the fridge …
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Almost-But-Not-Quite Raspberry Cheesecake Smoothie
March 6th, 2013 | Posted by in Breakfast - (0 Comments)I am on a green smoothie kick. This Greener March Challenge has gone straight to my head. And straight to my blender. And then straight to my stomach. I haven’t made green smoothies in ages, and now I can’t seem to stop. None of my the avocados from my most recent haul are ripe yet, …
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Have you ever made something really, really good – but then just plain forgot to ever make it again? Maybe it’s because it’s too painful to remember. Our brain knows that we will feel so sad we don’t have that delicious food item in front of us at this very moment, it protects us from …
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I make Lisa’s peanut butter coconut oil cups all the time, they have become a fast favorite around here. (Have you tried these yet? You need to get on it!) Once they’re made, they are a quick, easy, satisfying snack – I love to pop one before a run (sort of like a direct fuel …
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I made these dark and early one morning while everyone was still snoozing, they were ready just in time for breakfast. Served with a side of Yahtzee, our favorite new thing to do at the kitchen table.
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It’s almost autumn. The leaves are starting to change. School buses are back on the road. The fresh berries are dwindling on the produce shelves at the grocery store. I even had drag a pair of jeans out of a storage bin from the basement this morning. This bums me out. The berry part, mostly. …
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Whenever we get coffee from a coffee shop, I always get a Cafe Au Lait. I love the steamed milk in my cup, it’s just so… steamy. And frothy. And foamy. And seemingly impossible to reproduce at home without some giant, loud frothing machine. During pregnancy, I totally lost my taste for coffee. But thanks …
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The first thing I need to tell you is that this was not my idea. In fact, I kept trying to change the subject every time it came up, in the hopes that they’d forget all about it. The little one made fruit shish kabobs with a group of her little friends last week. On …
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