Today’s greens were just the same-old same-old roasted Brussels sprouts (paired with roasted sweet potatoes, my winter vegetable obsession). What I really want to tell you about is this shredded pork roast we’ve been enjoying.
It’s super easy – but more importantly, it’s super good.
I didn’t really learn to cook until after I was a vegetarian. In fact, becoming a vegetarian is The Reason I learned how to cook. If we’re not eating meat, WHAT THE HECK ARE WE GONNA EAT?!
Greens To Go. Thank you Daylight Savings Time for NOT SAVING ME ANY TIME AT ALL.
OK, that’s not true. I had plenty of time for breakfast this morning, I just ran out of time. This is why God invented Travel Mugs. For people like me who continue to underestimate how long it will take to get all of the children out the door on time.
Today’s green goodness was a blend of orange juice, spinach, cottage cheese, broccoli and frozen strawberries. Much like this smoothie, except without the banana – only because I forgot it, not because I’m holding a grudge against bananas or anything.
We’re 10 days into The Greener March Challenge. ARE WE HAVING FUN YET?! Greens today came in the form of green juice that I made and drank 45 minutes before I left for a run.
We’ve had the Breville Juice Fountain Plus for about three and a half years now. I still love this little appliance, even with the addition of the Vitamix to our kitchen appliance family last year.
It’s sort of like children I suppose. I don’t love my food processor or juicer any less now that we have a Vitamix. I have room in my heart (and my appliance cupboard) for all of them.
Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfeld was one of the first books I read when I was beginning to learn more about cooking and nutrition. (The Family Nutrition Book by Dr. William Sears was another one if you’re just getting started.)
I remember looking at her recipe for brownies with spinach and wondering if you truly couldn’t tell there was vegetables in them. This was about a year before I discovered green smoothies and did not yet understand the invisibility powers of spinach when prepared the right way.
My biggest gal turned 9 years old today. NINE! I guess that means I must have been 16 when she was born because I can’t possibly be a day over 25 myself.
(What?)
Ava’s birthday breakfast request was bagels, and so bagels it was. After Deep Nutrition, bagels became more of a treat around here – this is why it was a birthday request. Bagels have been missed!
Some greens still managed to elbow their way into the birthday breakfast line up – a spinach and mushroom omelet with half a French Toast bagel (awesome!) and cream cheese.
I am smack dab in the middle of a string of crazy days here.
Not hard days, just very full days. This morning started out with a 4 mile run, then it was a few hours at home to get some work done around here before taking the girls to an afternoon class while Kaz and I ran a bunch of errands. Then it was off to pick up Zak at work and head to dinner with family for some birthday celebrations. I think it’s the hauling around of kids that ups the intensity of a full day by about 300%. Now we’re home again and I’m about to post a picture of lunch before then diving head first into bed.
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, otherwise I would have made an avocado smoothie again. I still wanted a smoothie for breakfast today though, so I tried to come up with something different this morning – hopefully just as good as that avocado smoothie.
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 the pain and won’t allow us to relive it. Not even a little memory jog so you can make it again. It’s like PTSD, except from food. I’ve got Post Traumatic Smoothie Disorder.
The Greener March Challenge, Day 4!
Today’s green round up started with an avocado (and spinach) smoothie that was so awesome I was forced to share.
I eventually had to get out a bib and strap him into his seat because this “sharing” of my smoothie was getting out hand.
(We’re going to revisit this smoothie more closely tomorrow because it deserves its very own post.)
Some red leaf and green leaf lettuce was seen on top of a turkey burger in the afternoon, plus the last of the roasted Brussels sprouts from yesterday, topped with a little a garlic powder.
It’s the end of Day 3 in this Month of Eating More Green Stuff challenge! Here’s a look at the greenery that showed up around here today.
The first green vegetable was spotted shortly after my (8 mile!) morning run. My favorite halved and roasted little green heads,
with some left over beef chili topped with a little shredded cheese and a few roasted sweet potatoes too.
There was some unpictured, unexciting steamed broccoli consumed before running some errands this afternoon (“running errands” is code for “a trip to Wegmans”) and after a simple dinner of eggs and Ezekiel toast, I sipped on this green smoothie while putting together this post.
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