I gotta tell ya, I’m pretty excited. January has been such a blast so far. My Green Team has been helping me around the site, behind the scenes, and working to put together some delicious improvements for all of you who benefit from the information we share.
I’m going to have an announcement for you quite soon about a new FREE program we’ll be offering. Each day I check in with my guys and gals to see how things are coming and each time I do, I get more excited. This is a program I want everyone to try! You see, I believe that the more people I can tell about green smoothies, the more my dreams of helping people to become well through their own wisdom and action seem within reach.
And you know, this really is the sort of health information that’s most successful when it’s passed on from person to person. Someone told me about green smoothies, now here I am! So… I got to thinking (do you smell green smoke too??), why not ‘get with the times’ and use the social networking tools that are available?
So I got me a profile!! Ain’t it purty?
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So just clicky-clicky the badge above to join me on Facebook and then you can enjoy our posts while you’re killing time or sipping your morning smoothie and checking in on your friends. You can share your comments there or click through back to the blog - either way, I’ll get ‘em and read ‘em!
Lotsa love and have a slurp-tastic green weekend!
A Thank You From Mrs. Claus 
Thankfully my parents now stock up more on the things they’ve seen me use in smoothies (though… I have yet to see her come home with seaweed of any kind). Still, I do tend to have less variety when I travel. My smoothies are often bananas and spinach or bananas and mixed greens. Yes, variety is better, but if finding kale is difficult or if my mother, in her sincere efforts to be helpful, is going to stress out about “having something already” for me and looking in the store for persimm-a-somethings, then I will choose to be simple for a few days. The “it’s still better than a cheeseburger” mantra gets me through any worries.
Chances are, if you keep your smoothies simple, your non-green friends and family may actually be willing to give one of your smoothies a taste test. Once they see for themselves how yummy they are, you may have opened the door a crack for them to make their own health improvements.
OPTION 1 - Call ahead to your destination and ask if your family or friends wouldn’t mind bringing an old blender up from the basement or making sure they can find the lid (I’ve learned the hard way that a blender lid can be the start of a great day or the initiative you needed to wash your kitchen cupboards, walls, canisters, light fixtures - you get the idea). If they don’t have one, then pack yours into the car.
There’s no doubt about it, figuring out the blender situation is the “ay, there’s the rub” when it comes to being on the road. But people do make this work. In fact, I know there are even “tailgater” blenders out there that plug into your car’s cigarette lighter socket. But uh, it probably goes without saying, please blend and drive responsibly.
A few years ago, I tried to go on a week’s vacation with the intention that I would stick to the diet I was on at the time. We travelled by car to a hotel, and I took two coolers with me of salads (I remember the big honkin’ bag of veggie coleslaw in particular), fruits, and healthy snacks. I knew the hotel we’d be staying at didn’t have any fridges in the rooms, so my plan was to keep buying ice and use my coolers as mini-fridges. I was all gung-ho to be committed and completely avoid eating out! Well… that lasted until the first large social opportunity came along and everyone wanted to go out for supper. I didn’t want to miss out, but I found that good intentions were not enough to keep me from digging into the deep-fried junk along with everyone else at the table. Afterwards, I felt *darned* guilty that I hadn’t stuck to my plan. Worse, I felt so bad that I kinda (as in totally) gave up. By the time we were ready to head back home, my room had the rather enchanting aroma of rotten uneaten cabbage. So… that didn’t work.
And sometimes that satisfaction actually sprouts into pride, and then I find I’m reaching for the fruit bowl more often than the shortbread tin.
I had spotted his Osterizer some time ago and decided that it would be perfect for trying out some kitchen experiments for raw foodists on a budget!
