Chris and I try and eat a variety of fruits and vegetables with our meals and we try and get Mckenzee to do the same. We recently decided that we need to up our intake for our health and for the prevention of illnesses and diseases. I have recently read and heard a lot about what fruits and vegetables can do for your health and some of the results are astonishing. The owner of Dole, David Murdock, consumes an amazing amount of fresh fruits and vegetables daily and boasts that he hasn't had a cold or the flu in 20 years. We have decided to add fruit/veggie drinks to our meals and for in between meals. Right now our goal is to add a fruit drink to breakfast and dinner and increase our fruit snacking. I would say we are looking to triple our fruit and veggie intake. We buy all organic produce so this week's grocery trip was rather expensive. Because of that I added a new rule: We will not let ANY produce go bad and if we have any left approaching grocery day then that's what we eat all day until it's gone. We will also be making budget adjustments in other areas.....perhaps in the out to eat category....which we do too much of. We want to keep our family healthy and feel this is one way to do that. As we experiment with some of our smoothies I'll post my favorites. Today Chris made one with:
Ice
Water
A few spoonfuls of Stonyfield Farms Organic Banilla Yogurt (that is not a typo)
Bananas
Pineapple
Strawberries
Blueberries
A pear
carrots
yellow squash
It was really good. We think in the future we will add some vanilla extract and coconut. I might get a juicer.
5 comments:
That's very impressive. We're trying to eat more fruits and vegetables but it's hard sometimes! Ainsley only eats organic produce but I get lazy with ours sometimes and just get regular stuff - I wish we had somewhere closer that sold more organic. Do you go all the way to Whole Foods?
We only buy groceries bi-weekly (when Chris gets paid) unless I mess up the list. The only reason we make trips in between there is for milk. Every trip we go to Walmart AND Whole Foods OR Central Market. We switch off between the two because Central Market is closer, but Whole Foods has the grass fed ground beef and the cereal bars Kenzee likes. So, when we go there we buy our beef for the month.
It's a hassle to figure out what all we need from where and how much to budget for each, but I feel good about it. One time we tried getting everything we needed at Central Market, but it was just too expensive and they didn't have everything and we still had to go to Walmart anyway.
Oh, and Whole Foods website says we are getting one in Fort Worth!!!
Hey...you should try some of the coconut nectar from there. We use it in our smoothies and it is great. It is not sweet...o.k., I think we've discussed this b/c I'm having deja-vu.
I need some smoothie recipes!! Can you email me some?
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