I’m disappointed to discover that even though we’ve moved to a place that is sunny and 70 degrees year round, winter illnesses still make their way into elementary schools and Brainiac still brings them home for the rest of us to share. Darn.
I don’t know about you, but we adore blender smoothies in our house. And when we don’t feel well, we soothe our throats and our souls with frozen goodness.
It’s odd for me to give you a recipe for a blender smoothie, because I tend to throw whatever drink we have in the fridge into the blender with whatever fruits and veggies we have in the freezer. This one’s what I threw together today.
No More Sickies Blender Smoothie
1/2 cup orange juice
3/4 cup carrot juice
1 banana
1/2 cup frozen raspberries
1/2 cup frozen mango chunks
1/2 cup spinach (when a bag of fresh spinach begins to go bad, I throw it in the freezer for smoothies)
1 tablespoon flax seed meal
1 tablespoon berry-flavored flax oil
1 scoop good quality protein powder- we use this (It’s such a great product that I actually started selling it)
I need an idea for a warm throat soother. Want to tackle that? You may delete this query.
I grate a small bit of fresh ginger into hot water. You can add lemon juice or honey too, obviously.
In addition to the commonly known anti-nausea properties, ginger is good for pain, inflamation and congestion.
And it’s yummy!
Today’s version at our house:
Leftover Naked Juice Berry Veggie, leftover Naked Juice Strawberry Banana, leftover fruit salad from last night’s dinner, leftover now-dry clementine from today’s after-school snack, leftover frozen blackberries from the freezer that died last week, and leftover won’t-make-it-to-tomorrow strawberries. And Muscle Gain.
I guess our blender smoothie was more about good use of resources. I’m sure glad I have a blender that will grind absolutely anything so I can use all these whole leftovers!
Smoothies are fun to throw together… and even more fun to drink! My smoothies this week:
Frozen strawberries
1/2 banana
Pureed/liquified carrots
1/2 avocado
A splash of V-Fusion juice
Scoop of whey isolate protein powder
Yuu-uum!