Ramping Up!

Today is the day I start paying attention again!!  I had big plans to finally get back to the gym (it’s been two weeks since I worked out at Tiffaney’s condo gym!!) however Mother Nature seems to think that I’m more suited for shoveling than running today.  Oh well.  Exercise is exercise right?  The clearer the driveway, the sooner I can brave the storm and get my workout on!

(Um, our shovel just broke.  Uh-oh.)

After a totally awesome entire night’s sleep, I think we are finally back on East Coast time.  I know a lot of you were stunned by our 6am bed time on NYE, but remember I was still on a 4 hour time zone change so my body wasn’t too sure what to do.  It’s fixed now.

After tackling the driveway last night at midnight I slept like a log.

Of course, we arose only to find we had to tackle it again.  And today it’s the hard crunchy snow…not the beautiful fluff of last night.  (I forgot to take pics before, but you can see in the after shots how big the road side piles are…)

 

I made my first Amazing smoothie of 2010, using my fabulous new Kitchen Aid blender. 

*hugs*  You all told me it’s OK to hug my appliances if I love them.  :)

In the blender today: 

• ice
• frozen blueberries
• flax meal
• organic baby spinach
• Amazing Grass Kidz Chocolate Superfood
• unsweetened vanilla Almond Breeze

 

Next up, a yummy croissant!  And plans for a healthy dinner!

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Rewind to yesterday.  Our New Years Day feasts!

Breakfast by FH:

Dinner of leftover NYE snacks:

I dominated the veggie plate and sipped on a virgin Caesar.

nom nom nom.

And now… Out with the old and in with the healthy!

Smoothie Week – Day Two

A Brown Monster?  Sounds good, no? :)

Well folks, I’m hear to tell you that green + blue + orange = brown.

Admittedly I was worried that I’d ruined this particular smoothie.  When I saw the color I was not impressed.

However…lay your fears to rest!  It tasted fruity, fresh and tangy.  All good!!

In the blender today: 1/2 cup fresh frozen blueberries (slightly thawed), 1/2 very ripe banana, 1/2 cup Liberte vanilla yogurt, 2 cups organic baby spinach, 1 heaping tablespoon flax meal, about 3/4 cup orange juice (could have used only 1/2 cup).

The results were ugly, but refreshing and yummy!  Served up OSG style again, in a stylin’ martini glass.

     Of course once I finished up my salad in a glass, I went straight for the coffeeeeeeee.  Two cups today people…not interested in another afternoon crash like yesterday!  Along with one of my banana coconut oatmeal muffins and my new best friends…allergy pills. Sneezing like a mad woman over here!

Smoothie Week!

A month or so ago I got a new cookbook that has what I thought was a chapter on smoothies.  This gave me the great idea to have a Smoothie Week!  Although it turns out most of the recipes are for juices (and I don’t have a juicer) I decided to go ahead with Smoothie Week anyway.  :)

Each day I will make a new smoothie for breakfast, or maybe an afternoon snack…depending on what’s going on.

If you have a “must try” smoothie recipe, please leave it for me in the comments.  I am willing to break out of the box and try more than just strawberries and bananas this week.

To launch the week, I decided that I should offer homage to Oh She Glows and join the Green Monster bandwagon.  *shout out to Angela*

In the blender: 1 small very ripe banana, 2 heaping teaspoons flax meal, 2 heaping cups organic baby spinach, 1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond breeze

And just as everyone says, you can barely notice the spinach.  All I could taste was banana and a slight hint of vanilla from the almond milk.  Awesome!

Served up Angela style!

What should I blend up tomorrow?