Now to the "Why, are you making green smoothies? And what do you put in them?" These are questions a lot of people have asked. I started doing this a while ago to sneak more fruits and vegis into my kids diet without them knowing. I would throw whatever frozen or fresh vegis I had in with a bunch of fruit and give the kids a smoothie. The last while I have been really interested in learning how to make green smoothies the "right way" if there is one. As I was really getting into this I saw an SUV parked at a Chiropractors office that said www.greensmoothiegirl.com I came right home and looked it up. This lady, Robyn Openshaw, is from Lindon Utah and she has done years and years of research on nutrition. As I was reading on her website I was so intrigued. It was just what I was looking for. I had been wanting to change our diet to a more whole/raw foods diet because the more I researched depression for Jon the more I found out that processed food causes depression. Jon was really interested as well. I signed up for one of her classes and it was so interesting. She talked about a lot of stuff that was foreign to me, fomenting seeds, grains and nuts, using kiefer instead of yogurt and all sorts of other things. I bought her book The Green Smoothie Diet. Jon and I both read it and loved it. I also bought a kids book that she wrote called, The Adventures of Junk Food Dude. That is an awesome book for anyone trying to convince their kids to eat healthier. The kids loved it and now they make better chooses with eating. I want to buy her program 12 steps to whole foods but we have to save up a little money because it is kind of expensive. And we don't want to change everything all at once. We are going to change a little at a time, hoping to make it be a lifestyle change. This will be an exciting journey to learn about health, nutrition and the benefits of eating healthy. It is funny really, so basic and smart. It is all in the word of wisdom. But our lifestyle is so different from the good old days. We buy everything in a can or a box, nuke it in the microwave and think we are eating okay. Some of that is just pure convenience and I love that too. But I think we have gotten so far off the wagon of what was put here on the earth for us to eat that we are all suffering physically and mentally. I don't mean to preach to any of you. I think sometimes you have to be convinced to change. And for some reason, that time is right now for us. And I want to write about this for our blog, aka, family journal.
We put all sorts of things in our smoothies. What we try to do is 5 cups of vegis to 2 cups of fruit. Here is a list of stuff we have tried. spinach, kale, collard greens, celery, broccoli, romaine, carrots, beets, oranges, apples, berries, lemons, limes, strawberries, bananas, peaches, pineapple, coconut, almonds, cashews, almond milk, coconut milk, rice milk, kiefer, flax seed, flax seed oil, wheat germ, oatmeal, and the list could go on. We added three more boxes to our garden and we are going to do square foot gardening. Hopefully to get a lot more produce so that we can freeze some of what we can't use for the winter. It is fun to experiment with. Yes, the kids drink them and love it! And we have all felt the benefits of drinking green smoothies everyday.
