I may have accidentally hit on something good.
Now that we are coming out of the Christmas season, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
atara and I are both vowing to get back into healthier eating habits. Part of that is being more selective about the meals I prepare, but also controlling our portions.
One of the things I am doing to that end is going back to having healthier breakfasts (rather than just Christmas cookies, for instance).
I bought bananas and unsweetened almond milk while we were out shopping yesterday and made a breakfast smoothie this morning. I derped a bit while making it, but the results were so good that I think I may try to do this intentionally going forward.
I started off by cutting up a banana into the blender and adding just enough almond milk to cover it all. I dumped in about a tablespoon or so of nutritional yeast, and a bit more agave syrup than I intended. I poured in a handful of frozen fruits (a smoothie mix I got from Safeway) and then a half-dozen frozen strawberries left over from this past spring. Then I added what was supposed to be a small shake of powdered ginger, but ended up being about three times what I had intended.
At this point I knew that I was setting myself up for something that was going to be really cloying, so I took a couple of steps to counter that. I threw in a good sized handful of frozen spinach, and about a teaspoon of turmeric.
The result was one of the best smoothies I have had in a very long time.
I think the only thing that might have improved this would have been the addition of some beets. Then again, what isn't improved by the addition of beets, amirite?
atara and I are both vowing to get back into healthier eating habits. Part of that is being more selective about the meals I prepare, but also controlling our portions.One of the things I am doing to that end is going back to having healthier breakfasts (rather than just Christmas cookies, for instance).
I bought bananas and unsweetened almond milk while we were out shopping yesterday and made a breakfast smoothie this morning. I derped a bit while making it, but the results were so good that I think I may try to do this intentionally going forward.
I started off by cutting up a banana into the blender and adding just enough almond milk to cover it all. I dumped in about a tablespoon or so of nutritional yeast, and a bit more agave syrup than I intended. I poured in a handful of frozen fruits (a smoothie mix I got from Safeway) and then a half-dozen frozen strawberries left over from this past spring. Then I added what was supposed to be a small shake of powdered ginger, but ended up being about three times what I had intended.
At this point I knew that I was setting myself up for something that was going to be really cloying, so I took a couple of steps to counter that. I threw in a good sized handful of frozen spinach, and about a teaspoon of turmeric.
The result was one of the best smoothies I have had in a very long time.
I think the only thing that might have improved this would have been the addition of some beets. Then again, what isn't improved by the addition of beets, amirite?