ALADDIN and MAMA SMITH's GREEN DRINK

Dave and Janna are at church, and I’m home with the sleeping baby (who has come down with a cold) and Jesse who is on the mend from croup and a double ear infection!  The doc said to try and keep Jesse rested as much as possible as croup is worsened by activity/stress/strain...He had a decent night sleep and woke up without a fever...but we didn’t want to chance him passing anything along to all the kids in his Sunday school class, OR picking up something new. Here he is... getting to watch a movie! Aladdin is what’s playing.  It’s pretty scratched up, and sometimes won’t play, but this morning I gave it a good rub and it seems to be working well.  I am enjoying sipping on some “green drink” I made this morning, and catching up on some emails.

Growing up, my mom would almost always have this horrid looking and smelling green gunky smoothie in her hand for the first couple hours in the morning. I tried it a few times, and could barely swallow it... but have been having an odd craving to try it out as an adult.  SO, yesterday, when I called my mom for her orzo bean salad recipe, I also asked her for her green drink recipe.  I was surprised to learn that she STILL drinks one of these things most mornings...and my dad has even been enjoying them lately.

So, I plugged the ingredients I was missing into flyeronfire.com  This is a great website that allows you to type in an ingredient you need, and it will bring up all the places it is on sale and for what price.  I base most of my meals and snacks on door crasher sale items, but often need a few extra things, and so this is how I go about getting the best price on things that aren’t on crazy good sales.

So, the ingredients for this beast are

A frozen banana

An avocado

Pineapple

Fresh parsely

A packed cup of each: kale/spinach/ spring mix

My mom will also throw in an apple/celery/and or dates if she has them.

Blend and voila!

Well, I was pleasantly surprised that this was not nearly as gross and vile as I remembered!  I think it’s something that will grow on me, and for several of my fruit/veg servings for the day, I’m going to try and make one most mornings.  Dave had a hard time building up the nerve to try it... it was pretty funny watching him look at it and work up the nerve to take a sip.  But, he said it was way better than he expected, drank a cup of it, and for all the health benefits, he wants to have one every morning, too.  

Something I love about Dave, is that he never goes half-way on things.  After drinking it, he was like, " So what is our commitment to this drink going to be?"  I told him I hadn't really thought about it.  That I'd  probably try and make it a few times per week.  He was like, "no.. we need to like buy long glass viles, and chug one back every morning!" so funny.  

So, we’ll try it out for a while... see if we can develop a LOVE for it J Anyhoos, this post needs to wrap it up early.  Poor Robyn is awake sniffling.  Thanks for reading. I’m out.