Some of the best smoothies are vegetable smoothies. Green vegetables, that is.  Green, leafy vegetables!


Summer is here and inTexas the blueberrie are plump, juicy and ripe for picking!  So are the peaches!!
Last week my family and I visited a Hamm's Farm outside of Dallas and loaded up on peaches, blueberries, fresh tomatoes and okra.  I have been eating between 6-12 peaches a day easily and the blueberries have been long gone in this house!  


Some of the best smoothies I enjoyed making (vegetable smoothies, of course):


Peach Fuzz


2 small fresh peaches
1 head Romaine
1 Tblsp. chia seeds
2 c. water
juice 1/2 lemon




My Blue Heaven
1 c. blueberries
1 c. black berries
1 large, ripe banana
2 c. water
3-4 leaves lacinato kale, de-stemmed (or other variety)
1/2 bunch parsley
stevia to taste


Yum, yum, yum!  I have thoroughly enjoyed drinking my meals lately!


Here is a tip for summer liquid meals: If you like to drink your meals, drink the best smoothies you can!  Add in some fats like avocado, esp. if you are craving proteins or sugars.  The good fats help satiate that hunger for sugar and protein. This is especially great for those of you cutting down or cutting out the animal protein!  Vegetable smoothies, chock full of leafy green vegetables are the best foods on the planet and make the best smoothies. 


Drink up as much leafy greens as you can enjoy! If green vegetable smoothies are new to you, then start out light! Put only some green leaves in your smoothies and every day, have another of the best smoothie ever and add in more and more greens.  Pretty soon you'll have more greens than fruit in your smoothie and you'll LOOOOVE it! Actually, you will crave it!  How cool, huh?  to crave that which does us good.  


When introducing green vegetable smoothies to a green smoothie newbie, go easy on them!  Make it purple (by adding berries, so as to not scare them away :) and ease up on the leafy greens.  Ease them into it....make them want more that way.


Enjoy your day
In Peace,
Kirsten

Well everyone!  It has been more than a month since I posted last!  ACK!  My apologies!  We have had a very crazy and challenging month in my family and I am happy to see it moving on along into a new phase!

I hope you are all well! Spring has yielded some delicious fruits and veggies here in Texas and we have been enjoying them every single day; eating them as is or coming up with a new way to enjoy them! (Lots of recipe creation going on!) 

Tomorrow we are visiting a lovely blueberry farm to pick some delicious blueberries!  I'll be with 3 kids under 5 so that will be FUN!

I will write more this week as I have created some yummy new recipes to share.  Until then, I must go as I am working on a project for Raw Bloom, a "cook" book, and I have a deadline to keep!

Take care and please write in with any questions!

In Peace,
Kirsten