Smoothies!

Oops...I was so excited to drink my smoothie, I forgot to take a picture before it was all gone. I LOVE making smoothies and it all began because of this disease of mine. When I was attempting to gain back weight, I wanted to do so in a healthy way. If I was going to build my body back up basically from scratch, I figured I might as well build it up into something strong and clean. I was trying to get lots of protein to help build up muscles and needed different ways to get fruits, calcium, and supplements such as protein powder, omega 3,6,9 oil, and ground flax. Because I was prone to partial blockages quite frequently, smoothies also became my go to meal when liquids were the only thing I could tolerate. I have many smoothie combos but there is one tried true one that I always go back to. It utlizes 2 of my favorite ingredients.

Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie

1 cup Light Vanilla Silk soymilk

2-4tbs all natural peanut butter

2 tbs Organic Hemp Protein powder

1 frozen banana**

2 tsp raw agave nectar

combine all ingredients into a blender and blend until smooth

**I keep a stockpile of frozen bananas in my freezer at all times. I cut the banana up before freezing to help the blending process later on. The frozen banana helps to thicken the smoothie up instead of having to use ice cream or frozen yogurt.

I have this amazing 2 cup blending contraption. It makes the perfect size and I drink out of the same cup that I blended in. Easy to make and easy to clean.

Today I popped one of my frozen pumpkin waffles into the toaster and spread some organic blueberry conserve on it to round out my very tasty, Saturday morning, post rainy walk meal.