Ah, But Cucumber DOES Work...

Cucumber works well in fruit smoothies, I've discovered. The flavour is light and clear, so it doesn't clash with the sweet stuff. So far I've mixed it in with a few fruit combos, the most recent being:

cucumber
cherries
yogurt
water
cranberries
ground flax

Yum!!

Oops... Fell Off The Scale

So today I kind of, um... "treated myself" to a Peanut Buster Parfait AND a Buster Bar, this after having a large serving of lasagne for dinner (why do I do this to myself?). Oh well. Not much I can do now (except sit on the exercise bike until 3:00 am ;-)

Kidding.

The upside was that I came up with another good smoothie combo:

1 cup water
1/4 cup vanilla ice cream
1 tbsp flax seed
1/2 cup cherries
1/2 cup cranberries

YUM...

Best Breakfast

I still have my coffee every morning ('cause ya know, it's good for me ;-) but now I also average about two to four pieces of fruit, thanks to the smoothies.

This morning it was:

1 banana
1 peach
1 kiwi
1 cup skim milk
1 tbsp wheat germ

The likelihood of me eating three pieces of fruit throughout an entire day, if I had to eat bite by bite, was slim to none. Now it's not even 10:00 am and I've had three pieces, as well as some wheat germ and milk. Not too shabby for me.

I think this should be my "get healthy" blog, instead of the "ten pounds" thing.... lol

My Venture Into Frozen Fruit

Why haven't I tried frozen fruit sooner? Yum yum yum...

Frozen mango chunks
1 fresh peach
1 cup milk

Now that's one smoooooth smoothie.

I went to the grocery store today and picked up some bags of frozen fruit, for those occasions when I've run out of fresh stuff. At the moment I have so many smoothie ingredients that I can't decide what to make!! lol