I just realized that it’s just about April already. Spring seems to go by so quickly! It’s probably the nicer weather and because I’m itching for steady 70 and 80 degree weather once again!
Sprouts
We’ve been enjoying the fruit of our latest grocery shopping fun at Whole Foods. I mentioned that we planned to start juicing more. We also decided we need to start eating more raw fruits and vegetables in general. There’s been a few too many Amy’s and Kashi frozen pizzas and burritos eaten lately (not to mention sweet potato fries on my part, ha), and not as much “real” food as normal.
Enter: sprouts
This is a clover sprout salad with celery, mushrooms, chopped walnuts, feta, and vinegar & oil. I love the taste of sprouts!
A few facts about the health benefits of sprouts:
- Rich in essential nutrients and minerals. Sprouting makes an already nutritious food even more nutritious since it’s still “living”
- High in protein.
- Great source of enzymes. This helps keep our bodies healthy, fit, and energetic, and also makes sprouts easy to digest.
- Contain concentrated amounts of phytochemicals, that can protect against disease.
Breakfast
Breakfast this morning was 2 slices of toasted Bread of Life raisin bread with cashew butter and a little local honey, served with a strawberry Greek yogurt, and my vitamins, ha. I put them on my plate so I wouldn’t forget to take them.
Bread of Life is a local KC organic bakery. We don’t usually buy their bread for no reason in particular, but we picked up a loaf at the food expo we went to this past weekend.
Lunch
My husband surprised me with lunch today. My nose lured me out of my office to see that Erik had made me this:
A grass fed grilled bison burger topped with caramelized onions and cheese on an Ezekiel bun. Yum!!
Followed by some cantaloupe. Summer fruit, anyone??
Super Smoothie
For my afternoon pick-up, I made a super smoothie. I’m always slightly afraid my smoothies won’t turn out well … too much ice, not enough ice, too sweet, not sweet enough, etc, etc. But today’s combo was perfect!
It included:
- A huge handful of spinach
- 1 grapefruit, peeled and broken apart
- 1/2 really ripe banana
- 1 TB acai powder
- 1 ts maca powder
- 1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk
- Generous squirt agave nectar
- 5ish ice cubes
I’ve decided the key to a delicious smoothie (at least for me) is the additional of juice from an orange, grapefruit, lime, or lemon. Perfect!
Now I’m off to cook some dinner! I also get to pick up my really good friend from the airport, who will be in Missouri for about a week … yay!
What’s on your dinner menu for tonight??
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