Foodie Friday

It's my first Foodie Friday!  Wahoo!

I didn't have any super exciting dishes to try this week, so instead I will tell you about how I have fixed my hatred for breakfast.

Let me start by saying that I love planning out meals for the week.  I typically cook up a bunch of chicken one night, and then throughout the week I cook different sides and sauces to go along with it.  For my lunches, I prefer to make a big pot of soup, and it can typically last me for a week.  I don't do that with breakfast (who wants to reheat eggs?).

Breakfast has always been an issue for me.  I don't like eating breakfast, aside from the occasional brunch, or a bagel as a treat on a really long, busy day ahead.  I'm not a morning person, and I'm lazy until coffee has set in.  I could be pretty happy drinking coffee and a glass of hot water with lemon for the rest of my days.  However, I'm very active.  I walk to work 4 days a week, I've been adding at home strength training to my days, and I teach dance all afternoon/evening.  With all that, I SHOULD be having breakfast.

In my browsing through Pinterest, I recently came upon an idea about making smoothies.  I can deal with smoothies, but it's such a pain to make them every day and have to wash out the hulking blender we have. That's why when I saw a pin about freezing a batch of smoothies in ice cube trays, I knew I had to try it.

I've been on this path for about 2 weeks now. Every few days I make a big batch of smoothie and put it in the freezer.  I pop a few out the night before, and let them defrost in my smoothie cup overnight.  In the morning, all I have to do is take the cup out of the fridge and it's ready!

This past week I actually tried using a mix with my typically smoothie.  The brand was Vega.  It actually had a lot of ingredients that I recognized.  The only thing is that it was SO thick!  It made my already decent smoothie pretty gross, and it would stick to the side of the cup, which caused me to have to scoop it off with a spoon.  Not my favorite.  I'll try the other 2 packets I got eventually and try to thin out the mix, but I will see.

The smoothie recipe I just made-

A large handful of baby spinach
3 small-ish apples peeled and cut
a lot of frozen blueberries
milk
vanilla spice tea
3 large spoonfuls of plain greek yogurt
a couple spoonfuls of shredded unsweetened coconut
a few spoonfuls of ground golden flaxseed

All I did was throw it all in the blender and mix it up.  The consistency is definitely thinner this time around, but it shouldn't be too bad. I'm just happy that I am starting my days off better with delicious smoothies that actually are very good for me.  I'm hoping that it's contributing to the fact that I have managed to stay healthy and not get sick.

Will you be trying freezing smoothies?  It's not a bad idea!