day 11 of 30 green smoothie days in a row

i somehow forgot to take a photo of my parsley smoothie this morning! for me and paul, i had just over a cup of filtered water with about 2/3 of a huge bunch of parsley, a few remaining leaves of romaine, a sprinkle of frozen mango chunks, 1 anjou pear and 1 frozen banana.

guess i'll just have to add some other photos instead!

so... first... a pleasant surprise when i went for tea this morning at delany's and learned i could get an unsweetened green tea latte with soy. they leave out the vanilla syrup and it is truly unsweetened (unlike starbucks whose matcha still is sweetened. as an aside, anyone remember when starbucks used to add that wretched "melon"-flavoured syrup to their matcha? ech!). and i actually got soy when i ordered it. hurrah!

and now my lunch today. such a treat to get to be home for lunch! it's nice getting to make food for paul too ^_^ so this salad is: collard greens, kale, red cabbage, beet, red onion, radish, carrot, basil, and avocado with (cold-pressed) flax oil and fresh squeezed lemon. yum!

day 10 of 30 green smoothie days in a row

today's smoothie was a bit of romaine lettuce, collard greens, frozen banana and mango.

food highlights of today include grabbing a gluten-free cookie sandwich with friends at edible flours...

i can't believe that i can eat things here. paul thinks that i just buy treats for him (which i do - today i got him a donut, cinnamon roll and "cheese" croissant) and then have to watch people eat. but look at this sign! the icing filling was sweetened with agave and the cookie is made with quinoa/white rice/almond/tapioca flours... all flours i can have on my limited food sensitivity diet! hurrah!

 this cookie is a bit much (at least 2x too much) for one sitting but well, that didn't stop me from eating the whole thing. we all just craved vegetables afterwards!

so we went for some groceries at greens market. i haven't been in awhile and really have to go more often! we couldn't believe the different products that we don't see downtown at whole foods. ha. we're food nerds. but seriously. cultured almond milk yogurt (from amande)?  and raw "bagels" (homegrown living foods) that i previously only found at buddha-full? and raw crackers i hadn't seen before (foods alive)! and organic avocados 2 for $2! excitement!

p.s. emma - can you see the zimt? ^_^

day 9 of 30 green smoothie days in a row

today's smoothie is a bunch of green chard (leaves only) with one pear and two frozen bananas and 1.5 cups of filtered water.
paul took his to go ^_^

is it lame that i think it's important to drink green smoothies and drinks in public to start conversations about healthy eating (er, drinking) and challenge perceptions of ease, expense and enjoyment of such drinks? (yay alliteration!) i love that in vancouver, it's becoming easier and easier to buy a freshly made green smoothie while you're on the go (thinking organic lives, gorilla food, juice truck, eternal abundance, buddha-full, sejuiced, indigo food, whole foods, etc. ooh and i'm sure soon-to-be-open tao organics will too!), if for some reason you didn't get your green drink in the morning ^_^ 

day 8 of 30 green smoothie days in a row

today's is a kale with pear and frozen banana smoothie.

super delicious, as always the way with these green smoothies! nothing much new to report here except paul said my skin looked good today. hurrah!

and just thinking today about one of many things i LOVE about my vitamix blender is that it has this tamper that lets me blend so many chunks of things without having to add much water. i can continue to push things down into the blade and wow, this smooth green drink is so easy! just sayin.

happy friday!

day 7 of 30 green smoothie days in a row

i went to work today. and i feel better though still quite hoarse.
paul was up this early morning so we had smoothies together. they looked more brown than green but the green was there, i promise!

doesn't look all that appetizing, does it? 

green looks way better. 

but what if i told you this one had a mellow chocolatey creaminess to it? 

this one is red chard leaves, romaine lettuce, frozen banana and sambazon pure acai (hence the chocolate-berry flavour hint).

day 6 of 30 green smoothie days in a row

so i stayed home sick today. i couldn't talk this morning without tears and my head congestion reached an all-time high. (i have been on-off sick for the past 3 weeks. super annoying)
anyways... i got to make green smoothies for paul and i when he was actually up too. so that was a nice perk. and not to be gross or anything (TMI?), but i felt like i managed to ooze out at least half of my congestion after drinking this drink this morning! YAY!

this smoothie was blended kale and romaine with ginger, frozen banana and mango. i think i will have to switch up the fruit component tomorrow as i have been relying so much on b+m. but they are so good!

i realize posting a photo of my green smoothie every day could get a bit repetitive so i'll try switch it up! ^_^

day 5 of 30 green smoothie days in a row

this morning when i blended my romaine lettuce, red chard leaves, frozen banana and mango, i used 1.5 cups of filtered water instead of the 1 cup i did yesterday. paul did not like how his frozen smoothie yesterday thawed out into mealy chunks. and today i gave it to him right when i made it rather than putting it in the freezer for him until he got up ^_^ and it worked well. half-asleep, drinking his smoothie! hehe
we'll see if it works again tomorrow.

i'm upset tonight because i went out for tea to sweet obsession and i ordered a chai latte with soy milk (as i wanted something a bit more than plain tea - everyone else was having desserts which i of course would not be eating) and it seemed to be so pure white but i didn't think anything of it until my face and ears were feeling super hot. but the worst was seeing the bill and the lack of charge for the different "milk". and then the waitress confirmed she forgot about the soy. so now i have this crazy stomach ache and i find it hard to stay upright. i'm drinking kombucha and hoping to wake up tomorrow with it out of my system. it's hard psychologically because i am very careful to not consume ANY animal products but it is also hard because dairy is included in my elimination diet on the "definitely avoid completely" list and i can't help but worry that i have messed up my 6 weeks of commitment to this. and 2 nights ago i had a couple bites of hummus that ended up having sun-dried tomato in it (and tomato is on my "avoid" list!) and my hands immediately dried up and have been cracking ever since. it's also freezing out but i can't help but think it's related.

anyways... come on, probiotics! balance me out!