Eating Healthy

     So, yesterday started my quest to try to eat healthier. That meant no more sugary drinks, no more chocolate (at least on week days. A girl's got to have her chocolate), no more unhealthy snacks, nothing like that.
   
     I did pretty good yesterday..considering we didn't have anything I wanted to eat that was healthy. I finally decided on an apple and some dried fruit and a sandwich. It was on wheat bread. I ate that and some soup for supper last night and I must say, I might have enjoyed it, except for one minor detail.

    Yesterday was the day that my sisters decided to open their chocolate and Cheetos. Of all the days, it had to be yesterday. I didn't eat any and I haven't been doing too bad, but still. I rode home from my older sister's soon-to-be-house with M-n-Ms and Cheetos in the car and I didn't eat a single one. (It was torture)

    It actually wasn't all that bad, I'm just feeling dramatic today. This morning, I got up and made some smoothies for my Mom and myself. They were pretty good! I'm not a big smoothy person, but I liked this one pretty good.

    It was called a Banana Bread Smoothie. I got the recipe off of Pinterest (I finally got Pinterest and I absolutely love it. If you want to follow me, my username is camoandlace95) and here it is:

Banana Bread Green Smoothie
Ingredients:                                              (Makes 2 big smoothies)
  ~1 ripe banana, frozen
  ~1 cup of milk
  ~2 handfuls of Spinach leaves (fresh are best)
  ~1/4 cup of walnuts
  ~1/4 cup of oats
  ~a sprinkle of cinnamon

Directions:
  Combine the ingredients in blender, light stuff on the bottom (spinach, oats, cinnamon, walnuts) heavy stuff on top (banana and ice, if you choose to use ice) and pour the milk on top of all of it.
  Blend the heck out of it (quoting word for word) until nice and smooth. ENJOY!


  So, it turned out big, like I said. My mom has some Coca Cola glasses, the heavy glass ones, and they were nearly running over with green deliciousness. I figure next time I'll half the recipe and see how it turns out. Now, I didn't have walnuts so I used almonds and it still turned out great.

   Mom and I both agreed that it was eatable and I enjoyed it after I got over it being green (really, you can't taste the spinach). I have a ton of recipes for smoothies that I want to try out so I'll try and keep y'all posted on how everything goes. Until next time, here's a picture of my smoothie. Hope you enjoy it!!!

       ~Emily