Steppin' it up...

DaNelle (my daughter-in-law) found this salad recipe and made it for us and it is scrumptious...

It has shredded carrots, diced apples, chopped celery, and raisins

                                                                  (oh, I forgot the pecans)

                                              with a yogurt dressing that she made from goat’s milk. 

             We ate it with our ‘infamous’ beanwiches on whole grain bread and I was in heaven…

                                                    ...how is that for a ‘healthy and delicious’ meal….???

     So now that she has inspired me to ‘prepare’ better and more nutritious food, I have decided to ‘step it up’ when it comes to 'food preparation'…I don’t call it ‘cooking’ because I don’t like to cook…I don’t call it ‘meal planning’ because I don’t like to plan meals…but I am somewhat interested in ‘food’ so I guess I need to ‘prepare’ it in order to ‘eat’ it…

*Here are more 'good ideas' DaNelle has concerning nutrition in the form of an excerpt from her post entitled "The 30-Day Smoothie Challenge"...

"...Dr. Blaylock wrote about a study they did to prove that eating highly processed foods during pregnancy is bad for the fetus. They have found that the children born seemed normal and healthy but they found that all couldn't get past high school math. They found that those that are super smart and find the subject of math easy, were raised by mothers who ate a very low amount of processed foods. It's not saying that normal people are dumb, but just that those that have been fed healthy diets have performed very well in higher math classes.

(Priscilla’s insert: “I guess that’s why my kids are so smart…and I thought it was generic...oops, I mean genetic…oh well...'pride goeth' again...")

And so begins The 30 Day Green Smoothie Challenge...

This is a great thing to start right now because it's starting to get hot and nothing sounds better than a smoothie when it gets hot. My sister Tara found this great raw vegan site with this challenge. We all know the benefits of fruits and veg so I'm not gonna go over that but here is what I put in my smoothie today...

Ice, water, frozen strawberries, frozen banana, 1 whole peeled orange.
Blend.

Next I added organic spinach.

Voilà...and enough to save for later..."

(end of excerpt)
Priscilla here again:

I tried a smoothie this morning (spinach and all) and it was really quite tasty…of course I added my Reliv (miracle supplement) and poured some over my granola with walnuts (1 of 3 foods Dr. Oz would take to live on a deserted island---another one is broccoli and I can’t remember the 3rd one...I think it was bananas or something...I went on his website but couldn't find it...walnuts are supposed to be good for memory, but I just started with those so I'll let you know)…anyway back to the breakfast concoction…

....simply delish! I never felt so healthy…hee…