About You

This blog is about you, not me. I just want to help you remember what you already know. Like you know you need to slow down and breathe more, get outside more, exercise more, eat real food more, connect face to face with family and friends more, and sleep more. I'm not being preachy here. Trust me, I'm right there with everyone else, but lately I've been trying to make changes. Like meditating 5 minutes here or there, chanting affirmations in my head, and for me above and beyond everything else eating well.  I have finished with eating processed food! Everything I eat and serve my family is real, homemade food. I would love to share some of my recipes with you. And I would love sharing some of my successes and failures with you on the things you and I already know but constantly have to work on.

For now, I would love to hear about some things you already know....

Before I sign off I'd like to share with you what I made my kids for breakfast this morning.

Breakfast or After-school Smoothie
2 cold bananas
1 large handful baby spinach
1 scoop of nut butter (I often use peanut or almond butter but cashew, macadamia or sun butter would work as well)
1 Tbls maple syrup or local raw honey
3 cups almond milk (preferably homemade), or any other kind of non dairy milk (coconut milk is delicious too)
A dash of cinnamon or pumpkin pie spice (optional)

Place all ingredients into a high speed blender and blend until smooth. In my family this serves 3 kids. Recipe can be easily doubled.

Along with this smoothie I baked up an easy batch of grain-free, dairy-free orange scones, served with blueberry jam from our local farmers market. Kids are happy and mom is happy too.

I'll be back but for now happy days to all.