Healthy smoothies for kids?

Are you looking for healthy yet delicious recipes your kids will love? It has never been easier to create healthy and yummy foods for kids. Green smoothies usually include fresh fruits or leafy greens (or for a more valuable one even wild edibles), and since they are full of nutrients and are soooo delicious, they are a must for growing kids.

Try these easy green smoothie recipes:

Use bananas, berries, and mangoes with chickweed, lambs quarters, and romaine lettuce. If it should not be sweet enough, use dates (preferably soaked). You can also use other kinds of greens including dandelion, goutweed, kale, spinach, mustard/turnip/collard/beet greens, romaine & many more and throw in a few fruits your kid loves and blend it with filtered water. The great thing is greens can be combined with anything without causing trouble. They also taste great with coconut water.

You can even make “frozen” smooties. Just peel bananas and freeze them and other fruits you like. Put the frozen fruits and some greens in the blender and you have a delicious treat for hot summer days!

Nutritional benefits of green smoothies:

As we tend not to chew our food enough green smoothies are a great way to absorb the vitamins and minerals as the food is in an easily digestible form. You should still “chew” the smoothie, though, as this is important for digestion. With the essential nutrients in their body, your kids will have enough energy to last through their fun and action filled day!

Healthy green smoothies also balance the sweet from the fruit and the bitterness from the greens perfectly. So, you can actually get more greens “down” than normally which is great for your body!

To make it easier for your kids in order to get used to healthy smoothies add more fruit and less greens in the beginning. You can also give them funny names. It’s fun to ask for the Monster drink or Dragon’s greens instead of “that green stuff”. Make sure you use organic and ripe ingredients only. If you drink them too as a role model (hey, they will be good for you, too!!) they are more likely to gobble them down, too. Don’t explain how healthy, etc. they are… Just drink and enjooooyyy them!! :) With lots of fruits and greens you can create endless of different, colorful and tasty new smoothies.

And as always remember it has to appeal to the eye! Make it fun and beautiful! Include your kids. They will have fun decorating ;). If they did it themselves they are more likely to eat it, too!

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Surviving in nature :)

Heyhooooo! :)

If you wonder how we survive now during late summer...have a look:


Jessica has apples and pears she found...


I've had some walnuts...fresh they are best!!


Justin found some chestnuts - a little small still...


Exercises are important, too. Well, we went by bike but it can't hurt to do some extra ;).

On the way we've had some black berries ...and...

rose hips...they are still hard, though...but the berries were delicious :)

That's were we were heading to: The Ronneburg. They were living like in the middle ages...very interesting and I think the castle looked like in the fairy tale Rapunzel...or Sleeping Beauty.

Happy, full and satisfied we arrived back home! :)

Back from big trip

Happy heellloooo!!

After travelling to Portugal we are back bringing you lots of info and news! I am so excited to share them with you soon! But first have a quick look what we did:

We are at the beautiful sea in Portugal...with one of our dogs (yes, we have more...but that is another story ;)..). We drove from Germany with a mobile home through France and Spain until we came to the coast of Portugal. We went along the coast pretty much till France.

This is how the main land of Portugal looks like if get off the main road ;)... It reminded me a lot about Texas :)...very dry, hot yet beautiful ...and lots of land :). I love it!

I guess I could say we went through 4 countries :)...since Gibraltar is part of Great Britain. You also have to pay in Pound instead of Euro. Of course, we also went and saw the apes ;).

In Barcelona we visited a ship from the organization "Sea Shepherd". They are a sea life protecting organization and do great work!! Watch their symbol...

Almost back home we "ended" on top of the world...I mean Paris ;). We went up the Eiffel tower when it was still daylight, watched the sunset on top of it :)...and came down with sparkles :)... A wonderful experience!

It was a great trip with very nice people! Especially in south Portugal and Spain you can grow pretty much everything you need...I have met wonderful families that moved there and live of their land :). Great! That's what my next goal is...live of my own garden and land :).

Do you live a sustainable life on your own ground?? What are your steps towards your dream??

Update

A happy hello,
It's been a long time since I posted here and lots of things happened. I will write about it soon. So hang in there! I am BAAAACKK :).

I am soooo excited to show you this... :)

Christmas time is cookie time :)... Here is my daughter cutting some out. Yes, even raw it's fun :).


But look at what I friend of mine created!! It's so cute...

Little raw gingerbread houses!! :)

A whole town :)...and it's wintertime...and...

Let it snow! :):):):)

Gosh, they are sooo gooood...and lots of fun! You can also stick dried fruits on them. I have sooo many ideas... Who wants some, too?

My favorite are coconut cookies. I will show you the recipe soon. What is your favorite raw cookie recipe?

This is what you can eat now! :)

It's been snowing for weeks now - no chance for my loved nettles...but I did dry some ;). Besides snow (which is very clean around here - I measured it :)...) you can find the following fresh treasures:


Blackberry leaves, moss aaaaand....


rose hips...topped with a snow cap :). It's like ice with cream :). You can squeeze the gel inside out - it's like jam...so yummy. Or you can find blackthorn berries - they are good after the first frost as well.

Well and this was my son's birthday and his cakes :).

As I miss the cactus pears from Texas...I got some here :). Look at all those different colors :)...but all deliiicious.

What do you like to eat now?

One month full of parties :)

It started with the birthday of my daughter.


and ended with a potluck with wonderful people...

....and a Halloween party :).

Lots of fun and as always amazing how many delicious dishes come together. We've had lots of raw cookies, paté, sauces, pumpkin pie, crackers and more. So yummy... :)

Thanks to all who participated!! I am looking forward to the next one.