Guest Writer: How to get kids to drink healthy smoothies
This post was contributed with permission by Caitlin Smith. She welcomes your feedback at CaitlinSmith1117 at gmail.com. How to Get Kids to Drink Healthy Smoothies If you’ve ever read your kids the book Green Eggs and Ham you know how much resistance can go into eating something green. Yet there are many ways you can [...]
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I wanted to know if anyone has calculated approx. how many calories are in a green smoothie:) Curious
37 Comments • Continue Reading →you’ve doubled your fiber with GS? double it again with LENTILS!
Some foods are highly hypoallergenic. In other words, just about no one is allergic to them. And this is a big deal nowadays where intolerances for wheat and milk proteins are going through the roof. (That’s gluten and lactose intolerances.) Highly hypoallergenic foods include avocadoes, lentils, brown rice, quinoa, sweet potatoes, [...]
16 Comments • Continue Reading →Green smoothies: they’re just a first step!
This is for you, whether you’re *a newbie to GSG trying to kick the SAD (standard American diet) or *you’ve been here plugging along since the start almost two years ago, or *you’re a lifelong die-hard earthy-crunchy who already knew everything I teach since before I was born If all you ever did was [...]
16 Comments • Continue Reading →I am teaching a 12 Steps class in July, and final comments on the Word of Wisdom
On Friday, July 17, from 6:30 to 8:30 at Classic Books and Gifts in Lehi, I have been asked to teach a 12 Steps to Whole Foods class. Here’s the link to sign up: http://classicbooksandgifts.ning.com/events/12-steps-to-whole-food-eating I have taken some time off of teaching classes but am getting back into it, with my new book [...]
19 Comments • Continue Reading →locals alert . . . amazing prices on strawberries, cherries, more at Ream’s
Back to the weightier issue tomorrow . . . I taught a GreenSmoothieGirl class up gorgeous Hobble Creek Canyon today at a women’s conference, which was great fun. On my way down the canyon, I stopped at Ream’s in Springville because of these amazing prices, through Tuesday–worth a bit of a drive, I think, [...]
3 Comments • Continue Reading →being a CONSCIOUS plant eater
Yesterday, wow, I sort of mindlessly posted on my Facebook page (find me as Robyn Openshaw-Pay or GreenSmoothieGirl) a group called “No More Blood On My Plate.” Wow. The response that followed could only be described as a war. I didn’t even participate in the discussion. (The whole conversation was just NOT. [...]
10 Comments • Continue Reading →the rest of the Word of Wisdom
Here’s the rest of the body of scripture known as the Word of Wisdom. Tomorrow I’ll comment on my theory about why the scripture doesn’t talk about soft drinks, sugar, refined foods, etc. (beyond the obvious fact that the scripture predates the invention of those ”foods”). And I’ll comment on some of the [...]
12 Comments • Continue Reading →more on the Word of Wisdom
I have this secret little hobby at church. I love to hear the lessons on this scripture, the Word of Wisdom, and mentally collect all the ways that, almost invariably, the teacher or people in the class find ways to rationalize their way out of having to actually adhere to those last two verses. [...]
35 Comments • Continue Reading →does God intend for us to eat whole foods?
Today at church, they taught my favorite lesson, on “The Word of Wisdom” (7 million LDS people in the U.S. had this lesson today). Mormons have a scripture (Doctrine & Covenants 89) revealed in 1833 that is all about what we should and shouldn’t eat. Consider that this was almost 200 years ago, [...]
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