come with me to Peru in December
I have been looking for the perfect service opportunity for GreenSmoothieGirl.com to reach out to the other half, the truly malnourished. I’ve been learning about a variety of service opportunities around the world. Check out the new page on GSG, including a photo of the orphanage we’re going to work at in December and [...]
6 Comments • Continue Reading →officially the worst place to eat healthy in all my world travels
I am back from my spring break vacation and I have to say . . . drum roll please . . . people from this state PLEASE DO NOT HATE ME . . . that in the 16 countries and half-dozen U.S. cities I have visited in the past year, I have officially found . [...]
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back from Costa Rica: can you eat well there?
I am back from Costa Rica. It was supposed to be a 7-day trip, using Delta buddy passes given to me (very inexpensively) by a friend. Unfortunately at the end of our trip, we spent THREE DAYS in the airport trying unsuccessfully to get out of Costa Rica until I finally bought both [...]
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what’s up with the Parisiens?
From our condo in Paris, I ran my daily five miles down a busy street, in the morning as some of the commuters were out going to the shops or heading to the subway. I noticed the most disconcerting thing. Parisiens do not smile. They make eye contact approximately 70% of the [...]
11 Comments • Continue Reading →Aug. 15 is International Green Smoothie Day!
Hello my friends, I’m off to Europe with my family tomorrow for 18 days: Italy, Spain, and France, and hopefully a one-day adventure in Serbia/Croatia. I’ll miss y’all, but you won’t miss me, because my assistant Steff will be posting blog entries I wrote, the whole time! And maybe I’ll miss you so [...]
5 Comments • Continue Reading →Eating right while traveling internationally . . . part 2
You can enjoy eating on a cruise without gaining 10 lbs. Don’t think I’m on my high horse here, because if I told you I didn’t indulge on the cruise, I’d be lying. If I said I didn’t eat gelato for dessert occasionally (it was an Italian cruise line), you’d write me off [...]
3 Comments • Continue Reading →Eating right while traveling internationally . . . part 1
Hello friends–I am back from touring 8 countries in the Far East. Getting trapped by the landslides that had downtown Hong Kong under water the day we left was pretty exhausting. Fortunately, they held the flight (and 150 others) for a few hours due to the fact that lots of the crew and [...]
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GreenSmoothieGirl Does McDonalds
We greensmoothiegirled this McD’s in Las Vegas. That means we stopped to use the facilities but did not participate in the Weapons of Mass Destruction (Big Mac, fries, and a Coke) that comprises McDonalds Corporation. (I know, we shouldn’t use the facilities if we’re not contributing to the company’s profitability, but I worked [...]
6 Comments • Continue Reading →Eating right on vacation . . . part II
How do you spend your vacation dollars? This is my breakdown of vacation expenses for my family of six (not including boring stuff like gas): Attractions: $729 Disneyland two days, $329 Universal Studios, $570 Wicked = $1,200 Bang for the buck:Lots of fun, family bonding time, and memories–PRICELESS Souvenirs:$28 Wicked CD, $40 t-shirts = [...]
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eating right on vacation . . . part I
Nobody wants to slow down to eat, so we eat in line at Universal Studios. My DH developed a new hobby: taking photos of us eating whole plant foods, with people in the photo eating more typical amusement-park, processed food. Our children found this new hobby MUCH less amusing than we did. [...]
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