Hey friends
Glad to see everyone has been getting inspiration from our recipes! And thanks to everyone who gave us some ideas for our Saturday breakfast. We appreciate the great ideas.
The nice people over CSN kids furniture is offering a giveaway on the Swaddle Designs Organic Ultimate Receiving Blanket, just like the one we received. Here is a little more info about the blanket: It is Certified Organic Cotton and was designed by a registered nurse and mother of two young children. Beautifully soft, the GOTS certified organic cotton is processed and preshrunk in earth friendly ways. No unnatural chemicals, pesticides or insecticides are used.
A great gift to giveaway to someone who is expecting or has little ones already. We love how it is made out of organic material! And it is so soft!!
The giveaway will go onto till this Saturday. We will announce the winner on Sunday. *UPDATE: GIVEAWAY IS CLOSED!
Rules:
- Leave a comment below
- Bonus – link our giveaway to your blog.
Well now onto our eats. As you all know we have been trying to keep things simple and clean over here. We were doing good up till yesterday. sigh
Lori and I were in the kitchen practicing new recipes, so we had to sample them. But other than that we stuck to our greens and fruit based food plan, but did add in hemp seeds the other day. Boy have I missed those!! Hemp seeds is the first thing we have really added back into our diet to see how we do. So far so good!
First up was a raspberry blueberry smoothie for our post workout drink with hemp seeds and kale.
Simple and delicious! Though we have come to realize we really do not like berries in our green smoothies we prefer apples or grapefruit! How about you? Do you like berries in your green smoothies or do you prefer other fruits? What is your favorite fruit for your green smoothies?
Second smoothie for the day was a simple basil parsley apple smoothie
Perfect with a little lemon and stevia!
Our dinner a few nights ago was a glorious salad with sauerkraut on top. Another thing we decided to add back into our food plan to see how we do! And our tummies have been very happy with this addition!!!
Topped the salad with red onions and dulse flakes and lemon juice.
Our eats for yesterday were pretty similar with a few changes.
A beautiful ‘green’ green smoothie just the way we like it! This one was filled with grapefruit, swiss chard, stevia and fresh ginger!
And we had a red beauty juice for lunch
Juice was beets, carrots, celery, beet tops, romaine, and green onion. Lovely! Later made another green smoothie and a large salad for dinner.
I was doing some more research on hormones and acne lately trying to figure things out. Lori and I have been talking it over and we still feel majority of our breakouts are still hormonal and stress related and not so much the food we are eating because we are eating a very CLEAN diet. But we do believe some of our breakouts are related to our eats especially when we eat a little too much sugar, not enough water, etc than that causes some flare-ups.
We are both learning each day though still a struggle. Both of us are just trying now to take one day at a time and really just enjoy life now no matter what. It is hard but we feel having a positive attitude will only benefit us more 
Well, that is the quick update on how we are doing. I hope everyone is having a glorious day!
Till next time,
Michelle
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What a great giveaway! I’m sure my 2-week-old niece would LOVE that organic blanket!
As always, your eats look fabulous! I’ve noticed that I definitely get breakouts when I consume too much sugar, though it’s more when I consume refined sugar, not necessarily natural fruit sugar! I do find that raw treats (even natural fats and sugars) can set off a weird reaction in my body, though.
And lately, I’ve been adding bananas back into my smoothies! I was avoiding them due to sugar content, but I realized that they are still a better way to satisfy my sweet tooth than some of the other things I was craving… so for now, they’re back in my life! Bananas are by far my favorite smoothie fruit, and I don’t mind blueberries in my smoothies either. Other berries, not so much! Mango and apples are awesome, though!
Thanks Megan, yes bananas are better than other sugars
Bananas are great in smoothies too!!!
Oh, and I linked your giveaway on my blog!
http://healthyhoggin.com/2010/03/happy-shopper/
I would love to enter to win the blanket! I am off now to add a link to this post on my vegan Back to Eden forum, so the members can enter also!!
I only like tropical fruits in my green smoothies. I love mango and pineapple or mango and orange juice or banana and coconut water with any type of green. yum. I don’t like to use berries because it always make green smoothies such an unappetizing color and I don’t like apples because it makes the texture so grainy.
I love bananas. There, I’ve said it. But I try not to have too many because they’re so much higher in sugar… but I still love them. Oh but my absolute favorite smoothie is pear and parsley. Amazing. Simple. GOOD.
I do enjoy berries. And really, I’m not a fan of apples in my smoothie. I just don’t like the texture. I wish I did though… I’ll have to try it again. And I’ve blended grapefruit before but it’s so bitter to me… I’ll have to try one of your smoothie ideas using it.
Keep up the good clean work with your eats! I’m looking forward to using your ideas to help my body cleanse a little.
I would love to win the blanket! What a cute giveaway item
As for my favorite fruit in smoothies, I would definitely say banana. I also love cherries in them, but without bananas it never seems to work out very well…
thanks!
you guys are amazing. no matter what kind of juice or smoothies i try…none of them keep me full.
What an awesome giveaway! I just became an aunty a little over 2 weeks ago so baby Charlee would love this blankie!
I do love berries in my smoothie..especially fresh blueberries..mmm! I’m not a huge fan of adding apple to my smoothies as I find it gets a big too thick for my liking. I will have to try the grapefruit though sounds awesome! Some other fav fruit to add in would be the tropical fruits like mango, pineapple:)
I’ve been eating avocado in my smoothies all the time lately. I am not a huge berry fan, but I can’t really say why. I love them on their own, but they tend to confuse the taste in the smoothies, or something. Weird, I know.
Lori just posted a guest post of mine today where I talk about my basic smoothie recipes.
http://runlori.blogspot.com/2010/03/hump-day-foodie-guest-post.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RUNLORIRUN+%28R+U+N+.+L+O+R+I+.+R+U+N%29
That blanket is adorable…and my fav fruit in smoothies would be any kind of berry…love the flavor!
I just think that blanket would be PERFECT for my best friend who is expecting in the Fall. I am the “organic-green smoothie-little to no meat” friend so an organic blanket gift would be suitable.
as far as fruit. LOVE bananas. but berries too. too many choices. haha.
Strawberries are my favorite especially if they hook up with bananas:)
I have 3 friends who are expecting–who would I give it to (hmm maybe a gift to myself with the hopes that someday soon we will be expecting another little one)
So glad you’re telling us about the blanket. I have two friends expecting, and that will be perfect for both. Thanks so much!
i just want to say thank you for sharing your struggle with acne and hormones with all of us readers. I am going through the same thing and it really helps me to not feel so alone in this journey!
Thanks Elaine for your nice comment, and yes we too want other to feel they are not alone. We are all in this together and we are here for others support. We get emails all the time, so hopefully we can figure it out ; )
Aww, great giveaway! I would love this!! My fav. fruit for a smoothie is DEFINITELY CHERRIES!! YUM! I’ve been buying organic frozen ones..mmm!
Hi Ladies!
I would love to win this blanet because I will be TTC towards the end of this year!
I forgot to mention zinc to you – a lot of people claim it helps with acne. I have always had trouble taking it – I get a burning nausea in my stomach about 20 minutes after I swallow the pill, even when I take it with food, but have been trying to suck it up and take it the past week. We’ll see what happens…
What a cool giveaway! I love organic cotton
One of my best friends from college is having twins… to be induced this Sunday! She is my first close friend to have a child (well, 2 boys to be exact!) and this would be a lovely surprise gift for her
As for green smoothies, I like banana and frozen blueberries in mine!
Off topic, but I like the two of you have hormonal acne issues with stress. I started cleaning my face with a cotton swab of regular peroxide morning and night and it has cleared up 95%!
Good luck to you! My favorite smoothie, sweet cherry chocolate bomb.
Love..Love..ur blog.My fav fruit offlate is the frozen acai.i also combine with other berries.It gives a beautiful purple hue to the green smoothies I make
Sharanya
Enter me in that awesome blankie give away!
Next, on the last post the kale chips, and carrot cake are nice. but the RAW SMORES??!! OMG i am off to go double check that recipe!
xoxo
Great giveaway! I’m going to have a new baby cousin in exactly one week – my aunt is having a ceasarian that day (on my bday!). And I’m sure he’d love to snuggle up in the organic blanket
As far as smoothie fruits go… my all-time favourite is frozen bananas. They give green smoothies an awesome creamy quality. Next on the list is frozen blueberries/other berries. Mango is great too! I prefer fruits with a lower water content for green smoothies, especially if adding protein powder.
Look at all the goodness! Mmmm!
Great giveaway too! I’d love to give the blanket to either my SIL or my niece, both who are expecting later this year.
I posted the giveaway on my blog too.
Well, since I’m the most boring lady on the planet, my fave smoothie fruit is banana. But it never gets old!
Cute giveaway- this blanket looks so soft!! I love adding bananas to smoothies, it goes perfectly with a little cocoa powder, hemp protein and almond milk!!
Hope you got out to enjoy the weather yesterday!!!
I love bananas in my smoothies and strawberries too!!!!
I used to get acne problems all of a sudden more when I was 23 -24, I got on birth control to balance my hormones, and I also use an amazing PCA facewash my dermatologist recommended, ever since then I have been great, just a pimple here and there when Im getting pms or I get a pimple when I eat too much sugar!!
Love ya!!
Adorable blankie. It’s got Hayden written all over it
Anyway, back to the smoothies. I like berries in mine, but almost any fruit will do. I especially like bananas in the cooler months, and look forward to melon in the summer. Yum!
awesome giveaway! I’m sure my niece/nephew (they don’t know yet) to be would love that blankie. I like berries in my smoothies, but I also like adding a banana or frozen papaya to thicken it a bit. Not such a huge fan of watery smoothies.
Wonderful giveaway, thank you for the opportunity! I do like berries in my smoothies, I alternate the fruit daily depending what what needs to be eaten up – I also like apples, oranges, bananas and kiwis.
As always, amazing eats! I am a fan of hemp seeds too and have been using them a lot lately.
I’ve got to say, nothing makes a Green Monster like banana. SO YUM. A little strawberries thrown in don’t hurt either
Hey, I love reading your blog and getting great recipes. I wanted to let you know that Anthony’s (Rawmodel.com) girlfriend, Dawn, posted an article about acne on his blog about a year ago. She struggled with acne, even though she was eating a high raw foods diet, and explained her journey, and the things she found to be helpful. This post has tons of great information…check it out.
Thank you Kari, and yes we have read Dawn’s post. We even meet Anthony and talked to him about it. : )
love berries in my smoothies! but i need either coconut, banana, or mango to give it some sweetness and creaminess.
enter me in the blankie giveaway please!
omg! organic blanket has my name written ALL over it! ive always been tempted to get organic sheets and such at target, but there always double the price (and someone always ruins my sheets anyway doing the wash…sigh…) so i never did.but if i won this blanket i’d keep it safe for sure
Perfect timing! Guess who has a baby shower to attend this month? My nephew and his wife are expecting their first child in June. Ahhhh, seems like just yesterday I was holding him in a receiving blanket. Sigh.
Wow, love the organic blanket! My sister is pregnant, and this blanket would be a perfect gift!
I don’t think there are any fruits that I don’t enjoy in a smoothie, but apples are my favorite.
I would love to win that blanket, we’ll be meeting a new niece soon =)
I’ll go for mangoes, it’s my favorite ever since I was still a kid and it’s not hard ti find. I like fruits and specially when you get to shake it with lots of ice. It’s good for digestion and as well as giving you a healthy skin.
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