What have you been doing today?

[cookie1]

Chookie it would be a good idea for your neighbour to have a key somewhere.
It was a public holiday here. I didn’t do very much at all.. had some visitors and sat round chatting.

[judydawn]

For the past week I’ve been looking up recipes for fruit & veg smoothies and writing them in a note book. I ended up with 38 pages then I set to buying some ingredients and packaging them up for the freezer. I made 3 ‘dump bags’ with what I had on hand but now all the fruit and veg are packed into little bags separately. I spent hours yesterday doing the fruit bags but have left the bulk bags from Costco of strawberries, blueberries and mangoes as they are as they pour freely as is. I now also have pineapple, apples, mandies, grapes, medjool dates packed away and will add the pears as soon as they ripen.  Today was vegetable day after a trip to Farmer Jo’s for spinach, asparagus, carrots, kale, zucchini, beetroot - I only cooked the asparagus and beetroot. I already had 10 bags of freshly cooked chickpeas in the freezer after coming across the bag whilst cleaning out the pantry. I’ve got individual packs of orange and pineapple juice in the pantry and today have frozen 8 bags of Greek yoghurt.  I’ve bought almond and coconut milk but will make my own oat milk.

My reasoning for this change of tack for my evening meal is that I believe we will be having a very hot summer and we all lose our appetite when this happens. I’ve been eating very little in the evening so by changing to a fruit & veg smoothie with added seeds and sustagen I will expect to be eating, or drinking really, quite healthy meals. So far I’ve had a chocolate, strawberry chickpea smoothie and a Berry Cabbage one - both were enjoyable, the cabbage one more so once I added the sustagen.  I don’t enjoy food these days so I’m going to do something about it.

[Cuilidh]

Well done Judy - that was a huge job shopping for, preparing and portioning everything up and what a huge number of smoothies to try.  It will be great to hear how you get on and which combination/s are the tastiest.  I wish I was as organised as you are

[K Atie]

Judy that’s great and very organised. Green smoothies are good and refreshing too . I’m impressed as I can never make smoothies work for me .

[K Atie]

@ https://skinnymixers.com.au/wprm_print/6448
Not sure if this link will work Judy . Its a breakfast Smoothie but Skinnymixers has a few on her web site that are free . If not ask me and I may have them .

[judydawn]

Thanks K Atie, I’ll check out her website but I have written out over 100 recipes for this project of mine. Yes Marina, it was a huge and expensive task but with all the hard work done all I have to do now is choose one at the end of the day. Tonight I had one of the frozen dump bags which consisted of broccoli, banana, mango, strawberries, baby spinach. I just had to add pineapple juice and water with my usual addition of 3 scoops of Sustagen - it made 2 large ones, one for tonight and one for tomorrow night - it was delicious. My DD was impressed and took GD to the freezer to show her what I’d done. She thought the dump bags would be especially good for her to put together for her quick smoothie fix.

[K Atie]

Think we need photos Judy , you might inspire all of us .

[cookie1]

Judy, what an enormous task. Well done.

[K Atie]

DH did some food shopping for me , so the menus for the next few days are all missing important ingredients! He found a purple cabbage , under strict instructions only a small wedge , half a cabbage and on sale as it was old and dried out . I do laugh .

[achookwoman]

Judy, that is amazing. Love the mix of fruit and veggies. I’m finding I can’t eat much at Dinner time. I think your smoothies might be the answer.
Clean out fridge day. Lovely and sunny here.
Putting straw around plants in pots. Making the custard for Portuguese Custard Tarts for tomorrow. GD 21 st. Celebration in a weeks time.
Doing Tai Chi with program on TV. Classes in recess.
Out for morning and afternoon teas yesterday. Hell, a slice of carrot cake , iced and with cream , is 600 calories.

[judydawn]

Think we need photos Judy , you might inspire all of us .

As you can see K Atie, there is nothing pretty about fruit & veg smoothies if you add spinach, it’s all about the taste. This is the one I had last night and having the rest of it tonight.

[judydawn]

The smoothies are worth a try Chookie.  I imagine you’ll be doing a lot of cooking for GD’s 21st, that will be right up your alley. 

[cookie1]

Gosh GD is nearly 21, time certainly flies.

[K Atie]

Judy looks good though . Super hot tomorrow, just not sure about it being this warm in September.
Cooking today , should have done more for warm day tomorrow.

[achookwoman]

Smoothie, Looks good to me Judy.
Going out for GD Birthday.  I’m making lemon butter and Portuguese Custard Tarts for her when she visits. We swap recipes as she has ended up with my first TMX. I gave it to my DIL and she gave it to her niece, my GD.