I’ve told you all I am a huge fan of smoothies.  I love them!  In fact before I was diagnosed with the tumor I was living off of them.  Seriously, I couldn’t keep anything down so a smoothie was the only thing I could atleast absorb a little nutrition from before losing it.

Sorry, maybe too much information?

Anyhow, I was asked to check out some recipes by Kim, the private chef at Daymon Worldwide.

The catch was I could only use the store brands to make the recipes I chose.  That’s easy for me since that is how I normally shop for most items on my list.

First recipe on the list….a Breakfast Smoothie!  So that was my first pick!

Breakfast Smoothie Recipe

Makes 2 smoothies

• Half a Banana
• 4 -6 frozen strawberries
• ½ c plain yogurt
• ½ – 1 c orange juice
• 1 Tbsp Flax seeds
• 1 Tbsp whey protein powder

In a blender add the banana, strawberries, yogurt, and orange juice. Blend until smooth. Add the flax seeds and whey, blend until evenly distributed and enjoy!

Try to mix it up a bit using other fruits — whatever you have will work but here are some options:

• Fresh blueberries, frozen raspberries & pomegranate juice
• Fresh strawberries, frozen peaches & orange juice
• Fresh bananas, frozen mango, & pineapple juice

We added peaches to ours and wheat germ as well.  Definitely an awesome morning pick me up!  The Orange Juice adds all the sweetness and there is no need for anything extra.  All of the fruits, juices and yogurt were store brand.  The wheat germ was not, but we already had it on hand.  This is a great, healthy low cost smoothie.

We also picked up the ingredients to make Whole Wheat Pancakes with Walnuts & Mixed Berries.  I haven’t made this one yet, but wanted to include the recipe for you to try.

Whole Wheat Pancakes w/Walnuts & Mixed Berries Drizzled with Powdered Sugar Recipe

Servers 4 – 6

• 1-½ c old-fashioned oatmeal
• 1-½ c whole wheat flour
• 2 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp teaspoon salt
• 1-½ c 1 % low fat buttermilk
• ¾ c low fat milk
• 1/4 c vegetable oil
• 1 egg
• 2 – 3 tsp honey
• 3 tbsp chopped walnuts or pecans
• ½ c mixed berries, anything you have (strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, mangos etc.) If using frozen fruit, thaw first.
• 1 – 2 tbsp powdered sugar

Grind the oats in a blender or food processor until fine. In a separate bowl, combine ground oats, whole wheat flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.

Use another bowl to combine buttermilk, milk, oil, egg, and sugar with an electric mixer until smooth. Mix wet ingredients into dry. Stir in nuts and some of the mango, if using.

Lightly oil a skillet or griddle, and preheat it to medium heat. Ladle 1/3 cup of the batter onto the hot skillet; cook the pancakes for 2 to 4 minutes per side, or until brown.

Top with fresh berries and drizzle with powdered sugar. If you’re a nut lover you can crumble a handful of toasted nuts on top.

Morgan is wanting to prepare this one…she is a much better pancake maker than I am!  So I’ll let you know how it is once she makes them.  Tomorrow is kind of looking like a pancake kind of day.  Our internet has been up and down all last week and into this week.  Phone goes out, Cable television goes out and the Internet goes out.  So not cool!  So I apologize for the neglect of my blog recently.  Can’t a girl just catch a break???

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