YU 30, Day 24

Sunday, February, 24th:

After being woken up to car alarms and neighbors screaming at each other, got to love the Northwest, Bay and I made her six day cleanse smoothie for breakfast.

"day 6 of 7. 
today's flavor is: forrest park greens. cucumber, spinach, dandelion greens, green apple, mint, ginger, water, honey. topped with bee pollen. 

gettin' ready for a hike at forrest park! happy sunday all!! xo"

This smoothie was inspired by Smoothie Alchemy. As you can see from their recipe "Green Ginger Apple Smoothie" we made some adaptations. 

If you wait to drink your smoothie, your fiber will rise to the top and separate from the green juice goodness. This is a great drink to start off our day with our blood flowing and great energy booster for our hike. We were zipping with energy.

  For tonights dinner I, Kim, made pancakes for the first time using this recipe: Gluten-Free Orange and Toasted Sesame Buckwheat Pancake Snackers. I struggled with flipping the pancakes at first 

but Bay showed me how. It's all in the wrist. Ha! Also I read the recipe wrong, I soaked some sesame seeds! At least I noticed before adding them to my mouthwatering buckwheat pancakes. 

Today we went to a new shop near my studio called Food Front Cooperative Grocery. I got some yummy organic, local maple syrup.

The picture to the left is me, Kim, making homemade Organic Shea Butter.

The picture to the right is a picture of me today, little over a one month later, making pancakes for the first time.

It's crazy how much I have changed over the past month!! I still can't believe I have a few days left of this challenge to go. I wonder what else will change.

This is Bay a month ago to the left. She was getting her hair cut by her sister in law.

To the right is what Bay looks like today.

She notices lately that the results are amazing!

YU 30, Day 18

Monday, February, 18th

relaxing monday. monday. monday. monday.


Breakfast:
How can you pass this up twice?
cinnamon chia pudding with banana, dates & almond butter


Lunch: 
hummus, flaxseed crackers, with cucumber and tomato on top.


Dinner: 
Bay and I collectively thought about stuffing some mini peppers with some cashew cheese for a snack. Then we thought for dinner using the bigger bell peppers. Bay was the cook tonight she made the raw bell peppers stuffed with portobello mushrooms, purple onions, tempeh, fennel, broccoli, jalapeño with a layer of homemade cashew herb "cheese"


This was so bomb. the end. :)

YU 30, Day 12

Tuesday, February, 12th

I have a cute milk jug from Bay Bay!! It looks like the old milk containers. I love it. It's the small things that count.


Breakfast:
Organic granola from People’s Co-op with some homemade Almond milk. 

Almond milk recipe from Yum Universe: 1 tablespoon Almond butter and 1 and ½ cups of coconut water in a blender. I can't believe how easy Almond butter was to make. Their are also tons of recipes to make milk out of different nuts not just Almond milk found here.

Lunch:
This was first time for us to use Gluten Free pasta, Sweet Potato & Kale Fusilli. It has a very interesting flavor. It’s not as crunchy as the normal pasta. We aren’t sure if we like gluten free pasta quiet yet, perhaps we will over time.

Dinner:
We ate leftover tacos.