Butterfly Wings

So I said it was time to get serious, and here I am again, after midnight. My excuse this time is that I have to wait for a load of laundry to finish.

However, since that last post, I have actually signed up for the Green Smoothie Queen’s 3 Day Challenge. - three days of green smoothies. I start in the morning. I was supposed to get to bed early tonight as part of my preparation, but, well, I didn’t.

This is not my first time trying green smoothies. We’ve been making them for a few months now, sporadically, whenever we feel like them. This is our first time using them as our main source of food for more than a single meal. The Man is planning to do this with me, and we’re hoping The Boys will at least drink some smoothie with us. They’re not officially doing the challenge, but they enjoy partaking in a glass or two as a snack between other meals, or even as a “dessert”.

I still haven’t decided exactly how I plan to document this “getting serious” thing, but I figure I’ll just start with this Challenge and go from there. I just thought that it was time I followed up on my declaration of seriousness!

Back in February, I wrote about our summer experiment with “tea” made into ice blocks/icy poles/popsicles. Summer is again approaching, and with the unseasonably hot spring, the boys wanted to make more. So they did.

During the past few months, we’ve also been experimenting with green smoothies. Even Boy Two (the avoider of all Green Things at all costs) decided that green smoothies were pretty cool. Anyway, a couple of weeks ago they were on a roll. They had made their tea ice blocks, and Boy One suggested we make some green smoothie ones. Upon a quick web search I discovered that we were not the first to try this (shocker, I know; we’re so original! haha) but it was still his own original idea at the time.

Best thing, they were a hit - and very easy to make, since we simply made a batch of smoothie, poured some of it into moulds and drank the rest. I don’t know if it really made too much difference, but if we want the smoothie to be fairly runny, I make it thicker at first, pour into the moulds, then add water to the remainder and give it another quick blend.

I’m looking forward to experimenting with more flavours to keep it interesting through the summer.