Batch Day!

Batch what? Huh?  Batch cooking and prep day of course!  If you are just starting a smoothie regimen or are considering abandoning it, this may change your mind!  It's all in the prep! 

I tend to buy my frozen fruits already bagged, like this and that's a good thing! 

But not everything is readily available. It took me all of 31 minutes (yes 31, not 30) to prep and prepare the following;

1. Bananas
2. Pineapple (canned and split into 1/2 cup portions)
3. Pumpkin (canned and split into 1/2 cup portions)
4. Fat burning Dahl soup
5. Zucchini chips
6. Baked pumpkin squash
7. Chocolate Fig Smoothie
8. Lemon Ginger Smoothie Base

Zucchini Chips

 

Pumpkin and Pineapple divided into 1/2 cup servings - ready to freeze

Chocolate Fig Smoothie (recipe follows below...)

Bananas in half portions of course!

Pumpkin Squash: A funny story*

Lemon Ginger Smoothie Base


 

 

Ok, so my 12yr old takes one look at the pumpkin squash.

 

Him: What's that?

Me: Pumpkin squash.  I baked it to bring out the flavor.

Him: It looks like butt.

Me: What do you mean it looks like butt?

Him:  Just look at it.  It looks like someone's butt.

Me (trying not to laugh out loud): I can assure you that it's not anyone's butt.  It's a vegetable.

Him: I don't care what you call it.  Now that I've seen it, I 'm not eating it.  It's someone or something's butt.  I mean it.

 

Can no longer hold it in - I am laughing out loud now.

 

Me: You could be right, I may have been fooled, butt indeed.

Him: Enjoy then.

 

All righty, the butt (aka pumpkin squash) is all mine.  No complaints here.

 

So here's what I know for sure.  No eating plan or regimen is easy.  It takes work.  We all fall, we all get up, fall and get up again.  As long as you keep getting up, you are ok in my books ;-)  The key to any plan (I think) is to plan, prep, plan, prep then execute.  All the deliciousness took 31 minutes out of my day.  NOT the end of the world.  The key is to schedule the time and do it.  No excuses, no backing down, just do it!  Before you know it you have fabulous, healthy food all ready to go (and blend!)

 

Oh!  Before I forget...breakfast!  This was it!

 

Chocolate Fig Blend

 

1 cup unsweetened Chocolate Almond Milk

3 Figs

Blend, blend, blend

 

Add:

1 Tbsp. flaxseed

1/2 frozen banana

6 ice cubes

Blend, blend, blend and ENJOY!

 

Now my batch cooking is not done for today.  Had to stop and order tile and stone for my next project - it's going to be a beauty!

YES!  There will be one of our famous slate accent walls - WOOT!

 

So I am off to make "Cream" Of Carrot Soup.  Catcha later!  Be kind to your body and yourself xo