Monthly Archives: August 2014

Hangover Cure Smoothie

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Sometimes you have a few too many drinks and the next morning seems like a huge obstacle that you just want to get through.

Luckily, smoothies are one of the best ways to cure a hangover because you can soak up a lot of nutrients quickly. This smoothie always makes me feel better and I have a feeling I might not be alone in that. 🙂

Try it out the next time you wake up a little fuzzy and let me know how it goes!

Hangover Cure Smoothie

  • 1 cup almond milk (or coconut water)
  • The juice of one orange
  • 1 pear
  • 1/2 cup frozen mangoes
  • 1/2 cup spinach
  • 1 tablespoon Dastony Tahini
  • 1 tablespoon flaxseed
  • 1 tablespoon chia seed

Blend all the ingredients together until smooth.

Must Try This TAHINI: I recently got to try Dastony Tahini and I have to say it is the BEST tahini I have ever had! Super creamy, super healthy and super delicious! To try it out visit Windy City Organics.

Creamy Green Goodness

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This smoothie uses Dastony’s Sprouted Pumpkin Seed Butter which adds a slight nuttiness and a whole lot of creaminess! Combined with banana, apple and spinach this smoothie is sure to knock your socks off!

Creamy Green Goodness

  • 1 cup almond milk
  • 1 banana
  • 1 apple (I used Gala)
  • 1 tablespoon Pumpkin seed butter
  • 1/2 cup spinach
  • 1 tablespoon flaxseed
  • 1 tablespoon chia seed
  • 2 ice cubes
  • coconut flakes, optional (for topping only)

Combine all ingredients together besides the coconut and blend until combine.

Top with coconut flakes.

Enjoy!

None Of It Really Matters.

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None of it really matters.

We live in a world that creates this idea of things mattering, of us mattering and of our entire lives mattering on some level.

We’ve taken that concept and applied it into all aspects of our lives.

It’s provoked us into believing that even the smallest idiosyncrasies of life should creep inside of our minds, set up shop and raise havoc on our lives. We have become defensive, self involved, entitled and most importantly incredibly numb to the real truth, which is we don’t matter at all.

Our jobs, our families, our friends, our success, our weakness, our good days, our bad days, none of it is anything but something we thought up, put meaning on and kept painting until it became our own personal realities.

And why not, right?

If nothing matters then why not put meaning on things, why not create your own individual reality and embrace your feelings and your ambitions? What else do we really have to do?

Well nothing, we don’t have to do anything.

We could just sit down in a field until we shrivel away. We could also go racing up the mountains trying to prove an imaginary goal or choose to stay on the ground because that mountain scares us.

We can choose to do or not do anything.

So if none of it matters, if the choice that you pick doesn’t change the fact that a choice doesn’t even exist, then what do you choose?

Do you choose to be happy?

Do you choose to embrace rather then pull away?

Do you run after a success to make yourself feel good, or do you try to make others feel good?

Do you put care into your words and actions?

Do you stop and breathe with yourself?

Do you stop and breathe with someone else?

Do you try even if trying doesn’t matter?

Do you give or do you give up?

Do you let go, of all the things you think matter and just choose to walk around this earth, enjoying your moments, remembering that it is incredibly temporary, fading at this very moment and do you just sit with that. Let all the stress go, let all the anxiety, fear, ego, sensitivity, success, and failure go.

Please just let it go.

Feel lighter, feel better, feel happy for all of it. 🙂

California Dreamin Smoothie

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Ahh California…fresh air, bright sun, amazing food…what’s not to like? 🙂

This smooth is like California in a glass, fresh fruit, bright colors, and an amazing taste!

Don’t miss out on this one, seriously, it’s a must try!!

California Dreamin Smoothie

  • 1/2 cup coconut water
  • 1/2 vanilla almond milk
  • 1/4 cup pineapple (about 3 large chunks)
  • 1/4 cup frozen mango
  • 1 fresh peach
  • 1 tablespoon hemp seed
  • 1 tablespoon coconut manna
  • 1/2 cup fresh spinach

Blend together until smooth.

Enjoy!!