A bit of business:  CROCK-POT giveaway: Thanks to everyone for entering. We had 85 entries, and Random.org chose commenter number 28.

Mel, who said:  That is a wonderful quick change with the beans and rice. Good call! I would love a crock pot, so please sign me up.

Monday: Breakfast

Saturday was an adventure. I decided I wanted to go to the Air Force Air Show.  Little did I know, 400,000 other people ALSO decided to go.  With so much traffic, we ended up parking and waking over 1 hour, one way, to the gate.  Boy was I glad my kids got a good breakfast!

Joel Fuhrman said, the headaches, fatigue, irritability, etc., that you (or your kids) experience when you get hungry is not because you are hungry!  Its because you are detoxing from inferior food. With a healthful diet, you should be able to go for several hours, without experiencing those symptoms, and merely experience hunger as felt in your throat, not accompanied by headache and crankiness.  A different sensation than most of us are actually experiencing. 

So literally after walking from 12:15 to about 5:30, and merely only eating a granola bar, my kids were actually in great spirits.  They didn’t ask for concessions, or complain about eating the whole day.  This is what they had for breakfast that I think helped them get through the day:

PUMPKIN MUFFINS:  Thanks to Amy W.  for coming up with this recipe. She used my Master muffin mix and made some delightful pumpkin muffins.  The recipe has been added to my recipe list.

Muffin tips:  I’m a busy mom.  I like to throw all my ingredients at once, in ONE bowl, and not mess up many. However, muffins do turn out better when you mix wet ingredients and dry ingredients separately, then FOLD the wet into the dry, just until moistened.  Sorry guys, one extra dish!

PLUS, I’ve been making Green Smoothie’s for my kids, and they lick their cups clean. They even like that there is Spinach in it!  Maybe it makes them feel grown-up? I don’t know.  You must give this a try.  I’ve been inspired by Green Smoothie Girls Green smoothies, and Oh She Glow’s, Green monsters… but without a high powered blender (like a Blendtec), and the fact that I’m serving it to my children, and all those veggies get pricey, I don’t use as much veggies as they do.  Our basic ingredients are:

• Any frozen fruit
• Soy milk
• a squirt of flax seed oil
• As much spinach as I can add before its doesn’t get blended in well.

Because of the crappiness of my blender, I have to use a lot of liquid (the soy milk).  Have a great Monday.  Be back tomorrow with some lunch ideas.