SO Delicious Pineapple Smoothie

This smoothie has been a Fish Fam favorite for a long time! 

It's super easy with only 2 ingredients and tastes oh so good!!!!

All you do is cut up one whole fresh pineapple and add some So Delicious Coconut Milk.

That's it! 

*Being that we are overseas I can't get "Organic SO Delicious Coconut Milk", but thankfully I found "Coconut Dream" at the commissary. You can find it next to the supplements on the top shelf above the Lara Bars and other energy bars.

Tips:

• Make sure the pineapple is ripe. It will be brown and soft. If it's too soft it's really ripe, mostly likely over ripe.
• The bottom of the pineapple will smell sweet. 
• After it's ripe put the pineapple in the fridge to make it cold. 
• Add 1/2 cup -1 cup of coconut milk. Just enough to get it blending. Too much milk takes away from the pineapple taste and makes it too liquidly.
• Add ice if desired for a thicker, colder, crunchier smoothie. Just start with a little. 
• Turn them into popsicles!!

I make this smoothie on a weekly basis and freeze it into popsicles. I love Ikeas little kids popsicle molds. Not too big, not too small. Perfect size....

You can also add some fresh sliced strawberries. Yum!

Good Info:

Pineapples are full of awesome vitamins and minerals and also have a powerful enzyme called Bromelian that has great health benefits! Bromelain helps with inflammation, swelling, & treating sore muscles. Bodybuilders certainly know how important it is to get bromelain into their bodies to recover. For me it's awesome to juice or eat fresh pineapples when I have sore calves and muscles from running, cycling, or ballet. Fresh pineapples also helps build strong bones and helps with indigestion and acid reflux. Can't go wrong when choosing a wholefood like pineapple, just go easy on it and don't eat too much at one time. Good facts here.

Now go enjoy your "So Delicious Pineapple Smoothie"!!!!!!

Re-post: A Jar of Pumpkin & Pecan Pie

If you love pumpkin then you'll love this smoothie from mywholefoodlife...

1 cup pumpkin puree

1 frozen banana

handful of Pecans

1 tsp cinnamon

1 cup water & ice

Blend!

I roasted suger pie pumpkins and it's so so good!

Pumpkin Goods...

I've been cooking a lot with pumpkins! Look below for all the different recipes.

"A Jar of Pumpkin & Pecan Pie"

 If you love pumpkin then you'll love this smoothie from mywholefoodlife...

1 cup pumpkin puree

1 frozen banana

handful of Pecans

1 tsp cinnamon

1 cup water & ice

Blend!

I roasted suger pie pumpkins and it's so so good!

Fast & Easy Morning Smoothies

 These morning smoothies are really fast and easy! They are filled with lots of protein, good healthy fats, greens, and some fruit. Above it a mix of 1/2 avocado, some organic strawberry papaya (locally Hawaii grown...wow so good!), a few frozen organic mango chunks, chilled organic coconut cream (from the top of a coconut milk can), 3 leaves of fresh dino kale, almond milk, chilled water, and hemp seeds. Haha, my oldest said to his siblings..."Come look at this gross smoothie mom made!" But, I thought it was so good!

 This is before I added all the kale. Avocado, organic boiled egg, apple banana, mango chunks, coconut milk fat, fermented beet&ginger Kavass drink (where it gets the purple color), almond milk, cold/chilled water, and hemp seeds. 

Then after i added all the kale...

Not as pretty, but all that K Vitamin friendliness in the Kale packs it with so much nutrients!
This might be like all the juices I make, you'll probably have to chug it down. What I like most about these smoothies is that they keep me full for a lot longer until my next snack or meal.

Enjoying Breakfast :)

My breakfast's are much different than a year ago, which mostly consisted of some kind of oatmeal, fruit, and fresh juice. I've found out that my body needs a different type of fuel to last. I'm a protein type and therefore need more protein and fats to slow down how fast sugars breakdown and metabolize into energy. Before I was eating too many carbs, healthy carbs, but in the end my energy was so low and I didn't quite know why because I was eating really healthy foods. Now that I've added more healthy meats and fats and taken out grains, I've felt better, but still have more to go to feeling my most energetic self.

For breakfast I usually have some kind of mix of eggs, meat, veggie, and a shake filled with really good and healthy proteins and fats. The above pic is two boiled eggs w/ uncured ham, real salt, and pepper. The shake is 1/2 avocado, 1/2 of small apple banana, some fresh papays, a few frozen mango chunks, three dino kale leaves, almond milk, water, and hemp seeds.

 A boiled egg mixed with some of last nights dinner...Apple Chicken Sausage, with sauteed onions and garlic, baked potato chunks w/ Italian herb blend. And some raw fermented sauerkraut. I've been learning tons about how much our bodies and digestive system needs fermented foods to provide good healthy gut bacteria.

And this was my oldest's breakfast request...

Asparagus, eggs, sauerkraut, and "the seed bread". 

Coconut Pineapple Smoothie

Just a few simple ingredients...

One whole freshly cut pineapple, 1/2-1 cup Unsweetened Coconut Milk, & ice if desired.

Oh yeah, super good!

Pineapples have a powerful enzyme bromelain. Bromelain helps with inflammation, swelling, & treating sore muscles. Bodybuilders know how important it is to get bromelain into their bodies to recover. For me it's awesome to juice or eat fresh pineapples when I have sore calves and muscles from ballet. Fresh pineapples also helps build strong bones and helps with indigestion and acid reflux. Can't go wrong when choosing a wholefood like pineapple, just go easy on it and don't eat too much at one time. Good facts here.

Especially, with fresh cut up strawberries!

Coconut Pineapple Stawberry Popsicles

From our smoothie leftovers we put the rest into the Popsicle holders and into the freezer.

 So so so good!

Orange Spinach Smoothie

First, juice the oranges...

Then put handful of carrots, a little bit of cabbage, spinach, 1/2 an orange with peel off, banana, and ice. The more ice you add it'll turn into a sorbet.

I had one of these at a Vita-mix demo at Costco, expcet theirs came out nice, lovely, and orange. I prefer more greens...

The beat part for my kids is that we get to freeze the leftovers in Popsicle holders!

Cherry Coconut Smothie

My husband made this incredibly yummy smoothie...organic frozen cherries, frozen pineapple, frozen blackberries, organic (dairy/soy free) coconut ice cream, and some water. We froze the rest into popsicles for the kids!

Watermelon Smoothie

My husband made this yummy watermelon smoothie or more like watermelon slushie! He scraped out half of a cold watermelon, put it in the blender with ice, and then served. I buy a lot of watermelon, but the trick is finding the ripest, sweetest, juiciest, and tastiest one! My dad always picked the best watermelon and that's because growing up he would go pick watermelons in the garden. He says all you gotta do is give them a good flick and see which one sounds the most hollow. Over the years I've been able to get some pretty tasty watermelons by following his advice!

Orange Smoothie

Fresh squeezed orange juice, organic baby carrots, banana, orange, organic cabbage, organic spinach, organic raw coconut flour, & ice. I threw it all in the Vita-mix and...

Haha, it came out more green than orange, but still super good. I added coconut flour for a protein boost. I called it an orange smoothie because there are a lot of orange ingredients and the pic below is the sample cup of this exact same recipe at Costco when they were doing demos of the Vita-mix.

I guess I added more spinach and cabbage than they did. If you are looking for a great blender I would recommend the Vita-mix, they are rated the #1 blender of 2012. We got ours about 5 years ago at Costco. It's a super good deal at Costco.