Everybody walk your body..

I have been walking for five nights now. Its been said that it takes 21 days to form a habit so I'm going to continue to walk until its second nature. I walk for about 2.5 miles and it takes me 40 minutes. I enjoy walking so much that this morning (August 7) I walked to my neighborhood farmer's market. This particular farmer's market is quite small but I was able to get some really good stuff. I tried and purchased pickled squash and it was delicious taste similar to a pickle. I will go back in two weeks to sample the pickled zucchini. I also purchased some mango salsa really good. At another vendor, I picked up 3 varities of hummus and some pita bread and of course I got me some grapes, strawberries, cauliflower, and lettuce. Once my outing was done, I peacefully walked back home and just in time because the weather was really heating up.

Once home I made me a green smoothie. I have been using spinach in every smoothie and decided it was time for a change. I used mustard greens this time. I don't measure my ingredients but I'll tell you what I used  and you can add or take away what you like.

Ingredients:
1 apricot
1 peach
1 banana
1-2 handfuls of mustard greens
1/2 cup water
ice cubes

I put the water into the blender first then I put in the remaining ingredients in the order listed. Now that Ih ave my wonderful Blendtec blender I just press the smoothie button and 30 seconds later, I had a beautiful smoothie.  When I took my first sip, it was bitter but after a few sips, I could know longer taste the bitterness. I was sad when my delicious creation came to an end but there is always tomorrow. My daughter (15) ask me to make her a smoothie but to omit the banana and use for fruit then veggies. If it means getting her to eat more fruit and veggies, I will make her smoothie the way she likes it. Overtime she will get to a 50 -50 ratio. For my sons, I willhave to put in more fruit then veggies because they aren't to thrilled with the green color however, I will create some funny names for the concoction like alien slime to get them interested. My husband said absolutely no. He wants only fruit smoothies but I will find away to slip in a litle greens.

For dinner, I made the family fish tacos which were a hit. I topped them with the mango salsa from the farmer's market and a side of beans. Everyone was happy. At 8:00, my husband and I will be going on our nightly power walk.