Cheddar and Chocolate

You’ll start shopping for smoothie ingredients and your general diet gets better.

I looked through a few books this morning but couldn’t find a smoothie recipe to match what I had in the frig - so I threw together my own concoction and it came out great!

• 3 canned pineapple rings (heaping 1/2c)
• 1/2 heaping cup of red, seedless grapes
• 3/4 of a banana
• 1/2c of organic Lowfat French Vanilla Yogurt from Stoneyfield Farms
• 1/2c of Soy Milk
• 1/2 heaping cup of frozen blueberries
• 1c of ice

Blended with a Blendtec via the Smoothie blend program.

St. Louis Bread Co (Panera Bread Co) makes some pretty good Mocha, Strawberry and Mango smoothies. I hung over the counter today and noticed only 3 ingredients in the Strawberry variant:

• Stoneyfield Lowfat Vanilla Yogurt
• Some kind of thick, proprietary, strawberry syrup and
• A handful of clear ice cubes.

Tried it at home with a touch of Davinci’s Cherry syrup … and wow, that was a good slush.

Drives my wife crazy that I want to leave this out on the countertop all the time!

1c Yogurt with 2/3c Apple Juice and mix things in as you like (blueberry and lemon juices).

Special K Chocolatey Delight is a perfect mix of cereal and chocolate.

What makes it different is that the chocolate is not overwhelming or too sweet. It simply adds a wonderfully complementary texture along with hints of chocolate.

Perfect.

Eat until your 80% full.

The main problem with todays’ grocery baskets is that there is just too much sugar! Most everything I find in the grocery store is just way over-sweetened.

I’m not saying it’s the healthiest :) … but oh my is it good.