Green Smoothies and Holiday Travelling – Part 3 of 3

Green Smoothies and Holiday Travelling – Part 3 of 3

~ by Stacey Terry

As I’ve discovered, drinking green smoothies through the holidays IS possible.  But the best intentions and the best blenders in the world don’t mean much without nutritious food!  Thus…

Holiday Travel Tip #3:

I know which fruits and greens I’ll have access to once I’m at my destination and what I may need to bring and/or buy.  My goal: make choices that are simple, yummy, and that require minimal effort.

Just as most people have blenders kickin’ around somewhere, many people have bananas and romaine lettuce.  Now if bananas and romaine are nutritional improvements for you, then I’d say hooray – you’re good to go for a few days!  If not, you may want to see what’s close by for grocery stores and have an idea of how to drive to them.  Thankfully my parents now stock up more on the things they’ve seen me use in smoothies (though… I have yet to see her come home with seaweed of any kind).  Still, I do tend to have less variety when I travel.  My smoothies are often bananas and spinach or bananas and mixed greens.  Yes, variety is better, but if finding kale is difficult or if my mother, in her sincere efforts to be helpful, is going to stress out about “having something already” for me and looking in the store for persimm-a-somethings, then I will choose to be simple for a few days.  [tweet_dis]The “it’s still better than a cheeseburger” mantra gets me through any worries.[/tweet_dis]

I’ve even frozen some of my smoothies if I know there are going to be days where I just can’t get to the blender to make a fresh one.  Is it perfect?  No sirreee-bob.  But, and say it with me, “it’s still better than a cheeseburger.”

Chances are, if you keep your smoothies simple, your non-green friends and family may actually be willing to give one of your smoothies a taste test.  Once they see for themselves how yummy they are, you may have opened the door a crack for them to make their own health improvements.

That’s all we’re trying to do really…  Make improvements…  Enjoy a better quality of life and health.  It does take a little planning and creativity, but it’s possible… and you can even make it fun!  (You OPTION 2 people know who you are!) Every time I’m out of my home environment, and I hear those magic “What’s THAT?” words, I grin… because now I have an opportunity to share what I’ve learned.

And as you get ready for your holidays, I hope you’ve found some useful thinking and tools over the last few days.  A very Merry Christmas to you.