Sam's Place: healthy meal

This healthy banana strawberry smoothie is just one of the many you can enjoy for breakfast, lunch, or a snack during the day.

This is a great way to start your day if you want an easy and quick breakfast. And, if you happen to be in a hurry just pour it into a travel mug and take it with you.

If you're looking for an easy way to improve your health and nutrition without giving up all the flavorers you enjoy. Consider trying some easy fruit and vegetable smoothies.

You can achieve more energy, better sleep, and even weight loss by making juices and smoothies a part of your everyday life.

What is the difference between juicing and smoothies?

Let's start with Juicing: Juicing extracts the juice or liquid from the fruits and vegetables, thus leaving the peels and pulp behind. There are many types of juicers or extractors on the market today. Full disclosure here, I don't own a juicer or extractor so I can't tell you how delicious the juices are.

If you're looking for a juicer extractor here are some popular choices.

Breville JE98XL Juice Fountain Plus 850-Watt Juice Extractor

Aicok Juicer Juice Extractor High Speed for Fruit and Vegetables

Hamilton Beach Juice Extractor, Big Mouth, Metallic (67608A)

Smoothies: You can easily make delicious smoothies using a high-speed blender. So, when you make a smoothie you're drinking all of the pulp and fiber contained in the fruit or vegetable.

Juicing and smoothies are both healthy and good for you. But. if you want more fiber in your diet then smoothies are certainly the better choice.

For healthy and delicious smoothies here are some high-speed blender choices.

Professional Blender MengK 1400W High Speed Electric Total Nutrition Food

NutriBullet 12-Piece High-Speed Blender/Mixer System, Gray

Ninja Chef 1500-Watt High Speed Blender, Black CT805

Now, I'm not a health expert or a nutritionist by any means. This information is easily found with a little research.

We own and use the Nutri Bullet High-Speed Blender to make so many different types of delicious and healthy Smoothies. Smoothies are always made with a base. It might be water, milk, or yogurt.

Healthy Banana Strawberry Smoothie

This is one that I made for Tyler a couple of weeks ago as he was home sick from school and spending the day with me.

Jamie asked to make sure that he was drinking plenty of liquids. So I asked him if he wanted a fruit smoothie.

I cut up one banana, and five strawberries, and as a bonus, I added about 10 blueberries.

For the base, I used Almond Milk. After adding the fruit I poured the almond milk to the max line on the cup.

Then I added the blending attachment set it into the Nutri Bullet and turned it on for about 15 seconds or more.

Tyler drank to the whole smoothie and then ate some more strawberries just for good measure.

As always thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoy.

Take your breakfast on the go with a travel mug

Contigo AUTOSEAL West Loop Vacuum Insulated Stainless Steel Travel Mugs,

Contigo SnapSeal Byron Vacuum Insulated Stainless Steel Travel Mug, 20oz,

Thermos Stainless King 16 Ounce Travel Mug with Handle, Matte

Fran and Jamie have been whipping up some pretty healthy meals lately. Here is another one we made just the other night using coconut oil again.

We started off with four nice haddock fillets, some whole wheat bread crumbs, almonds, 2 eggs, and of course the coconut oil.

Here is what we did:

Use about 3/4 cups of whole almonds chopped in a food processor or your blender.
On serving platter spread out the whole wheat bread crumbs and mix in the chopped almonds.
In bowl crack and beat 2 large eggs
Add 5 or 6 tablespoons to a frying pan; we used an electric Dutch oven set on low enough to melt the coconut oil making sure it is enough to coat the bottom of the pan.
Dip the fish in the egg and then the coating of almonds and breadcrumbs.
Turn the setting on the Dutch oven up to 350 degrees.
Now cook the fish for about 6 minutes per side or longer depending on the thickness.