Get Your GREENS! August 2024 Challenge 🧉 🥗 🥝 🥑
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That photo is just gorgeous, @SafariGalNYC ! I can only imagine how beautiful it must have been IRL 😍.
I got my GREENS today!
Thursday GREENS was my now-staple, Avocado Toast w/ egg & greens, but I used Red Wine Vinegar for the drizzle today, rather than the Balsamic Vinegar. Bad choice! LOL It's way too 'vinegar-y' for me! 🤣
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PS, that egg scramble, butter lettuce, and flax toast looks sooooooooo good !2
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Good day everyone 😁
My greens were at lunch with a fresh salad.
It was a busy day for me doing firewood, plus working in the shop.
But the weather is great up north here.
I did manage to pick some green string beans, onions and another cucumber for tomorrow… my goodness I have so many cucumbers… I need to give more away soon.
Smoothie is in the plan tomorrow morning and celery for a snack tonight.
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Sounds like a lovely day, Dannytrees! What part of the world do you live in? I'm in Maine/US
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I don't know if I mentioned, but every evening, I have a drink made from ginger shot, turmeric, gelatine, frozen fruit and tonic water 😋 I first made it for another challenge and I've had it with mango (the best), cherries, raspberries, blueberries or first fruit mix.
That's morning, I had yoghurt with banana, psyllium, fruit and seed muesli, dried apricots and prunes, walnuts and cashews.
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Could add it here
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@BodyTalking You are making some interesting blends.
We all seem to like trying new stuff here 🌴🌴
@SafariGalNYC You must be getting excited this week… and that shake yesterday looked amazing
I think the Cucumbers gave it that extra kick 😁🌴⛵️
Well this morning my shake
Diet Pom juice
Cucumber 💪
Cacao nibs
Celery
My own green beans
Blueberries
Greek yogurt
Green powder
1 scoop of fiber
Baby spinach
My green shakes never look like there green… maybe I need to skip the pomegranate juice and use water?
It’s Friday and I feel great
Have a great day everyone
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dannytrees1 wrote: »@BodyTalking You are making some interesting blends.
We all seem to like trying new stuff here 🌴🌴
@SafariGalNYC You must be getting excited this week… and that shake yesterday looked amazing
I think the Cucumbers gave it that extra kick 😁🌴⛵️
Well this morning my shake
Diet Pom juice
Cucumber 💪
Cacao nibs
Celery
My own green beans
Blueberries
Greek yogurt
Green powder
1 scoop of fiber
Baby spinach
My green shakes never look like there green… maybe I need to skip the pomegranate juice and use water?
It’s Friday and I feel great
Have a great day everyone
@dannytrees1 - love the shake!!
typing from the Caribbean 🏝️ 🌊 as we speak!! Going to have Creole greens for dinner for sure. Will get a pic! 📸2 -
Hello All! I just joined this group today 😀
Love all the green photos and healthy food choices! Here’s a meal I had a couple of days ago:
Looking forward to posting my greens here! It’ll help me consciously increase my greens daily.
Thanks for letting me in this group!
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Hello All! I just joined this group today 😀
Love all the green photos and healthy food choices! Here’s a meal I had a couple of days ago:
Looking forward to posting my greens here! It’ll help me consciously increase my greens daily.
Thanks for letting me in this group!
Cheers!
Welcome to our group
That looks delicious
How did you cook the shrimp
Were they frozen?
Cheers🌴🛺
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More green for lunch
2 wraps
Smoked chicken
Baby spinach
Light feta
Cucumber
Cacao bits
Green grapes
Life is good 🌴🌴🌴🛺🛺🛺⛵️
@SafariGalNYC lots of fresh protein out there🤠🌴🌴🌴
Happy Friday
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BodyTalking wrote: »I don't know if I mentioned, but every evening, I have a drink made from ginger shot, turmeric, gelatine, frozen fruit and tonic water 😋 I first made it for another challenge and I've had it with mango (the best), cherries, raspberries, blueberries or first fruit mix.
That's morning, I had yoghurt with banana, psyllium, fruit and seed muesli, dried apricots and prunes, walnuts and cashews.
(The app isn't letting me post a picture)
@BodyTalking , that drink sounds interesting ! 👀 I'd love to see the recipe, and I'm not sure what ginger shot and gelatine are 🤔. I may have to 'translate' that to 'American' 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. But, I"m intrigued~!dannytrees1 wrote: »@BodyTalking You are making some interesting blends.
We all seem to like trying new stuff here 🌴🌴
@SafariGalNYC You must be getting excited this week… and that shake yesterday looked amazing
I think the Cucumbers gave it that extra kick 😁🌴⛵️
Well this morning my shake
Diet Pom juice
Cucumber 💪
Cacao nibs
Celery
My own green beans
Blueberries
Greek yogurt
Green powder
1 scoop of fiber
Baby spinach
My green shakes never look like there green… maybe I need to skip the pomegranate juice and use water?
It’s Friday and I feel great
Have a great day everyone
Noooo, how can you dump pom juice in favor of water! 🤯😍 Looks and sounds delicious, and wooooo yay for feeling great !Hello All! I just joined this group today 😀
Love all the green photos and healthy food choices! Here’s a meal I had a couple of days ago:
Looking forward to posting my greens here! It’ll help me consciously increase my greens daily.
Thanks for letting me in this group!
Cheers!
Welcome, @daria0919 !! That shrimp salad looks fab 😋SafariGalNYC wrote: »dannytrees1 wrote: »@BodyTalking You are making some interesting blends.
We all seem to like trying new stuff here 🌴🌴
@SafariGalNYC You must be getting excited this week… and that shake yesterday looked amazing
I think the Cucumbers gave it that extra kick 😁🌴⛵️
Well this morning my shake
Diet Pom juice
Cucumber 💪
Cacao nibs
Celery
My own green beans
Blueberries
Greek yogurt
Green powder
1 scoop of fiber
Baby spinach
My green shakes never look like there green… maybe I need to skip the pomegranate juice and use water?
It’s Friday and I feel great
Have a great day everyone
@dannytrees1 - love the shake!!
typing from the Caribbean 🏝️ 🌊 as we speak!! Going to have Creole greens for dinner for sure. Will get a pic! 📸
ooooo @SafariGalNYC Caribbean !! Which island are you visiting, I forget now, which you said. Enjoy !! We leave on Monday for Istanbul. Can't wait !
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dannytrees1 wrote: »More green for lunch
2 wraps
Smoked chicken
Baby spinach
Light feta
Cucumber
Cacao bits
Green grapes
Life is good 🌴🌴🌴🛺🛺🛺⛵️
@SafariGalNYC lots of fresh protein out there🤠🌴🌴🌴
Happy Friday
Danny
Cacao bits! 👀😍
Wow, that looks great !
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I'll be out of town for a couple weeks starting Monday, so I started a September thread today.
My greens were a bit of a desert today 😬, tho I did have some lettuce and pickles on my sandwich 😄🥬 🥒
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I’m definitely not young, but I feel like a newbie when it comes to eating fruit/veg, especially greens.
Before I got married I was a pescatarian, but moving to the midwest when I married destroyed that. It’s all pork & beef out here & my partner is a big meat eater. Many years later and a whole lot of gained weight I’m trying to be healthier for some chronic health issues but it’s hard. I’ve become super picky about lettuce-the minute it looks wilted a tiny bit I’m like “no!”
I’m hoping this challenge will really help me eat more plant centric and up my fruit/beg intake.
This past work week (back to school) was very hectic so I ended up relying on fast food, but I did get some avocado in a sushi roll, cucumber, dried seaweed twice (not sure you’d really count that as a veg, but it’s green & I love snacking on it, some salsa (again no green, but definitely tomatoes, onion, jalapeño a bit, corn on the cob, roasted potato). So some veg, but my goal for the weekend is to ramp up the veg, especially greens!
@mkksemail I sm excited to see what fruit/veggies you est while in Turkey. Have a great trip!2 -
Hi @daria0919 !! & @filmgal30 so nice to have you join the group!! 🌿
@filmgal30 - I am also picky about greens esp lettuce. I’ve abandoned more than a few lonely heads of lettuce in my time. Now I only buy what I think I will use so it doesn’t wilt or go to waste. I eat so many more lettuces now as an adult. I really only grew up on iceburg lettuce. (The foxy head in cellophane at the grocery store lol. 🥹)
@daria0919 - love the shrimp salad!! 🥗
@BodyTalking - ooh really enjoy turmeric /ginger and either gelatine or collagen in my shakes.. really like the hydration it’s given my skin. I wish I had known about the anti inflammatory effects of roots earlier!
@dannytrees1 @mkksemail
I am currently in St. Lucia- this sailing ⛵️ expedition is -Barbados, Mustique, (Grenadines) and then on up to Antigua and finally Turks and Caicos. Weather has held up.
This morning on my field trip- had some amazing mango, pineapple, cantaloupe and soursop- added it to some collagen protein (brought from home ✈️ ) to local green vegetables . 🥬 (cucumber, callaloo and okkra)
I love going to grocery stores when I travel. 💚
🥬 Greens aboard ⛵️☺️🥒 🌿
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@mkksemail ginger shot is a drink that is made from freshly squeezed ginger and lemon, some have apple or spices added. There are several of these ginger based drinks and I think the Lidl version is the best for taste and value - especially the XXXL bottle. Of course, you can make your own mix, and I sometimes do, but it just makes it quicker to buy the bottle. Gelatin, in US English, I just dissolve a sheet in the drink.3
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I had a 'what's in the fridge?' lunch today - half mini quiche, small sausage, boiled egg, grilled pepper, cherry tomatoes, sundried tomatoes, spring onion, mixed beans, coleslaw, hummus and a slice of buttered wholemeal bread. Didn't take a pic.2
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Homemade salad for lunch today
Red onion and cucumber fresh out of my garden.
I also picked some green beans for tonight.
@SafariGalNYC Thanks for the photos, looks relaxing there.
It’s great that you get to try new foods and drinks there🌴🌴🤠
Sail on⛵️
Happy Saturday everyone 🌴🌴🌴🌴🛺2 -
@BodyTalking is the geletin a way to add more collagen in your diet or for something else?1
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ooooo, so interesting, BodyTalking. TY for explaining.
ahhhhhhh your pix, SG !!! Love love love love love !!! Filmgal, I'm about where your are on your freggie journey, but I LOVE this challenge SG encouraged me to join. It's really exactly what I need. I will do my best to take and add pix while travelling. You guys are going to anchor me - I disappeared after my trip last year (I fell and injured my knee, while on a 3+ whirlwind country/place-hopping trip last yr, and used it as an excuse to absolutely sabotage every good gain I'd made over the previous 19 mos
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I've been stupid busy this week. When I return, I'll be much more grounded, and amping up my freg intake fer sure.
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dannytrees1 wrote: »Homemade salad for lunch today
Red onion and cucumber fresh out of my garden.
I also picked some green beans for tonight.
@SafariGalNYC Thanks for the photos, looks relaxing there.
It’s great that you get to try new foods and drinks there🌴🌴🤠
Sail on⛵️
Happy Saturday everyone 🌴🌴🌴🌴🛺
Happy Saturday, dannytrees !!
I absolutely adore that you can go outside and pick what you need, throw it in your smoothie or salad, and then YUM! Love it!
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@mkksemail have fun on your trip
And play safe🤠💪
You will be able to try new smoothies too🛺🌴
I made this for a snack
Lots of greens in it
Broccoli
Cucumber
Spinach
Lemon
Celery 😳🌴🌴🌴
Life is good 🌴⛵️🌴
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I'll be out of town for a couple weeks starting Monday, so I started a September thread today.
My greens were a bit of a desert today 😬, tho I did have some lettuce and pickles on my sandwich 😄🥬 🥒
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Where are you headed @mkksemail? I hope it’s a grand vacation!1 -
Thank you ! 🤗 We leave late Monday night for Istanbul, then Copenhagen.
- We have an overnight flight from Boston to Istanbul, which gets us in at 14:30 local time, since they're 7 hrs ahead of us. We'll be in Istanbul for for 10 days, until Thurs of the next week,
- then we have another late night flight from Istanbul to Copenhagen, which gets us in to Copenhagen around 11:30, b/c the flight is shorter than BOS-IST (lol) and b/c Copenhagen is only 6 hrs later than here, so we pick up an hour flying to CPH from IST 😎.
- Four days in Copenhagen, then back home again, on a morning flight that leaves CPH, with a layover in IST, that gets us back to BOS early evening, b/c of the time zone hopes .
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Got some veggies today, but none of them are GREEN 🤷♀️. For my Hogwart's challenge, one of the challenges is to try a veggie in a new way, so I made a very odd but healthier version of an old favorite from my teenage years lol:
The teenage version was buttered rolls with Doritos 🤣. This version is toasted tuna sandwich with habenero roasted chick peas ... and grape tomatoes on the side 😎👀😄. Hubby's version got buttered toast, with a slice of American cheese on both slices of bread. After this pic was taken, I closed up the sandwiches, cut them into quarters, and shared out the grape tomatoes b/w the two plates.
I know I know a bit lame, but hey, at least I ate some plants ! 😁 Hubby said, "It's interesting ... " 😂🤣🤣
Cheers,
~ mk
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Salad brunch mix today: carrot with pineapple, egg, potato, cabbage with beetroot; the multi mix has cherry tomatoes, cucumber, red pepper, beans, chives; the dressings are mayo and yoghurt; the carrot and cabbage salads are shop bought and a little bit sweet.
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Last night -
Shredded kale, collard, mango and carrot.
Soup 🥣- 🥬 callalou, breadfruit, okra & coconut
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Happy Sunday !! Gosh, those are beautiful, BT & SG !1
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@SafariGalNYC that looks super healthy good work for staying in the grove whilel out exploring new adventures.
hope the weather been good🌴⛵️
@BodyTalking love the dish you made , i may be adding beet roots soon… good job
@mkksemail your new version looks amazing…. Have fun packing 🌴
This is the Danny Boy Special
And it tastes great.
Pomegranate juice
Celery
Baby Spinach
Avocado 🥑
Strawberries
Blueberries
Greek yogurt
Blend then add a pinch of Cacao nibs on top
Life is good 🌴🌴🌴🌴⛵️🛺
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