Breakfast for me is usually on the go. I enjoy my organic bedding as long as possible... So, to get to work on time, Damon usually makes smoothies for me while I am doing my "beautification" session. But, once in a while we do get up at a decent time and I am able to make a smoothie. Today's smoothie was based on ingredients we had in the kitchen. I hadn't been to the store for about 5 days and didn't think there was much. I was wonderfully surprised when I found a pineapple that I had purchased that I was waiting to ripen in the fruit basket.

I am continually amazed by the food that is kept in our home and how easy it is to make meals with fresh living foods. I remember cooked food being much more work. Every recipe that I used to cook took a trip to the store for specific ingredients, weather it was the main ingredient, the side dish or a spice. I used to go to the store every other day, if not every day. I also remember purchasing ingredients per meal, example: chicken with broccoli and mashed potatoes for monday, Fish with rice and corn for tuesday, pork chops with apple sauce and salad for wednesday, etc etc. ingredients were out of control! Now I am down to shopping once a week, maybe 2 if we have special meals planned or craving something we don't usually keep in our fridge. I seem to purchase the same ingredients all the time, but we rarely eat the same meal twice. We can use cabbage and zucchini in so many ways it's amazing!

Once you switch to raw living foods and only purchase raw living foods you only eat raw living foods. Imagine that. We don't have canned or boxed processed foods in our kitchen any longer, so it's really easy not to eat them.

Here's my tropical smoothie recipe. Like all of our recipes, change things as you like. You can never make mistakes with smoothies, with the exception of Ginger with Mango... that didn't taste good to us....

Tropical fruit smoothie recipe by Toni Genaro

1/2 fresh pineapple (slice off skin only)
3 kiwi fruits
1 banana
1 tablespoon Chia seeds (soaked for at least 15 minutes in filtered water)
1 lime, skinned
approx 2 cups Spinach, lettuce (whatever greens you have....)
2 stalks of celery
1 tablespoon coconut butter
1 tablespoon flax oil
2 tablespoons agave syrup
2 cups water
1/2 tray of ice cubes

Place everything in the VitaMix and blend until smooth. The ice cubes let you blend on high longer. Otherwise your smoothies get a little warm. Makes about 8 cups. This is a rich one so only two cups will have you satisfied for hours.

So this time we want to explain the reasoning behind some of the ingredients a bit:
     - Banana for texture....
     - Chia seed for the ENERGY! (we had salba on hand, supposedly a finer grade of chia)
     - Spinach and celery for fiber, silica and green!
     - Coconut butter for essential natural fats and of course it's amazing flavor.
     - Flax oil adds more essential fats as well as lubricating the eyes for those long days at the computer screen.

Enjoy eating fresh living foods! What do you do for breakfast? It is the MOST important meal of the day!