It’s Friday!  Whoooooo Hoooooooo!  Can you tell I am excited?  The week went by super fast as per usual but I am just glad today is Friday and tomorrow morning will be low key and somewhat relaxed.  Busy weekend in store with three birthday parties including zesty junior, who turns 5 on Sunday.  On top of the birthdays, we have music lessons and some house stuff to get done.

Does everybody like smoothies?  I am pretty sure most people would say yes!  There has been a lot of chatter lately around the blog world regarding the green monster and the green monster movement.  I have yet to try a true green monster but the other day I seemed to have the some ingredients that could resemble a “Red Monster”.

Let me know what you think about this one.

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 Cups Frozen berries
• 1-2 Tbsp. Flax Seed
• 2 whole beets ( peeled and cooked )
• 1/2 Cup  “real” cranberry juice

Method

1. Prepare beets either use leftovers or ensure they are cool.
2. Add frozen berries, cranberry juice to a blender and puree
3. Add flax seeds and cooked beets
4. Blend until you reach your desired consistency ( feel free to add a little water or more cranberry juice if need be)
5. ENJOY!

Zesty Tip: When using frozen “anything” in the blender make sure to add a little liquid to aide in the blending process.  Otherwise the fruit or ice will not get broken down as easily.

Well that is all I really have for today.  There are a lot of things in the works for zesty including a host move and a theme update not to mention some new zesty promotion.  I will keep you posted and be sure you are the first to find out.  Have an awesome weekend.

Take care

zesty

Middle of the week has arrived and what a week it has been.  Can you believe I woke up to snow yesterday – unbelievable!!  Luck may have it, I decided to park the car in the driveway the night before instead of the garage.   I didn’t use the garage because I just put gas in the car and the fumes can be unbearable.  I did not think for a second that I would have to scrape snow off the car before heading to the office.  Such a disappointment.

In brighter news, Shelby received the first ever zesty apron and she said it is “AWESOME”.  Thanks Shelby.  I hope you get lots of use out of it.  I am going to create a page where I can display all the images of people who bought zesty gear.  I am so excited!

Now, onto the recipe, how about a healthy chocolate monkey?  I am a huge fan!  I started making these a little while ago but just realized that I should have shared this quick recipe with you.  The ingredients are quite simple and easy to find.  The chocolate comes from “chocolate milk“, either 1% or Soy and the monkey comes from a banana.  I also like to add a heaping scoop of protein, flax seeds and a dollop of plain yogurt for thickness.

Next time you are in a hurry, need a chocolate fix or just craving a pick me up… try this monkey on for size.

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