Chocolate Zucchini Bread Smoothie

Disclaimer, I made this once and haven’t made it again because zucchini hurts my stomach. I thought being pregnant would change the fact that zucchini hurts my stomach but nope, still bloated up like a painful balloon. Good news it that I can still eat dairy totally fine when pregnant and this smoothie tastes great. So if you like zucchini, and your stomach agrees, make this today!

Chocolate Zucchini Bread Smoothie:

• 1 scoop chocolate protein powder
• 1 tbsp cacao powder
• 1 tsp manuka honey
• 1 tbsp peanut butter (or another nut butter of choice)
• 1 handful frozen zucchini
• 1/3 frozen banana
• 1 cup milk of choice,
• Cinnamon to taste
• 10 ice cubes

Directions:

Blend all of the ingredients together until smoothie and pour into a tall glass. Top with chocolate granola and puffed kamut cereal. Zucchini, do you eat it? I am so envious of all the zucchini recipes that I’ve been seeing lately so be sure to eat and extra slice of something for me.

Apples to Apples

Chia Seed Applesauce

When my mother-in-law asked me if I wanted some apples, I didn’t think twice!

Who can resist free apples, some were fresh picked green apples from Julian, CA and the others were Honey Crisp apples that were on sale. How many apples could she really be giving me?…

One huge bag later I had enough apples to feed an army.

I’ve been following Amanda from Running with Spoons for a few years now. She has inspired my cooking in many ways, especially with her homemade strawberry chia seed jam!

With all the apples that were taking over my fridge, I needed a quick and easy way to use up most of them. This is were Amanda’s Easy Applesauce falls into place!

Im telling you, this girl is a genius when it comes to simple but insanely delicious treats. All I did to alter the recipe was throw in 1 tablespoon of Plnt chia seeds at the end of cooking.

Check out Amanda’s Easy Applesauce recipe, toss some Plnt chia seeds in there near the end of cooking, and let your house smell of cinnamon apples for hours! 🙂