For all you festive food lovers who are concerned about using food dye (with good reason), I have a fun, 3-course St. Patrick’s Day breakfast to share with you!
GREEN EGGS
One of my kids favorites, whether it’s St. Patrick’s Day or not, is green eggs. They’re so simple to make and what makes them green will give you a great deal of fiber and nutrients. Simply add as many eggs as your family needs to a blender. Then add a handful of spinach. Our family uses about 6 eggs, plus 1 heaping handful of spinach (about 2-3 loose cups). Pulse the mixture in the blender until it’s well combined and green. I let mine go for about 5-10 seconds, just til all the green chunks are gone.
Then, simply pour the green goo into a pan and scramble the eggs! These eggs look about as freaky as you would imagine green eggs to be. But they taste amazing! You can’t really taste the spinach, it just adds a creamier texture to scrambled eggs.
GREEN PANCAKES
You can do the same thing as above with any healthy pancake recipe. Simply prepare the pancakes as you normally would, then pour the batter into the blender and add a handful of spinach until it’s all green, then cook the pancakes as usual. Another thing you can do is grate zucchini into the pancake batter to make zucchini pancakes, but the green won’t be quite as rich in color this way.
GREEN SMOOTHIE
Hello, did you think I could get away with not mentioning this? Here is a link to a free downloadable recipe book that is sure to help you start loving those greens: https://simplywholelife.com/beginner
Just a few quick and easy ideas to enjoy the festivities without those nasty, horrible, awful food dyes 🙂
For information on WHY to avoid food dyes, see here: (I don’t agree with 100% of the things this doctor says, and I don’t always appreciate his “doom and gloom” attitude, but in this case, he’s right on.)Â http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/02/24/are-you-or-your-family-eating-toxic-food-dyes.aspx
Come back on Thursday, I’ll be sharing a healthy chocolate-mint candy recipe.
I tried to download your Green Smoothies recipes booklet several times, and it would not open. The only thing that happened was the cover page opened. I could see that there are several more pages, but the screen was black when I clicked on any of the other pages. That was it, so I have not been able to see your smoothie recipes yet. I’t love to see them. I even went online and googled your smoothie recipes, and it did the same thing. Maybe it is my computer, but maybe there is a glitch. Thought I should let you know.
Katie, I’m sure you do, but can you double check to see if you have the latest version of Adobe Reader installed? You can get it free here: http://get.adobe.com/reader/ If that doesn’t work, please let me know and we’ll for sure get to the bottom of this!
I love these ideas. So simple and beneficial, besides fun!