Spinach


Kale vs Spinach - which green is the best?

It seems like a day doesn’t go by that we either hear “eat your greens” or “drink your greens”. Most people I talk to either favor kale or spinach as their green vegetable of choice. I have been putting about 1/3 pound of spinach (5 handfuls) in my morning green smoothies and I’ve been drinking [...]
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Organic Spinach from China

If you are one of my awesome LTF readers, you know I eat a ton of fresh spinach in my weight loss green smoothies. And if you are new here, welcome! I buy the big plastic tubs of organic spinach and use about 3-4 of them a week. It’s definitely the most expensive part of [...]
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chicken lettuce wrap

For this week’s recipe, I wanted to try a lettuce wrap. No idea where this urge came from but it seemed like it would make for a great presentation and could hold a full meal inside the wrap versus the entree/side dish in the past recipes. I spent some time researching the right type of [...]
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Peach Green Smoothie

If you are a regular LTF reader, you know my go-to smoothie has been the strawberry green superfood smoothie. I like all of my daily smoothies but I guess since the strawberry was my first, it seems to have stuck as the most popular. These green smoothies are great for weight loss it seems! The [...]
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strawberries1

Today I’d like to share my go-to green smoothie recipe. I don’t know exactly why but I find myself making this superfood smoothie more than any of the others. I think part of it is that the strawberries give the smoothie a great texture unlike the pineapple which tends to be thinner (still tastes great). [...]
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