healthy and beautiful

  I’m going to start hump day with an apology. Yesterday our newsletter featured the daily rituals of top fitness and food experts. Sounds good, right? I think it was except somehow my friend Lianna Sugarman became Leanna Silverman. Even pre-caffeinated Foodtrainers know better than that. Lianna is the founder and  CBO “Chief Blending Officer” at Lulitonix and is always experimenting with cutting edge ingredients and flavors. We asked her a few questions: What is your #1 daily ritual? While there are a million rituals for life that I really love, and that I mean to implement every day [ At Foodtrainers, we call these “wish-uals ”] truly the only one I do EVERY day, and the only non-negotiable, is to make and drink a big, huge, green blend with avocado. How does this affect the rest of your day? Whatever else I do, eat, drink, or think, whether I sleep or not, am happy or sad, whether I oil pull, spin, meditate  (ha!) or just sit on my butt working in front of my compute...

Smoothie bowls have been popping up everywhere. And while Carolyn and I are happy to test-drive any (ok most) trends we hesitated with these big bowls. We explained our "cold feet" in this month's Monthy Morsels newsletter   along with what to do and skip when it comes to these creations.  Here's our featured recipe (pictured above) Cocomint Smoothie Bowl Handful ice Handful fresh mint Banana or frozen banana 1 tbs each of philosophie green dream, gelatin and coconut oil splash harmless harvest dash Pantea matcha pinch Himalayan salt Nustevia drops (I like lemon nustevia with this)   Choose your toppings- cocochia, gojis shown here      Add ingredients to Vitamix (yup we declared ourselves blender bitches but need a strong gizmo), blend and pour into ramekin or small bowl. Do you make smoothie bowls? Favorite ingredients? What are you having or did you have for breakfast today? Are you a blender bitch (or blender snob)?

I had the pleasure of shooting a video you fitness guru Anna Kaiser. The requested topic was hemp and since hemp hearts are lauded in The Little Book of Thin, I was thrilled. An aside, I hadn't meant Anna prior. And you never know what a project will be like in this scenario. Anna was as welcoming and fun as she is successful. So here is t he link , we make a delicious Blueberry, lime and coconut breakfast bowl and laugh a lot. The bowl feature's my favorite Siggi's coconut low fat yogurt, Manitoba hemp hearts and lots of zest. Stay tuned for our next installment. Have you tried Anna's workout? Eat hemp foods? Did you think hemp was pot?