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Fill-your-tummy smoothie

I called a nutritionist when on a diet one time, with this question:
- I’m drinking a perfectly balanced shake for breakfast, and I love how it makes me feel.  But I’m hungry again within a couple hours at best.  Why?
Her answer was enlightening and now I have a new recipe for my morning smoothie: She [...]

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Milk Skin

You know that skin that covers hot milk as soon as it starts cooling?  Should be called scum.  Well, my sister knows the remedy.  I didn’t know this.  Apparently, when you move to Africa they teach you real skills.  Like how to keep that scum off of milk.
Drum roll please…
Get out that cutsie little whisk [...]

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My kids are LOOOOVING –

leftover rice for breakfast! Of course I serve it hot, with hot milk, raisins, cinnamon, and sugar, but eh! It’s a good use of leftovers. Toss in a little flax seed or brown rice and you have a great source of fiber too.

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Super-Duper Strawberry Smoothies

With fiber, protein, & extra calcium!

These are a great substitute when I run out of ideas, or groceries! The kids loooooooove them!
In a blender:

1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1 cup milk
1 Tbsp ground flax seed
1/3 cup powdered milk
1 scoop protein pwd (1/2 a serving)

We use Exact 100% Whey Protein Supplement powder, vanilla flavor. Which [...]

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