I found my first bag of frozen avocado chunks at a local warehouse store and was instantly hooked! And then I never saw them again. You may have read my other blog post about how I have to sneak healthy things into my family's smoothies. This was a big score for me, and then they were gone. There is no chance of me preparing a fresh avocado and slipping it into a smoothie unnoticed! It turns out, it's easy to freeze them in chunks.

When you understand what elderberries do to viruses, you want all the elderberry you can get, right?  There are certain times of the year when all things elderberry sell out in the health food store, so if you do what I do and make up batches and freeze them.  You'll be well prepared.  If you need to get creative because a family member doesn't like the taste, or you want to use elderberry several times throughout the day with some variety, here's a list of ideas for you to try:

After the dentist finished checking my kindergartener's teeth, he brought up sugar. He was a holistic dentist, so I was hoping for more than the "sugar rots your teeth" speech. I wasn't disappointed. He dropped a bomb right off the bat...

Like most things, there is the plain version, and then there's the luxury model. Elderberry syrup is no different.  You can go from regular to high octane with some simple add-ins. Choose one or more of these popular turbo upgrades.

I could see the clock on the stove blinking and immediately realized the power had gone out.  The hamburger pucks in the freezer (including my organic grassfed ones) had thawed and rotted.Our first guest of the season was set to arrive in a few days.  My husband and I made the hour long trip up to our lake cabin to get it ready.  We spent some time with friends up there and had to remove our things and prepare it for our guests.  As I opened the front door, the smell immediately hit me.  

It started off innocent enough. I tossed one baby carrot into the blender when I was making our chocolate breakfast smoothie. Then a couple of leaves of lettuce, after that, it became a challenge to see what I could get away with.  My husband was the first to notice. It was bad timing. He came into the kitchen earlier than usual, right after I tossed a handful of lettuce in the blender. "What's that green stuff?" It helped that he had been drinking lettuce for at least a year at that point.  These are not the droids you're looking for" I said .