Hi Claire:

I gotta confess - I get accused of being weird and abnormal several times a day:

"OMG mom, why can't you keep all our fruit in the fridge like NORMAL people, it looks like a fruit truck exploded in here!"

"OMG. mom, none of my NORMAL friends have to help with dishes!!"

"OMG, all the NORMAL parents just give their kids their own cellphone."

"OMG, you just ate seven bananas - that is so ABNORMAL!!"

"OMG, it's totally unfair to impose a curfew on a 16 year old girl, I'm totally mature!"

"OMG, how could you go to school and talk to my teacher. Are you trying to RUIN my LIFE?? Just stay home like a NORMAL mom."

The list goes on, but I am proud to be weird and abnormal....(and perhaps the first sign of maturity will be starting a sentence without first saying OMG! LOL!!)

Sapphire

Yes, it would be quite normal to buy your children whatever they insist on, let them stay out as late as they like, and to let them eat junk food nonstop instead of stocking up of produce.

Cancer and heart disease and emotional abuse and intolerance are normal too.

I pray your children will grow old and wise enough to someday thank you!

Kale, blended with banana and mango and some water. The perfect Green smoothie.
Well, I think any way.

From my own weirdo perspective, I like green smoothies, but I'd usually (um, normally?) rather have a salad or a nori roll.

Everyone has their likes and dislikes. For me I love green smoothies!

I just came across this great video on how to make them:

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So good

hey!! where's the BIKE? that is supposed to run the blender blades?, Huh?

hah hah i need to resurrect that pic of the bikegeneratingenergyforblender pic

Here's one LaV... with your's truly providing the power.


Aloha Nui Loa,

Greg

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices. - William James

There is no pill that can be swallowed,
There is no guru, that can be followed, - Michael Franti (Pray For Grace)

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. - Albert Camus

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> maui_butterfly Wrote:
> >
> > you must. massage. the kale. with whatever
> > dressing you like (lemon juice, sea salt, fresh
> > ground pepper, basil, and a splash of EVOO
> works
> > great for me). get in there with your hands and
> > slap it, knead it, rub it down! massage it unti
> it
> > looks like you cooked it! then wash your hands
> and
> > eat. or eat and then lick your hands. or
> > whatever.
> >
> > very yummy, and very therapeutic!
>

Just had to tell you that I tried this last night and, oh my, it was absolutely the most heavenly thing I have eaten in quite some time. Anyone who thinks they do not care for raw, unblended kale MUST try this! And, yes, eating it with your hands right out of the bowl that you just massaged it in is definitely a major part of the pleasure... Thank you, maui_butterfly for the awesome idea.

I have to say I'm not crazy about green smoothies, either. Sweet fruit and greens together just doesn't taste right to me.

But I love green soups! Celery cilantro red pepper olive oil salt lemon is the one I just had for dinner. With dulse pieces in it. very good.

I just like to eat my fruit alone.