Title: cooking – part 2

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Hi I'm Katherine McCord. Every single morning our family enjoys a smoothie

Every day the flavor changes but one that we always go back to is this dragon berry smoothie

It's creamy refreshing packed with tons of nutrients including fiber potassium and more

And my kids love it so it has to be great right?

All right. Let's make it together okay?

So in my blender I'm gonna put one fresh banana, bananas add so much natural sweetness

And you can do this fresh or you could serve it frozen if you want your smoothie to be even more cold and refreshing

And next we're gonna put the dragon fruit

If you've never seen dragon fruit before it comes frozen in little packets like this

Just gonna take some scissors to clip off the top

You know another reason that I love making smoothies for breakfast they're so easy ...

Once you figure out the recipe you want like this dragon berry smoothie

The rest is just putting out most of the ingredients the night before

So in the morning you just have to throw it right together - fast that's the name of the game

Then beat I like to try to put a vegetable into every single smoothie I make

Beat is a bright and gorgeous and delicious and sweet

So next we're gonna put in half a cup of frozen raspberries

Again you could use fresh but it's more affordable to have frozen on hand

Just so that every morning you can make a different kind of smoothie

And then i've got cashews these I soaked overnight but you could soak them for about two hours

What we're trying to do that is make the smoothie itself easier to puree if I don't have like a really intensive blender

And also it makes them much more easy to digest

Then we're gonna add in dates I love dates they have tons of minerals and vitamins just remove that little pit there

And then we're gonna get into some coconut oil which is a really good fat for you

I'm sure you've been reading a lots about that coconut oil these days we go through the jars of it.

This is my secret weapon bee pollen it's high in protein great if you have seasonal allergies and an immunity booster so I put about two teaspoons all right

Hemp seeds, high in omegas and really one of the most delicious foods that you can put on yogurt

You can sprinkle in your oatmeal we go through a lot of hemp seeds in our house

Kefir which is a natural probiotic super good for especially young tummies a few tablespoons in

And then I top it with some almond milk

You can use any kind of milk you like coconut milk cows milk blue fat full fat sky's the limit

I'm gonna put in about a cup and a quarter give or take perfect that's it

Now we're just gonna wizz it all up

My kids love getting in here and they take turns pressing the button because there's nothing cooler than watching ingredients that look like this turn into this

Talk about nutrition in a glass look at the color it's insane it's like a fuchsia

This is what I'm talking about like we don't just eat with our stomachs we also eat with our eyes

And those bright colors are not only the nutrients that are gonna fuel your body but they're also an explosion to the eyes and especially to kids eyes

You want to get healthy you want to get it together and have easily digestible food I mean come on you're not gonna get any more nutritious than that

Oh and it was easy too