Super Healthy Kids Fruit Salad

This recipe comes from Super Healthy Kids. 

I am so excited for summer.  I am especially looking forward to healthy eating.  Summer is the optimal time for fruits and vegetables and I am planning on cruising the Farmer's Markets this year.  This fruit salad just makes me want to sing.  I'm a sucker for berries of all kinds and wow, the color!  

4 lbs strawberries, washed and chopped
4 kiwi’s, skinned, and chopped
1 pint blueberries, washed
1 pint blackberries, washed
1 cup red grapes
2 cans mandarin oranges, drained 

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Four Ingredient Vegan Sorbet

Are you ready to take four amazing little ingredients and make a delectable treat? Take these wonderous naturally sweet berries and create a healthy dessert. Their seeds provide excellent fiber with a variety of vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants. Creamy rich coconut milk fights bacteria and viruses and gives Vegans their daily B12!!

Ingredients
1 cup organic frozen mixed berries (blueberries, raspberries,blackberries)
1/4 cup organic berry spreadable fruit
1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
¼ cup unsweetened coconut milk

Directions:
Whip all ingredients in a Vitamix, blender or food processor — that’s it!
Spoon the slush into 2 dessert dishes. If you like it more like sorbet, just put the dishes in the freezer until firm but not hard, about fifteen minutes.

By Barbara Christensen

Chalene Johnson's Berry and Nut Salad

This recipe comes from Chalene Johnson's new book "PUSH".  I have been reading it over the past few days and so far I am smitten with her ideas, recipes, and goal setting challenges.  I highly recommend it!  This makes a very large salad around 350-400 calories.

2 cups of spring mix

1 cup spinach

1/2 cup raspberries

1/2 cup blackberries

1 cut up fuji apple

some chopped up raw almonds

a sprinkling of feta or blue cheese (optional)

a drizzle of Newman's Own Light Balsamic Dressing (my favorite for spinach salads!)

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It's Easy Being Green Smoothie

Another recipe from Dr. Oz

Ingredients

4 cups of your favorite leafy greens, such as kale, spinach, collard greens

2 tbsp hempseeds and/or flaxseeds

1 cup frozen blueberries

1/4 cup frozen cherries

1/4 cup frozen raspberries

1/4 cup frozen pineapple pieces

1/4 cup frozen mango chunks

1 medium frozen peeled banana, broken into pieces

2 cups unsweetened almond milk

Directions 

In a high-powered blender, combine greens, hempseeds, blueberries, cherries, raspberries, pineapple, mango, banana and almond milk.

Blend on high speed for 60 seconds or until smooth. Enjoy icy cold.