Healthy Breakfast Avocado Smoothie (For Hair Skin and Weight Gain)

Sooo...This is Day 1 of my Healthy Eating and Happy Hair Growing Journey (lol, I know i'm lame) . Anywho, This morning, I decided to put the Avocado's that I purchased to use!!  Avocado's are great for healthy eating!! Especially in smoothies!! " Avocados provide nearly 20 essential nutrients, including fiber, potassium, Vitamin E, B-vitamins and folic acid. They also act as a "nutrient booster" by enabling the body to absorb more fat-soluble nutrients, such as alpha and beta-carotene and lutein, in foods that are eaten with the fruit."  So Avocado's are going to work to my advangate in a numerous amount of ways!! Eating these will allow my body to absorb more of the fat-soluble nutrients that I need!!  And it's high in fat (unsaturated fat) the average Avocado has over 300 calories!!

These are the ingredients I used in my smoothie

1/2 Avocado (I'm going to use the other half to deep condition my hair, Avocado's are VERY moisturizing!!)

1 Kiwi

1 Banana

1 Fruit Buddy

8 Ounces of Milk

1 Blender

The fruit (aside from the Avocado) that you choose to use , is totally up to you!! I just like Banana's and Kiwi's!! But you're welcome to play around with any fruits that you like :-)  Some people even add nuts!

Weekly Dishes

So I have finally realized why I was losing weight. I wasn't eating nearly enough calories with all the daily activities I was doing!! My body (energy) suffered!!  I was so tired and sleepy all the time!!

I've become enamored with cooking!!  I'm a beginner in the kitchen but I love trying out new recipes! Especially now that i'm getting better!!!  Now I make a weekly meal plan because this makes it super easy for me to make sure to eat and COUNT my calories!!!  Here are a few pictures of my dishes, if I used a recipe I will post a link to that as well!! I am a beginner so most of them aren't very pretty but they taste amazing!!  One of my favorite blogs that many of the things I cook come from is Diva's Can Cook !!  She has amazing recipes!!

Every weekend I make her Banana Bread (this past weekend I made them into muffins) they are delicious and it's great and convenient for me to make it over the weekend so that I can have it for breakfast during the weekdays.  Breakfast is sooo important and many of times I don't eat it because I don't have time.  This eliminates that!

Shrimp Scampi.  This was something quick that I threw together , when the fridge was low on things to cook!!

Yummy Parmesan Zucchini 

Paired it with Steak!! We also had a delicious mashed potato!!

Homemade Chicken and Dumplings. Omg. This was delicious! It was a very big pot that lasted about 2 days!! This is a GREAT hearty meal! Recipe HERE!!!!

Yummy Yummy Peach Cobbler!!! I don't cook this often, but when I do. OMG. I think it lasts ONE day!

Cheesy Ravioli.  I enjoyed this so much! It was super easy, and reminded me of lasagna.  I had this with Salad and Garlic Bread. BTW the picture is right before it went in the oven.  Forgot to take a picture of it after!! Smh silly me!! Recipe Cheesy Ravioli Recipe <<<<

This is Coq Au Vin . A recipe that I got from Cooking With Val !! Just recently found her blog!! Love her recipes and will be using more!! I paired this Wine Stewed Chicken with Mashed potatoes which were wayyyy too runny lol!! I mashed them a bit too much, then to add insult to injury I love love love gravy so added quite a bit over my potatoes which made it more runny. But guess what? It taste like heaven!  The Sauted Asparagus were also to die for!

Can't forget my homemade GREEN smoothie! Yum!  I usually use Spinach as the base (adding avocado when available too), and from there I add a mix of frozen fruit! I do frozen because it makes the smoothie good and cold and SWEET. I promise you , you can NOT taste the spinach !!