The Kitchen Sink Smoothie almost! Ok, I’m using bits and pieces here. I need to use a kiwi and a couple bananas. But where to go here? How about strawberries, grapes, substituting spring mix for spinach and kale? It’s that or go shopping.
Mad Scientist List:
One Kiwi (very ripe with skin)
Twelve Strawberries
One Cup Red Grapes
Two Bananas
Two handfuls Spring Salad Mix
2/3 Cup Vanilla Whey Powder
1 1/2 Cup Almond Milk
Start with the almond milk, spring mix and whey powder in blender. Purée until completely smooth. Add the kiwi sliced into quarters and the grapes blending into smooth. Finish with the bananas and halved strawberries. If you are drink it immediately freeze the bananas and use frozen strawberries.
This might be yummmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!
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That’s my best one yet! Really great flavor mix
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Will be trying it soon 😀
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Let me know what you think afterwards.
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for sure I will 😀
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It helps for future recipes
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Sounds really good!
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It turns out the taste is more banana strawberry. I’m not sure if mixing drinks and smoothies are related but you can throw almost anything together with a few basics
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Do you feel the smoothies are helping you to lose weight?
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If I stopped drinking alcohol, I would have lost a ton. They take the place of lunch and are about 200-300 calories. With protein added they keep your stomach happy for hours. I have lost about 10lbs in a month with four smoothies a week instead of lunch.
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That’s pretty good – 10 lbs! Just think what you would have lost had you drank them every day!
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If I actually did more than change portions of food I ate and did it every day, I would be wearing new pants. I have a belt a hole further in. It works, but lots of prep work.
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At least your belt has had to be tightened! That’s progress!
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Yes it is. I usually drop weight when the weather warms up. But I added extra winter weight. Either lose weight or buy new shorts
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I know what you mean. It’s hard to not gain weight in the winter.
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It’s the lack of activity. Even though I walk for a living, if im outside in the yard I burn more calories
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Do you all walk your routes or use a truck?
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I walk about 6 1/2 miles a day. Some of it a pull in parking lot and deliver a couple buildings which is a break from being a pack mule
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That is a lot of walking!
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In almost 22 years, its only 33,000 miles.😉
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“Only” 33,000 miles! LOL!! You should be skin and bones! LOL!
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Somehow there’s still fat involved. But everything still works. What more could you ask for? Besides going some place nice where they drive instead of walk. 😆
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Hahaha! But going on a nice long hike and driving instead isn’t nearly as nice!
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It depends on location. I like walking but thew winters are catching up with me.
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It’s hard to stay ahead of those long winters of being cooped up inside and not getting that much needed exercise!
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I’m still a little hyper. I need to play outside still. Hiking, gardening,
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I know what you mean. I get stir crazy in the winter.
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I’m hoping to go west. Even if it’s 40 outside in January that beats 15 degrees. I would still hike
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Hopefully you will be able to move West. When it is 40 degrees out here it feels really cold. LOL!!
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In the rain 40 is cold. With the sun out, I’m happy in January.
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Where you are wanting to move it should be very nice in January where you can easily go hiking.
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I’m in a six to twelve month maybe to relocate. They need help. But approvals aren’t there yet.
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I hope it works out well for you and you are able to relocate by the end of the summer/winter.
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My luck says next March. But I’m hopeful before that.
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I sure hope it works out for you! Have you decided where you want to relocate to?
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I’m hoping for Cottonwood, AZ. There are other options. But I may not get the choice.
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That sounds like a great place. I have never been there but it isn’t far from Prescott is it?
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It’s 45 miles and about an hour drive going through Jerome
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I have never been to Jerome either.
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I would have spent time there but I was overruled
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LOL! Your wife didn’t want to spend any time there.
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No the ride up on narrow roads and not much parking at the top, didn’t sit well with her
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I don’t blame her. I hate going up a mountain on narrow roads! Scary! Have you ever taken the drive up the mountain to see the Mesa Verde Indian Cliff Ruins? Frightening!
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I haven’t got there yet. But I seem to remember going to Canyon De Chelly and the road down to spider rock was very short but squeezed you in a slot. I was OK with a blind road. But others not so much. We never went back.
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I don’t blame you. That doesn’t sound like a very pleasant road to be driving on.
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It’s a beautiful view from the top. You don’t see much from the inside. The cliff dwellings are not close to the one road inside the canyon. Probably to keep people from trying to climb up to them
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Probably so. I’m sure they don’t want people climbing on them. Are they Anasazi Indian ruins?
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I’m not quite sure. I think so it’s on Arizona New Mexico border. I do think think the Sinagua went that far East.
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Are the Indian ruins built on a cliff?
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There are built into the cliff.
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Yes, into the cliff. That means they were probably Anasazi Indians.
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I usually can keep track of which is which. It’s been to long since I was there. There’s just too much to see.
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Yes, there are a lot of Indian Ruins in the Arizona/New Mexico/Utah and Colorado areas. A lot to see.
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My favorite is Wapitaki near Sunset Crater
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I have never seen it.
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It’s a huge ruin from the 1300’s. I’m thinking it has some where around 90 rooms.
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Sounds very nice!
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The center of the ruin is in really good shape. There’s a base of a meeting house and a ball court too.
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Where is this ruin at?
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My spelling is a problem here. It’s wupatki and here’s a link. http://www.visitarizona.com/places-to-visit/northern-arizona/wupatki-national-monument
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I thought maybe it was the ruins that is in Aztec, NM. It almost sounded like it.
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There are a lot of them. I visited Tuzigoot ruins outside of Cottonwood, AZ they were saying to go while they are open. The park service is losing their repair budget for sites across the country. You will stay losing the ability to see sobe of them. Well that is what they are saying. He failed to mention any that were closing
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I went camping in Utah one summer and I set up my campsite right across from an Anasazi ruins. It wasn’t made into a park and it was a small one but lots of fun to camp near.
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Cool camp site. The ruins have a special feel to them.
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They really do. Especially when you are out there by yourself (without other ancient ruins tourists around). Me and the people I was with went and explored it.
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I would be in heaven. I backpack because it feels like your one with places
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Yes! That’s what it felt like. I was one with nature and the spirits of the ancient Indian that once lived there.
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There are so many ancient sites that have that feeling. Some are dark and Erie. Some are energizing. The pyramid in Coba (Mexico) is like a lightning rod. Or you’re so out of breath climbing straight up to the sky
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I bet that is really something to see! I have never been there. Yes, I agree that they are really energizing! They just seem to spark that magic that is in us.
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It definitely opens the imagination to think of what was. The nature world has so many mysteries. I’m sure there’s a faith part to these places. If you are open or believe in they are special you sense more of an effect.
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I know that the ruins that I camped near was pretty small so I imagine that was only a family structure and not a clan. I could imagine the family that lived there and wonder how the little toddlers didn’t fall off the cliff. There truly was a special spiritual feel to it.
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I’m guessing they had something to block the way down. Blanket or branches to keep baby in. But even a small house probably held a decent number of people
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Yes, it sure seems like they would have some type of safety railings. It would scare me to death to live up there with small children. There probably were a lot of people living in a small area.
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You would think a fear of heights wouldn’t exist in cliff dwellers. There would probably be extended family.
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You’re right, I doubt that any of them had the fear of heights especially being raised from birth living so far up on the cliffs. Yes, there would probably be a lot of extended family living together.
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But I’m also good with heights. So I tend to think that’s normal. 😃
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I’m okay with heights but I am very cautious. LOL!
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I did free climbing as a teen and jumped out of a plane when I turned 30. I’m not so cautious, but respect the thought of hitting the ground really hard
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You have a lot more nerve than I do! Haha!
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LOL! I bet you would feel like a pack mule after awhile if you are having to carry all the Mail on your back.
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Some days more than others. I have some time in, so my load isn’t as heavy any more.
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That’s good! Seniority makes a big difference. LOL!
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When I started a bad day was 7 hours outside. Now 7 hours is a good day. Some people are out 8-9 hours with overtime. Taking five pounds of weight each time the bag is loaded adds up.
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I can’t imagine having to walk outside for 7 hours a day everyday with a heavy bag on my shoulders! I’m surprised the P.O. is having financial problems with all the mail that has to be delivered. Now days there are lots and lots of packages being delivered from Internet sales.
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Packages are the money maker. Amazon is our biggest costumer. The PO is surprisingly effective. The people running it are horrible with little business experience
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I would think Amazon would be your biggest money maker! Online sales are out the roof and the PO has to deliver all those packages! So the powers that be in the PO are not good money managers or have good business sense?
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Weer are management heavy. We don’t treat the new cheaper workers right. We deliver Sundays, the new workers do. They lose 85 % of new hires and they make about 1/3 what I make per hour. New people used to get all kinds of overtime. Now not so much. Why pay us old guys overtime at all? Amazon pays us enough to deliver on Sunday alone
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That’s too bad that it’s management heavy! I feel sorry for the new workers and how low they are paid compared to the older workers. I would think that alone would cause a high turnover rate. Even more so having to work on Sundays.
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When I started you worked 50 hour weeks and an occasional Sunday. If they had those hours with off days they could plan for it would work. But they don’t let them work over 45 and if they work Sunday they get a day off but they are told a day or two ahead.
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It’s hard for anyone to make plans only knowing a few days before that they will have the day off. I imagine people get pretty fed up easy.
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And if you treat people bad on top of that. Management forgets where they came from too often
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Yes, they sure do! People should be treated respectfully.
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If you treat people like you would want to be treated. Old concept
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Yes, old concept but very wise!
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Simple works
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Yes!!
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😀
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