Smoothie night

As I already mentioned before, we had a smoothie night earlier this week with Hilla, Nina and Ida. The aim was to introduce the girls to new, interesting ingredients they hadn't heard of or tried before - mostly superfoods.

We kicked off with the famous green smoothie.

I wasn't sure if it was a good thing to start off with, since often people are very sceptic about trying green smoothies considering they include so much...green! It's the "how can healthy be good" -prejudice!

To be honest, I can't remember all the ingredients we used but at least this green smoothie of ours had:

Avocado, salad mix, chlorella powder, spinach, banana, water, salt, kiwi gee...what more!

Surprisingly the girls actually liked it. They liked the color, looked healthy, and thinking that it was a smoothie with salad and spinach - the taste was interestingly good.

From green we moved on to berry. The berry smoothie consisted of at least:

Blueberry powder, yoghurt, goji berries, buckthorn powder, acai powder, fresh strawberries...

Personally I was reaaally disappointed with this smoothie but I kinda had the feeling it wouldn't be that great from the very beginning. Fresh berries are always best or berries from the freezer. Powders always have that powdery feel to it and taste which isn't that nice.

Anywhoo, the girls liked this one, too. Yay!

Then we get to Hilla's favorite - fruity! This smoothie was a total fruit blaster with:

"Ananas" (pineapple), mango, apple, lucuma, maca, salt, msm...with also a few hemp seeds on top for decorating.

MSM became the girls favorite ingredients, they got really interested. Well, it is good for your bones, hair and nails - no wonder it was fascinating. Also hemp seeds turned out to be pleasing.

And last, the cocoa flow including:

Banana, cocoa powder, a few cocoa beans, yoghurt and I can't remember if that was it...

This was my personal favorite and am I right remembering that Ida and Nina liked it most, too? Tasted just like the perfect dessert.

Note: Ice crush would have made all the smoothies soo much better. Unfortunately we didn't have any. Development for next time!

The evening was a lot of fun and was nice to see how excited the girls were about all the new stuff they learned. Ida even promised to go superfood shopping to Amsterdam with me!

This weekend has, so far, been slightly weird (no parties!?) but also really nice, calm and full of working out. It's so quiet since everyone is gone. Though, a great help and company have been Jonas and Lauri, who we picked up from Schipol on Friday. They are from the same degree program as me, Heikki and Petteri (who left on Friday). I'll tell more about our weekend later. Maybe I'll even get some pictures from Jonas since I haven't been carrying my camera around.

By the way, you can also stay tuned by reading Jonas' blog here.

Have a relaxing Sunday and be healthy! I know at least most ESN-Haarlem 2010-2011 Aug-Jan -people have some "healthy life" plans for the upcoming weeks. Gaining kilos is definitely not an Erasmus student's weakest link, eh? ;-)

xxxo

Lindaaa

ps. wihii, we bought KT FRIGGIN' TUNSTALL concert tickets today with Jonas. SO happy and excited for the 3rd week of March!