A Detox Plan Gone Wrong

“We’re going to change what we have for breakfast,” I announced.

That’s what happens when you get to reading health books.

Radical changes come down the pipe and your family gets caught up with you and is so excited for change  is caught in the middle of it all at quivers at what that may mean for them.

“We’re going to be having green drinks each morning,” I continued.

I reassured them that it would be great. Breakfast wouldn’t take so long and we could get about our day much quicker. “What do you mean a smoothie won’t give you enough energy? Okay, maybe a few times a week we can have eggs.”

So we began. It was a novelty at first and although they looked quite skeptically at my offering to them, they drank.

Green, green, green all the way!

Then a few days into it, and may I add a day after we had a classic American breakfast of fried eggs, bacon and toast, I made them a drink that my two youngest just did not find palatable at all. Unfortunately, there wasn’t enough of the drink to go around so I had poured myself a very small glass…. preferring my children you know.

I now have a growing collection of green drinks that didn’t get finished in my refrigerator. (not from me)

But this morning, I pulled out all the stops and made what I thought would be the best drink we’ve had yet. Dark cherries, coconut and of course, greens were some of the ingredients. What I didn’t count on was the terrible looking color it would change to. A brownish color. Certainly not the most appetizing looking.

One of them said, “I’m not having breakfast this morning.”

“Really? Okay.” (Like why would they want to miss out on all this delicious goodness?)

But there just wasn’t enough of the The Cheery Cherry Morning Smoothie to go around this morning and hunger pangs hit me mid-morning. (Should have made more. What was I thinking?)

“It’s not noon yet? I have to eat something!”

I decide that my homemade granola is just what I need. Of course I had to offer it to my son who had skipped breakfast. He willingly accepted, so I headed for the pantry and lo and behold my daughter is in there pilfering the chip bag at 9:30 in the morning!

Maybe, just maybe, my plan to help my family to detox and get on a green smoothie kick is not working.

By noon, all members of the family were in the kitchen looking, hunting, searching for something to fill their bellies for lunch.

Hmmm. Strangely enough, nobody seems to want to take those leftover green drinks for their lunch….

Maybe tomorrow, I’ll hit on a winner recipe! I still have plenty of cucumbers, zuchinni and green apples ready to be made into delicious healthy drinks!

So do you have a favorite green drink? Please share and save my family from any more suffering! You will have their everlasting gratitude. 🙂