In the mood for a chocolate milk shake for BREAKFAST?

 I am!

That's right a real chocolate milk shake. Ooops, there isn't any milk - but there is store bought kefir in it. I'm outta step in making kefir these days, and need to come upon some fresh culture to culture it. SO the store bought stuff is A LOT more sweeter (than I would recommend).....

A blender stuffed with fresh frozen spinach later,  we added....

~freshly picked strawberries from a local, non-spray, natural farm
~ yogurt scraped in from the bottom of the jar
~a pour of the flavored kefir
~whey protein powder
~1 heaping spoon of organic (just peanuts) peanut butter
~and the dark wonderful ingredient, Cocoa, 2 Tbsp.

Chocolaty Goodness!

 

This is all part of my pregnancy-health-initiative. Apparently my midwife was a little alarmed to tell me that I had gained twice the amount of weight than I did in my last pregnancy by 17 weeks. I think if we took an average from ALL my pregnancies, not just my last in which I gained the least amount - I'm really probably ok. BUT, I thought I'd be a little more conscious of the flour-y/grain-y goodness type foods at certain meals. So HELLO spinach-protien-chocolate shakes!