My fight against sugar.

Me and Sugar? It's pretty love-hate. (Mostly love, I must admit). I could eat ice cream 3 meals a day (and pretty much did in college). Luckily I was blessed with a metabolism that could mostly accommodate this less than stellar food choice. However, I do know that it's awful for me. And apprently it ages you. And makes you gain weight.

So, like most mothers (or, maybe its just me), I'm trying to give my child a healthy diet while simultaneously scarfing down all the chemically, processed foods I can get my hands on. #doasisaynotasido

Lately, I've been really bummed by the amount of sugar in yogurt. I've asked around and I've found taht some moms just 'pick their battles' when it comes to the yogurt sugar issue. That's mostly because their children will eat things that are not sweet. Like chicken. Or cheese. But for those of us raising children that only want to eat blueberries, bananas, yogurt. pb &j, and carbs -- well we gotta worry about the sugar in the yogurt. Because with pre-school nut rules - it's pretty much the ONLY protein I can send to school.

So this past week, I tried something not so new. I took the old smoothie recipes I used back when I had time in the morning and a health routine and doctored them up for the kiddo.

I blended blueberry, banana, and spinach and then I mixed it into plain greek yogurt. Voila. I had yogurt my kid would eat, it had minimal sugar (except the natural fruit sugars) and A VEGETABLE. If he only knew.

Add water to the mixture until it gets to this type of consistency - I used frozen fruit, so it melted some and became more watery. So, be careful not to add too much water if you use frozen.

The mixture should be thick.

I mixed the fruit into a bowl of yogurt until I got to the proportions I wanted - and voila!

When I was finished, I pulled out my infantino squeeze station, and made a few packets of yogurt to freeze. I would try to use all of this within 24 hours if you do not freeze it!