Well here we are six days into the new year! How are those resolutions going? Today I wanted to share one of my favorite smoothie recipes with you that I got a few years ago from the show Thintervention With Jackie Warner.

Jackie’s Famous Shake Recipe

Blend a whey protein shake every morning adding the following:  1 handful of fresh or frozen spinach (the fruit cuts the strong green flavor), 1 cup of frozen mixed berries, the recommended daily dose of flaxseed oil, amino acid powder, water, and ice.  This is packed with your allotted food before you even start your day!

Another Jackie tip:  Microwave frozen broccoli (a cup) and gulp it down like a vitamin. Think of veggies as easy-to-eat fat burners.

Another great idea when making smoothies is that you can make them ahead of time then pour them into ice cube trays or muffin tins and then pop out and run through the blender before drinking.  I find this saves me from wasting a lot of veggies. What is your favorite smoothie recipe? Please post in the comment section.

Have you noticed my posts this week have been a little, short? I have a horrible head cold. I try to sit and type up clever little things to tell you but it’s just not working.  In the meantime, I have been comforted by these Cool Touch Kleenex.

I have gone through almost a whole box.  This may be a little TMI, but my nose isn’t peeling or red. I’ve used those aloe infused tissues before and that still didn’t stop my cute little button nose from being raw and red.  Kleenex describes these as:

Tissues are made with a proprietary blend of ingredients, including cooling moisturizers and aloe. When Kleenex Cool Touch^TM Tissue comes in contact with your skin, body heat activates the formula to release cooling 

These tissues are COLD when you put them on your nose, and very soft.  I highly recommend you purchase some of these before this nasty cold arrives in your house!

I’ll be back to 100% soon.  Promise!

I have to be honest here. I do not have this problem in my household.  We are both very comfortable in our comphy sheets. However, I do know many couples that have one person who likes to be smothered in blankets while the other just likes a sheet, no matter how cold it is outside.  For those of you, a friend of mine told me she purchased sheets that are half fleece and half cotton from splitthesheets.com. I also found the same sheets by the same company sold at Sears. The sheets are the same price at Sears, but you get free shipping to store at Sears, and splitthesheets.com charges $16 for shipping. Plus you can search for Sears coupons on line to lower the price even more. You have to determine if you would rather pay sales tax and pick up the sheets at Sears or order from splitthesheets.com, and not pay sales tax but pay shipping.

My friend says that both she and her husband love these sheets and were thrilled when they found them.

Do you have someone in your house that loves to pop bubble wrap? Make them happy with this Bubble Wrap Calendar.  They can pop off each day of the year.  So much more fun than marking an “X” through the date.