Sunday, December 8, 2024

40 year old appliance

DH wants to try drinking fruit smoothies. I had made some years ago and while they were good, my old blender was lacking and it sure seemed to take a whole lot of fruits just to get one glass. I told him if I'm going to make him some strawberry/banana smoothies I need a blender that isn't 40 years old LOL. I still have this blender - a wedding gift that will be 40 years old next month! It will be good for both of us to eat more fruit. I will just have to freeze fruit or buy already frozen, since we only shop every 3 weeks. He wanted to get me one more Christmas gift, so I'm going to pick out a blender to order. Plus, I'm sure the protein powder I've been buying can be added to smoothies, as well. I'm guessing I can buy big bags of frozen strawberries at Costco. I can freeze the bananas, as well.

We just got rain yesterday. Then when the temp gets back down below freezing again, (like it is this morning) the rain goes away so we still get no snow.

I've done 3 weeks of the intermittent fasting. Some days I make it 16 hours, but most days it's 15 hours when I will have my cup of coffee, with creamer, and then another 90 minutes or so before I eat breakfast. Absolutely no change in my weight. Not even a half a pound. Not to mention about a month ago I added walking to our mailbox Mon-Sat, sometimes twice a day, if I have to take something out to mail. It's about 750 steps I added per day with one trip. I know I need to add more. Bah humbug.

DD and SIL are getting dh a set of 2 game cameras for Christmas. The one he had for quite a few years got ruined when the batteries leaked/exploded/something. We know there have been lots of deer in our yard at night. He will go out to turn off the Christmas lights and they take off, LOL. It will be fun to see some pictures again and having 2 cameras he can put on in front and one in back and not have to move it around, like before. I'm going to get a couple of the microSD cards, the cameras use, to put in his stocking.  

I ordered a bunch of stuff from Amazon for Christmas gifts/stocking stuffers (and for Amos, too!), along with the multivitamins I take, and it's all supposed to be delivered today from an Amazon driver. They always only seem to deliver in our area on Sundays, otherwise the stuff comes in the mail or UPS. No one around here much likes having these Amazon drivers - they are people hired who use their own cars, not the Amazon vans with actual Amazon employees that deliver. They always seem sketchy, too. It's never the same driver, either.

I heard dh get on his phone after I went to bed, which he does a couple times a week, talking to either of 2 good friends of his, that he's know forever. Then I heard a bit of what he was talking about and realized it was son in law he was chatting with. I think they must have talked like 2 hours LOL. SIL did some modification to one of his Mustang's and I think they were talking about that and all the extra horsepower, haha.


9 comments:

  1. The best smoothies I make have 1/4 cup orange juice, 1/4 c plain yogurt, and frozen fruit, plus a banana. I need to try something green in them.

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    1. This sounds really similar to the recipe link dh sent me. It has half an orange in it, as well as yogurt. Once I get the blender, I will have to try something green as well

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    2. Yum! I'm going to try that!

      Kristine the Kanadiangirl

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  2. Have you looked at the exercisers that go under your desk so that you could simulate riding a bike? I don’t know how many calories they would burn. Costco has several great choices in frozen fruit for smoothies. I add spinach to mine.

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    1. that's a really good idea on the under desk exerciser, and wouldn't take up much space

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  3. Our Costco has big bags of frozen mixed berries. My husband makes smoothies all winter using them, adding whatever he has fresh (apple, pear, banana) plus juice or milk.

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    1. sound great - I think we both will enjoy drinking that and maybe dh will back off some of his Mountain dew consumption (well, one can hope!)

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    2. Yes, IMHO that stuff is loaded with bad ingredients. I would be curious to know if your DH's health markedly improved just by cutting it out.

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  4. You need to increase your physical activity - walk a few miles daily or exercise with weights. Until you do, your weight won't change much, if at all.

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