Dead leaves, seaweed, rotten eggs, too.
Stir them in my witches’ brew.
I got magic, Alakazamakazoo.
Spider web, moldy bread, mucky mud, too.
Stir them in my witches’ brew.
I got magic! Alakazamakazoo
ooo – My witches’ brew – ooo
What’s it gonna do to you?
Boo! (Witches Brew, Hap Palmer)
There isn’t moldy bread, rotten eggs or mucky mud in this smoothie, but seaweed would have been a great idea. Seaweed has a crazy amazing amount of minerals that are needed to boost the immune system after the sugar gorge fest a.k.a Halloween.
Although this holiday is not high on the loved list for many Nutritionists because of the junk that gets passed out in heaps to our kids, which makes them crazy hyper, halts their desire for real foods (due to intensity of sweetness and it creating tastebud insensitivity) and makes them more likely to catch a virus due to the anti-nutrient effect that sugar has, I still love Halloween – but not for these reasons.
I am all for a good pumpkin carving / decorating the house and dressing up, but the main reason I love Halloween is because I can sneak any ingredients into my smoothies if they are poured into a bottle with a witch or haunted house on it. The coloured straw always helps too.
If you haven’t tried packaging your healthy smoothies in a fun and festive bottle or mason jar with a brightly coloured straw then do it! Kids eat with their eyes and when they feel the fun in it they are WAY more likely to drink the whole thing. I like to milk holidays and fun events for as loooong as possible, so the halloween bottles have already been pulled out and this morning was our first batch of Witches Brewberry.
Witches Brewberry Smoothie
Serves 3-4
2 cups unsweetened almond milk
1.5 scoop Vega Protein & Greens Vanilla
2 tbsp organic Kefir
1/2 cup frozen organic kale
3/4 cup organic frozen blueberries
1 tbsp pumpkin seed butter
1 tbsp hemp hearts
Directions:
- Blend in a high powered blender
Halloween glass bottles from Michaels.