Bringing back the fruit smoothies!

For the past 3 years, every morning I make & eat two of the following:

• 2 scrambled eggs with deli meat and sprinkled cheese
• oatmeal with walnuts, cranberries, cinnamon, splenda, with applesauce mixed in
• cereal (optionally with yogurt or banana as another side item)
• 1.25 liter fruit smoothie (during Spring and Summer only)

Spring is now here!  So, once again, the produce at my local farmer's market is now better and more plentiful.

My typical smoothies fill my 1.25 liter blender (42 oz) and are comprised of ~6 of the following items, which I try to change up each time:

• ~7 strawberries
• banana
• mango
• kiwi
• blueberries
• apple
• frozen raspberries
• milk
• vanilla or strawberry protein (casein or whey)
• oats
• chobani or oikos yogurt (usually strawberry, vanilla, or blueberry)
• chopped ice

Here's a sample of one in the making:

From above:

Finished product makes 32oz - 42oz:

Each spring/summer, I try to improve over the previous year's by perfecting the combinations of fruit so that it tastes just right.  It's nothing amazing, but pretty tasty :-)

Oatmeal Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Sheley's made some great recipes lately, including an amazing Mexican chicken dish. Plus, she's been eating super healthy vegetable dishes. Okay, with that disclaimer aside, I can now present the less-healthy, but incredibly delicious dessert that she made, of which I have happily been the primary consumer:

Oatmeal Butterscotch Chocolate Chip Cookies!

Here are some pics I took of them:

The Longest Grocery Store Lines Ever

Instead of my normal grocery shopping at Costco, I sometimes still go to Market Basket (aka Home of Chaos) for their super good deals. Market Basket's parking lot is insane, as it can take 10 minutes to get a parking spot. Yet, it's just a warm-up/sample of the hectic crowd inside.

Today I witnessed the craziness checkout lines I've ever witnessed. All ~10 check-out lines were so long that they bent in all directions and fed all the way into the aisles!

Every single person in this pile up is actually in a check-out line:

As mentioned, some lines extended far into the nearby, incredibly healthy aisles, as shown:

Yummy Oatmeal Cranberry Walnut Mini-Muffins

Sheley and I cook daily, but usually we don't venture too far from our norm. I always cook breakfast, and usually she or I cook dinner ~5-6 nights a week. But, we're attempting to cook more special, tasty recipes and just ad-hoc, fun items.

This weekend, Sheley spontaneously cooked some very tasty oatmeal cranberry walnut mini-muffins, topped w/ pineapple!

Not unrelated, I just bought a 10-lb bag of oats from Costco. So, I'll be making oatmeal/cranberry/walnut/splenda/cinnamon as half of my breakfast fairly often.