This is a delicious way to help ward off the stomach bug that is so prevalent this time of year.
Here is the recipe:
3/4 cup non-fat Kefir
2-3 cups milk
1/4 cup honey
2 Tablespoons flax oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
Throw some frozen fruit in there (a cup or so)
Put your kefir, milk, honey and vanilla in your blender first. Add your frozen fruit last. Blend away!
(My kids LOVE it when I add a banana and some cocoa to the mix!!)
Some of you may wonder what kefir is. I know I did. With my research I discovered great health benefits and because we all love smoothies it is so easy to incorporate into our diet. I found the above brand at our local grocery store. It was in the dairy section of the natural foods. It is worth noting that it did take me a couple of smoothies to get use to the "tangy" taste of the kefir.
One of the benefits of kefir is it contains additional, better bacteria than yogurt that go deep in your intestines. ( I still eat yogurt - of course) In doing so it helps to wards off the dreaded stomach virus. Pretty much that is what sold me on it. Drink to your health!
Here is the recipe:
3/4 cup non-fat Kefir
2-3 cups milk
1/4 cup honey
2 Tablespoons flax oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
Throw some frozen fruit in there (a cup or so)
Put your kefir, milk, honey and vanilla in your blender first. Add your frozen fruit last. Blend away!
(My kids LOVE it when I add a banana and some cocoa to the mix!!)
Some of you may wonder what kefir is. I know I did. With my research I discovered great health benefits and because we all love smoothies it is so easy to incorporate into our diet. I found the above brand at our local grocery store. It was in the dairy section of the natural foods. It is worth noting that it did take me a couple of smoothies to get use to the "tangy" taste of the kefir.
One of the benefits of kefir is it contains additional, better bacteria than yogurt that go deep in your intestines. ( I still eat yogurt - of course) In doing so it helps to wards off the dreaded stomach virus. Pretty much that is what sold me on it. Drink to your health!
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2 Comments:
Just an FYI, "Kefir" is the Russian term for sour milk. Not sure if their sour milk is turned by the same bacteria as ours.
As an aside, one of the reasons why 'store-bought' milk in this country is not good once it goes sour is the pasteurization process. The bacteria that are used to make cheese, yogurt, etc exist naturally on udders and other places milk would normally be. Different regions have different bacteria predominating (thus the thousands of cheese types depending on your region). Most of the bacteria that get into milk when you open it at home do not make edible things with your milk. If the milk's green, it's time to pitch the stuff. :)
However, pasteurization does prevent nasty things like tuberculosis (still a common and nasty ticket out of life anywhere outside the US).
Sorry, that was more than two cents' worth (more like a freakin' microbiology lesson...).
YYUUUMMM! I doubt I could get my kids to turn it down!
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