What do you eat in a day?
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: What do you eat in a day? Please tell me in detail. Answer: We get this question constantly, and actually, I’ve written on that topic four times. For your convenience, here they...
View Article“After I eat chocolate cake, I want to die”
I got this email from my friend Matthew: He had just read this quote: “When I eat chocolate cake, 20 minutes later I’m under my desk wanting to die, When I eat broccoli, in 20 minutes I feel good. But...
View ArticleParenting and Nutrition: I hate being the bad guy! Part 1 of 3
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: I get so sick of cajoling my kids to eat right. It’s exhausting! So a lot of the time, I just cave to the pressure and let them eat crap. What do I do? Answer: This is a big...
View ArticleParenting and Nutrition: I hate being the bad guy, Part 2
So I observe that even very overweight, ill people who overindulge, still pass up lots of junk food! You could have a year or two of depression where you ate everything in sight, and then, because it...
View ArticleWhen Green Smoothie Girl Meets Red Meat Boy
One of my favorite subjects (I might write a whole book) is how to get the kids or spouse on board, eating whole foods. I get notified via Google Alerts daily about what people are saying about GSG on...
View Articlewhat do you do with picky kids?
I was driving far away to a tennis match with my team, this week, and picky eaters was the topic of discussion. If you think this blog entry is going to fix your picky kids, let me lower the bar right...
View ArticleAre you fixing the plumbing in your cottage? or building a mansion? part 1 of 2
My high-school junior son’s photo is on the front page of Sports, rubbing the snow of the baseball before he pitches it on Tuesday. Brrr! And then the next day, I’m skiing in a t-shirt at Sundance....
View ArticleAre “eating healthy” and “obsessed” synonymous? Part 2 of 3
Regarding faux diagnoses: I’m always frustrated when someone wants to create a pathology out of something healthy, as with this “orthorexia” thing that a number of readers wrote us about. Fact is,...
View ArticleAre “eating healthy” and “obsessed” synonymous? Part 3 of 3
If you feel you are annoying your family, go ahead and transfer their feelings to me if you want! If it helps you, you can say, “Green Smoothie Girl says my ‘obsession’ is normal and that it’s just a...
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Six Reasons I Hate Calorie Counting and Don’t Do It
When I changed my diet to eating whole, plant-based foods, I said goodbye to calorie counting forever. By eating 60-80% raw, 95% whole, plant-based foods, I don’t need to count calories. I spent many...
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