Minty Smoothie, Sana stuff, Yoga and Yogurt

Welcome to Monday!




After a busy day of work, linear regression (stats revision) and Vinyasa Flow from Yogadownload, I've got a moment to relax, blog and down a post-yoga smoothie. It's a little bit green.

After Charlotte revealed that she puts silverbeet in her smoothies, I bravely decided to try it. I even asked The Programmer to harvest some while he was doing man stuff with the raised gardens.

Yup, that should be enough.

This stuff seems to grow all year and right now is literally bulging the walls of the covered gardens. It doesn't even mind being squashed daily by Miranda - the only cat small enough to squeeze under the garden covers. She treats the gardens like her personal sunroom.

One of the reasons today was a bit nutty is that the new batch of WPC has been flying out the door (I think summer bodies are being made all over NZ and Aussie). I acquired a bag for ... erm.. quality control purposes with the intention to try the silverbeet smoothie. When the moment arrived though, the green veg mood was not on me (maybe tomorrow?). I grabbed a huge handful of mint leaves instead and the result was just right: delicious with a refreshing mint buzz. 

Minty Smoothie

WARNING, gratuitous product placement. You can use your favourite brands or vegan alternatives, but I'm going to link up the Sana product pages for anyone that likes our stuff. I always feel funny talking about the biz, because I don't want the blog to seem like advertising. But at the same time, it's a huge part of what I do, and the goings on might sometimes be interesting to foodies. I'm conflicted.

Anyway, below are the ingredients to the minty smoothie of your dreams:

• Large handful of mint leaves - washed and destalked
• Scoop of Sana Unflavoured WPC
• 1 small banana (I used a frozen banana, which is why the straw is upstanding)
• Dsp Erythritol
• 1/2 tsp Ascorbic Acid
• Pinch of salt

Blend. 

Slurp.

While I'm blabbing about Sana, it was an incident-filled day at the biz. Apart from the seasonal WPC crazies, we also had the mysterious case of 'where in the world is our psyllium?'. Somehow the Sana psyllium shipment ended up at the wrong manufacturer and it took me several stressy hours to track it down. It seems that it got caught up in a large shipment going to a very big deal manufacturer and was accidentally offloaded there. Oopsies.

I was anticipating a documentation nightmare to get it back, but, in despite my pessimism, everyone was beyond helpful and tomorrow morning it will be in its rightful home. So, customers with psyllium batch LG1112, your product had some special adventures on the way to you. Such is the daily excitement of running a food business. Psyllium is especially interesting because nobody can spell it. All phonecalls about it contain this snippet: "it's psyllium, no, not 's' 'y', it starts with 'p', I know, crazy isn't it? So that's 'p' 's' 'y' 'double l'.. right, you've got it".

Finally, to round out the victorious tone of the post, at last, after nearly six days...

The latest batch of coconut yogurt, it yogged. I was beginning to wonder if I had a dud batch of probiotics, but no, it just needed more consistent warmth (moved it to the bedroom where we have a night heater).

Let's talk: Green smoothies. Are you a fan? Any favourite ones?

What do you think when bloggers post about, or link to, their business? 

If you have a business yourself, do you blog about it?