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I love my strawberry banana smoothies. Ever since I restarted the Abs Diet again, I've been making smoothies almost every day ... and almost every smoothie I make has both strawberries and bananas in them. I guess you could call these two fruits my "smoothie base". Now I have already posted some of my daily creations on my facebook page, but I thought it might also be nice to also archive them here ... both for you to use, and for me to refer back to later if I feel like a want a bit of variety.

So without further adieu, here are a few of my personal smoothie recipes:

Basic Strawberry Banana Protein Smoothie

Frozen Strawberries (6-8)
Medium Bananas (1 or 2)
Plain or Low-fat Vanilla Yogurt (1/4 cup)
Vanilla Protein Powder (3/4 to 1 scoop)
Ground Flax Seed (1 Tbsp)
Milk 1% (1-2 cups)
Ice Cubes (3-5)


Put it all in the Vitamix and blend for about 90 seconds. Should make two servings .. one for now, one for a snack later. mmmm, good :-)



Banana Split Smoothie

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And on that note, I could probably just end this post right now.

But I won't ...

Here's a quick story that recently happened at work.

I'm going to start with the ending first; I know, I know, ruins the suspense, but oh well. Back in November, the 3rd Weather Squadron here at Fort Hood Texas had our biennial inspection, called the SEPWO. We scored a perfect 100%. That never happens in Air Force Weather ... ok, apparently it's happened one other time ... but it's not something you'd Expect to happen in a squadron our size.

Rewind about 5 or 6 months.

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He told …

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