May 16

As much as I wanted to eat everything when we were in Vancouver, eating out three meals a day is a little much. Solution: smoothies from Whole Foods. Instead of going out for a big breakfast, I was able to keep up with my smoothie addiction by frequenting Whole Foods every morning. Even though I would never spend that much on a smoothie in ‘normal’ life, when we’re on vacation the little indulgences feel way more acceptable. One morning when we were sipping our drinks, I got the dreaded case of food (or drink) envy. Intense drink envy. It wasn’t that the drink that I got was bad, but my boyfriend’s was so much better. I snuck a few sips and then ordered the same one the next day. Man, it was good.



I think that the big change was that it used coconut water as its base. Normally I go with some kind of milk, but the coconut water gave a lovely background flavour that was really unexpected for me. Needless to say, as soon as we got home I searched high and low for some decent coconut water. What do I mean by decent? All I wanted was 100% pure coconut water, not made from concentrate, with no extra sugar. It took me longer than I thought to track it down, but I finally did at the local organic-type, small grocery store. The other trick, in addition to the coconut water, is to use frozen banana, for a thicker, richer consistency.

Overall, my smoothie wasn’t as good as Whole Foods because I don’t have those intense Vitamix blenders. Even with my magic bullet though, it was sweet, but not too sweet, has a tropical flair with the mango, pineapple, banana and coconut water, and nicely thick.