Food For Health with Lex and Mais: After School Snacks

Food For Health

After School Snacks

We've got some easy yet healthy after school snacks.  One of our favorites is fruit smoothies.  Smoothies are great because you can pack a whole bunch of different fruits or veggies into one smoothie giving the kids all the different vitamins they need.  They can easily go from being a smoothie to being a yummy popsicle too.  All you've gotta do is get the popsicle molds, pour the smoothie in the mold, freeze and twalla you've got a healthy popsicle smoothie snack yum yum.  We sneak different veggies into the smoothie my favorites are kale and spinach both are packed with protein.  We also like to add a probiotic powder in the smoothie….

Ingredients

• 1/2 banana
• 2/5 cup blueberries (frozen)
• 5/6 cup blackberry (frozen)
• 3/8 cup spinach (frozen, large pieces broken up)
• 1/2 cup pineapple chunks
• 1 juice

Hummus as a yummy dip with veggies or in place of mayo on a sandwich is one of our fav snacks. Hummus is pureed chick peas.  Chick peas are super healthy for you they are packed full of protein and fibre making it the perfect after school snack.

For a fun snack I like to make some fruit and cheese kabobs.  I just add whatever fruits I have in the garden or the fridge with some cheese and yum yum thats a great snack too because you can pre make them and the kids can have them for more than one day in a row.  They are also easy enough for older kids to do it themselves.  Easy breezy Japaneezy.

We also love these super healthy and yummy vegan balls.  They have dates or prunes mashed up with coconut, sunflower seeds, almonds, walnuts, pumpkin seeds.  Nom Nom.

Lex and Mais eating some after school snacks.

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Wea You Stay? With Lex and Mais

Wea You Stay?

This week we had so much fun with our daughters for their birthdays.  Lex' daughter Jayd turned 11 and Mais' daughter Pie turned 6.  Jayd had a really fun pizza party and Pie had a great diva mustache party.  Mais did a great a job putting on a really fun party.  After the parties we went and saw Kick Ass 2.  It really kicked ass.  We give that movie 4 snaps.  It was definitely a great movie to watch in the theatre.  

 The best kind of cake is a donut cake

Me and the birthday girl

Pie the birthday girl

mustache girls

Hair and makeup

Hahahahaha

Great Movie!!!

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Balancing the Crown Chakra with Lex and Mais

Balancing the Crown Chakra

This week on far out we are going to cover the crown chakra this is our final chakra of the 7 chakra  system in the body.  So far we've covered the base chakra, the sacral chakra, the solar plexus chakra,     the heart chakra, the throat chakra, the third eye chakra and now for the grand finale the crown chakra

The color of the crown chakra is violet the crown chakra is about wisdom and being one with the world. When this chakra is open, you are unprejudiced and quite aware of the world and yourself.

If it is under-active, you're not very aware of spirituality. You're probably quite rigid in your thinking.

If this chakra is over-active, you are probably intellectualizing things too much. You may be addicted to spirituality and are probably ignoring your bodily needs.

Ways to balance the chakra, meditation helps to wake up the crown chakra as well as balance,  Check your ego, help others, Love yourself, the yoga pose for the crown chakra is a headstand.  

Lex doing a headstand 

Snews and Music with Lex and Mais

Snews

Sarah Outen paddles around the world

Here is a very amazing story. A woman named Sarah Outen from the U.K. rows herself in a boat around the world. Her latest expedition was called the London2london expedition.  She has traveled by kayak and bike through Asia and Europe.  Now she is preparing a journey rowing her a kayak across the Pacific Ocean.  We actually heard her talk about her latest trip the London2london expedition and it sounded absolutely horrible.  The blissful feeling at the end of something like that is apparently enough to make you want to and try it again.  It must be similar to child birth you just forget about it and bam say hey lets go ahead and try that again.  Amazing.  Well I hope she has a safe travel.  If you want to see more on that check out her blog at www.sarahouten.com.

Music Selection 

Irie Love- It is what it is

Listeners Choice: LCD dance system- Dance yourself clean

Oldie Pick: Lauren Hill- Doo Wop (that thing)

Solesides Greatest Bumps- Lady don't tek no

Eligh and Grouch- Lake Release

Nas and Damien Marley- Patience

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Lighten Up with Lex and Mais What's Yo Status? Sharks

What's Yo Status?

 Unfortunately there was a shark attack on one of Mauis beaches recently.  Sharks are scary guys.  There was that storm flossie right before the attack and so I am sure that is what brought the shark in.  Gotta stay outta the ocean for a bit after a storm.  We looked up some shark facts and thought we would share em with ya'll. 

• Did you know that 93% of shark attacks world wide were on Males.  The sharks love takin a bite outta men.
•  Surfers accounted for 50% of the shark attacks
•  Snorklers accounted for a whopping 8% of the shark attacks in 2010
•  The year 2010 was the most dangerous year in decades for shark attacks
•   September is the month with the most shark attacks in Florida
•  Only five people die from shark attacks yearly.  Now that aint to damn bad.  This is lauren hill that thing for our oldie pick of the week

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Get Stoopid With Lex and Mais

GET STOOPID

Redbox Pick of the Week:

This movie is about a couple of guys who met eachother when they were kids. Burt played by Steve Carell and Anton played by Steve Buscemi  They were brought together by Burts love of Magic.  As adults they do a show together  in Las Vegas.  As adults they are becoming bored with their friendship has grown apart because they can barely stand each other.  They have some competition with another magician named Steve played by Jim Carrey.  Lex did not like this one she thought it was totally ridiculous and Jim Carreys character was a total creep.  Mais thought the movie was great and hilarious and she recommends it!

App of the Week:

Google Sky Map

This is a really fun app.  You can point it anywhere in the sky and it will show the different constellations, where the planets are, and even where the astrology signs are in the sky.  This app is really fun.  

Website of the Week: 

This website is really great.  There are some great podcasts and different funny skits and shows.  We have been watching drunk history on this site and it is HILARIOUS!!  There are some very drunk historians who talk about all sorts of different men and women in history.  It's great!!  If you want to hear drunk lex and mais just tune into the show anytime :) lexandmais.com or just scroll down and hit play.  

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Lighten Up with Lex and Mais Show #9 Sharks and Magic: Wea You Stay?

WEA YOU STAY??

This week Mais went to the beautiful Kauai for her state paddling trip.  The whole trip was great except for GO Airlines.  They were really fucking the trip up with their technical difficulties.  Kauai is beautiful and it was worth the hassle.

Mais' well deserved drink after a long travel with GO Airlines

Mais Gettin ready to get her paddle on

Mais gettin her Drink on!

Mais Exploring Kauai

Kauai

While Mais was away Lex went on a fun date to Wailukus 1st Friday the original Friday street fair.  It was super fun.  Lots of different street music going on and street food and of course the beer garden.  After she went and saw Rent in the live theatre.  It was good if you like musicals which Lex does not particularly like musicals and it was quite depressing.  Lex recommends to see it once and then never again!!

The Pad Thai was yummy

Mmmmm Yummy Pad Thai.  Gotta love street food

Always stop at the beer garden

It is time for some Theatre

Rent

Lex and her date :)

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