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CrockPot Banana Pudding

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Day 227. This pudding is bananas! B-A-N-A-N-A-S! sorry. I totally couldnt help myself. We needed a quick dessert for some company and I needed to use the crockpot . And thats pretty much how this dessert was invented. I opened the cabinet, saw some sweetened condensed milk, and we all know HOW GOOD THAT IS when cooked in the crockpot ( except for you shouldnt do it for safety and legal reasons or something like that ) and we had a bunch of bananas. So I mixed the two. The end. The Ingredients. --2 cans of sweetened condensed milk --4 bananas The Directions. I used a 1.5 quart mini crockpot for this dessert. Put the peeled bananas into a zippered freezer bag and let your kids squish the bananas until they get bored or the bag springs a hole and banana goobers fall to the floor. The freshly-mopped-and-ready-for-company floor. The bananas will still have some chunk in them. If this isnt okay with you, youll need to use a food processor. Open the cans of sweetened condensed ...

Recipe Green Smoothie with Kale Banana and Milk

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As I was making my breakfast this morning, it hit me that this would make a wonderful breakfast for an athlete on-the-go because it is so quick to prepare. It is a light breakfast, but still packs in a good amount of carbohydrate with some added protein. Adding in the kale really gives this smoothie an extra punch of nutrition. Who says you cant have your dark leafy greens in the morning? This smoothie is also an excellent source of calcium because both the kale and milk are rich sources.  In my breakfast smoothie that I have pictured, I used: 1 cup of chopped kale 1 cup of vanilla soy milk 1 banana 1 tsp chia seeds (optional) I blended those ingredients until smooth, then I added in a few ice cubes and blended again. Nutrition facts: 258 calories, 49 grams carbohydrate, 11 grams protein, 5 grams of fat