Emotional Eating With A Twist

I wasn't going to blog again today but something odd just happened with regards to emotional eating. As you may (or may not) know I have a real problem with responding to emotions using food.

I had promised my 4 and a half year old lunch out as it is the last day of Easter holidays. We have a half hour walk to our cafe that does fresh smoothies. We were about 5 minutes away and she was screaming about something. She was going on and on and on and I was getting more and more gggrrr.

I turned and said if she didn't stop screaming and shouting (I can't even remember what the hissy fit was about) then I would turn around and walk home. She carried on. We set off on our 25 minute walk home.

By the time we got through the door I was feeling faint (honestly) with hunger. I was also fuming and usually my response would be to stuff my face with the most fatty calorie laden food I could find.....BUT.....

...I didn't. I was soooo angry that I was missing out on my smoothie in my favourite cafe that I decided to make my own! I ended up making a batch soooo big that the fridge is full of flasks and I've already had a pint glass! I can't believe how productive I got in anger. Shame I didn't use it on the housework. lol

Anyway, this is the recipe. There would be a photo but I drank it in anger too. lol

Take 5 apples and juice them by pushing the thingymajig down whilst going GRRRR
Grab 2 bananas and peel them imagining all your anger stripping away.
Instead of chopping them, rip them into little bits and fling into the blender.
Grap a several handfuls of summer berries, and squish them in your hands to remove stress before putting into the blender.
 Pour the apple juice into the blender calmly (or you'll get wet!)
Switch the blender on to full purely so it makes a lot of noise whilst you say "GGRRRR" until you feel better.
Pour into a glass, pop a straw in and sit back and relax. 

This makes a LARGE batch. lol