Smart Food
Last week, I went blueberry picking for the first time. I decided to try a new farm, which ended up essentially being a retired couples’ backyard. They had a TON of blueberry bushes, though!
At first, I thought I needed to pick the darkest blueberries, like you see in the stores. But through some encouraged tasting, I found that the light blue/almost lavender berries were the sweetest and best-tasting blueberries I’ve ever had! Pink or green though = too early!
I came home with just over 7 pounds of blueberries for a mere $15 (!!), and set to work preserving most of them. Of course, I saved some for fresh eating!
I made up 2 1/2 pints of blueberry butter. Be warned, though the recipe says 6-12 hours in the crock pot, mine was going for almost 26 hours! Check the temperature periodically to make sure it isn’t getting into the DANGER ZONE** (40-140*F).
Smart Fitness
I wasn’t feeling the long bike ride this morning, so I decided to do a bunch of mini workouts!
- 2 mile bike ride
- 25 minutes of yoga
- 10 minutes of Pilates
- Upper body weights
To help with my knee problems, I decided to adopt a more precise training plan. For the next few weeks, I plan to take a long bike ride every other day, with short rides on the ‘off days.’ After that, I’ll move to 2-on/1-off and keep working my way up so that I can bike for all 7 days of our honeymoon! Hopefully this will help. 
Smart Life
Okay, so I didn’t quite get all of my miles in last week, but I did get the rest of our planting done! Check back tomorrow for my tips on planting!
Don’t forget, tonight is the last evening to use the 10% off coupon for my Summer Tea Bundle! Just enter SavvyTea at checkout.
**From: http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/poison.html
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O.M.G. Julie. BLUEBERRY BUTTER!? This is a need–not a want. I’m running to your house to get some RIGHT NOW.
Those blueberries look so yummy and cute!! I love the pictures with the blue, green, and pink blueberry on it!
Thank you!
Your butters look amazing! Maybe I should make blackberry butter… I picked over 5# on Saturday and it’s just the beginning of the season. Yum!
Yum! I’ve found that I need a lot of berries to make butter because it cooks down so much, but it is totally worth it!
Wow. Those blueberries look absolutely mouthwatering good. I really need to get into canning. My sis does it, and it looks so easy! Well, it’s a lot of work, but the concept itself is pretty easy. Well, you know what I mean!!
I do know what you mean.
I love canning because I will get to enjoy summer berries all year round!
Nice photos! I’ve been eating a buttload of bluebs this summer – mmmm!
Blueberry butter!! That looks awesome!
Those blueberries look fantastic! And what a steal…$15 for all that! I need to find some pick your own blueberries near me so I can make some blueberry butter.
Do it!
Ooooh, or we could do a blogger field trip to pick fruit sometime
YESSSS!!!!
I am totally going to pick more blueberries this weekend so I can make this after Heather told me about it. Sounds delicious
Oh I’d give anything to be able to go pick blueberries! So summery and delicious.
You should! It is so much fun and delicious!
This looks amazing! Your photography is great… I would love to try homemade blueberry butter sometime!
Thank you!
I’ll share sometime when you’re over this winter.
Love the idea of spirited blues, how do you consume them? We make drunken cherries and eat them right out of the jar!
I’ve never made them before, but we will probably eat them straight out of the jar or in oats!
Yum! I would love to try canning.
i wonder how you feel about my hanging a copy of that second photo from this post in my kitchen………