When January 2015 rolled around, I decided I wanted to go on a "cleanse." Rather than follow anyone else's guideline, I decided I'd just drink a green smoothie every morning for breakfast, avoid salt and oil for awhile (I already eat pretty healthy most of the time, but I felt that I was adding too much salt to my meals and wanted to sort of reset my taste buds), snack on fruit, and eat some sort of cooked starch dinner. After a couple of weeks of green smoothies, I was missing my banana nog (the green smoothies were sucking up a lot of my bananas). Do you blame me? That stuff is delicious. So being the weirdo that I am, I decided to combine them and make a green banana nog.

So way back in November 2014 I became addicted to banana nog. Yes, banana nog.

The good news is that banana nog is actually pretty healthy. That's why it was my drink of choice that year instead of hot cocoa (I had not yet figured out how to make The Skinniest Cocoa of them All). It's even pretty quick to toss together, so I didn't spend as much of my writing time procrastinating in the kitchen.