Smoothies

With the summertime finally arriving we tend to eat less full meals and snack more on whatever is cool and handy to take out to the pool if we aren’t bbqing. Its become a bit of a wonder/worry if we were getting enough fruits/veggies so in comes smoothies to the rescue! For mother’s day my husband bought me a icy drink smoothie blender and its great!

We have made our adult frozen beverages in them without a problem and this evening we tried fruit smoothies. After a ritual Weds. visit to Newflower Market to buy the fruits and veggies for the next week or so and a little extra to make smoothies with, we were on our way. Tonight we tried a berry smooth, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries and blueberries, a handful of each tossed in the blender with ice and a generous splash of orange juice and we were good to go.

The smoothie came out a deep dark purple and it took a bit of coaxing to get our kiddo to try it. His first response was “yuck”, immediately followed by “mmm that’s good”. I do think they taste good, and would probably be a great drink to have in the morning on the way to work. Fruit, juice, and ice, no sugars except for the natural sugars, nothing bad in it that I can see. The only thing that I don’t like about the smoothing would be the seeds from the berries, but there is no way that I can think of to solve that, a small price to pay for a healthy drink.

The blender works beautifully, there are no huge ice chunks like I kept getting with my blender and the little spout is pretty handy until you get to the very bottom. It does leave smaller ice pieces in the glass, so we have found that our thinner straws get clogged pretty quickly, but if we use a normal straw, there isn’t an issue. I haven’t risked putting it in the dishwasher, and honestly, its not that hard to hand wash if you do it right after you make your drinks. It has a cool wave action thing going that sucks everything from the top down into the bottom over and over so it mixes everything up pretty well.

I think tomorrow night we should try some of the other fruits, mix and match various fruits to see what new flavors we come up with.

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~ by Stephanie on May 27, 2009.