Smoothies

[tortoise]

Hey Y'All!!
I'm back to making smoothies so here's what I use:
5 Tbs plain yogurt
1/2 cup Orange Juice
1 banana
1 Naval orange (or 2 mandarian oranges)
1/2 Apple
2 tsp ORGANIC Cinnamon
Put all in blender and blend until smooth than drink up. I call it "Morning Get up and Go Blast".

Sounds delish! I have been too lazy to make smoothies lately. You're inspiring me!

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

We are back on smoothies here too. Kids are on spring break and they can make their own, it is fun to see what they put in them yesterday I had one with spinach, blueberries, sweet potato and banana with tart cherry juice and chia seed. Yum

 

[Country homesteader]

I was making smoothies early part of last year.
I was using my favorite yogurt, frozen fruit. If I had fresh fruit (bananas mostly) I would use that along with the frozen fruit. By using frozen fruit I never had a need to use ice cubes. Let's see what kind of yogurt did I use blueberry, raspberry, vanilla and plain. I can't have strawberries (allergic) and don't like peach!
Sure there's others out there that use all sorts of things in their smoothie to make it more nutritious and filling. For me, a tall glass made with yogurt and frozen fruit is good enough.

 

[NH Homesteader]

Ooh I'll be watching this. My favorite smoothie (and DD's) is yogurt, milk, frozen blueberries with some maple syrup and cinnamon. Yum. I don't like drinking milk by itself so I sneak it in there. But I'm interested in seeing what other people make for smoothies.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

But I'm interested in seeing what other people make for smoothies.

Me too! I've made a few but mostly with the same stuff everybody else uses...yogurt, milk, fruit... the usual. I just don't use beets, lol!

 

[sumi]

That sounds good @Britesea Thanks!

 

[ChickenMomma91]

Following! I have a blender that hardly gets used except for salsa and pesto. Would love to use it more.

 

[sumi]

I keep thinking I should update this, but forget. Not much to update I'm afraid. I decided I dislike smoothied bananas even more than intact ones and the supermarket kindly "half price" black, rasp and strawberries on a regular basis, so those, along with natural yoghurt, milk, honey and soy protein powder is what I usually have. I added some porridge oats once and it was good, but I keep forgetting about now.

@Miss Lydia have you got recipes/ideas?

 

[sumi]

@NH Homesteader not much here, but feel free to add what you find!

 

[wyoDreamer]

My sister adds ground flax to her smoothies. I like just fruit and yogurt, sometimes milk or orange juice for a base. My smoothie machine (Magic Bullet) got put away for Christmas and has not made it back out of the cupboard yet.
I made ice cream and creme-de-minte smoothies in the blender last Tuesday. The rubber gasket for my blender is broken though, so no more of that for a little bit.