Smoothies!

Ok so I am a really picky eater and basically only like eating about 5 kinds of fruits…UNLESS…they are in smoothies.  So we got a blender and I looked up some recipes, just to get an idea of what people do.  Most recipes called for milk or yogurt, but when you do this with fresh fruit, you still need to add ice, or it’s just not cold enough.  But then the ice waters it down, which is a huge bummer.

But THEN I had the best idea ever:  frozen milk cubes.  You get the milk, and the ice, haaaaay!  I told BF and he thought I was crazy so I said back up, genuis at work and made some milk cubes.

I’m not going to lie, they look a little bit weird.  And they feel kinda gross too, but it is the secret amazing ingredient to the best smoothie ever – trust me.  The one problem is, I broke the hell out of our standard hard plastic ice cube tray trying to get the milk cubes out.  They aren’t rigid like ice cubes, so I highly recommend a rubber bendable ice cube tray (I actually bought a baby food/ breast milk one, EW).

You will be amazed what the milk cubes adds to the smoothie.  They seriously make the smoothies super awesome and creamy like the fancy, expensive (and full of added sugar) ones at Jamba Juice.

My favorite, so far, is strawberry banana.  But we have also tried strawberry, nanner, blueberry and just strawberry, blueberry.  I have some frozen kiwis waiting for use, too!  If your fruit is getting too ripe, just freeze it.  Henry’s had strawberries for 98 cents a pound so I bought 3 with full intention of freezing them.

Also, strawberries are great because they are really low in sugar.  As long as you add some strawberries with another fruit with higher carb content, like blueberries or nanners, I’d estimate a glass of smoothie (1/3 of a blender full) is about 25-30 grams of carbs (equal to a cup of pasta).  This is pretty low considering the amount of vitamins, you are getting, and probably about 2-3 full servings of fruit.  Plus, the same size smoothie at a store can contain as much as 100 grams of carbs.

EDIT:

Sooo, we buy fruit at the Costco a lot, and obviously, two people can’t consume 47 lbs of strawberries in 5 days, so I end up freezing a lot of fruit for smoothies.  In my experience berries freeze very well (strawberries, blueberries, etc), as do kiwis.  Bananas on the other hand, not so good.

ANYWAY, the reason for the edit is if you have frozen fruit, you do not need frozen milk.  If you try to blend frozen fruit without 4-8 ounces of regular liquid milk, you might be needing a new blender…not that I’d know from experience, or anything.