Munchie Monday: Quick and Easy Delicious Fruit Smoothie

We bought a big basket of strawberries at the Farmers' Market last week and the week before.  Dear One said they were perhaps the best berries he had ever eaten!  The first batch was the better basket...

We have now used all of them!  Two big jars of jam (one of which was chia seed thickened and the other was low-sugar pectin thickened), one serving of strawberry shortcake left, and one quick and easy smoothie.


Quick and Easy Strawberry Smoothie

In a blender place:

1/2 cup soy milk or other non-dairy milk
1/2 cup orange juice
1 cup fresh strawberries
1 large frozen banana
6 ice cubes


Blend for about a minute.  Pour into glasses and enjoy.  This made two 8-ounce glasses full.  It took no time at all to put them down the hatch!  So good.  I have not had a smoothie myself for some time.  This one was the best!

We will probably make this again.  There is a farm near us that has pick-your-own berries. I think we will go there this week!  They might have other produce as well.  It is sort of like anticipating Christmas!

Food Friday: Green-ish Brown-ish Smoothie!

Lately I have heard a lot of talk about the health benefits of "green smoothies".  It seemed like an interesting idea, especially since some years ago a friend was feeding her young children green smoothies for breakfast.  Apparently the children just plain sucked up these smoothies with great pleasure.

This is how I made ours which made two LARGE smoothies.  Next iteration will be half size.  Good nutrition has to include common sense and small portions.

2 cups orange juice
2 large handfuls fresh baby spinach

Blend these in your blender for AT LEAST one minute until the spinach has COMPLETELY turned into juice.

Add 1 cup frozen strawberries and 1 cup frozen banana chunks.  (When bananas become very ripe-which they inevitably do-I chunk them up, put them in a freezer bag, and put into the freezer to be ready for a smoothie.)

Blend until very smooth and serve immediately.

Next time not only will I decrease the size of the smoothie but I will add ground flax seed meal and maybe even some turmeric....The added yellow of the turmeric cannot make the appearance any worse.

Munchie Monday: Easy Delicious Fruit Smoothie

We had some fruit and juices in the house.  I was feeling like not making anything big for supper.  Dear One agreed that a smoothie would fill the bill. 

This is what I did:

Got out the Bosch mixer with blender jar attachment.

Into the blender jar I poured:

1 cup orange juice
1 cup cranberry juice
1 cup frozen blueberries
1 cup frozen (sweetened, this time) strawberries
2 Tablespoons ground flax seed meal

Turned on the blender and blended until thoroughly mixed and ground up.

Served into two 12 ounce glasses.

Sucked it down as fast as the frozen beverage would allow!

Sorry there are no pictures.  We drank it before I thought of the camera.

A while afterwards Dear One heated some frozen french fries in the oven then ate them.

Not to be outdone so I took two slices of Red Hen 100% whole wheat bread, put on a little mayonnaise and two small slices of homemade baked seasoned tofu.  This makes a great sandwich.  You feel as good as if you were eating an actual Reuben sandwich. At least the tooth feel makes you imagine a nice meat-based sandwich but it is made of plants.  Next time I will get out the sauerkraut!