Easy Smoothie » Make Healthy Meals

I love fruit smoothies. This recipe is not particularly exact, as it’s all done by eye. Get a variety of frozen fruits at your local grocery store, Costco or freeze your own to make it easy to make smoothies anytime.

Quantities will depend on the size of your blender. Mine is big enough to make smoothies for my family of 4, with some left over, although I will note that the kids are 4 years old and 16 months old, so they don’t drink that much. When they’re older, I have no doubt there will be no leftovers.

Several handfuls frozen fruit. I like strawberry, blueberry, mango, pineapple and so forth
One banana, peeled
One carrot
1-2 spoonfuls honey
Any other fruit you feel like throwing in
Fruit juice. Apple works well.

Put all ingredients except fruit juice into blender. This allows you to see how full it is.

Add juice until it reaches about 2/3 to 3/4 of the way to the top of the other ingredients.

Put lid on tightly and turn blender on low at first, then increase to top speed gradually.

If necessary, turn off blender and use spoon to stir up any ingredients that haven’t been blended after 30 seconds or so. If it’s looking too thick, add more juice. Blend more as necessary.

Smoothies taste great, are easy to make, and you don’t need a very strict recipe for them. Use this as a starter recipe and figure out your personal favorite.