Today’s amazing smoothie had the following ingredients:

1 banana, 1 1/2 cup crushed ice, 1/2 cup canned pineapple chunks, and 1/2 cup Florida’s Natural Orange Juice.

I’ve been having some issues with my Sunbeam blender again. Other than the funny noises it sometimes makes, any time I try to take the pitcher off the base, the base of the pitcher, the part with the blades attached to it, stays on the blender base… making a nice sloppy mess. I guess today just wasn’t my day. However, the smoothie, the taste of the smoothie… amazing. B wanted something citrus-y and he said this was rather yummy. That’s all I needed to hear!

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Today’s Out the Door Smoothie ingredients include:

1 package Yoplait Triple Berry Smoothie Mix, 1/2 cup frozen strawberries, 1 banana, 1/2 cup crushed ice and about 1 1/2-2 cups skim milk.

Delicious! Absolutely positively delicious! I finally added enough milk to make the consistency perfect. I wish I wouldn’t have eaten breakfast because this smoothie was another breakfast by itself! That’s okay though. I substituted it in for my morning cup of coffee at the office.

I keep wanting to add peanut butter or chocolate to a smoothie. I’m afraid. CJ told me about a smoothie recipe she uses that has both peanut butter and chocolate in it:

Her morning smoothie – one banana (to which frozen is her preference, 1 T peanut butter, 1 cup soy milk, 1 scoop chocolate protein powder, ice.

One day I’ll try it. One day…

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Today’s Tropical Smoothie ingredients include the following:

2 small bananas, 1/2 cup fresh pineapple chunks, 1/2 cup canned sliced peaches, 1/3 cup peach yogurt, 1/2 cup skim milk and  about 1/2 cup crushed ice. Makes 2 tall smoothies.

I looooove the taste of freshly cut pineapple. It was on sale for $1.50 at Wal-mart so I knew that it was meant to be brought home with us. I should’ve grabbed like 4 of them! You can actually tell the difference when you use fresh fruit in your smoothies. At least I can. It just tastes a little more flavorful. The consistency was a little on the thin side this time but I blame that on over-blending it on the “liquefy” setting. Delish!

Here’s how the Razzmatazz looked…

Not too bad huh?  And it actually tasted pretty good as well. Even though the apple juice was a little strong tasting, it wasn’t too too overpowering. And I should have added some crushed ice because the consistency was much thinner than that of a real jamba juice smoothie. Good thing I bought another flavor to help me decide on whether or not they’re worth buying again!

Have you happened to try these yet? What did you think about them? Favorite flavor?

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Today’s tropical goodness smoothie included the following ingredients:
2.5 medium bananas, 1 can Great Value Tropical salad, 1/2 cup frozen blueberries, 1/3 cup apple juice and about 1/2 cup crushed ice.

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I liked this smoothie. The banana was a little on the strong side… but that’s because the bananas were about 2 days away from being tossed out so they had a super strong favor to them. I added the blueberries for the color and a little extra immunity boost. Seems like the long holiday still hadn’t given up it’s grips on us and I definitely am not in the mood to get sick! It was a little on the liquid-y side. I like my smoothies just a little thicker than this. Overall, it was a pretty good smoothie and even B liked it. I’m starting to realize he likes a tasteful banana presence. Works for me!