Smooth Move

My family LOVES smoothies.

For breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack and for dessert after dinner.

So it was time I found a way to make a smoothie at home

fast, easy & healthy.

I decided to preportion them out so I can throw them in the blender without any measuring or fuss.

I purchased a large container of greek yogurt.

If you have not jumped on the greek yogurt band wagon yet you MUST.

The benefits of greek yogurt over normal yogurt are amazing  It is a bit pricey so buy it with coupons when it is on sale and you are going to freeze it so load up.

Next ingredient was fruit.

I bought two large bags of frozen fruit when it was on sale at the super market.

For those of you who think fresh fruit would be a better check out eatingwell.com.

They explain how frozen is just as healthy and just as nutrient rich (if not more) plus way cheaper.

The third and final ingredient is juice.

Here is where you can get creative.

For the first batch I mixed strawberries, bananas & orange juice.

The second batch was blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries & Naked Green Machine  juice.

I found this juice at Starbucks and it was so yummy and full of so many good things I decided to put it in my smoothies. 

If I had a juicer I would try to make my own juices to mix in my smoothies but until then (hopefully my birthday hint hint) I will use Naked juices.

To measure and freeze everything I used my old baby food containers.

(I told you Dave it would come in handy keeping all these instead of throwing them out)

Each container holds about 3oz.

So for a 6oz smoothie I can mix one yogurt container and one fruit container.

To make them a little smoother you may want to add a little more juice or milk when blending.

The fruit cups would also make great mixers for adult drinks with just a shot of pineapple rum and some ice added in the blender.