Are your family like mine? During the weekly shop I'll go and buy a punnet of strawberries to replace the half eaten one in the fridge... thereby dooming the slightly older (but still perfectly viable) fruit to wallow in its uneaten misery, always overlooked by my family in their quest to eat only the newest, freshest produce.
Well, I have a solution, and it's a tasty one. Smoothies!
Smoothies are an easy way to increase your family's fruit consumption, and they are simple to make. I usually just mix the base ingredients with whatever I can find in the fridge and blend it with a stick mixer.
Here are a couple of our favourites:
Start with the smoothie base:
1 cup milk, 2 tablespoons natural yoghurt (or icecream), and ice cubes
Then add...
Banana
1 cup banana, 1 tablespoon honey, cinnamon to taste.
Berry
Half a punnet of strawberries, raspberries or blueberries
Mango
1 cup mango, 3/4 cup orange juice
Spinach
This doesn't use the base, just blend 1 cup raw spinach with 2 oranges, an apple and some ice cubes with 2/3 cup of water. It's surprisingly delicious and very green - nickname it monster juice and it will go down a treat.
(Just a note - smoothies are generally not suitable for kids under one as they should be avoiding large servings of cows milk as well strawberries and honey.)
Do you have any favourite smoothie recipes?
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