Fruit Smoothie

Fruit Smoothie

It's winter/sprimg, so fruit it a bit scarce.  But with a bag of frozen mixed fruit, I can still make Hannah a nice fruit smoothie.  If you are new to smoothie's let me just say, add what you want and what you have!  There is not a set recipe.  Experiment!  This is fun in spring when the berries are in season and throughout the summer with all the colorful produce in season.  I personally like to add greens and vegi's to my smoothies. This morning Hannah would not have gone for it, so I left it out.

Today, this smoothie contained:

1/4 cup orange juice with calcium concentrate  (I use it to add the Vit.C and Calcium to Hannah's diet and tang to the smoothie)

1 ripe banana

1/2 a left over apple, cored, peel left on- it was reddish yellow apple, possibly Gala.

about 2 cups of mixed frozen fruit (pineapple, mango, peach, strawberries, red grapes)

1 medium carrot, snapped into about 5 pieces

Rice milk

water

some stevia

I use a  Blendtec Blender.  I added all the solids then filled the container with Rice milk to about the 3 cup line and water to the 4 cup line.  I usually add some ice, but I just realized I skipped the ice today.  I sprinkled in maybe a 1/4 tsp. stevia to keep it sweet.  I blended with the pre-set XL Smoothie setting on my Blendtec.  This made 3 large glasses of smoothie and served 3 of us.  Had Papa been home, it would have served 4 comfortably.