Smoothies

Those of you that are around Justin a lot know of his nonstop addiction to smoothies. You might think that I cater to this craving. We have tried to go without when we go out-of-town, vacation, etc. But Justin would just get his pipes all plugged up and be miserabley constipated. Yes I said it. So I try to find variations from the homemade ones that I make. There are the individually packaged ones from any grocery store, but those are pricey and have a lot of sugar. I stumbled upon a jumbo bag of "just add milk" Yoplait Smoothie mix from Costco. It was just too easy. I used my skim milk so that I could have some too. It had strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and frozen yogurt pieces. Just added 1 1/2 cups of milk and blended it up. Justin doesn't normally love the purple smoothies, probably b/c their are too many berries in the flavoring.

It was delicious and came with about 10 packages for $10. But in case you want to try the homemade version, here's the recipe I still make a few times a week.

Justin's Smoothies

1 c. milk

1 c. Diet V8 Splash (3 g. carbs vs. 27 on the nondiet; gives you all the veggie vitamins)

1-2 bananas

3 T. yogurt

Handfull of frozen fruit - I get strawberries, pineapples, mango assortments

Blend in the blender and have a straw ready.