What are you favourite smoothie recipes?

[sandyballs]

Sorry if this has been done before, but I couldn't find it when I searched. I've decided I don't eat enough fruit and thought that a smoothie was probably the best of way of increasing my fruit consumption. I've got a blender, so what do I do? Just literally chuck it all in? Do I use yoghurt and ice as well?

[SoupDragon]

I buy melons, puree them in the blender and then freeze in icecube trays. Shove them in with pretty much any other fruit rather than ice!

[TwiglettTheWereHedgehog]

stawberry / banana and fat free fromage frais

[SoupDragon]

Oh, and I use apple juice as a base - add at the end to improve the drinking consistency!

peach & banana
banana & strawberry
blueberries work well (can freeze whole berries and puree from frozen)

[lunavix]

easiest is

6 strawbs, 1 banana, 1 (large!) tbsp natural yoghurt and juice of one orange for nice breakfast smoothie. It's the recipe from Innocent. (for 1 person)

other than that ummm handful blueberries,1/2 pineapple, and juice of one orange.. think thats all in that one, it's yummm...

Innocent have 2 books of their recipes. Well worth it. You will probably need an electric juicer too as any apples, pears etc you use have to be juiced first.

[lunavix]

easiest is

6 strawbs, 1 banana, 1 (large!) tbsp natural yoghurt and juice of one orange for nice breakfast smoothie. It's the recipe from Innocent. (for 1 person)

other than that ummm handful blueberries,1/2 pineapple, and juice of one orange.. think thats all in that one, it's yummm...

Innocent have 2 books of their recipes. Well worth it. You will probably need an electric juicer too as any apples, pears etc you use have to be juiced first.

[collision]

Do you all have juicers or do you use a blender?

We would like a juicer but not sure which one.

[SoupDragon]

bog standard blender

[lunavix]

mines a very cheap juicer. It just means that when you chuck apples, pears, oranges in, the pithy bits don't make the smoothie all frothy. Plus apple doesn't blend very well!