Fruit Drink Friday

Happy Friday everyone! I'm celebrating today (and my first weekend with basically no classes left) with this blood red deeeliciouss smoothie. First I put some strawberry-orange-banana juice in the blender as a base, and then I added in some watermelon and a banana and blended it all together. It was pretty peachy colored, but then I added a whole bunch of frozen berries and blended those in. And then it turned this color, and not to mention frosty and thick.

Fruit Drink Friday

I was feeling a little under the weather this week, and so I was in a juices-packed-with-vitamin-C sorta mood. After guzzling more orange juice than I think I could handle, I switched to grapefruit juice, and made this delicious, simple smoothie.

What's Inside:

Grapfruit Juice

1 frozen banana

1 cup frozen strawberries

I had it in the morning, and it was sweet, but it also had a zing to it. It made me feel better and made me wide awake for a day of classes!

Fruit Drink Friday

I missed my blender over winter break.

What's Inside:

Lots of watermelon (I cut up an entire baby watermelon and used maybe about half of it in this)

Frozen Blueberries

Other Frozen Berries

1 Pear

Fruit Drink Friday

I drank this while doing some early morning studying, and it was a delight.

What's Inside:

-watermelon

-banana

-fresh blueberries

-frozen berries

-a spoonful of mango sorbet (the secret ingredient)

Fruit Drink Friday

When my mom brought me back to school after Thanksgiving break, she left a lot of fruit behind with me - finally enough variety to make a fruit drink! Here's what's inside:

• Watermelon
• Strawberries
• Raspberries
• Blackberries
• Banana
• Frozen Berries

Fruit Drink Friday

What's Inside:

watermelon

banana

strawberries

frozen berries

Tip: My mom gave me this one. To make a fruit drink without adding any extra fruit juice, just blend items sequentially, based on how water-based they are. So when I made this fruit drink, I first blended just the watermelon. Then I added the banana and strawberries into the watermelon juice. Finally, I blended in the frozen berries.

Fruit Drink Friday

Here's what's inside this week's drink:

Watermelon

Frozen Berries

Nonfat Vanilla Yogurt

Fresh Ginger

I usually try to make my fruit drinks 100% juice, but I had this after working out, and wanted to add a little protein, so I added the yogurt. It worked since there weren't already too many ingredients, and it turned the drink into this really nice pink color! Also, the ginger added a little extra kick, which tasted great, and not to mention that ginger is great for the digestive system!

Fruit Drink Friday

What's Inside

Beet & Carrot Juice

Frozen Berries

Fresh Strawberries

Cantaloupe

Frozen Mango

Banana

Yogurt

I usually do 100% fruit smoothies, but on the day I made this, I was working in the morning, so I decided to add in the yogurt to make a drink that would keep me full for longer. It worked!

Fruit Drink Friday

In This Week's Fruit Drink:

watermelon

cantaloupe

frozen berries

an apple

fresh strawberries

Fruit Drink Friday

So this is a new feature I'm starting called Fruit Drink Friday. One of my favorite kitchen creations is the fruit drink, which is basically a concoction of a whole bunch of different fruit that I have in my kitchen, blended into a frosty cold smoothie drink. I make this a couple times a week, usually for breakfast, so I'll post one each Friday.

Here's what I used this week:
1/2 cup of beet and purple carrot juice (from Trader Joe's)
cantaloupe
watermelon
frozen berry medley (also from TJ's)

I realized when I was half finished drinking it that I forgot to put in a banana, but regardless it was sweet and tasty!