Dear Reader,
Okay, so this was on the fly… And it was a lot of work and mess so I probably won’t do it much in order to perfect it… so this is a super rough and casual draft.
Today, we made smoothies! Rainbow smoothies. Because I have been asked every day for a month if we could try it.
Purple: it was still way too red, but there wasn’t any fixing it. I started with my base of liquid, banana and pear. Then I added blueberries and huckleberries. I added 2 raspberries and that was a bad choice. Don’t do that. But honestly it was too red even without the raspberries because the huckleberries are pretty red. I added a blue little Gatorade powder and it made it good but tart. Not much purple-er.
Blue: let’s be honest, this blue is purple. It is almond milk, baby cereal and fresh blueberries because I hate frozen blueberries. And the pear and banana again. I can’t explain why, it is a texture thing. So the cereal is there to thicken it. If you like frozen blueberries you could skip the cereal. Or if you wanted to add oatmeal powder, that works too.
Alternative blue: I googled how to actually get a blue smoothie and there is something called spirulina powder. I might try that. My husband wouldn’t though. He’s not an adventurous foodie. Especially if it’s deemed healthful.
Green: by now everyone knows how to make green smoothies. Spinach is great for color and doesn’t have much flavor. Then I added lime juice (go light on that… I added too much), banana and pear.
Yellow: the easiest. Lemonade, mangoes, banana, and pear again.
Orange: I’m not sold on the orange. I did pineapple juice, mangoes, bananas, pear, and 2 strawberries. It was too light. But I wasnt about to open another juice with so many in the fridge. maybe no pear this time? Or no banana but I need bananas in my smoothies. I’m pretty picky. In a mango smoothie I probably wouldn’t notice it missing as much. I thought about adding peaches but tried to stick to few ingredients instead of opening everything.
Red: the juice from the can of pears, strawberries, raspberries banana, and the last pear. I though it was too pink so maybe no pear next time. I could have done straight raspberry but I don’t like all the raspberry seeds, lol. See? picky. Actually, one year when I had extra raspberries I made myself smoothie ice cubes that I’d strained all the seeds out of. That was when I was consistent at making smoothies for breakfast.
I made her fill her own cup with droppers to strengthen her pincer grasp. She got bored so maybe next time I’ll use the turkey baster? And it kept the smoothies separated by color instead of mixing together.
It tasted good, so there’s that. A little too tangy with the blue Gatorade and too much lime juice, but the flavors blended well together. The little girls liked it, too. They drank all of mine! And since their throats are pretty sore (sister gave everyone her cold because she hasn’t figured out how to cover her mouth…), They haven’t wanted much else to eat.
