Quick budget smoothies

Smoothies

You got a bit of a cheat last week with the addition of fruit to pasta salad, so here's an extra post.  I don't write much about snacks,breakfast or dessert. Or even fruit in general.  So here's what I had/have for breakfast, and have been known to have as a dessert.

A big rake of fruit, about to blended with  natural yoghurt and juice.

3 slices watermelon or Galia melon (usually cheaper)
4 chunks of cucumber.
4 slices of mango.
1/2 an apple, sliced.
1 small pot of natural yoghurt.
Top up with apple juice, or whatever you have to hand.

Blend until smooth, and knock back.


The watermelon didn't blend well; it was a bit under ripe when I tried it.  I think I need to invest in a SupermarketValueFood® food processor...

Lots of smoothies or juice drinks will use beetroot, carrots and kale, and I'm guessing you WILL need a proper blender for those recipes, but the ease of which you can put yoghurt, ripe fruit and juice, in a pot, is pretty satisfying.  

Kept me going well into lunchtime.

Other nice things I like to add to smoothies include:

• Oatmeal, for thickness and carbs.  Use a fine oat, normal milled porridge oats work if ground finely first
• Honey.
• Spinach or lettuce - soft greens work well.
• Any soft fruit you like, but nothing too sharp.  Prefer raspberries and blackberries myself, if strained.
• More juice.

I don't like bananas taste wise, but they're pretty useful in smoothies for vitamins and texture, they blend well, so go for it if you like them...

There you go, reduced, healthy, tasty, breakfast.

Normal schedule will resume from now on - once a fortnight, or once a week if I have a small bonus post or aside to share.  Enjoy!