Smoothie Thread

[ddevans96]

Smoothies!

Since people want more food threads and I'm currently on a smoothie kick, this seems perfect.

Smoothies are among the best things ever. Reasonably to very healthy, fun to make, easy to experiment with, minimal prep work but just enough to make you feel like you accomplished something...


I recently bought a new blender and am trying to make a smoothie daily at least until the end of the month - I've been photographing them pre-blend both for my own reference and to share with an interested friend, so I have them on hand to share here too.

Spoiler for Day 0:

Day 0 was a test run of the blender, too much liquid, like a 6/10 or so. As such, no record of it.

I did buy a ton of stuff though - in addition to a few things already on hand, these are my ingredients (ft. my feet):



Hard to see: strawberries, fuji apples

Spoiler for Day 1:

mango ice cream
raspberries
spinach
red grapes
frozen strawberries
banana
strawberry-banana V8 smoothie

So technically I made a smoothie with a smoothie, but this stuff is more like juice, and it's delicious

Rating: 9/10, good pink color with a few darker specks, only a bit sharper taste than I intended, very close to being exactly what I like

Spoiler for Day 2:

Roughly:
banana
spinach
vanilla ice cream (with trace amounts of chocolate)
vanilla Greek yogurt
peanut butter
agave nectar

Much different style from the first one. Agave is somehow stickier than honey, and may or may not be better or worse for you

Rating: 7.5/10, a little sour for my taste, but good subtle flavor otherwise, decent light brown with relatively smooth texture

Spoiler for Day 3:

fuji apple
red grapes
spinach
frozen strawberries
peanut butter
banana

Bad lighting, sorry, didn't feel like tweaking blinds to fix it

Rating: 8/10, tasted and looked more like applesauce with peanut butter, actually pretty good, not super great when the intention was a smoothie though. On the bright side, I now know how to make applesauce

Spoiler for Future ideas:

Day 4: Back to basics: Frozen fruit, banana, juice
Day X: Experiment with: crushed rice cakes, canned fruit, other vegetables, nuts and dried fruit, chocolate, fruit jams, alcohol

[dawn to dusk]

Haven't got any recipes, but I love Strawberry Smoothies. Don't know why, but I really love the seeds in it as well.
Basically the opposite of orange juice, hate the pulp.

Bit plain but whatever. Haven't had the opportunity to have much else

[Kuroaitou]

I seriously want a smoothie right now.

I want to literally just put -EVERY- type of red berry (Strawberry, cherry, raspberry, Pomegranate seeds* and cranberry) into a smoothie drink, and then drink the resulting mixture to overpower myself with red-godlike powers.

...that, or just have a really nasty unhealthy smoothie with like, vanilla ice cream and m&m's in it with some bananas for technicality.

*EDIT: Forgot about Pomegranate, the 'secret' red-colored fruit/berry.

[Manuel]

some of my recipes:

1 amaretto biscuit, milk, banana
2 banana, white grapes
3 ladyfinger, milk, chocolate, espresso (something similar to a tiramisù cake)
4 espresso, milk, any kind of biscuit
5 strawberry, milk, banana
6 blackberry, strained yogurt
7 random orange fruits (peach, apricot, melon etc), milk, big basil leaf (i can't explain why basil is so good on orange fruits, try it)
8 mint leaf, dark chocolate, milk
9 ananas, banana, milk, sometimes with almonds or walnuts (the one i drink more)

[UTAlan]

1 banana, some frozen mango, some spinach, and some almond milk. I should probably measure these out, but I'm lazy and my wife likes them as they are, so... *shrug*

Spoiler for Hidden: