Do any of you make smoothies for your kids?

I think this would be a great option for breakfast, and since she's really tough to get to eat her fruits/veggies.

Any recipes? TIA!

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Yes, we make them all the time. We use all different fruits and add some plain yogurt and a little apple juice.

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I make ones for my girls all the time.

Sometimes for snacks as well:

DD#1 is allergic to milk so I use soy products instead.

To have with breakfast I do:
Plain yogurt, blueberries, banana.

Yogurt, blueberries, bananas, peaches.

Blueberries and cantelope

Raspberries, blueberries and bananas

I used to do mango and blueberries - but DD can't have any of the tropical fruits right now so I stopped.

DD is allergic to strawberries so I don't have those in the house anymore - but I used to do blueberries, strawberries and bananas.

For snacks I do the same ones just not yogurt I use their milk or soy milk and a little ice to make it icy.

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Yes, I usually use frozen fruit, yogurt, and milk. They love it.

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I use frozen bananas, frozen berries (any kind) or frozen mangos, coconut or hemp milk and a handful of spinach. Great way to sneak greens in there, the berries mask the taste of the spinach

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Yes! DS LOVES LOVES LOVED them and asks for them all the time! I use plain or vanilla yogurt, frozen or fresh fruit (usually whatever and a banana bc it makes it creamy) AND always a veggie- I buy frozen organic and I just toss a handful in there- when it's blended you cannot taste it. I use spinach a lot, but have also used broccoli (ok you can sometimes taste that one), stringbeans, peas and carrots. Strawberry- banana is good, and blueberry too. I have the Magic Bullet, which makes the whole process take about 3 minutes. If I use fresh fruit I add ice, too. I think I may try peanut butter banana soon too.

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Yup, all the time. I use plain or vanilla yogurt (most of the time Greek) and I throw in fresh fruit. Never tried with a veggie..DD is a great eater so I never thought of it, but that is a great way to hide a veggie.

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The only way I can get my kids to drink their smoothies is to put on the Fresh Beat Band and tell them they are having groovy smoothies

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1 banana
cup of choco almond milk
1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1/2 cup frozen spinach

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I make them for Christopher all the time. He requests them now. I put frozen and fresh fruit and veggies in them. I mix it up all the time. I put Coconut milk in because he cant have dairy.

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Frozen fruit, vanilla yogurt and milk. Now that they are older, I might throw in a pinch of sugar to sweeten it up! They love strawberry banana, mango pineapple, and just plain peach.

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We make them every morning. My DD loves them and now makes her own mixes. We always start with Trader Joe's Vanilla Yogurt, and a little juice (right now it's a pomegranate cherry juice) and a banana. I have bags of frozen blue berries, mixed berries, black berries, peaches, mangoes, cherries and pineapple and we put in whichever we are in the mood for.
They are really good!

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It's become DH & Charlie's "thing"...they make one almost every morning.

They use whatever we have on hand - I like to freeze some fruit too. They'll use raspberries, strawberries, blueberries, bananas...greek yogurt, milk and sometimes peanut butter. And if they make one at night, DH will use ice cream instead of yogurt

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Posted by dooodles

The only way I can get my kids to drink their smoothies is to put on the Fresh Beat Band and tell them they are having groovy smoothies

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Yes! We make them for DS all the time, he loves them. I use either frozen or fresh fruit, milk, and plain yogurt. You can also sneak in a few veggies like spinach, beets, etc.

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YAY I finally made one she likes! WOOHOO!

My next question- how long can it keep in the fridge? We have a bit left here! TIA