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Who else wants to save time & money on their healthy smoothies, without compromising flavor? That’s what this post is about. You’ll get a great approach to very efficiently and cheaply preparing your smoothies, as well as a super recipe recommendation from budgetbytes.com.
Check out the approach & recipe below and let me know how you like it.
Here’s the approach from budgetbytes.com ...
I’ve got another quickie for you tonight. It’s more of an idea than a recipe. I’m sure a lot of you Budget Byters already stock your freezers with these handy smoothie packs, but I wanted to share the tip for those who may be new to the kitchen. Not only does this make smoothies faster and easier to make, but they’re a fraction, a small fraction, of what you’ll pay at your local smoothie counter.
So, the formula is easy.
Three one pound bags of frozen fruit of your choice, and four bananas.
Divide the frozen fruit up into 8 bags, and place half of a peeled banana in each bag as well.
Seal them up tight and toss them into the freezer.
When you’re ready to make your delicious smoothie ...
place the frozen fruit in the blender,
add milk (or soy or almond milk),
and whatever else you want
and press go!
No more hauling ten ingredients out of the freezer every time you want to make one smoothie. Just grab one bag and add a liquid.
Sure, I also add spinach, cinnamon, and ground flax seed, but it’s still way easier to have the fruit divided up. And it only takes about 5 minutes to make all 8 packs.
How to Prepare Smoothie Packs
Total Cost: $10.40
Cost Per Serving: $1.30
Ingredients (Serves: 8)
16 oz. frozen strawberries $2.69
16 oz. frozen raspberries $4.15
16 oz. frozen peaches $2.69
4 medium bananas $0.86
Instructions
Divide the ingredients equally between 8 quart-sized freezer bags (1/2 banana per bag).
Freeze the smoothie packs until ready to use or up to three months.
My Favorite Smoothie from a Smoothie Pack
Cost Per Serving: $2.30
Ingredients (Serves: 1)
1 frozen Smoothie Pack ($1.30)
1 cup light vanilla soy Milk ($0.41)
1 handful baby Spinach ($0.53)
1 Tbsp ground Flax seed ($0.03)
½ tsp Cinnamon ($0.03)
Instructions
Empty one smoothie pack into a blender and add the soy milk, spinach, flax, and cinnamon.
Blend until smooth, adding more liquid if needed.
Source: budgetbytes.com
Photo: DrinkMeHealthy
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