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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.
Recipe recommendations coming up – see Next Page for how to prepare the smoothie packs. Favorite recipe follows…
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How to Prepare Smoothie Packs
Total Cost: $10.40
Cost Per Serving: $1.30Ingredients (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.
See Next Page for a favorite recipe from budgetbytes.com…
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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
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