going green

Ingredients:

• 2 kiwis
• 1 apple
• some pineapple
• sugarless green tea
• ice

3/5 stars

This isn't going in a greatest hits smoothie recipe book, but it sure gets the job done. I was worried about the bitterness of the green tea, but the fruit was sweet enough to make for a good drink. I'm not sure if I'm going to make this smoothie again, or if I'm going to experiment with green tea again. It was alright, anyway.

chocolate milk

Ingredients:

• 1 banana
• lots of pineapple
• 1 tbsp oatmeal
• chocolate milk
• ice

4/5 stars

Chocolate and banana are two flavors that are born for each other. The pineapple, despite the amount I put in, was really subtle and didn't add much to the taste. Next time I'm going to add less chocolate milk to allow the pineapple to do its work, and give the smoothie an overall thicker, creamy texture.

plain

Ingredients:

• peeled grapes
• lots of pineapple
• 1 kiwi
• plain yogurt
• ice

4/5 stars

I'm on the fence about plain yogurt, as it was an accident that I bought it. There is something to be said about how good this was compared to how simple it is. The yogurt dulled the sourness of the kiwi and pineapple without taking away from its flavor. More plain yogurt smoothies to come.

grapples

Ingredients:

• 2 apples
• 1 kiwi
• grape juice
• 1 tbsp fruit milk powder
• ice

2/5 stars

I decided today that no smoothie ever needs 2 apples. I also realized that the smoothies I make that contain juice from a bottle are only mediocre. This wasn't a bad drink, it just tasted like I was eating apples while drinking grape juice.

awesome

Ingredients:

• 1 banana
• lots of pineapple
• strawberry yogurt
• 1 tbsp maple syrup
• 1 tbsp fruit milk powder
• ice

5/5 stars

There was a really great balance of flavor in this. I decided to keep it simple with a relatively small variety of fruit and just add small things to bring out the flavor. It all worked.

apple ice cream

Ingredients:

• 2 apples
• 1 ice cream bar (vanilla and peanut flavor, chocolate shell)
• strawberry yogurt
• 1 tbsp peanut butter
• 1 tbsp oatmeal
• ice

2/5 stars

Not even close to being as good as its banana counterpart. It was way too sweet, and even with 2 apples, it wasn't enough to dilute the sweetness and flavor of the chocolate the way a banana could. I won't combine these ingredients like this again, and maybe the ice cream was only a 1 time treat because it was different from the otherwise fruity, healthy norm.

ice cream

Ingredients:

• 1 banana
• 1 ice cream bar (vanilla and peanut flavor, chocolate shell)
• strawberry yogurt
• 1 tbsp peanut butter

5/5 stars

I don't normally eat ice cream, but I found it in the freezer and gave it a whirl and decided I might need to make a habit out of buying ice cream. There were so many good things happening in this smoothie that I didn't even make it out of the kitchen with the cup. I have one more of those ice cream bars and I know exactly how I'm going to drink it.