I made my first smoothie!

[pinky]

amazing tropical smoothie

all fresh fruit:

1 pineapple
1 apple
1 banana
1 small glass fresh orange juice
1/2 tin low fat coconut milk

fire it all into the yoke, press the GGGSSSHHer and off you go.
yum

 

[pinky]

frozen veg?

btw i know this is a slight derail but are frozen veg as good for you as fresh?
or even nearly as good for you?

i've just stopped buying fresh veg cos especially the liks of broccoli is gone off in a day or two if it's not used, the frozen veg is much handier to have in the freezer & use what you need when you need it. i still buy my salad veg - lettuce, tomato, onion, cucumber, red & green peppers fresh - but all dinnery veg like brocolli, caulflower, carrots, sweetcorn & peas all frozen?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Tined fruit is fine! I don't really like apples which are the only fresh fruit that ought to be available at this time of year in the UK anyway (AFAIK) so tinned is a good way to eat fruit in winter.

I'm currently eating tinned prunes, apricots and strawberries with yogurt and bit of cinnamon sprinkled on top for breakfast. It's delicious!

Although I have to admint that I attempted a tinned peach smoothie recently and thought it tasted a bit odd. Might try Geri's combination though - could be better.

 

[Thora_v1]

I thought the whole point of smoothies was to make them with fresh ingredients - you know all the vitamins and stuff ....

Damn plebs, tainting the good name of smoothies with their confounded tinned fruit!
I thought the whole point of smoothies was, well, crushed fruit in a glass? Certainly missed the memo about it having to be fresh

 

[cherrybaby]

When I buy a lot of fruit I waste some as I am a busy person. Tinned fruit is fine, better than nothing. I can't afford one of those posh pulper things anyway.

 

[tarannau]

Can't help but feel that tinned fruit's 'wrong' in smoothies as well. Nothing concrete, more the gut feeling that one of the main reasons that I like smoothies is that you take lots of lovely fresh fruit (or fruit in the bowl about to turn) and process it into a convenient, slurpable drink. Whereas tinned fruit is already ready processed and easily consumable already - maybe it's those memories of eating mandarin oranges and fruit cocktail out of the tin as a child...

And what about that syrup stuff or the stale tinning liquor? Got to unbalance the flavours.

Simple smoothies are best in my experience. Can't beat a simple yoghurt, banana and one other berry (raspberries, strawberries etc) mixed together in my experience - add an ice cube to crush if it gets too thick.

 

[WasGeri]

And what about that syrup stuff or the stale tinning liquor? Got to unbalance the flavours.

WTF is'tinning liquor'

The stuff I buy is tinned in juice - ingredients in the crushed pineapple: pineapple, pineapple juice, citric acid.

cherrybaby, you don't need a juicing machine or a smoothy maker - just an ordinary blender.