I haven't had much success getting Sam to drink green smoothies. But last week we ran out of spinach and so I started making a plain fruit smoothie, something I've tried to tempt him with before, but with little success. However, this time, as I was halfway through blending up all the frozen fruit, I noticed I had made ice cream! When I offered this to Sam, it was met with wholehearted enthusiasm! And now we've been having ice cream for breakfast every morning. The basic recipe is frozen fruit and almond milk; you can feel positively virtuous feeding it to your kids (or having it yourself!). You could use any kind of milk though, we've done hemp milk, and I think coconut milk would be delicious. These pictures are of a mango one I made with some coconut mixed in. It was pretty yummy, but our favorite is still mango-blueberry-strawberry.
We use a Vitamix, which is amazing; I think you can even make nut butter with it. A less powerful blender will probably work too, but maybe not give you quite as creamy results at the end. So, just toss in the fruit and plenty of milk and whiz it up. Keep adding milk and pressing the mixture down into the blades until it's a nice sorbet-like consistency. Then eat it up right away as it melts quickly! Another fun option would be making popsicles. I've been daydreaming of summer and popsicles on a hot day sounds so perfect.



















