Smoothie Success

The fact that my old crappy blender will successfully make a green smoothie if I load the ingredients in a different order is both good and bad news. The good news is that I'm enjoying both green and non-green smoothies; the bad news is that I have no pressing need to go buy the shiny new (and much-desired) Vitamix. I would normally do it in a heartbeat, of course, but Frugal!Cammy refuses. Since she's the one in charge of keeping us from bankruptcy, she wins.

At least for now.

Tonight I tried a green carrot cake smoothie. I didn't exactly have all the right ingredients (had to sub orange-pineapple juice concentrate for the crushed pineapple and plain yogurt for vanilla yogurt) and it tasted an itsy bit off while I was drinking it. The aftertaste, however, is decidedly carrot cake-ish. There are other carrot cake smoothie recipes out there (one that uses baby food carrots!), and I may try another one soon.

The green smoothie option is nice to have for now. I'm a little over done on salads at the moment, so this is a good way to get some green in my daily diet. I've tried (and tried) to like spinach--on its own and in other dishes--but nothing has clicked. The smoothie route works because I can't taste the spinach at all. Honest! I tried my simple chocolate whey protein and soy milk smoothie with and without the green stuff, and there was no discernable difference to my spinach-wary taste buds.

For some absolutely awesome smoothie recipes, follow the link to one of my previous posts. You'll quickly see that the awesome-ness isn't in my post; it's in the comments. I asked and I received--in yummy abundance! {pauses for another moment of gratitude}

That's it for me today...and probably for the week. My reader is filling up, and I'd like to spend some time catching up on reading other people's blogs. :)

Wishing U.S. folks a happy and safe holiday weekend. And to the international folks, a happy and safe plain old ordinary weekend.