Caribou got rid of their Wildberry smoothies.
Caribou?
I am highly disappointed in you.
Bob and I have been making our own smoothies at home now that we have our own kitchen. And I’m sure ours are healthier than Caribou’s recipe.
We bought a ten-pound bag of frozen strawberries and a four-pound tub of plain yogurt* at Costco. We’ll be getting probably a couple dozen smoothies out of that for roughly the price of three at Caribou.
I divided the yogurt into ice cube trays and froze it. When all was said and done, I got three dozen yogurt cubes. I probably could have gotten more, but I kind of over-filled the trays and made big cubes.
I put 2-3 cups of juice (usually apple) in the blender. Add a couple handfuls of strawberries and a few yogurt cubes and blend until smooth. The amounts vary depending on how big and/or thick we want our smoothies. But they always taste good. And the strawberries get processed enough so my mouth doesn’t itch.
A few variations I’ve tried:
Cranberry-Raspberry juice instead of apple juice.
Vitamin water (Dragon Fruit) instead of any juice.
Chunks of banana.
A handful of chocolate chips. (semi-sweet)…you get little bits of chocolate throughout.
A heaping [table]spoonful of cocoa powder (unsweetened) and a spoonful of sugar…you taste the chocolate without the bits from the chocolate chips.
We’ll probably experiment with other [frozen] fruits eventually. Once we work our way through that bag of strawberries.
*Does anyone actually eat just plain yogurt? I tried a spoonful when I was putting it in the icecube trays and it was…not really edible. It tasted like yogurt, but it was…not good. At least it doesn’t taste like that in the smoothies.
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Yum! I never thought to freeze yogurt in the ice cube trays..that’s a really good idea.
I usually don’t use much juice in my smoothies–I like to throw a big handful of grapes in the blender first, then other frozen fruit on top of that (whatever we have, I usually buy the big bag of Dole frozen fruit–includes strawberries, pineapple, mango, peach) and some banana if we’ve got it, and milk/cream/yogurt. Blend till smooth, and really tasty!
Sarah and I just made yogurt smoothie frozen pops last week with frozen blueberrys, they were good! I always keep some sort of frozen fruit in the freezer (depending on what is on sale hehe!) to do smoothies, muffins, add to oatmeal too!