Caribou got rid of their Wildberry smoothies.<\/p>\n
Caribou?<\/p>\n
I am highly disappointed in you.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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<\/i> at Caribou.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
A few variations I’ve tried:
\nCranberry-Raspberry juice instead of apple juice.
\nVitamin water (Dragon Fruit) instead of any juice.
\nChunks of banana.
\nA handful of chocolate chips. (semi-sweet)…you get little bits of chocolate throughout.
\nA heaping [table]spoonful of cocoa powder (unsweetened) and a spoonful of sugar…you taste the chocolate without the bits from the chocolate chips.<\/p>\n
We’ll probably experiment with other [frozen] fruits eventually. Once we work our way through that bag of strawberries.<\/p>\n
*Does anyone actually eat just plain<\/i> 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<\/i> in the smoothies.<\/p>\n
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