Energizing Smoothie

Our daughter, Beth, has been making an energizing smoothie for breakfast for several years. Beth told me that the smoothie works with any two veggies and three fruits. She always uses kale since it is such a superfood. Then uses almost any vegetable like carrots, cabbage and cucumbers (another superfood) and whatever fruit she has around. 

When we visited her a few weeks ago, she made me one of her smoothies…wow…what a kick in the butt of energy did it provide!!!  I really liked the smoothie and wanted to duplicate it.

Since we don’t have a blender or food processor I started researching for a good blender that would do a good job of grinding up the veggies.  That’s when I found Ninja Master Prep Professional.  It’s a food processor with two bowl sizes and a blender.  It has a removable motor that fits on top of the bowls and blender. I was telling my friend, Lory, about it and she said she had one.  So I borrowed it from her and took it home for a test drive.  It did a good job of mixing things up.  We made homemade salsa (recipe was in the instruction booklet with the machine) and it came out great. I figure I could use the medium size bowl for daily smoothies, the little bowl for salsa, hummus and stuff, and the big 48 oz. blender for those wonderful pineapple daiquiris.

OK, that’s what I wanted.  So when I brought it back to Lory we got online to see how much amazon.com wanted to for.  It was $41.99.  OK, that’s a pretty good price.  So after talking to Jim the next morning I was set to buy one…ah, ah when I went online it was $54.99, gads!  Did I want to pay that much?  I’ll wait to see if it goes down.  So I checked it the next day and it was $65.99, double gads!  Today the prices was $58.99 so maybe it will go down again tomorrow.  We’ll see, but I really want that blender/food processor!!! 

 

 

There is a Ninja Master Prep at Walmart but it’s 50 watts less, has only the large blender and small bowl for $39, but I want the professional model.

 

So this morning I was really wanting a smoothie but without a blender what to do?  Then I remembered Rich and Terri had given me an immersion wand for a birthday present a few years ago.  Would it work?  Would it grind the veggies sufficiently?  Let’s find out.  I used a tall, slender storage container and put in some apple cider, yogurt, a carrot, a leaf of kale, a few strawberries, a banana and a palmful of blueberries.  Turn on the immersion wand and whiz away. 

It came out pretty good…pretty chewy as the bits weren’t ground up completely, but it tasted good.  And about 10 minutes after drinking it I got such a rush of energy I started cleaning house like crazy.

Mission accomplished!

So I’ll continue to use the immersion wand to make my daily smoothies until the Ninja Professional blender goes down in price and I buy it. 

Remember, you are loved.