Frozen Fruit Smoothies (No Dairy.)

Winnie found a recipe for these on the net and we have been making variations of them for quite some time now. They are thick enough to eat with a spoon, depending on how you make them and we have been using them as a substitute for ice cream.

What you need for this is a strong blender, one with the power to blend ice.
The ingredients for the original smithies were;

1 Frozen banana.
6 Frozen strawberries.
4 Ice cubes.
Enough orange/passion fruit juice to blend the mixture.

We have changed amounts and combinations to suit our own taste. The liquid component is important to help blend the ingredients and stop the mixture from seizing up. The ice cubes can add extra volume to the mix and strangely give it a kind of creamy texture.
Since trying these we have tried a number of different things in different combinations; pears, kiwi fruit, pineapple, watermelon,  berries and different kinds of juice.
It is a great way of not wasting fruit too. Anything in our fruit bowl that is getting a bit too ripe and we are not going to eat it in time, goes into the freezer. When we do buy strawberries we eat what we want at the time and the rest goes in the freezer. No more wasted fruit for us.

So give it a go, it's something yummy and is good for you too. Not many things can boast that.