Eating Healthy

So, my girls are trying to eat healthy and are loosely trying a new program they recently learned about. The program is called the Green Smoothie Diet. I thought I would give it a try too...ahem...loosely. I bought the ingredients to make one for breakfast this morning. Well this morning I ran out of time. Tonight I thought, instead of the ice cream we love, I would make a fruit smoothie, leaving the veggies out for tomorrows "green smoothie".
I only have a regular blender, not the super duper terrific kind that makes soups as well as malts and smoothies. I gathered all my ingredients on the counter....canned pears... frozen banana, blueberries, peaches, strawberries, then a little pomegranate lemonade for additional liquid. The canned pears were puree'd in the blender first. This brought the hubs into the kitchen to see what all the noise was about. Then I added some frozen ingredients and started the blender again.....

This wonderful multi speed KitchenAid in the most beautiful shade of red, that was gifted to me by Dana's mother in law, Kathy.....

BLEW ITS GEARS! 

EPIC FAIL!

So....

I got out my trusty little hand mixer.

Mixed everything really well, 

however I think smoothies are supposed to be, 

well.....

 smooth, and not frozen chunky.

So...

I did what any resourceful girl would do and did it ...

MANUALLY!!!

Yep, I got my salsa maker down, started spinning that puppy fast and

guess what?

SUCCESS!

It was not totally smooth, but the chunks were mini.

They were Delicious! 

As for the Green Smoothies for breakfast....

I think they will be put on hold until I have something to turn all that green into a puree.

I'll be saving for one of these beauties!