Smoothies - On a Food Storage Blog?
So I have been making these delicious smoothies lately and couldn’t figure out if I could justify sharing the recipe on a food storage blog. The other day when I ran out of milk it dawned on me I could try some of my powdered milk in it instead. Well, I did it! It was delicious, so now I can officially share the recipe on a food storage blog (not to mention all the other ingredients are frozen, so they can count as food storage if you have a big freezer).
Fruit and Yogurt Smoothies
Serving Size: 2 large glasses
Prep Time: 5 minutes (if you make a bunch of baggies ahead of time)
Ingredients (if you skip the sugar, they’re actually REALLY healthy):
- 3/4 cup of frozen strawberries
- 1/2 cup of frozen blueberries
- 1/2 cup of frozen peaches or rasberries
- 1cup of powdered milk prepared
- 5 ice cubes of fat-free strawberry yogurt (or any other kind)
- 1/4 of sugar if you think it needs it (I use splenda here and there)
Directions:
- Pour milk into blender
- Add fruit, blend
- Add yogurt cubes, blend
- Add sugar, blend
- Eat with a spoon, or drink with a straw
Directions to prepare a bunch of smoothies for the go ahead of time:
- Buy a 8-10 ziploc baggies
- Buy bags of your favorite frozen fruits (I did 2 strawberry, 1 peach, 1 blueberry)
- Divide up your fruit into the baggies
- Divide a large container of yogurt into ice cube containers and freeze
- Once frozen place 5 yogurt cubes into each ziploc bag
- Put bags into the freezer and use them up as you wish, all you’ll need to add is the milk and sugar.
SO - ASK YOURSELF DO I HAVE DRY MILK IN MY FOOD STORAGE?:
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Thanks everydayfoodstorage author for sharing with us that powdered milk is the FIRST thing you should try when you are new at food storage.
Filed under: Baking Ingredients, Fruit Recipes, Powdered Milk Recipes, Recipes
Oh these look so delicious, so does your post. I am so proud of you. I cannot wait to try them!
I use a similar method, but use orange juice instead of milk and no sugar. It’s allergy friendly this way but you can also add flax seed or wheat germ, or even a handful of spinach!
We’ve been living on our food storage for almost two years now, and we make smoothies as well. I don’t use powdered milk, yogurt or sugar in mine.
You can, however, make yogurt from powdered milk (HillyBilly Housewife has instructions on how to do it; I keep refrigerated acidophlius on hand to do it) to include if you want to.
You can also open your canned fruit and freeze it for smoothies. I also make fruit nectar from my trees and add that in for part of fruit.
Jodi -
Glad you saw the award - I had not gotten around to leaving you a note about it yet. Yes, if you are up for it, you can forward it onto 6 blogs and list 6 things you are grateful for. No pressure - it is not for everyone, but it is a fun way to highlight some of your favorite blogs or resources.
Thanks to those who commented with variations on our smoothie recipe. The best thing about food storage, recipes, etc. is that you can customize them to fit your family’s needs and preferences. We are trying to practice making these things BEFORE we are stuck in an emergency so that we can make sure that our families (and us) will actually EAT them!
Thankyou so so much for this pwdered milk smoothie. I have to say I dread the times when the money doesn’t quite stretch and I have to rely on the ole powdered milk from my food storage to get by. I can’t stand the stuff, kids love it though, but now I can try it as a smoothie. I thought the idea of freezing canned fruit was a great suggestion from Prudent Home Maker too. I often do it for my Perfect Party Drink Recipes, but never thought to do it for individual future smoothies. So thanks muchly
LOVE the idea of pre-packaging them! And the little yogurt cubes? Brilliant! I’m totally going to do that. Thanks.