Comments on: Smoothies – On a Food Storage Blog?

By: Liz

Liz — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:16:51 +0000

I'm not sure that freezing yogurt kills the good bacteria, because you can make more yogurt with a frozen cube of yogury, not as thick as store bought, but works as well, and it is a great little money saver.

By: Kayla

Kayla — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:07:30 +0000

Great idea – we also throw in the baby spinach leaves from Costco – seriously – you can’t taste them and it is a great way to get greens into the kids!

By: jweiss08

jweiss08 — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 02:21:16 +0000

Jessica

I actually never heard of or thought of that. I will look into it. For now I figure it’s creamier and yummier then just plain ice cubes… But if you’re doing it to get all the nutrients out of the yogurt and freezing it kills it, that’s something to think about ?!?!?

By: Jessica Rancourt

Jessica Rancourt — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:15:13 +0000

I like the idea of using powdered milk in frozen fruit smoothies, and am curious about yogurt cubes! Doesn’t freezing yogurt kill the probiotics and live active cultures in it?

By: George

George — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:47:01 +0000

Great take on the technique, I haven’t seen it done this way before

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By: Blog Buddy

Blog Buddy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:05:59 +0000

While growing up in Alaska, my mother served us powdered milk to drink and eat with cereal. We hated the stuff and preferred “fresh milk” instead:D But I remember her using powdered milk in our homemade hot-chocolate(delicious!) She also used powdered milk in her bread recipe…which we couldn’t get enough of. So, I now keep a box of dry milk to use for baking also. My kids have no idea how lucky they are!

By: mentalutopia

mentalutopia — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:27:49 +0000

You can make the yogurt using powdered milk or canned milk from your food storage too. Canned milk makes amazing creamy yogurt similar to Dannon La Creme. And powdered milk makes nonfat yogurt that doesn’t have any weird “powdered” taste.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 02:40:39 +0000

LOVE the idea of pre-packaging them! And the little yogurt cubes? Brilliant! I’m totally going to do that. Thanks.

By: Party Mum

Party Mum — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:16:24 +0000

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

By: Jodi

Jodi — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:38:23 +0000

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!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:15:14 +0000

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.

By: Prudent Homemaker

Prudent Homemaker — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:07:20 +0000

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.

By: Kayci

Kayci — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 20:47:18 +0000

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!

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:13:03 +0000

Oh these look so delicious, so does your post. I am so proud of you. I cannot wait to try them!