- Hey, guys.
I am going to show you, guys
lots of ways of prep smoothies in advance.
You guys know that I'm a big fan
of doing like a weekend of prep
and then having a month's worth of stuff in the freezer
for my kids in the mornings,
especially when we're running out the door to school.
Today I am gonna focus on smoothies.
So I bought these cups from Home and Kind.
She has a website and you can buy five of 'em at time
and I bought 15 of them.
They come with lids like this and straws.
The idea being that you pour all the ingredients
for whatever smoothie you want into the cups,
and I'll just put 'em in the freezer.
Then when your kids want 'em in the morning
they pull them outta the freezer,
dump 'em in the blender,
they're all pre-separated, pre-measured, blend it up,
and then they can put it right back
into the cup with a straw,
and they're on their way in the morning.
So quicker, easy, faster,
just simpler than I think filling all the ingredients out
morning, after morning, after morning.
So we're gonna give it a whirl.
I'm gonna show you guys the recipes I'm using
and see how it turns out.
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So Ryan's here with me.
She's helping me today.
You're gonna see all of the prep.
I don't care.
It's real life guys.
When you cook, you make a mess and then you clean it up.
We're doing five different recipes today.
Three of them are from Home and Kind,
two of them are just random ones I found on websites.
So I will do links to all the smoothie recipes
in the description box below.
Green machine smoothie is the first one.
It's got 207 calories
and then she also has the carbs, protein,
and fat put on the card, which I love.
So macro counts.
I actually am gonna beef this one up just a little bit.
I'm probably gonna put,
just put a scoop of protein powder in with it too,
just to add a little more oomph on the protein side
so they feel full.
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Okay, guys. Green machine.
It says half an apple.
Like four slices.
Half a cup of peaches.
If you're like me, I mean you can actually measure
or you can just estimate.
These are already frozen.
I'm sure you could do fresh peaches too
if you had some that needed to be used,
and you just wanted to pop them in the freezer.
A fourth a cup of frozen avocado.
I didn't have time to freeze it.
I'm just gonna do a half an avocado and scoop it in.
And my theory is it'll freeze itself
when it goes in the freezer.
This is why I don't have a cooking show, guys, right here.
'Cause I'm just like what's the fastest,
easiest, simplest, cheapest, cheater way to do things.
Good job, avocado.
A fourth of a small lime, sliced and unpeeled,
which I think is awesome.
Bam.
A cup and a half of spinach.
Love when my kids get greens.
Again, like you could for real measure it
or you could just estimate.
That looks good, also looks good.
Fabulous. We're done.
That is it for this one.
What you do is you pop these lids on, you freeze them.
When it's time to use them, you would mix them.
This one calls for the contents of what's in here
and a cup and a half of coconut water.
I always have coconut water, coconut milk,
almond milk, regular milk.
Like I think I feel like I always have those on hand.
The idea behind that guys
is that if you put the liquids in the cup
and then you freeze it, it's hard to dump it out.
The liquid's gonna be frozen to the cup.
You could do that, I suppose
and just like run hot water over it till it dumps out,
but I'm just gonna do it like this.
Okay, 'cause I totally forgot
to add the protein powder in the green machine.
I'm going back and doing it now
'cause I told you I like a little more protein.
There we go.
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I, I gotta helper for this one.
- [Shaun] A helper.
- Not her, but isn't she so cute?
- She's so cute. - Hello.
- She has this little ski run slope on her nose right here.
- Yes. We're fostering.
This one is chocolate peanut butter smoothie.
So you need one serving of chocolate protein in each one,
that's two scoops per cup.
Two tablespoons powdered peanut butter.
I'll work on that.
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One tablespoon peanut butter.
- Bananas. - And I will do.
- Use powdered peanut butter
and regular peanut butter. - Yep.
One fourth of medium banana.
We cut a lot of bananas. (chuckles)
We're gonna do one fourth of a banana.
Here we go.
- How do you mix it? - Sweet.
- You aren't mixing them.
One cup of ice.
And again, after you get this all set,
when we are ready to blend it in the morning
it would just be a cup of almond milk in.
- Oh, you store 'em in the freezer
that way? - Bam, bam, bam.
Wollah. Peanut butter chocolate smoothies.
- Looks good.
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Pina cola smoothie.
Ryan laughed at me and said,
"Ooh, you're such a professional."
And I was like, "Well, at one point in my life
I did make wedding cakes."
No, I don't do it anymore because it's too stressful.
Pina cola smoothie.
We need vanilla protein powder,
but only one serving or half a serving.
So that's just one scoop this time.
One, two, and it's just whatever protein powder
you have around the house.
I bought these massive things from Costco,
but I actually have another one I prefer more now.
It's just a little cleaner,
but I'm trying to use these up.
One cup of heaping frozen pineapple.
Heaping cup.
So heaping cup.
Heaping number two.
And we'll do heaping number three.
Bam. Then a cup of spinach.
You guys know me and my measuring on spinach.
So we will just eyeball it and that's that on that one.
And then when it's done,
it's gonna get a cup of unsweetened coconut milk as well.
But these are ready to go into the freezer.
I think that one sounds delicious.
My guess is my kids will devour this one, pina cola.
But it's also fairly healthy.
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Okay, the next one we are going to do
is called raspberry lemonade smoothie.
I thought this one just sounded delicious.
I'm not gonna lie.
It has some liquids in it and some Greek yogurt.
So if you put them in the freezer,
they may solidify to the cup,
which means you're either gonna have to set it out
like 20 minutes before you actually want to eat it,
or warm it under water just so that it will slip out
in a chunk.
Doesn't matter if it's pretty, remember,
'cause you're blending it anyway.
This one calls for a cup of raspberries.
Yum.
Little raspberries, come here.
Four ounces of Greek yogurt, which is a half a cup.
So a half a cup of Greek yogurt.
You can use whichever Greek yogurt you prefer.
I like ones that are low in sugar and high in protein.
This should be a show called,
"Cooking in Real Life as a Mom of Six."
A fourth a cup of almond milk,
and I am gonna go ahead and just put this in.
I suppose that you could leave it out
and try to have it not freeze as well to the cup,
but it's got honey and syrup in it anyway,
so I still think it's going to.
There you go. This is unsweetened.
One tablespoon of lemon juice.
There we go.
Maple syrup.
I usually use a pure maple syrup
because it's healthier for you.
And I'm trying to intentionally put this on the top.
I feel like this is gonna be the thing
that's the most likely to stick the worst.
That's it.
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Hey, we are gonna try the raspberry lemonade.
It's not quite frozen,
so I don't think it will have a hard time coming out.
Dump it in. Here we go.
Wish us luck.
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I don't think that one looks blended enough though.
Did we forget ice?
I think we have to add ice because it's not frozen.
Ice just makes the skin feel ugh.
All right, let's try this again.
Better.
(blender whirring)
Here you go.
Okay. Pink lemonade.
That's this is supposed to taste like?
I mean it definitely tastes like kind of like pink lemonade.
It's tart like a lemonade.
It's actually good.
My kids would eat it for sure.
It's like more tart because of the lemon
and the raspberries.
It has a little bit of a yogurt under base
that you can taste, but it's good.
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Last but not least, we are doing a blueberry muffin.
So we've got our three cups.
We need a half a cup of blueberries per cup.
Got our freshly washed blueberries here.
One medium size ripe banana.
So one banana.
A fourth a cup of rolled oats.
Fourth a cup.
One tablespoon of almond butter.
Almond butter.
One fourth a teaspoon of cinnamon.
We at the end would add unsweetened almond milk,
again, at when we get out of the freezer.
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I thought it would be fun to try the blueberry muffin too.
Keep in mind again, these aren't frozen.
So normally I think, you know,
it help add the ice for you.
So I'm called for almond milk.
Grab the ice.
Okay.
Let's see what happen.
(blender whirring)
All right.
Get that nice and mixed.
Looks good, guys.
Look at that.
You see that?
Nice purplely color.
Let's see if it channel blueberry muffin.
It really does.
That's weird. - [Ryan] Is it good?
- It tastes like a blueberry muffin.
That's weird.
I wasn't expecting it to actually taste
like a blueberry muffin, but nope, it does.
Yep.
It's definitely not like super sweet.
So I could see how some kids might not love this one,
but it's got a really yummy flavor.
And it definitely tastes like blueberry muffin.
Okay, here's what it looks like inside the freezer.
You can see we have a little shelf full.
And if I really wanted to,
I could pull out my label maker
and just, you know, slap a little label on 'em,
so the kids knew what they were pulling.
Or we can just have it be a mystery.
You can kind of identify it by,
you know what I mean?
Looks like itself.
Hey guys, we finished them all.
You can see all five of the different recipes that we are.
These are the two that we did mix up.
You can see them.
Yum.
Super easy, fast, makes your mornings a little bit smoother.
Get it? Haha.
Didn't need to do that, but it works.
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