How to Make Your Own Smoothie: An HC Intern Figures It Out - Part-1

After indulging over spring break with ice cream, cookies, and a cocktail nightly, my roommate and I quickly decided we needed a new dessert game plan.  Dessert, for the two of us, is somewhat of a necessity and while a chunky chocolate chip cookie with cookie dough ice cream every evening was certainly heaven, it definitely didn't do us any favors.  We decided on smoothies—cheap, nutritious, and quick. We didn't follow a recipe but we discovered that what we had laying around our kitchen resulted in a delicious smoothie creation. Read on, collegiettes™, and try to make your very own healthy dessert.

 

What you'll need:

12 fl oz orange juice

1 banana

Handful of strawberries (we used 10!)

1 mango

Yogurt (we used two vanilla Dannon Light & Fit- 45 calories each!)

3 ice cubes

And a blender, of course!

What we did:

We started by washing all of our fruits and chopping them up.  Here's how we did it:

Strawberries: Cut off the tops, and divide into four sections.

Bananas: Peel and thinly slice.

Mango: Dice it! Slice lengthwise into two halves.  Cut a cross-hatch pattern on both halves, but don't cut through the skin.  Turn the skins inside out and you'll be able to easily cut the mango pulp off of the skin.

Before putting your fruits into the blender, crush 3 ice cubes in the blender.  Once crushed, throw in all of your chopped fruits.  Blend until mixed and then add the orange juice- we used 12 fl oz of OJ and that amount worked well!  Empty the two containers of yogurt into the blender (we used two 4.4 fl oz containers, but I'm sure a regular-sized yogurt would work perfectly also).

 

Keep blending until you've reached the consistency you prefer!  Our results?