At our house, we love to have homemade smoothies in the Summertime. Not only are they yummy and refreshing–especially on a hot Summer day!–but they can also be quite frugal. Yes, really, smoothies can be frugal!
Almost any kind of fruit can be used in a smoothie, but berries are especially good. During the Summer months when berries are in season and plentiful, the sales on them are usually abundant. Buy a little extra each week and wash, chop, and freeze them to have for later and you’ll save a bundle and stock your freezer with a nice variety of berries to use in smoothies for a few months to come.
I like to spread the berries on baking sheets after I’ve washed and chopped them and then stick them in the freezer until they are frozen. Once frozen, I transfer them from the baking sheets to freezer bags. This method prevents all of your berries forming into one big clump in the freezer bag and makes it much easier for you to get out a cup or two at a time to add to your blender for a smoothie.
Another fruit which is a must-have in smoothies is bananas. Our stores sell bananas which are past their prime for a very reduced price. I buy these up and we eat what we can the first day and then chop and freeze the rest to use in smoothies and banana bread. This is a much more cost-effective way to add bananas to your smoothies and you can’t tell that a banana was a bit overripe if it is in a smoothie!
Since I love experimenting in the kitchen, I find smoothies to be a great way to use up some of those odds and ends of produce from the refrigerator and freezer. From that little bit of leftover juice or yogurt which wasn’t used for breakfast the day before to the spinach from the garden which you have in abundance, almost anything can go into a smoothie so long as you put enough other things in it to “hide” it!
The other day, I used the items pictured above to whip up some strawberry smoothies: some of the YoBaby yogurt, frozen strawberries, milk, and some Santa Cruiz juice.
I always begin by adding in the frozen fruit and any fresh fruit, then yogurt or milk, and then liquids (either milk or juice). I add more liquid if needed and sweeten it with honey or sugar if it needs it (most of the time, we don’t add sweetener as the fruit is plenty enough!).
And the girls just gobble it up!
We love strawberry smoothies, but another family favorite is our Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie recipe which is posted here. I made it up on a whim one day and we all decided it was a keeper! If you’re a little more adventuresome, you might also try Green Smoothies. We’ve made these before and no one seemed to even notice the spinach in them!
Would you like to try your hand at making smoothies? Just for fun, I’m giving away a Smoothie Kit on my blog today complete with yummy smoothie recipes, a small Hamilton-Beach blender (shown above), and Bone Health t-shirts.
May was National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month and the Milk Bone Health Program was going to give away this kit then, but since I had a baby in May, I’m a little behind here. But I thought it’d be fun to still give away this kit–especially since it’s a wonderful time of year to be making smoothies.
To enter to win this Smoothie Kit, just leave a comment on this post in the next 24 hours. I’ll randomly choose a winner once this giveaway is closed.
The girls, enjoying their smoothies and sporting their “I {love} strong bones” t-shirts.
Yum, gotta LOVE smoothies!
Marie Cluff
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Smoothies are great and thanks for the tip on freezing the fruit. I hadn’t thought of that.
I love smoothies but don’t make them very often because my blender is wearing out. Would love to try out a new blender!
We also love smoothies! One of our new favorites: vanilla yogurt, frozen banana, Tang, and milk. “Mum! Mum!” is what my 1 1/2 year old says!
I tried to do smoothies for breakfast but i am no where near as creative as you all, i was following directions and they were calling for things that i had never heard of!
Pauline
Smoothies are a great treat anytime! Would love to win!
Am I too late?
Found your blog today and love it! I cannot wait to make the peanut butter banana smoothie!!
Great giveaway, too!
I love that you can hide other healthy things in smoothies like spinach. Just wish my blender didn’t break!
I love a good smoothie and thank you for a chance to win!
Cara
I’ve never really tried a smoothie but I’m interested to try – and I”m sure my kids would love it!
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Yay! for smoothies. We love orange smoothies much like an orange julius! Would be a blessing to win this great giveaway!
My husband loves smoothies! He uses frozen strawberries instead of any ice. The frozen bananas are a great idea. Thanks!
Thank you for the GREAT smoothie recipes!
I enjoy reading your site, it is a big help.
Gotta love smoothies!
I’m going to take your ideas and start freezing fruit and making smoothies at my house!!
loves the smoothies idea, something I always forget about!!
Smoothies are the best!!
Fun – we’d love to try it in Nebraska.
We love smoothies:) Thanks for entering me!
Now that my garden is producing aplenty, boy could I use this kit!
Thank you for all the GREAT tips you give us moms. I am new at this couponing, frugel life style but I am loving it. I must say it is alot of work and kind of mind boggeling at first. I read your site first thing everyday. Thank you!
Oh wow, sounds great!
Hi
Thanks for the chance to win a blender. V don’t have one n so use the one at my friends house(can b awkward tho”). I have found 5.5 lbs bags of frozen berries during the summer at $3.99/bag which I think is a good deal n one bag lasts for a while, too.
I feel silly for saying this, but I have never even THOUGHT of making smothies for my family. But, wow….what a great idea! Like you said, you can pack them pretty much full of anything and they are a yummy, easy-to-make treat. I also love the idea of slicing up bananas that are about to “go bad” and freezing them for later use. Again, thanks for the great ideas!
I love smoothies!
I’d love to win this, my blender is about 20 years old and is on its last leg.
Smoothies sound delicious! I can’t think of anything better with 90 degree temps already this morning. 🙂
Thanks for the tip on freezing the fruit. I will try that to avoid the massve hunk of fruit I have gotten in the past.
I have been planning to look up a green smoothie recipe all week. Going to try it out at my moms this week. 🙂
I could really use a new blender!
I do something called a Green Smoothie. My 2 year old loves them bu the 4 yr old and Daddy do not. I need to try something a little sweeter for them. Thanks.
We love smoothies too!
Thanks for the ideas! I’m not much of a breakfast eater but I know how important it is to have. Smoothies are a great substitute. And thanks for the ideas on freezing fruit. I never thought about freezing bananas.
I’ve always wanted to try smoothies but we don’t have a blender, and it doesn’t make the cut for the budget. Thanks for the chance to win!
My daughter (and the whole family) loves smoothies so much that she has requested them for two birthday in row. Sadly our blender is on it’s way out. Mommy would love to get a free one.
Smoothies! =)
Manking smoothies is one way to get fruit into my kids. I cna even sneek in a vegetable now and then which makes it even better.
I would love to win this! My kids love smoothies!!
What a great giveaway. I’d love to enter it’s not too late. Love your blog, you are truly an inspiration.
TOTALLY could use a smoothie kit. My kids always want smoothies!
We love smoothies, and buying them from those smoothie places can get expensive fast!!!! Thanks for the tips and for the giveaway.
We’re big smoothie drinkers here. We add greens to ours to kick it up a notch. Anything from kale, spinach, chard — we love ’em all!
Thanks for the post! I just discovered “green smoothies” and am totally hooked! Need to try some other, more “fun” types, too.
Smoothies are the Best!!!
I’d love a new blender- ours is 2nd hand and 25 years old. It doesn’t even come close to breaking up ice.
I love smoothies! Making them at home they can be so healthy too!
Hope I’m not too late to be considered, but we love smoothies, and so do my two grandsons. Smoothies may be the only way to get some “good for them” fruits and veggies into their tummies!
OOO we had strawberry bannana smoothies for breakfast!
sounds yummy to me! 🙂
I’d love to try making smoothies! Esp with the warmer weather!
Would love to have a blender for smoothies! Thanks for the chance to win!
Who doesn’t love them some smoothies!
Love smoothies and love your site. Thanks for keeping me up to date on deals and other ways to save.
Yum! You have me drooling at the keyboard! Thanks so much for the chance!!
I would love to win this. Great giveaway for the summer heat.
yummm I love smoothies!!
we love smoothies!
I LOVE smoothies, but unfortunately rarely make them! My blender doesn’t work so well… Thanks for the opportunity to win!!!
When I only have time to read a couple of blogs, I always make sure yours is one of them. I love the tips and info you provide and your girls are adorable!! My family loves smoothing, but I never even thought about freezing the fresh fruit, I don’t know why, I guess it just didn’t occur to me. Guess I will be doing that for sure now!! 🙂 Thanks again!! Love ya!!!!!!
My mom always made us smoothies (some were better than others, she used beets in hers sometimes) and now I make them every so often for my kids. Still not as good as my mama’s though!
What a wonderful giveaway. My DD had her first smoothie not to long ago and loves them. Their great for letting her practice drinking out of a regular cup since they are thicker then milk or water. I would love to be able to whip some up at home.
Smoothies are yummy!
I love smoothies, but do not make them that much
These sound yummy – I bet both my 2 and 1-year-old girls will love them and it would be even cooler to win the giveaway! thanks,
Jenn
Yay for smoothies! I never seem to remember these when I’m looking for a yummy summer treat – thanks for the reminder!
~vee
I love making smoothies and then freezing them. I take them out a few hours before I want to eat them and have a quick healthy treat.
I would love a smoothie blender…a little motivation to make them for my girls!! Thanks!
My kids love smoothies!
I love smoothies! I have twin boys, who are just starting to work on solid foods.
You can see them at http://bellinboys.blogspot.com
Great giveaway!
Cool! 🙂
LET ME WIN!!!!
THANKS!
Thanks for the chance to win….We love smoothies and my blender was broken recently….;(
Sounds very delicious! I want to Win!!!!!!
We love smoothies, too, with all kinds of berries and great deals on yogurt from Kroger! Thanks for this opportunity!
Your smoothie looks delicious!
Rhonda
rgbarron01 at yahoo dot com
Smoothies are a must in FL!
I have added smoothies to my breakfast menu during my pregnancy (I’m 32 weeks now). They were a great way to get some protein, calcium, and fruit into my diet even when I was rushed in the morning to get to my job as a teacher. I saved money by purchasing the fruit from the farmers market through a co-op when it is in season (a whole flat of strawberries/blueberries or a basket of peaches goes a long way!). I was also able to get my husband who is not usually a breakfast person to drink them, with an added scoop of protein mix.
We would love to start making smoothies!
Thank you!
Brad Malone
Is it too late? LOL I don’t know what time zone you’re in, but I am in need of a new blender 🙂
I love smoothies! I would love to be entered in the giveaway.
Thanks for doing this blog – I save so much money because of you and get to try so many neat products.
Have a great day.
What a great giveaway! Please enter me!
My blender just broke, so I hope I win! 🙂
smoothie goodness. i would whip some up with stuff from the garden and some soy milk for my son. wholesome goodness for the allergy king!
Smoothies are a huge favorite around here. Thanks for the recipes I have been wanting to experiment more!
Oohh–I’ve been needed a new blender. A child seems to have lost my lid! Great give-a-way
What cute kiddos you have! My kids love smoothies too!
Thanks!
We have just started making smoothies for afternoon snacks around here, but I haven’t got the perfect mix yet- I am still working on it.!!!
YAY!!! Thanks for the giveaway!
Thanks for the great idea. PLease enter me into the drawing.
We love smoothies. The kids love banana/strawberry & banana/pineapple. Thanks!
Smoothies are the BEST and I make them often! Thanks for the tips about freezing fruit…I had no idea and I’m going to start applying those tips this weekend. I LOVE your blog! Thanks for the chance to win!
sounds fun I would love to win!!!
We love smoothies at our house!
Well, you’ve now got me in the mood for a yummy smoothie. My boys will be thrilled – as they love it when I make smoothies, which unfortunately is not often enough for them.
Smoothies are so great on a hot summer day!
I guess I need to re-read my post next time..I’m a terrible typer before I have my coffee!!
I chckled when I saw this post…I JUST Finished making a smoothly for my son…blueberries, strawberries, yogurt and a little OJ..and of course a banana! I love your tip about chopping them before you freeze them. I freeze them wol in the pel and hen they are a mess to thaw and usen the smoothy. Thanks!!!
I’ve just started experimenting with smoothies! They are so healthy and easy to make.
AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
I sure hope I am not tooooooooooo late……
but i thought it was worth a shot !!!
I <3 Smoothies, and my housemate broke my magic bullet, did not replace it, and now I need to buy a new on ......
or win one!
I would love to win!! The kiddos love smoothies and hate spending too much money at Smoothie King. Can’t wait to try some of your recipes!! Thanks!!
I’m in
I love smoothies! Just had a berry smoothie yesterday for breakfast. Yumm!
We really like smoothies! My 18 month old calls them “keam” short for ice cream! 🙂
Smoothies are great. When my oldest was 2 he decided to stop eating breakfast and only wanted milk. Instead, I made him smoothies with yogurt and fruit so he was still getting more nutrition in. Thanks for the opportunity!
I love smoothies and make them often
We love smoothies at our house, too! I try to make them for Sunday mornings on the way to church (since we’re usually running late). That way we still get something to eat that holds us over till lunch. 🙂 Thanks!
We love smoothies! Thanks!
That would be great!
i really want to try out smoothies and need a blender..if canadians qualify…pls enter me..if not i understand..
celina in canada
Thanks for the giveaway!
Smoothies (or poothies as my 2 year old calls them) are one of our favorite quick breakfasts!
mmmmm……..
Yum!! We love smoothies! Thanks for the awesome recipes and giveaway!!
Thanks for the tip on freezing bananas!
my daughter loves smoothies! I’d love to win this.
I think this is a wonderful giveaway.
Hi–I always put whole peeled bananas tight in a freezer bag and *chop* them by breaking them up with fingers. So many added nutrients using banana *ice* rather than real ice.
I love smoothies!!
I’d like to start making smoothies. You make it sound so easy.
I love smoothies! I’d love to make them at home, but I don’t have a blender, so this would be the perfect giveaway for me to win!! I’m keeping my fingers crossed… Thanks Crystal!! 🙂
Smoothies are a great treat, especially in the summer months! Yum!
I love smoothies! I’d love to win.
We love smoothies around here, too! We freeze pineapple juice in icetrays to add to smoothies. Gives it a nice tropical flair and a great consistency.
We love smoothies, its a great way to get some good food into my son.
I am definately going to try the green smoothie this weekend. I could really use a new blender too!
Thanks,
Lori
thanks Crystal! We love smoothies at our house too!
Thanks for explaining how to freeze bananas. I wouldn’t have thought of it.
Yummy! Sounds fantastic!
We love smoothies in our home!!! And can I mention that your girls are adorable!!!!
Looks like a great kit. Count me in!
What a perfect summer treat – eapecially with this heat wave 🙂
Yum! My kids would love this – I will definitely try this one, even if I don’t win 🙂
My kids love smoothies!!!
My daughter and I love smoothies also. Fresh pineapple is our favorite fruit smoothie. Yum!! Thanks for the giveaway. Amy
Hope to be able to start “smoothie-ing!”
We love peanut butter banana smoothies too!
We love smoothies! And those t-shirts!
Our favorite ingredient for a fruit smoothie is blueberries!
I love to make smoothies as well. Sometimes I’ll use kefir and frozen fruit, and sometimes coconut milk with fruit. Strawberries & bananas are our favorites. Thanks for posting great deals! I read them every day.
oh my family is trying so hard to be frugal…i would love this
We often add a spoonful or two of raw oatmeal to our smoothies. Extra protein, fiber, and delicious texture! Try it!!
I love it.
One of our favorite treats! Thanks.
just under the wire…. we love smoothies too!
my husband and daughter love smoothies! we live in florida so we have them year around!
Our blender died years ago and I never replaced it so I have not been making smoothies, this would be a great prize to win!
Would love to win your smoothie kit
Picj our family please! 🙂
Smoothies are the best in the summer. I worked at a smoothie shop once and my favorite was the strawberry smoothie. Ingredients were: frozen vanilla yogurt, orange sherbet, orange juice, half a banana, frozen strawberries and a spoonful of pinapple chunks. The pineapple really adds the last punch of flavor and zing to it.
I have really been wanting one of these but can’t seem to make the splurge! I hope I win.
I follow your blog from Holland (Europe)…I’m a military spouse. Love the tips on smoothies. Thanks!
Oh I would love to win this. I really want to start making smoothies for my children. They would really love it!!!
i could use a blender, yay!
Your blog has always been my favorite. Funny thing… the other two bloggers I love just had babies and have not updated for weeks! Thanks for keeping us in tune.
My sons love smoothies. My son Brady was oohing and ahhing over the ones you and your kiddos made.
Pick me! 🙂
What a great giveaway! Thanks!!!
We love smoothies.
I love smoothies!!!!
Your giveaway is so great & love to have new recipes. Would like a new blender since mine is leaking everytime I blend smoothie. I add flax seed and oatmeal with milk & ice for the morning breakfast with bananas, blueberrries, and strawberries. It’s delicious, you should try it !! :0)
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Yumm! A smoothie sounds extremely good right now! Thanks for doing this!
we love smoothies to my oldest son now makes one everyday after his basketball practices!!! Your girls look so cute to 🙂
Smoothies rock!!!
I would love the smoothie recipes and blender. It might help with my daughter, who is a picky eater as of late ,to get some more nutritious meals. Thanks for the chance.
I would love to win!!!!!!!!
What a great give away. One thing we always do with our smoothies is put in a complementary flavor of yogurt (instead of plain/vanilla) it adds just enough flavor so that we never have to sweeten it up.
What a great giveaway! We love smoothies. I’ll have to try your peanut butter banana one. I think my four year old would love it!
thanks for the idea of freezing fruit pieces just never thought about doing that thanks!!!again
Horray for smoothies!
thanks…
We absolutely love smoothies!!
Great idea!
Would love a copy of your Smoothie Recipes! We just started making homemade smoothies – so much fun! 🙂
My kids love smoothies. We need a new blender, too.
We love green smoothies too! I’ve never tried making just plain strawberry smoothies, or smoothies without ice, so I’ll have to try that. Thanks!
Never made smoothies but am inspired now!
I’d love to win this! I’ve been wanting to make smoothies for my girls – they love them, I’m just too lazy… Our girls look to be about the same ages! Such a fun time!! 🙂
Thanks for the opportunity to enter! I have three little boys that I’m sure would go crazy for some of these recipes. 🙂
Great idea freezing the fruit individually, I’d never would have thought of doing that. Love the recipes. Thank You
We LOVE smoothies
With the great deals on fruit, this is a great giveaway.
I wanna win! My blender blends poorly.
Thanks for this offer. Just froze 6 lbs of strawberries. Your smoothie kit would get them blended in no time. 🙂
Great giveaway. Thanks!
We love smoothies. My blender is not working. I have been trying to use a wisk and making lumpy drinks! LOL
Thank-You for all your recipes. 😀
I’d love to win!
I love the idea of chopping up overripe bananas to freeze and use in smoothies! We would love more smoothies for summer.
We love smoothies. Thank-You so much for all of your recipes. I hope that I win, as I need a new Blender! 😀
Thank-You!
Mmmm! Green smoothies!
We love smoothies!! I’m always trying new ones…even the Green on! it’s a must try 🙂
love smoothies and would really like a new blender, thanks! This is a great blog, I am new to it…
thanks so much, I have tried your peanut butter smoothie and love it, I plan to try the green smoothie, but am nervous about my kids being willing to try it. I have been trying to make more things at home, however, my blender seems to be giving out–so this gift would be perfect timing–thanks!
I am always looking for a good way to make smoothies..I love them, but being a frugal mom I can’t always go to Smoothie King. this would be a great way for me to get started!
I love smoothies too!!!
I need some strong bones, choose my old bones please:)
Looks Yummy
Strawberries $0.88
Orange Juice $2.59
Bananas $0.59
The fun of homemade smoothies- PRICELESS! 🙂
The smoothie kit would be wonderful. We don’t have a blender, so I do my best with our mini food processor, but it’s pretty messy with liquids! Thank you!
We love smoothies at our house!
Gotta love smoothies! Love your website!
I keep meaning to try this. Thanks for the reminder!
We just had a smoothie tonight!
looks yummy!
so cute-thanks for the giveaway!
I always want to make them, but our blender is no good, so I never do! Maybe I’ll win this one and get the chance..
We have (almost) 17 mo old triplets and are just beginning to find new ways to get them hydrated and enjoy what they are drinking. They LOVE fruit, so I think smoothies would be the “fun” treat and keep them hydrated at the same time.
Thanks for a great blog! We love it!
We love pumpkin smoothies. You just use bottled or canned pumpkin, ice, milk or water & powdered milk, and sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger to taste, with a dash of cloves. It tastes like pumpkin pie (if you add enough sugar and milk), and is very frugal, since we use pumpkin that I bottled last fall, when I bought pumpkins for $1 a piece after Halloween. You can also freeze the pumpkin if you don’t have a pressure canner, but do have enough freezer space.
I would love to start making smoothies for my family!
Awesome giveaway. Count me in!!! [email protected]
I LOVE how you can put so much “good stuff” in a smoothie (kefir, protein powder…..) and they always turn out great!!
We’ve worn out our trusty blender. Would love to win one.
I would love to make smoothies!
We love smoothies as well and I love your tips on your blog. I have been freezing bananas and strawberries today to use in recipes later.
My son tried making our service dog a smoothies with his milkbones, didn’t work out so well and he also burnt the motor out in our blender. Oh well, at least he learned not do this again
We are very partial to smoothies around here!
I love smoothies and would LOVE to win this prize!!
My family has started drinking smoothies just recently. We love them and my husband is the one who tries the crazy things but for the most part they turn out pretty good. Would love to win the smoothie kit.
Thanks
Dana
We make smoothies about once a week around here! The kids love them and I love all the healthy things that I can pack into one glass!
This would be awesome!
I was just thinking about buying a blender like this since I’m making so many smoothies lately!
So excited about this give away – and the smoothie recipes!!!!!!!!!
These smoothies sound great!
Sounds good. We love smoothies at my house too.
My step-daughters (ages 4 and 7) love to try putting new things in their smoothies. We have had some great ones and some not to do ones. We use lots of fresh fruit. I have never froze berries before, but that is a great thing.
Looks good!
Thank you so much for offering this. I would love to make smoothies for my family.
Hi Crystal! I have been trying to think of something new for my kids for breakfast this summer and since its so hot here where we live a smoothie is a great idea. Thanks for the idea and being a blessing. Elizabeth
This sounds fabulous. I love smoothies! Thanks for the contest.
Would love to learn more about making smoothies!!
Cool giveaway!
delicious!
Yeah!! Smoothie Kit 🙂 TY
Sounds yummy! thanks:)
I have been wanting to make smoothies, but don’t know how to get started! Plus my blender quit working, so this would be perfect!
Thank you-
Lisa
lisadesigner(at)hotmail(dot)com
I loved to hear about your peanut butter banana smoothie, I make something similar, except I also add about 1 tbsp of nesquik too, which makes it a choc pb banana smoothie, it is like a treat but healthy!
please enter me, thanks!
My girls have decided that green smoothies are their favorite! Yeah!!!
Yummy! We {heart} smoothies!!!
Our blender died a few months back and it hasn’t been replaced. This would be great!!
That’s a great idea to freeze everything seperately!!! All these years I have been hacking at a frozen chunk of fruit, lol, I will be using that one. I really enjoyed this post 🙂 Thanks!
-Chancy
I make smoothies too, and my boys love them!
Cara
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Our family also enjoys smoothies.
What a great idea!! I would love to win–great pics of the girls! Thanks for all you do!
OOOOH!!! SMOOTHIES!!! Please add me to your drawing!
I’d love to win. Our blender just broke and we would love to try some of your smoothie recipes.
I love smoothies! They’re my breakfast most work days, and its great here in Phoenix. I don’t like bananas in mine though. 🙁 Most of my smoothies are yogurt based with fruit and such added based on whatever we have around.
I find I can puree in some lettuce or an avocado and not taste it but know I’m getting the nutrients.
I’ve never made smoothies . . . but yours always look so wonderful I would love to give it a go with a new Smoothie Kit!
Yea Smoothies!
I love the smoothie idea, we love them.
It’s funny you should post this. I just began making green smoothies this week for my breakfast. (My husband and 16 yo daughter aren’t sold on the idea just yet.) It’s an easy way to get a large number of my daily fruits and veggies. I also stay full longer.
We love smoothies in our house! It is a great way to get good nutrition into our kids (without them even knowing it!!). I am a new blog subscriber and have learned so much from you already! I am planning a baking day (once the weather goes back under 90!) Thank you for all of your hard work.
Yeah for smoothies!!!
Try freezing chunks of watermelon to make a watermelon sherbert type smoothie!
My children enjoy smoothies when I make them, too, and it is good to know they are healthy as well!
The smoothies look great! I would love a blender! 🙂
Thanks for the giveaway!
Can’t wait to try some of your recipes. Yum.
We LOVE smoothies. I really like green smoothies too. I don’t make them nearly as often as I should! Great giveaway!
We live in fruit country, love smoothies and need a new blender baddly!
thanks for the idea on freezing fruit!!!! Love your blog!!!
Andrea
You make making smoothies so easy and yummy! Kim
Great giveaway! How fun. The boys would love this! Hope my luck is good:”}
I’d love to have this kit. I think my kids would love the smoothies!
We would love that blender!
Oh wow! I would really LOVE to win this! Thanks for the chance!
I love smoothies! We like taking orange juice, a bannana, and strawberries:) This would be a great kit to have. Thanks.
I love smoothies and will love them even more if the blender is free. thanks
I would love to win! Thanks for the recipes!
Yeah for smoothies! I was so glad to hear the idea to IQF fresh fruit!
Thanks SO much for such a great giveaway. My girls love smoothies too
My girls (5 and 3) were looking over my shoulder as I was reading this post and asked why we never eat smoothies. Because I don’t have a blender! So pick me!
I love smoothies, but never think to make them. I have been reading your blog for awhile now and am always amazed at the new things I see. I am even trying my hand at the Walgreens deals. Thanks!!
This sounds great…thanks for the opportunity..Jenn McBroom
Smoothies are the best.
Thanks! I was just looking for some smoothie recipes this week.
JK
I’d love this! We don’t have a blender ~
– Amy
We love smoothies and this is a reminder that I should make them more!!!
We love smoothies at our house. In fact, yesterday and today I made smoothies. i’ll have to try a green smoothie some time. thanks
We love smoothies too!
Thanks for such a great giveaway.
Smoothies are our families favorite summer night treat! What a fun giveaway!
I have never thought about freezing bananas! Thank you for your great blog. I would love the blender to experiment with these great ideas.
I am definately going to try the smoothies..they sound great!! Delaine
We’ve been making tons of smoothies lately!
I’ve always wanted to make smoothies. Thanks for the ideas. Now I just need to win the blender.
Thanks for the smoothie ideas!
I freeze berries and peaches like you do, but never thought to slice bananas. I always froze them whole, I will slice from now on for convenience of use. Thanks for the idea! Smoothies rock!
We’ve tried the green smoothies and we are hooked. We put spinach. pineapples, and a banana and the kids love it. Thanks for offering another great giveaway! Ruth
I loved this post! We love experimenting with smoothies and I NEVER knew you could freeze Bananas so I am very excited about that 🙂 thank you for sharing you knowledge with opportunities to win as a bonus
Yummmm! Smoothies are a family favorite!!
Thanks for the great Smoothie recipes!! I would love a kit, my blender is definately on the way out, would love a new one!!
I love them!
I love smoothies with OJ, Strawberries, & Yogurt! YUMMY!
We love smoothies, espeially blueberry. My blender is on the fritz so this would be great! Thanks!
I found strawberries at Aldi a couple weeks ago for 49 cents a pound so I bought a bunch and am so glad I decided to freeze them! We have been enjoying smoothies around here!
I would love to win this! Thank you so much for this opportunity!
Thanks for the info. 🙂 Gonna have try those p-nut butter banana smoothies!!
I freeze my bananas whole in the peel. When I notice they are getting really ripe I just toss them in. The skin turns black but the inside stops ripening. Works great!
Fun! Thank you!
The girls look so cute. Smoothies look wonderfully yummy!
Thanks for the tips.
We love smoothies, too!
Thanks for the great advice on freezing sliced bananas for smoothies. The family was getting tired of banana bread every week! LOL!
Your smoothie looks delicious! Strawberry would be MY favorite 🙂
smoothies are a great healthy treat. THanks for your awesome blog!!! – Another mom of 3 (6 yr old girl, 4 year old girl and 2 year old boy 🙂 )
Julie
We would love this smoothie kit!
Thank you so much for all your cooking recipes. You’ve really inspired me to start baking more!
Sounds great! Please enter me!
I just started making smoothies at our house. They are so good! I hope to make many more too!
I just my regular ole blender, so I’d love to win this. That strawberry smoothie looks YUM!
Count me in! Our family loves smoothies!
We LOVE smoothies!!
I just love this blog and all your neat ideas and tips! Hope I’m the winner! 🙂
i’d love to win! thanks
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Just made a peach smoothie tonight and was very disappointed with the state of my blender. I would love to win your giveaway!
I would love this!
I would enjoy this giveaway! Thank-you!
Count me in!
I have never made a homemade smoothie . . . shame on me. I LOVE the idea for the bananas . . . I will have to try that. Put me in you giveaway!!!
Great giveaway!! We are smoothie and shake fans around here!!! Hubby loves to make them…I think it might have something to do with running the blender…it has a motor…..which means it’s manly…right? (smile!)
Pick US!!!!
My family loves smoothies, we make strawberry, banana and kiwi smoothies. They are amazing! We would love to win!
This looks like something I could use. I know smoothies are great if the right ingredients are put in them. Since my husband has diabetes and I have high cholesterol we are trying to take better care of ourselves.
My son loves smoothies–this would be great to win!
Please enter me!!! Thanks!
Kathy F.
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I really did wonder why the girls seemed to be wearing brand new white t-shirts when eating fresh smoothies : ). Both of my oldest children learned to say, “Oxiclean emergency!!” quite early : ).
i LOVE smoothies! that is actually one thing that i craved while i was pregnant! 😛 i will remember your idea about freezing your fruit! what a good idea to freeze it on a cookie sheet THEN transferring them into a baggie! oh and another good idea w/the bananas!
Yay! I’d love to win.
Tracy
Thanks for the chance!
Karlie
Yummy Smoothies! My daughter just discovered how good they are and I use up fruit and juice! Great ideas!
We love smoothies, too! Great giveaway.
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Our boys love smoothies, too. Can’t wait to freeze the fruit so we are always ready. Thanks for the tips!
Oooooh yummy…smoothies are pretty much the only thing my husband has for breakfast, and me and my kids love them too!
This is the perfect time of year for smoothies. Sounds wonderful right about now.
I babysit in my home and the kids love stuff like this so I dont have a blender so I would love to be able to make them some smoothies while theyre at my house Id be the BEST BABYSITTER ever!!! Thanks for all the info you’re always posting.
I’m inspired to try some smoothies around our house now! THANKS!
I have never tried to make smoothies with my kids before! I would love to win this so I can have more of the recipies!!! Thank you for doing this!
Jessica
I make smoothies almost every day, either strawberry banana or our own version of peanut butter and banana smoothie…we love them!
we also love smoothies 🙂 they are so easy to make!
i’d like a smoothie maker kit please..
I love winning a great prize!! thanks for all the great deals!
oh this would be great my daughter loves smoothies!! so do i
Before I jumped on the coupon and frugality bandwagon, I used to go to the local Planet Smoothie every morning for my favorite smoothie…The Hangover-over (not sure why it was named that). Nothing more than strawberries, bananas, and vanilla frozen yogurt. This would be great for me to make smoothies at home and get hung up on the Hangover-over all over again. I sure do miss them!
Love your blog!
These look yummy
Great smoothie recipes!
Thanks for the reminder that you can freeze the bananas. I know, not rocket science, but I always think I need to use them up for the smoothies just as they’re starting to overripen, then once they’re too ripe, they get chucked or used for banana bread…eventually. But hello! Freeze them in chunks, Holly!! Sometimes the obvious escapes us! Or me…
I’ve been meaning to try the green smoothie, so thanks for the reminder!
Yay! Smoothies…Yummy. My girls and I would LOVE it!
Thanks so much for all you do—your site is awesome!
Awesome giveaway!! My kids loved the free smoothy last weekend for flipflop day and it would be fun to make some at the house!
Great giveaway!
Mmm! We love smoothies! I need to start freezing bananas like you do.
Adorable pixs! Thanks for the recipe. Smoothies are a favorite in our house too. Not to sure about spinach. Yuck!!!
Oh, I would love this kit. My blender is so old that it struggles chopping frozen stuff. Please pick me.
I hope I win this. I am a big fan of smoothies. Have you ever tried using cooled green tea as the liquid in smoothies you make? I read that idea once, and love it. It is a a nice way to add more antioxidants, as well as more liquid without all of the extra calories.
We love smoothies too. I’ve always wanted to try your peanut butter banana smoothie, but I always tend to forget about it until after they are made.
I just got some bananas today from Kroger on clearance! Some even organic and put them in the freezer. I am learning so much from you!!
Smoothies….yum!
We love smoothies. They are much cheaper at home than going out to get them.
We love smoothies and I often wish for a smaller blender to pull out when the smoothie urge hits! We have a great blender but it’s part of the huge Bosch machine which takes up so much counter space when all I really need for smoothies is a little thing! Can’t wait to see who gets this refreshing give-away. =)
My kids love smoothies! I never thought of chopping bananas and freezing, that’s a great idea! Thanks!
Freezing them on a pan b4 putting them in a bag is a great idea. I’m going to try this next time!
We love smoothies! I tried your peanut butter smoothie! Yum! I add strawberries, too, sometimes.
Thanks for your helpful blog… I need all the inspiration I can get!
sounds great!
thanks for the fun giveaway!
This would be wonderful!
Thanks for the great recipes!
I just made peanut butter and banana smoothies, they are awesome!
I would love to try those smoothie recipes. Cute pictures of your taste testers 🙂
My wife and I make smoothies almost daily as part of our workout routine. A little fruit goes a long way! We love the idea of adding spinach!
We love smoothies and could really use a smoothie maker!
I cannot wait to try the PB&B smoothie! Simple and easy…love it!
Great! Thanks, Crystal!
Ive never had a smoothie before…If I dont win, I will ask my kids to buy me one for my July 7th birthday.
My boys love smoothies for a snack!
I love making smoothies for my girls as well. My youngest is a very picky eater, but I can always get healthy fruit, yogurt etc into her by making a smoothie. Thanks for the giveaway.
Sarah
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Wow!!! What a fabulous giveaway! Smoothies are a great treat in this hot Texas heat (already past 100)! Thanks for all of your hard work!
We love smoothies; they’re so refreshing!
We love smoothies too!
I heart smoothies, and I could use a new blender!
we love to make smoothies too, I like to put frozen spinach in ours, the kids can’t taste it LOL but it makes me laugh that they are eating a veggie that think they HATE
great giveaway thanks
I’ve been wanting to start making smoothies forever and just have never started. Your post inspired me and since we have some fresh-picked strawberries, I believe we’ll make one first thing tomorrow!
Oh my God…we love smoothies and I can never seem to get them to taste as good as they should be…always too thick…this would be great for me and my family!! Love your blogs and thanks for all your information you share!!
What a great giveaway, I love smoothies!
we love smoothies, count me in
Thanks! My kids love smoothies!
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I’ve never made smoothies for my kids but am inspired to now! We’re always looking for new, exciting, and healthy snacks! Thanks!!!
Those smoothies look so delicious!
We love smoothies and our blender just broke!
I’ve never made smoothies for my kids.
What a great Idea!!
We love smoothies and we get very creative with these too!
I love smoothies her is a Jenny Craig Receipe for a low fat one 1 frozen bannan a small contianer of yogurt and some skim milk with a tbls Peanut better. it is oh so good!!!!
this sounds great, would love to try them
We have smoothies every Sunday night. It’s our Sunday night supper!
I love smoothies!!
What a great giveaway! I love making smoothies for my son. 🙂
posting for the give-away!
thanks!
A smoothie maker, what a great time to give one away!!
My family would love this! We also love frozen veges straight from the freezer in the summer. Wonder how’d they be in smoothies?
Yum Yum! We are big fans of smoothies! Hope I’m the lucky winner. 🙂
Smoothies sound perfect for summer time! :o)
We love the PB banana smoothies!!
I honestly would never have thought of putting spinach in a smoothie! I may have to try that out!
We love smoothies! I like your idea of buying the fruit in season then freezing it. When I read that I thought “Duh! Why haven’t I thought of that before?!” Thanks for all your tips!
Mmmmm, those smoothies look yummy!
Smoothies are great! But… I don’t have a blender! 🙂
I love smoothies!
Your girls look so cute in their shirts–and they really look like they enjoy the smoothies. Never hurts to have your kids liking something healthy, especially when it doesn’t “taste” healthy!
Would be fun to experiment with smoothies for my boys, ages 2 and 1, but we are blenderless at the moment. This would be a fun giveaway to win.
Thanks for a great blog!
I would love to win this since our blender broke and our wallet is pretty tight right now since i’m staying home with 2 kids.
This is the perfect time of year for smoothies. Sounds wonderful right now.
I really hope I win since we need a blender! My daughter keeps begging for smoothies. We just moved from DE to TX and it is HOT!!!
Thanks for the great smoothie ideas!
Sounds good!
Wow! Those looked delicious. I think we will make some for snack tonight. I am also going to try and make your muffins tonight. Once the house cools down a bit. Thanks for your wonderful blog.
My dear son loves to make smoothies. We are limited though because we have a latex allergy in our family and bananas have become an allergy problem because they are related to the latex family. We use lots of berries.
I would love to win-the Peanut Butter smoothie sounds yummy!
Please enter me in the contest.
My husband and I used to make smoothies everyday. I would love to get back into it, and this time we could make it more cost effective with your tips! Thanks.
we love smoothies, too!
Sounds great!
We love smoothies at our house! We might just have to try your Peanut Butter Banana smoothie! I bet that my kids will love it!
Yum! I love the idea of cutting up bananas and freezing them! MUCH better than freezing the banana whole! Thanks for sharing this tip.
I love smoothies! =)
Never knew you could freeze bananas, can’t tell you how many I have thrown away! Would love to win this giveaway and try them!
I have always wanted a smoothie maker!
I love smoothies and my little one just started drinking them. This would be great!
Your girls are adorable! I used to be the smoothie queen, but got out of the habit. I’m trying to get back on track with my healthy eating so your post comes at the perfect time – thanks!
Thanks for the recipe! I’d love to win as I don’t even own a blender but I’m thinking about trying to make one in my food processor!
I enjoy spinach in my smoothies too, you can’t taste it at all and a great healthy addition!
Those look delicious!
I love smoothies. They are great for an afternoon “snack” to get you from lunch to dinner without the “letdown” time or that craving for something but your not sure what.
I use fruit, fruit juice or yogurt, AnyWhey Protein powder or cottage cheese (actually can’t tell its in there but makes it really creamy) and ice.
Smoothies are soooo good in summer! Strawberry is my fave, blueberry a close second
Yum! We love smoothies here at our house!
A tip for green smoothies: Freeze the spinach before adding it, and the green doesn’t show much (especially in darker smoothies like blueberry), for those who object to the green color. Also, ground organic flaxseed is easy to add for essential fatty acids.
we love smoothies! i miss my girls being the age yours are!
Cold smoothies go great with hot FL afternoons!
One of my favourite things to do is make fresh banana ice cream. Freeze thin-ish chunks of banana, throw in a blender with a little milk and blend until smooth! It tastes like AMAZING banana ice cream and has like two calories if you use skim milk (I do and it tastes rad!). No sugar or anything needed because the bananas do more than nicely for it.
Count me in!
Homemade smoothies are one of my favorites!
Thanks for the post! A favorite in my house is kale and banana. Smoothies are a great way to throw in some nutritional value!
Your idea on smoothies sounds great i would love to be able to try them out, but i don’t have a blender so i thought i would give a this chance a whirl!!!!
Oh! I hope I win! I love making smoothies but my blender is seen it’s better days.
I love smoothies!
I don’t make these but what a great idea. My four boys would love them.
Thanks!
yummy! Thanks!
thanks!!
I love smoothies!
would love to win…
Hello…thanks for your blog. I have really enjoyed it. I discovered it about a month ago.
I would love to win this smoothie package! Thank you!
Jannel
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We love smoothies around here…it would be great to win! Thank you!
I never get picked, but what the heck, I’ll try anyway.
We love smoothies, too. Thanks for the reminder that is an easy snack and treat. I forget to make them.
We love smoothies at our house!
Thanks for the offer.
We love smoothies too.
This would be a great win! Thank you for the opportunity!
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Definitly a favorite around here. We love fresh peach and banana smoothies and often add in frozen blueberries. Yum-O!
I would love to win this. We love smoothies around our house!
I would love to win this giveaway. My family loves smoothies. Thanks.
I just started making smoothies at home.They are so delicious. Thanks for all your great ideas.
Oooh…we LOVE smoothies at our house and I love your ideas for buying extras during sales and freezing them. We’ve never done that. Frozen fruit is quite expensive and with four kiddoes, we go through a lot of it.
Thanks!
Cindy
My kids are 18 and 15 now but they love the stuff I’ve made following your recepies. I love seeing the pics you post of your girls eating and helping prepare the goodies. Oh…how I long for those days. I’m making the smoothies soon!
Smoothies are a staple around here as well! Where else can you get a whole meal all whipped up in one glass?
A smoothie maker would be so cool to have!
We need a new blender so badly! I LOVE banana peanut butter smoothies now thanks to you!!
We love strawberries and this made me want a smoothie really bad!
Yummy! smoothies are not a normal breakfast item at our house, but you’ve inspired me to give it a go!
We just love smoothies!
I’ve been wanting to make smoothies ever since i found out you drink smoothies frequently….but did not have mixer to make one every morning….It will be super awesome if i can have the kit….
I have never had a smoothie.. I don’t have qa blender, but I would like to.
Thanks! Our blender finally died a couple months ago…this would be great! 🙂
We love smoothies! Love a chance to win!!! Thanks!
Hey, smoothies are one of our favorite treats.
We loves smoothies and my blender is dying!
Smoothies! Yummy, Yummy! Thank you!
thanks for all the smoothie tips!! I would love to be entered in the contest 🙂
I love homemade smoothies!!
We love smoothies in this house!
We would love to get this kit. My little one loves smoothies too. Thank you for all of your ideas. I love reading your blog.
Wow, is your blog well read! Thanks for the chance and for all the fabulous tips!
I think that this recipe sound delish. I think I will try it for my daughter, just as soon as I get a blender.
I would LOVE to win this! I need a blender and I love smoothies!
I love smoothies. I’d love to get this.
How fun! I would love to make some smoothies now that my new son has just arrived- only 5 days old!
Yum…smoothies! Thank you for the giveaway!
Thank you for helping us to save so much money each week! Our family would love a new blender!!!! We love smoothies.
I love making smoothies!!
My family loves smoothies as well. Definitely beats paying for them at Jamba Juice!
I’ve been having a lot of smoothies while pregnant…especially as it heats up here in Texas!! Usually it’s either a protein smoothie (rice milk, protein powder, milled flax seed, and frozen strawberries) or a green smoothie (orange juice, two handfuls of fresh spinach, and two handfuls of frozen mixed fruit). Yummy…and a great way to get in that extra protein and fruit my midwife wants me to have!!
My husband and I love smoothies! Strawberry is also our favorite. 🙂
I’ve been craving a frappucchino, but a smoothie actually sounds better and would be a lot cheaper!
What a great giveaway. I also like your suggestion for freezing the chopped fruit individually first – I’m going to try that. kkhill (at) swbell (dot) net
WE LOVE Smoothies in our house- this would be a great Treat. Thanks!!
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I’d love to win! We love smoothies at our house too 🙂
We love smoothies!
How fun to see your happy and beautiful girls!
THanks for great smoothie ideas, too!
Thanks for your wonderful ideas.
I am very intrigued by the green smoothie — think I’ll give it a try.
I would like to try smoothies!
I heart this freebie!!!!! 🙂
I absolutely love your smoothy ideas, very helpful tips, Thanks!
thank you so much for the chance to win!!
I love smoothies! What a great way to get their vitamins. I need to remember those and also what a great way to freeze banana’s. Usually I stick the whole thing in the freezer for banana bread but didn’t even think about smoothies.
I just made orange julius today for the first time, and that bigger blender would’ve helped! =)
Your girls are too cute! Your smoothies are making me hungry… good idea.
Smoothies are my son and hubby’s fave and very easy to make. Thanks for the chance!
love your blog
That’s awesome. I could definitely use a blender.
I’m in!
Thanks! I would love to win this kit. That is a great tip on the bananas, I look the old bananas over ~ I look at them in a new way now. Thanks
I haven’t had much luck with smoothies so I think this kit would be great! I’d love to have my 2-year-old getting all those good fruits and veggies that he won’t eat!
We love smoothies at our house too!
yummy smoothie. that’s a really great idea!
smoothies sound soooooo good right now!
We may have to try the spinach here.
My girls and I enjoy smoothies too! Thanks for the giveaway!
We also love smoothies at our house. I got the idea for freezing the bananas from you and I love it. We also love the peanut butter banana smoothie.
Great tips. Great giveaway. Please enter me into the contest. thank you.
Mmmm. Smoothies!
Oh I’d love this smoothie kit! We’re in New Mexico and man, it is HOT!! My five kids are so bored of popsicles they want to scream and if I have to hear “but mmmooommmmm” one more time, I’ll be screaming too! Great contest!
We love smoothies here too. Thank you!
sounds great!
I love making smoothies – what a great summertime treat! 🙂
We love smoothies at our house too! I usually add a pack of no-sugar-added Carnation Instant Breakfast to get in some more vitamins and protein. I have also added protein powder if I have that on hand-makes for a very balanced, healthy breakfast! Thanks for a chance to win, and thank you, thank you, thank you for the wonderful money-saving ideas on your blog!
I toss in sweet potatoes, too. My son loves smoothies!
Holy Moly I am the smoothie Queen!!
Throw a fat free sugar free yogurt and some frozen strawberries in the blender with some sugar free torani fruit flavored syrup and I have breakfast.. toss in a ton of ice and YUM!! I am set for a few hours!!
Thanks for a FABU Giveaway!!!!
YAY YOU and ME!!!
Leslie
I’ve never made a smoothie – sounds great!
This would be GREAT!!!!!!!
Heather
Thanks for the chance to win!
I’d love to win. My teenage son likes to make smoothies & we are looking for economical ways to make, so thanks!
We have just recently started making smoothies with lite vanilla yogurt, frozen fruit and soy milk. It would be neat to try other varieties, the banana peanut butter sounds like one to try. Also thanks for showing how to freeze bananas for smoothies I never thought to do it like that before.
Yumm. I love smoothies! I love your blog!
I love going to get a Juice Stop Smoothie, but for almost $5 a smoothie, it’s definitely only a special treat kind of thing, so this would be awesome to try my hand at making some! Thanks!
Great giveaway! Thanks!
Fun summer time giveaway!
~ Jennifer
We would use this a lot!
I love to make smoothies for my grands and myself. I have osteoporosis so it helps get the calcium in in a yummy way. Thanks.
Yummy smoothies!! Great giveaway
Great tips. Great giveaway. Enter me, please. I would love to win this one. Thank you
We love smoothies in our house, too! My kids are pretty good eaters, but I love knowing that, on the days when our fruit/veggie consumption is a little low, a smoothie can really make up for it quickly… and it’s yummy!
I love to make smoothies! Such a healthy and easy snack. The blender looks perfect! Not too big or small.
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We haven’t made smoothies at home in a long time since our blender broke and we hadn’t gotten around to replacing it until just recently. This is a great giveaway. Thanks for a great blog!
Making smoothies would be the perfect and healthy way to beat this Texas heat!
I’ve been wanting to try the green smoothies.
I’ve been reading your blog for a while and now that summer (I’m a teacher) is here I’m really getting into couponing. I made my first trip to CVS today. Thank you for all this information and keeping our money in our house!
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Jennie
We all love smoothies at our house, especially on HOT summer days!
we just had smoothies today for lunch – fresh cherries, banana and frozen strawberries. Yum!!!
thanks for sharing the giveaway!
Alesha
Oh, I’d love to win this! The spigot on my smoothie maker cracked a while ago, and I haven’t been able to work a new one into the budget yet.
Smoothies are delicious!
Love smoothies! They’re so great for a fast breakfast.
great ideas!
This would be a great win for me! My 7 year old who weighs all of 43 lbs eats like a chick-a-dee during the summer and we’re trying to increase his calories so he doesn’t lose any weight (and hopefully get him to gain some). Smoothies was suggested to me as one way to do that. Thanks for the chance to win!
Smoothies are great 🙂 We’d love to win a smoothie kit!
Your girls are so cute! I think my little girl would definitely enjoy a smoothie.
My boys just love smoothies! I would love to win this.
Thank you!
Smoothies are a definite favorite in our house, I have never tried freezing bananas I will try it though! We never seem to go through them all. Thanks for the contest.
Count me in for the giveaway!!
Great idea! Thanks for the giveaway.
I would love to win this kit!!
We are just getting into the smoothies as it seems to be the only way I can get my stubborn almost two year old to eat her fruits and vegetables these days. I think I might try the spinach – I think the kids would love a green smoothie and we could all benefit from a little extra healthfulness.
I have gotten really into Smoothies during my first pregnancy and had them a lot during the first trimester when I couldn’t stand the thought of eating fruit but a Smoothie went down fine! I’d love to win this.
My family loves smoothies and I love that they are so good for you too! I would love to win this giveaway!
Smoothies would be even greater if I had a smoothie maker! Love reading your blog!
We’re just starting to make smoothies here!
I’ve never frozen bananas! Thanks for the great ideas – my kids LOVE to make smoothies in the summer!!!
We just had smoothies last night! Yummy!
I declare this the summer of smoothies! It’s 100+ degrees and miserable outside.
I love, love, love smoothies and my blender is terrible. My family of 5 could really use a better one. Thanks.
I was just thinking today that I need to make smoothies more! I would love this!
We eat smoothies almost every week
yummy1
we love smoothies
How nice! We would really enjoy this.
We love smoothies too…I make them at least 3 times a week for breakfast and sometimes snack!
Summer smoothies are yummy!
This would be great!
I know the kiddos would love a fruit smoothie!
I would love to win! Thanks! 🙂
We are smoothie lovers here as well. :o)
my son loves smoothies but i have never made one. would love to try
my kids would love this! thanks for the chance! 🙂
YUMMY – Thankyou Carmen
We love smoothies and our blender died last week!!!
Very fun! We would enjoy this!
Great giveaway!
thanks for the giveaway! smoothie’s are yummy and healthy!
I love to make smoothies. Thanks for the cookie sheet tip. My friend told me she freezes banana’s but didn’t tell me to put them on a sheet. now I have a bag of 5 banana’s cut up and in one large chunk! [email protected]
I will have to try this now! Thanks for the ideas and the give away!
yumm – o
PB sounds good…bring on the blender!
OUR FAMILY WOULD LOVE THE FREE KIT!! THANKS!!!!
This would be awesome!!!
Yum! That is a great tip on saving ripe bananas! I have some strawberries and mango in the fridge right now waiting to be made into a smoothie!
We love smoothies. Especially when we can use grandma’s vita-mix
Would “love” the t-shirts and blender! We have been without a blender for a few months–waiting on a deal!
Thanks
My kids are absolute nuts about smoothies!
Love the spinach idea! We recently switched our diet to only natural and healthy foods, so smoothies are going to be a staple for us this summer, when ice cream is not an option!
These smoothies look yummy!
These sound great! Can’t wait to try them!
Crystal – my kids love your recipe for peanut butter smoothies!!! It has become a regular treat around here!!
Great giveaway! Thanks!
I need a blender! Hopefully we win so we can start making smoothies too.
Woot Woot! Love it~ What a fun summer idea!
Thanks!!!
thanks!
We love to eat frugal smoothies frequently as well. Sign me up for the giveaway!
Summertime smoothies are the best! My favorite is too use soy protein powder, oj, banana, and frozen cherries, best breakfast ever!
My husband is the chief smoothie maker at our house. In the last month of my pregnancy I inhaled strawberry ones and kept him busy making them. 🙂
Awesome giveaway…and I’m all for making anything with Peanut Butter. Yum!
I’ve got a bunch of frozen peaches, I bet those would make great smooties!
aww your girls are sooo cute M!!! Good luck to everyone!!
I love smoothies! My husband usually doesn’t like banana smoothies, but I’m going to try your peanut butter banana smoothie. Thanks 🙂
great giveaway
i would LOVE to win! my boys are pretty much obsessed with jamba juice, so they would love if i made some for them!
We love smoothies too! Thanks for the give away!!
Especially loving smoothies this summer w/ 108 degree heat index and being 7 months pregnant! Tried mango smoothies for the first time a few weeks ago after getting a box of mangoes for a great price! Would love to win this giveaway! Thanks for your great site!
what a fun giveaway!! we love smoothies–especially green ones!
Smoothies sound great
That sounds like a great idea! I’m sure my girls would love it!
I especially like smoothies made with bluberries! Must try your peanut banana recipe though…Yum! Thanks for posting it.
we love smoothies. we have green drinks, which are like the one you described but we do this:
1 apple
1 banana
handful of grapes (they freeze great)
a few handfuls of spinach
1 scoop of orange juice concentrate
flax seeds
and throw in any juice i have in the fridge or a few ice cubes
SO GOOD.
Smoothies are a big treat at our house. Thanks for such a informative moneysaving site 🙂
I’d love to win this as our HB blender broke!
We love smoothies at our house! Thanks for the tips on freezing!
Hope to be the lucky one, I enjoy smoothies a lot and will try your recipe ideas at home soon.
I’d love to make summer smoothies – thanks for the tips!
My 13 year old daughter loves to make smoothies for us
great giveaway! i love smoothies!
Yep, we’re big smoothie fans too, although I haven’t tried green smoothies yet. Next time…
Our family loves smoothies too, I find by adding some ice to the smoothie also helps strecth it and make more for everyone and makes it much thicker!! We would love to win your giveaway!! Thanks 🙂
well, we love smoothies, and have learned more about making them and saving money on them (freezing on a cookie sheet is ingenious!!). Thanks for posting!
Love those smoothies! Thanks for all our help to help us save, Save, SAVE!!
Thanks for the idea of chopping up the bananas before freezing them – I’ll have to try that!
YUM! I love smoothies. I’m hooked on green smoothies right now. A friend shared the idea and it is a great way to get more veggies in. I have an older blender so it takes a while for mine to blend up the frozen fruit, but I love to use berries of all kinds, pineapple, bananas, and spinach for the greenies! Thanks for sharing!
We love smoothies, too! Yes, bananas + yogurt + any other fruit laying around + some kind of juice (and maybe ice) whipped in the blender = great smoothie
We love smoothies! I have never tried cleaning the berries and freezing them but that is a great idea! Thanks for the yummy recipes!
I’d love to try that!
We make smoothies several times a week. My kids love green smoothies. Thanks for doing this giveaway!
Thank you for the opportunity to win such a great prize. I like smoothies and they are quite filling. My preference is the berry smoothies.
We are going to the pick-your-own strawberry field this week. I always freeze some extras to keep on hand for smoothies- YUM!
Would love to win. Smoothies make a great breakfast!
We enjoy smoothies using various odds and ends. I usually leave them a little thick as I can’t eat ice cream very well. So they double as my cold treat. Thanks!
I love homemade frugal smoothies!
I have never made a smoothie in my life! This is inspiring!
I love smoothies. I have a problem burning through blenders though. I would love to win this!
We love smoothies up in here!
Please enter me too. Thanks!
Smoothies are a great summertime snack! Thanks for doing this fun giveaway!
I would love to win this one. Smoothies are yummy!
We are not usually smoothie people, but maybe I need to change that…those strawberry smoothies look good!
Sounds good to me!!
Smoothies are great for the reluctant milk drinker at our house. Thanks Crystal!
Ace1234
Thanks for the chance
Smoothies (yay)–we love them!!
We love making smoothies! It is a great idea to clean all the berries and then freeze them. Thanks for the yummy recipes!
Enter me please!! I am borrowing my grandmothers blender because mine finally broke after 10 years! LOL
Silken tofu is also a nice addition to make it more meal like
Great recipes. My daughter loves smoothies.
What a great idea! We love smoothies as well but I never thought to freeze my own fruit! I am new to saving money and to your blog. I have enjoyed it thoroughly. It is simply ideas like this one that make me feel inspired! Also, I saw where you are shutting down your other blogs. Reading about how you came to that decision was great. I will miss reading them but I am so glad that you can just be with your family and trust that the Holy Spirit will guide you. I am trusting that I will be lead into many great ideas and deals in my quest to save money for my family. You are one of the instruments God has lead me to. Thank you for being obedient.
yummy!
Oooh…great giveaway! We love smoothies around here, and I can’t wait to try some of your recipes! 🙂
Thanks for the opportunity!
This would be fun to win! Thanks for the chance!
My kids and I love to throw whatever we can find in the fridge for our smoothies!!!:) YumYum!!
Thank you for the opportunity to win such great prizes….this will be a def. addition to my families summer snacks 🙂
Smoothie kit sounds great!
I would love a new blender.
Julie
I’d love to have a blender. Please enter me in the giveaway.
julieadp at gmail
Great offer and great recipes.
I would love it! =) Thanks!
We’ve worn our our blender, so we could use a new one!
Enter me please! I love smoothies!
Hey there, love your blog. I have found that smoothies are a great way to stretch dollars and to not let anything go to waste.
Your blog gives me a bunch of great tips that I plan on using when I get married and have kids! But for right now I’m a single career girl waiting (patiently 🙂 for God to send me the right man, but I’ll be ready to roll in the kitchen when my lucky day/man comes!
God Bless!
We have recently discovered homemade smoothies and how much you can save over those “smoothie stores”. Thanks for the giveaways…your site is the best!
Thanks!
Smoothies are wonderful healthy snacks – we love them! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
I would have never thought to freeze bananas for smoothies. I do puree and freeze mangoes though when they are on sale. I LOVE making mango strawberry banana smoothies. I usually add some Arbonne protein powder and fiber shakes in too for even more benefits. 🙂
Thanks for a wonderful blog! And thanks for the Peanut Butter and Banana recipe! Yum!
Your freeze-things-from-chicken-to-fruit-on-a-baking-tray-so-they-don’t-clump-together-in-the-freezer method is absolutely brilliant and has changed my life. On the one hand, I’m smacking myself in the head for not thinking of it myself – but on the other, am glad to have come across it. Manyt hings!
Yay, smoothies!
I make a smoothie for my husband’s breakfast about every other day! He never has time for breakfast so I whip one up in a to-go cup. We’ve just about worn out our blender!!
Oooh that reminds me to pull the frozen fruit out of the freezer…. gonna make hubby and I some smoothies! 🙂
what a great giveaway. thanks for the chance
I would love to get started making smoothies- they look delicious! Your girls are beautiful!
Sounds super yummy!!
I need to start making these. Great ideas — thanks so much.
Yum!
Yummy! I think I’m going to make a smoothie right now! I just need to mix up some milk first. We have tons of frozen strawberries from when we went strawberry picking!
We would love to win this! My boys eat smoothies every day for breakfast! Thanks for all your hard work!
I’ve never made smoothies but I bet my girls would love them!
We love smoothies, but I don’t have a blender, so winning this would be awesome.
The thing about smoothies is that they are so yummy and are actually pretty good for you too! Plus, if you’re active, a smootie is an awesome post-workout snack!
We love strawberry smoothies!
I love to make smoothies. Please enter me in your contest! Thanks. 🙂
Love smoothies! Thank You!
P.S. I’ll miss you on your other two blogs, but I know your reasons too. It was a tough choice to make I’m sure, but I know God will bless you for making the call. Thank you for the time and heart you put into being a blessing and a valuable testimony on the web!
I have a great blueberry smoothie recipe. It’s a summer staple
Smoothies are wonderful especially in this hot summer weather 🙂
Those sound so yummy and refreshing! Thanks for doing the giveaway for us!
ahiltzy@yahoo(dot)com
I would love to win this kit. Smoothies sound great!
Yum! Smoothies!
We love smoothies too! I sometimes add a spoonful or two of GoLEAN vanilla protein powder. Our fave is strawberry-banana with orange juice and a either plain or vanilla yogurt.
Would love to try something healthy for my boys. Sounds like a great idea!
We have not have smoothies yet- probably because we don’t have a blender- but I would love to try them. Sounds like a great way to get the kids to eat fruits and dairy.
Please sign me up! Thanks
I need a new blender – mine is horrible!
What a great giveaway!
We love smoothies!
I love smoothies…would love to try some of this.
Winning this would be awesome!
mrs.frugal(at)sbcglobal(dot)net
I have just recently found your blog and have been telling all my friends about it! Thank you for being a great resource to help other moms out!
We looooove smoothies. My favorite is blueberry banana!
Thank you for the chance!
I would love to learn how to make smoothies:) please enter me in.
I always want to try Smoothies and would love get this prize and see what all I can do with Smoothies. I wish I liked more fruits & veggies and think that this would be a way for me to get more into my diet. (the dislike is a texture thing with most of them) 🙂
Thanks for the banana tip. I always use overripe bananas for bread, never thought to put them in a smoothie!
we have been loving smoothies lately. a new favorite is mango, frozen banana, a few strawberries and orange juice. YUM!
How can you not love smoothies? Thanks for the giveaway!
Those smoothies look very yummy!
We love smoothies in the hot summer weather. Thanks!
I would love, love, love this blender! What a great idea to sneak nutritious food into your kids’ bellies.
I love smoothies! Homemade are a great way to save money considering that Jamba Juice and such places are more expensive and usually crowded when you craze one during the summer!
How fun! I hope I win.
Thanks for this great giveaway! I would love to win this. I love making smoothies but my blender doesn’t always want to cooperate 🙂 Enter me too please.
I would LOVE this!
Our blender died…or part of it did and we are in need of a new one. This would be perfect timing.
Have you ever had the bottom of a blender just stop spinning? This is our problem. It is stuck, like can’t turn the blades at all stuck. The motor works, the glass is perfect and this little disc with the blades is stuck.
Hope we get a new one 🙂
Heather
Looks yummy!
Love to try it out!
Great ideas!!!
Looks de-lish!!!!
We love smoothies around here, and we have been making your peanut butter banana smoothie ever since you posted it. Yummy!
I really need to try that peanut butter recipe.
i’ve been wanting to try my hand at smoothies!
i took my daughter to have her 1st smoothie the other day-she absolutally loved it. she now askes everyday if we can go back and get more, so this would be great to get for us i could just make them at home!!!
Mmmmmm…… sounds good. Never made them before, but would love to try if I won. 🙂 Please enter me!
Great giveaway. I really need to try smoothies myself to get a little more fiber in my boys (every bit helps).
Love smoothies at our house. I froze some strawberries yesterday for later!
We LOVE smoothies! I’ve bought some lately when they went on sale at the grocer, and the kids made quick work of them. Thanks for the opportunity!
Smoothies are wonderful and it is nice to try different combinations. I’ve yet to try spinach, but need and want to.
Your girls are adorable in their oversized T’s and enjoying a smoothie!!
we love smoothies, your post had a lot of great ideas. I am going to find some extra bananas to freeze this week.
Thanks for the give away offer! Would love that!
Carrie
I would love a smoothie kit as they are wonderful with this very hot weather.
Peggy June 25, 2009 at 2:50PM
Yum! We’re going strawberry picking on Friday–what great inspiration to pick extra fruit.
We make smoothies all the time but never thought to freeze bananas. That is a great idea. Next time they are on sale, I will stock up.
Thanks
Lori
I started making smoothies because my little dude refused to eat breakfast before school, but would gulp down a healthy smoothie! I added almond butter to most of them to give them a little more substance so he’s make it until lunch time.
Thanks for the chance to win!!
Thanks for the giveaway!
I’ve been on a smoothie kick since it’s already really hot in the mornings here in Austin. Such a good breakfast and easy way to get a chunk of your 10 fruits and veggies for the day.
I have never made a homemade smoothie before, probably because I dont have the proper equipment. I hope to win this great giveaway!!!! Thanks so much.
A smoothie would be great right now.
GREAT giveaway! Thanks for the chance!
We love smoothies here! The kids think they are wonderful!!!
Yummy! We love smoothies!
I love to add the yogurt that I get on special at the grocery store to ours- it’s great! Ginger [email protected]
Oh, perfect giveaway for the 90 degree days we are having in Chicago!
I would love to do this with my girls but unfortunately dont have a blender to do it with. My girls are 3 & 5 and we have only lived in florida for a year. They get very hot easily and this would be a great treat to give them 🙂
We love smoothies! All I can say is YUM!
We love smoothies! Thanks for the giveaway!
We are smoothie people almost every night! Goes really well with popcorn 🙂
My husband and I love smoothies and used to make them all the time when we were first dating/engaged. For some reason we stopped when we had kids – probably had something to do with not sleeping and not being able to find time for anything, even going to the bathroom (our first was a demanding little guy) :-). I’d love to get back into smoothie making – it’s a great way to get some great fruits into a toddler!
Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
Smoothies are one of our favorite treats!
My husband is a BIG FAN of smoothies. He would love it if I surprised him with a smoothie kit! It would be great to try a bunch of new recipes.
Great giveaway!
We love them at our house too! My fav is Raspberry banana! Yum!
You’re amazing, all you do is very appreciated! And, we LOVE smoothies!
We would love to win sshhh!! don’t tell my children that I sneak cottage cheese in ours to up the protein….
Hey I dont know what happened to my comment but I would like a chance.
I am in desperate need of another blender! My daughter broke ours and another one is not in the budget. Thanks.
Smoothies are a hit here as well!
I would love to win this!
We love smoothies! Thanks for the chance.
Great idea to freeze the berries individually!
Love this post! Thanks!
Stawberry smoothie sounds good 🙂 .
my family loves smoothies too; strawberry banana smoothies are our favorite!
We love smoothies also!
i was just thinking of using up our extra fruit today. Great idea!
Smoothies are the only thing I can eat for the first few months of being pregnant- nothing else sounds good or stays down!! Thanks for a great website!!
We love making our own smoothies at home! I always tell my family that ones made by me have a special ingredient of LOVE in it.
Those are great ideas! Thanks.
I love smoothies!
smoothies are the best summer treat!
Smoothies are a staple in our house too!
Thanks for the great smoothie ideas!
We love smoothies around here.
Your girls are so cute! 🙂
Thanks for the great ideas! I never thought to freeze fruit on a baking sheet first!
I love smoothies. Most of the time I make my own smoothies. Its not only frugal but also healthy. Strawberry smoothie is my favorite. 🙂
I’ve made smoothies before but not on a consistent basis- only and I totally agree with you- if we’ve found the yogurt on a super sale and we have some fruit that needs to be eaten=). I’ve also used instant milk in smoothies too.
We love smoothies too!!!
This would be a great project to try with my girls!
yum! smoothies!
We love smoothies too and recently came across a recipe for homemade yogurt in your crockpot! If anyone else is interested in this, the recipe can be found at http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/2008/10/you-can-make-yogurt-in-your-crockpot.html . Thank you “crockpot lady”! We’ve been making it for a few weeks now and it works great! This definitely helps to make smoothies more frugal and healthier! Make it with organic milk and you have a great substitute for yo baby! Give it a try!
I’ve been making lots of smoothies lately. Made some with spinach and my kids had no idea they were eating veggies…Love it!
What a great giveaway! We LOVE smoothies at our house.
Love this post!! The kids are too cute!!!
I so want to make smoothies for my kids but our blender broke years ago. I’d love a new one!
Crystal,
what a great idea! thanks so much for the chance to enter.
(will miss your momoflittles site) 🙁
What a perfect & healthy way to cool off on these hot summer days. 🙂 Thanks for the freezing banana tip…I’ve never frozen them, but do other fruits.
~eunice
I love to make smoothies. And hadn’t even thought of freezing extra berries from the farmer’s market! Thanks for the idea.
I love smoothies and yet my kitchen is without a blender! I would love to win this 🙂
I would LOVE to make my kids homemade smoothies! We’re enjoying homemade pitas right now! BTW – they work GREAT on the grill!
I’m in! I’d love to have a smaller blender for these smaller jobs. My 2yo and I love smoothies, though my husband and 5yo won’t touch them. I don’t know what’s wrong with those two.
My blender broke last month. How fantastic to win this one!
I would love to start my 2 yr old on smoothies. Since he is allergic to milk, maybe he can eat more yogurt for the calcium if we make smoothies.
Maybe we should try smoothies. Thanks!
Count me in!
I do love me some smoothies!
Pick me please!
I need to learn how to make them at home and stay away from the $4 a pop ones out!
My 2 year old loves smoothies. I need a new blender because mine broke!
Great ideas! I will keep smoothies in mind as I put away the abundance of wild blackberries.
yay for giveaways!
I am a huge fan of smoothies, but never think about making them at home! Thanks for the inspiration!
I love smoothies!
thanks for the great giveaway. this would help over the hot months.
smoothies are such a great treat! thanks for the recipes.
MY SON AND I LOVE SMOOTHIES AND ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR NEW RECEIPES
I love smoothies! Thanks for the great giveaway!
I’m going to try your peanut butter banana smoothie…this sounds great!
We love smoothies. Thanks for this chance….I could use a new blender.
It would be fun to learn how to make smoothies.
The smoothies sound delicious! I can’t wait to try one.
I love smoothies too, especially in the hot, humid summertime!
Love me some smoothies!!
my husband would love this!!!!
Wow! And I was just looking at the bananas on the counter and thinking about making banana bread, but with the temps suppose to hit the 90’s, this is a much better idea! Thanks!
I love smoothies! Thanks for the giveaway!
mmmmm yummy smoothies just what I need on a hot day. Love them they are so delicious. i would love a smoothie kit.. thanks for posting this.
Fruit is my favoite thing in the world!!!!! I could literally live off of fruit…well, you know what I mean!
I love smoothies!
WOW! You have 446 comments already! We love smoothies in our home as well, so we’d love to accept your goodie! 🙂
mmm, smoothies in the summer – how wonderful! I need to work a little harder at freezing the fruit that’s available in the summer so I can stock up a bit when the prices are good.
Thank you for this giveaway! We love smoothies, too!
We love smoothies
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I would love to win the smoothie kit! My son is 18 months old, and I think he would like them.
I’ve always wanted to try making smoothies, but have never taken the plunge! I think your post just inspired me to give it a try!
We love smoothies! Thanks for the great giveaway opportunity!
I would LOVE to win! thanks!!!
Great giveaway! I freeze berries for smoothies as well
I thought you were brave, letting your girls eat strawberry smoothies in white shirts. 😉
Our family loves smoothies!
Smoothies sound great, but I don’t have a blender…this sure would help!
I was just talking about making smoothies the other day. How fun!
thanks for this post! my husband LOVES smoothies and it was encouraging to know that i can make him smoothies frugally!
In this summer heat, smoothies are a healthy way to keep cool too!!
I’d love to try and win the Smoothie kit!!! Love it!
I wish I could actually win something on here. I try all of the time during the giveaways..
Smoothies! Yay!
Yum Yum!!! DH & I need to get back into smoothies!
Hope I win!
Yes smoothies are a great and healthy treat. I just made one before reading your blog! Thanks for the great tips on freezing fruits.
i’d love to try smoothies.
i’ve been wanting to try making some smoothies. our local market/coffee shop has AMAZING fruit smoothies that I love! Of course, at almost $4 a pop, I rarely buy them! 🙂
Yummy! A smoothie sounds so delicious right now! 🙂 Love your blog!
Mmmmm looks yummy We love making smoothies!
I’m in! We love smoothies here as well, though I used to make them much more often. Love your blog!
Thanks so much!
We also love smoothies and they make a quick Sunday morning breakfast.
Yaaa Smoothies! 🙂
I love smoothies and my blender broke a couple weeeks ago. I’d love to win this.
thinking about what ingred. we have on hand for a summer smoothie
Yum!!! I love smoothies!
Yum!!!
I love smoothies, but rarely think to make them. This makes me want to even more!
We love smoothies!
We love smoothies too –
Love your blog!!!! I have been blessed with so many freebies and cheapies in the past few months because of it. My family would love to have a smoothie blender, so fun!!!
Sign me up!!
Thanks for the giveaway!!
Those look delicious!
Had a smoothie for lunch. But having a second smoothie maker would make it easier to have enough for everyone – or to make multiple varieties at the same time for when friends come over!
We make green smoothies for breakfast and snacks a lot. I love that I can get so many good things into my girl at one time! We’d love a new smoothie maker! Thanks!
YUM!!! I think we’ll be having smoothies tonight after dinner!
Great giveaway. Thanks!
Shannon in Indiana
We love making smoothies at our house as well.
You are so sweet! Even with a newborn in the house, you STILL have time for a fun giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win!
Mmmmm… Smoothies!!!
Mmmm . . . smoothies are yummy!
Wow, what a great contest!! Thanks for having it!
My girls love smoothies!
My favorite smoothie is an Orange Creamsicle Smoothie…. OJ, Vanilla Yogurt and ice cubes – it can’t be beat!!!!!!!!!!!!
i love smoothies so much!
I’m going to try the peanut butter banana smoothie… it sounds yummy!
your banana peanut butter smoothie sounds awesome!!!
Me, please…
Love smoothies here too. My poor blender has about had it b/c of all the smoothies we’ve eaten! Thanks.
I’d love to win! We haven’t ventured down the homemade smoothie road yet, but I know the kids would love them!! This would be a great kickstart!! My husband loves Smoothie King!
Thanks!
Christina Truelove
Your girls are so clean for eating smoothies in white shirts! The perfect treat in this heatwave!
I don’t make smoothies as often as I would like to, but winning this would help me come up with more ideas on what to put in a smoothie for my son.
Smoothies sound great right now. And hopefully, we will be off to pick strawberries this week.
we like them, but i sorta forget. some recipes & blender would be inspiring enough to make some!!!
I’m a big fan of peanut butter and banana smoothies as well. They make great meal replacement shakes with protein powder added and it doesn’t even feel like I’m dieting!
We have smoothies almost every day at our house. Thanks for some new ideas!
This would be a huge blessing. I don’t have a blender and my husband loves smoothies. I am trying to eat healthier too but I don’t like the texture of many fruits, but I love smoothies. Maybe I’ll be the winner?
Thanks for the smoothie tips. I have some fresh spinach on hand, so we might just try a green smoothie.
the smoothies sound great. My whole family loves them. you’ve given good ideas about freezing berries
Those recipes sound Yummy! I will have to try it.
I’ve actually never made a smoothie and so want to start!
I sure could use that blender.
Just last week I went to make a milk shake and realized I didn’t have a blender it probably got lost int he move. I’m not a huge smoothie/milk shake drinker so I didn’t know I lacked the appliance. I’ve seen so many good recipes on blogs lately and feel so left out!
I’ve never won on blog giveaways so I hope this is my chance!!
-Glo
This would be awesome! Our blender is very old and inefficient. DH has said it would be nice to get a new blender or smoothie maker, but I don’t want to spend the $$!! 🙂 Thanks for the opportunity!!
I just tried to make the peanut butter banana one on Saturday. After all the ingredients were in the blender I discovered it was not working. I had some REALLY disappointed kiddos!
We love smoothies, too! I never thought of freezing the berries on a baking sheet and transferring to a freezer bag! I have the hardest time separating out big lumps of frozen berries. Thanks for the idea! 🙂
Would love to win!
Love, love smoothies, but my blender is a terrible pain. This one looks A LOT easier. Great tip about freezing the bananas rather than using ice cubes as I sometimes do. Thanks!
We make smoothies all the time here! WE all love them! I use the magic bullet for them and freeze the berries as you do! My husband puts protein powder in his.
Thanks for the giveaway! We love smoothies!
Thanks for your commitment to helping us find great deals (and for being a stellar example of a servant of Christ!) Anyway, my kids love smoothies too, I guess it is a food that kids universally love. Thanks again.
I love smoothies! thanks for the giveaway!
We would love to make smoothies. Thanks for all the great tips and this offer.
I would love to try making smoothies. They look delicious and nutritious!
We love smoothies too!
I have never made smoothies, but would love to try! Thanks for the giveaway.
We enjoy the smoothies, and our blender is on it’s way out, so we would love to enter.
I’d love to start making smoothies now that I’m home for the summer.
We would love to make smoothies. Thanks for all the great tips!
A) Your daughters are adorable and it warms my heart to see them eating such a healthy snack without fussing and B) I would really love a blender! That is one thing I’ve never really been able to squeeze into the budget.
We love a good smoothie on a hot afternoon!
We love peanut butter, banana and chocolate smoothies (I use a chocolate mix to add more vitamins etc.) my kids LOVE them.
We have never frozen bananas before…thanks for the tip.
Thanks for the recipe! We love smoothies and our blender brok a few months back. Would love to win!
I love smoothies…and I don’t have a blender!
We love smoothies at our house, too!
We love our smoothies too!!!
I love smoothies as well but stay away from adding banana…it seems to be the dominate flavor if I add it. Love peaches in mine. I often add purreed squash, carrots, tomato or other mild flavored veggies as well. If you look on the bottles of V8Splash, you can get some good ideas of veggies that work well in smoothies.
My kids love smoothies!! Mommy loves them too when I can sneak in some leafy green spinach with some blueberries and nobody is the wiser about the HEALTHY snack they just ate!!
sure! We’d love that at our home!
I love making smoothies at home! Thanks for the chance… those pictures of your daughters are too cute! 🙂 jadensmail at gmail dot com
Thanks for the easy smoothie directions. I think I’ve always avoided making them ’cause of the tedious and messy task of making them….but you make it sound enjoyable. Thanks!
Mmmm….love smoothies! My husband doesn’t like them, so I’m thrilled that my 14 month old has decided that they’re yummy! Now I have someone to share with! 🙂
We love smoothies! Please enter me…
We love smoothies here and are in need of a new blender! 🙂
We love smoothies. Thanks for posting the link to your peanut butter banana smoothies- we are going to have to try this. Also, many thanks for sharing your awesome way to freeze bananas- so much better than the way I was freezing them.
We love smoothies! We would eat them everyday if I could keep up the fruit supply.
Thank you Crystal, my blender is getting a little old, it was a wedding gift over 22 years ago 🙂
YUM! Thanks! I have frozen so many other fruits, but never thought about freezing bananas! Good tip!
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love, love smoothies! We would just love to win this kit :-0
we can never make enough smoothies over here!
Blessings-
Rachelle
Cool! (Literally!) We love smoothies too.
I make my own yogurt:
(http://b1g1bargainsblessingsbananas.blogspot.com/2009/01/recipe-for-yogurt.html)
We try to add in odds and ends as well. My favorite addition to berry & banana smoothies was chopped, frozen carrots I’d gotten on clearance. If V-8 can do it, we can too!
I would love to win! The 1000th time is the charm right?
I would love to have some smoothie recipes!
Have a great day!
We love smoothies too. Only problem is that we don’t have a blender.
Thanks!
Mmm, smoothies! We make them all the time here, it’s how I get my kids to eat fruit and veggies without a problem;-)
We love smoothies 🙂
Sounds great! My kids & I would LOVE to win this – thanks!
Oh we love a good smoothie! Thanks!
I love smoothies but have never tried making them. I guess I question how it would turn out if I did it on my own. Sounds like a great way to sneak some nutrition into my picky son though, thanks!
We LOVE smoothies, too! I’m excited to stock up on fruit during these summer months!
I’ve been on a smoothie kick lately and have been making one a day for a snack! Yum! Always looking for new kinds to try.
Those smoothies look yummy on this hot day!
Who doesn’t love a smoothie? Thanks for the giveaway!
I am so amazed…how on earth do you find time to do all this stuff?!?!? Baking day was incredible! I have a 1, 2 and 4 year old and I dont know how you do it!
I love smoothies too!
I’d love to win!
I would love to win a smoothie kit! My son struggles with getting enough calories due to some medication he’s on, so he starts his day with a smoothie packed full of nutrition – it is a great way to give him that extra boost. He thinks they are great and drinks the entire glass without complaint! Thanks for the chance to win!
These look really yummy!
Thanks, for posting all the great deals! Smoothies are a great treat to beat the AZ heat.
One of my summer favs too! Thanks for the idea of the freezing the fruit on a cookie sheet first… You are awesome!
We love smoothies and frozen yogurt pops. My blender has been acting up lately, so I hope I win this. Thanks for the awesome recipes and tips!:)
Yummm
The smoothies look yummy!! I would love to win.
I would love to win!
Thanks!
We love smoothies too. Lately we’ve been getting fresh black and blue berries for them. Yum.
I’ve been making smoothies regularly now that I’ve been reading your blog and hearing about you making them–thanks for giving me the idea of such an easy treat!
I love smoothies. Peach strawberry and mango is one of my favorites.
I am so enjoying (and learning from!) your blogs, Crystal. My friend and I talk about you and your shopping adventures often since we discovered your site. Thanks for posting how you freeze your berries so they come out okay. I was never taught any of this and am new to eating frugally.
Thanks for the smoothie reminder. With extra fussy kiddos, smoothies are a great way to add nutrients to a diet!
We love smoothies. Thanks for a great site.
Yummmmmmmmmmmy! Smoothies are the best!
We love smoothies here! And I could use a new blender. Count me in!
Hey Crystal,
Your recipe’s are always my favorite part of your blog! My 2 year old son has a skin disease that affects his asophogus and mouth. I use my magic bullet every day to make his food mushy and soft for my little guy. I would love to win this give away and would put it to good use everyday. Thanks for being such a good role model with your mommy skills!
In case I don’t win the smoothie kit, do you think a food processor would achieve similar results? Currently I don’t own a blender.
Smoothies are amazing! And for personal reasons, I’m a huge supporter of bone health research, prevention, and awareness.
Thanks for the give-away. And as always, great blog!
Those smoothies recipes look great. Can’t wait to try one.
Sounds Yummy!!!!
thanks for all you do on here, I am new around here and it’s so great 🙂
Great giveaway! Thanks for all of your hard work!
Love you!
Hey! I recently found my dad’s hand blender and the past two days we have REALLY been having tons of smoothies but I can’t seem to get my 20 month old to eat or drink them 🙁 🙁 I put it in a sippy and call it “Yogurts” bc she LOVES Yogurt that way but she doesn’t like it. I’m starting to think that maybe she hates strawberries.
Is your 2 year old not a picky eater?
Please enter me! Thank you.
My whole family loves smoothies as well. I even made popsicles and the only ingredients were strawberries and plain fat free yogurt. My 2 year old loved it! No more store bought popsicles with added sugar for us!
I would love to have this! THe kids would love smoothies.
Your smoothies look fantastic!
Mmmmm! Smooooooothies!
I would love to try it! Thanks.
love smoothies!
Smoothies are great… thanks for the giveaway!
We love smoothies at our house!
I would love to have this! The kids would love to have smoothies.
My kids love smoothies. We have a magic bullet and they can make one whenever they want. The problem is we run out of our fruit supply before the end of the month. Would love to win on this site! I follow you daily.
I never followed this blog of yours before since I don’t live in the USA and most of the deals you post are for there. Since it is the only one you have now though – here I am.
If this is open to Canada – count me in. If not, I do have a friend in Georgia that would love this!
Yummy! I add a scoop of our “green” nutritional powder to our fresh juices for extra nutrients! We’ve been getting a little tired of just juice, however and a smoothie sounds great!!
We love smoothies here too. Enter me in!
Oooh, love smoothies! Thanks!
We make smoothies often too. It is my secret way to use up that last bit of green veggies before they go bad. My boys love watching the mixture turn green and then red/purple (depending on the berries added.) Would love to win the smoothie maker. I keep killing our blender.
My kids love smoothies. It’s a nice, healthy treat.
Trying to win!
I love smoothies — I freeze my odds and ends of fruit in muffin tins then they are cup size and I use my immersion blender to puree them.
Thanks for these great tips! I’m definitely going to give these a whirl!
I have been wanting to add smoothies to our day for a while and haven’t done it . Noticed that our Sam’s has big boxes of strawberries for less than $3. I’m going to try it this week. Great idea!
My daughter and I love smoothies, we make them at least twice a week (I even make my own yogurt). Thanks for the opportunity to win!!
I just started making my toddler smoothies and she LOVES them!
We love orange smoothies!
Got great strawberries this week at Target for $.50 after coupons, so I’m all about making some smoothies for my boys!
Any suggestions for using soy milk?
Fun giveaway! Thanks!
we love smoothies here too! I dont have a blender right now, so this would be perfect!
We love smoothies and we make them few times a week. We would love this!
I finally perfected my smoothie-making system! Yum!
My two girls love smoothies too!
count me in!!! i love smoothies!
How fantastic! Such a yummy summer treat 🙂
Smoothies on a hot day, yummy!
Please enter me!!
I love smoothies!
We love smoothies too! Would love to win.
Great giveaway. Our blender died a couple of months back, so this would be perfect. I’ve been needing a way to take advantage of all the great produce deals lately! Enter me, please.
I bought a smoothie maker one year but the spout on it always jams up with the fruit. Would love a real blender to try them out again!
I love making smoothies!
We love smoothies too! I’ve never been brave enough to try spinach in them, though.
Sounds like a great summer treat, thanks!
Yummy! My husband and I love to drink smoothies!
Yummmmmm! I love smoothies!
I absolutely love these ideas! Any smoothie with peanut butter in it is a keeper!
We do smoothies here too. I never thought to freeze the berries on a cookie sheet, though. However, my dad told me he doesn’t wash blueberries until he’s ready to use them. He just freezes them and bags them. He says it makes them mushy to wash and then freeze. I’ll try it his way once, I’m sure:)
This would be great for our 100 degree weather here in Texas! Thanks for the offer
I would love to try my hand at making smoothies! I’m feeling lucky!
I’d Love to win this. My kids are really into smoothies. Thanks! grogereva2 (at) aol (dot) com
Those Smoothies look SO good!! Thanks for all you do!
I love smoothies!!
Kelly
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First the free smoothie coupon and now these smoothies? I’m going to go crazy if I don’t get one soon!!
Smoothies are a perfect way to get some fresh fruit and dairy in your diet!
Your models are too cute!
I started putting spinach in my smoothies a while ago and love that you can’t even taste it in there, but it adds so much goodness!
Love to have some smoothie recipies…count me in!!
We love smoothies! I also love your blog and love seeing your girls. They are so cute. Thanks for sharing!
Yumm… we love smothies!
Sounds delicious! Jill
I love smoothies!
I lost my frozen bananas when our freezer died, and I miss having them around for smoothies! I can’t find reduced fruit very often in our area, but I’m hoping I’ll find more cheap bananas soon!
I would love to win!!!!
Yum! What a great idea to cool down with. Your pics were super cute too!
My family loves smoothies and would rather have a smoothie then ice cream or any other dessert.
I have just begin enjoying smoothies this summer and sharing them with my toddler son!
My kids and I would love this! They’re 13, 9 and 6 months, but of course, I’ll make sure the 6 month old gets his after about 4 hours. 🙂
Spinach smoothies are our favorite. My boys call it “frog juice”! Thanks for sharing these great tips!
We enjoy smoothies here too, and my dear hubby has been known to wear out blenders…he makes a smoothie everyday 🙂
There is nothing better on a hot summer morning than a nice cool smoothie! Our favorites are any type of berry smoothie. I also just sold my son on a peanut butter banana smoothie last week. He loved it and it filled him up which is hard to do with a 14 yr old!
Yum Smoothies! We are huge fans too!
Your girls are too cute!
My kids loves smoothies. Thanks for sharing.
I love smoothies… so much in fact that a strawberry, bannana, peach smoothie was the first thing I asked for after pushing out my first baby! Thankfully there was a smoothie shop down the road that just happened to be open so I got my wish!
please enter me, I have never tried to make smoothies before.
Your smoothie recipes sound wonderful! I can’t wait to try them. What an amazing giveaway for these hot summer afternoons. I would love the smoothie kit. 🙂
Yum. We love smoothies in our house!
I have got to make smoothies for the girls! Thanks for reminding me to try this out!
I love smoothies!
Thank you for all that you do! Smoothie’s are such a nice summer treat!
Our blender just broke — I would be so excited to win!
I am interested.
I’m not good at making smoothies and would love to learn – this sounds great – thanks!
Yum! I love smoothies!
My family loves making smoothies, and it’s such a great way to “hide” in those great nutrients such as flax seed oil, or acai!
Yummy! Would love to know if/how you get good deals on the Yo Baby yogurt. My littlest is just starting to eat it but it is expensive around here. Thanks!
We make a lot of smoothies in our house too, but our blender is on the fritz! This would be great!
Yum yum yum! My kids LOVE smoothies!
I love smoothies. My little ones still aren’t crazy about them because they don’t like anything cold yet, but I keep trying.
Oh how I need a blender!
Mmm, we’re big smoothie fans, too. Thanks for the fun!
A blender is on my list of things I need 🙂 How cool would that be?? Thanks
Smoothies are the best!
My boys love smoothies!
Mmmm! 😛
Sounds like a yummy giveaway!
-Amanda
We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE smoothies too and we make them so much that our blender is about ready to die. So I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your smoothie kit and the blender. We add some chocolate protein powder in our smoothies and we love that too, then you get some extra protein in our diet without even realizing it. But I will definitely try the PB banana smoothie recipe too. Thank you.
This is such an awesome giveaway! Thank you!
Smoothies are awesome!
Those smoothies look delicious and your girls adorable!
I tried making smoothies and mine just don’t come out that great. I am going to try again instead of giving up. My husband told me I cannot anymore because I am ruining the blender, but oh well. If I win I will have my own blender. HAHA.
Yummy giveaway!
I love smoothies. What a perfect summer giveaway.
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What an awesome give away!! And healthy for you too!
By His Grace,
Michelle
Great frugal idea! And your kids look so cute with their smoothies! Hope to be the big winner!
We LOVE smoothies at our house. My 11 year old is always coming up with some new combination and loves to experiment. 🙂
I would love to try some of these reciepes for my grand children. Thanks for the tips on freezing fruit. I wll try those. Hope I win. My email is [email protected]
I would love to try smoothies. I’m always sneaking veggies into my 2 year old’s meals, so I think this would be a great way as well. It might even work for my husband!
Smoothies are just plain fun to eat! Thanks for the chance to win!
We love smoothies! Thanks!
Would love to win this…thanks!
I’ve been dying to make smoothies lately, but for some reason they intimidate me – I just don’t know where to begin! This kid would be oh-so-helpful. 🙂
my 17 yr old daughter loves making smoothies! we enjoyed reading the ideas for how you make yours.
Thanks for all you do!!
My husband has really loved making smoothies lately since I got a ton of strawberries on sale. We are looking forward to trying out the raspberries from the garden of our new house soon.
A smoothie kit would be awesome!
My son has a “veggie” issue – but what he doesn’t know won’t hurt him. I added spiniach to his smoothies for the past few years – he can’t see it/taste it (seriously), but he’ll eat it…
The other day I told him about it…he’s old enough to start making his own smoothies and to be interested in what’s really iin them…and he decided that wasn’t so bad so he’ll keep adding it…and he’s trying more stuff too – rhubarb, carrots, broccoli – some a bigger hit than others, but he’s eating more veggies!
Thanks, Crystal!!!
I love smoothies, and just bought a blender to try making my own and even better the blender had a $20 rebate at Sears! I can’t wait to try your receipe above! Thank you!
We love smoothies……Or favorite are strawberry ones. YUMMMM!
Yummm! Summertime is smoothie time!
Thanks for the chance at the giveaway! We LOVE smoothies at our house!
I’d love to try making smoothies.
Ohh. I love to be a winner.
I love smoothies, but have yet to make them here at our house. Thanks so much for the giveaway!
We like smoothies-my 7 year old is over my shoulder saying, Yum!-Thanks for the chance! 🙂
I love smoothies! I buy the large boxed of spinach at Costco to use in our smoothies. My son did not like the fact that they were “green” until I told him it was a “John Deere” shake and then he gobbled it up and asked for more.
Yum! I think we need to start making smoothies at our house. Thanks for sharing!
I recently got into making smoothies as a way to continue to strive to eat healthier. Thanks for the great site, I’ve really enjoyed learning what you have to share!
They look yummy! I would love a chance to win.
Love smoothies! Thanks for the tips.
I love smoothies!
My fave is a blueberry banana smoothie!
I’d love to win this kit! We love smoothies at our house but our blender is over 50 years old and doesn’t always work the best!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
I’d love to win a smoothie kit, as I’m a definite novice at making them!
Wow, I have never considered making a smoothie — sounds healthy and less expensive!
Thanks for the giveaway! Love smoothies!
The smoothies look delicious! It makes me want to get out my blender and make one!
My kids would love these!!!
Those smoothies look delicious. Thanks for the offer!
I can’t wait to try your peanut butter banana smoothie. That sounds yummy!
Smoothies would hit the spot for us here in hot hot Florida.
Wow we would love this prize!
Yum! Smoothies are great and my girls are fruitaholics, so this would be wonderful for us.
We love smoothies at our home too! It would be great to replace our ancient blender with a new one! Thanks for the opportunity!
My husband love Strawberry/Banana Smoothies! 🙂
This looks like a yummy treat to have on a hot summer day.
We love smoothies here, too. My personal favorite is strawberry, peach, and banana – yum!
Yum!!!
Our blender just kicked the bucket! Would be so excited to win this one!
mmm smoothies are my favorite thanks for the give!
Peanut butter & banana smoothies sound interesting…I’ll have to try them!
Yeah, smoothies! What a great give-away. I’d definitely love to win this!
Ooh, Ooh. I need a blender!
This would be AWESOME to win!! PLEASE pick me!
Great idea to put the girls in big t shirts when they are eating something messy!
I love smoothies.. and the tshirts seem like perfect full body bibs to keep my little man clean!! 🙂
We love smoothies and peanut butter banana has become one of my favorites too!
Smoothilicious! Thanks!
What a cute giveaway! We love smoothies too, but haven’t made any in awhile, so this will be a nice treat. Thanks.
I was just wondering how to make smoothies- thanks! And I would wear that shirt with pride. I <3 dairy!
thanks for entering our family! We love smoothies in our house, too. Carrot smoothie is our favorite….carrots, orange juice, milk and ice. Mmmm! Have a blessed day.
Pamela
dan pam hawk @ gmail. com (minus spaces)
I love smoothies and always use frozen berries. I might have to try frozen bananas for my son though. I don’t like bananas but he loves them. Thanks for the ideas.
We enjoy smoothies too. Like you, I’ve found that frozen bananas are a terrific addition to them. I’m going to try the peanut butter.
Thank you for having the contest!
Lora
I’d like to be entered! We enjoy smoothies almost daily. This week I got 40# of ripe bananas for $2 and froze them to use throughout the next few months!
We love green smoothies and my son has no idea what makes them “Green”! haha!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Shannon
my smoothie machine broke during our recent move so I would love to win this one!
Your smoothies look delicious! My oldest loves to help make banana smoothies. Never thought of freezing the bananas though, when ours goes “bad” we usually send them to my mom for her to make banana bread or bars 🙂
smoothies!! yum!!
I’ve never thought of freezing bananas either. I have teenage boys that play multiple sports. They make protein shakes each morning. I too freeze raspberries and strawberries for their smoothies and freezing bananas is a great idea! Plus, who doesn’t LOVE freshly baked, warm banana bread?? YUM. 🙂
Thanks so very much for all you do! I can’t even begin to tell you how inspiring you have been, not to mention how much money you have saved me and my family!!!
I like smoothies. This is a good post and I would like to win that kit and those smoothie recipes.
YUMMY!!!
I love smoothies!
Last time Albertson’s had cheap strawberries {4lbs/$4.77 – that’s pretty cheap here}, we bought extra and froze them, but they’re all gone now. I’m hoping they go on sale again soon.
My husband and I went strawberry picking a couple of months ago and I froze a bunch of them. I’m making strawberry muffins tonight… but I’d love to make some into smoothies! I’m sure my husband would love that treat!
I freeze my bananas too. Our favorite smoothie recipe is 1 cup frozen strawberries, 1/2 cup frozen banana, 1 cup apple juice, 1 cup plain yogurt, and a few ice cubes. Delicious!!! Oh, and I’d love to have that little blender!!! (I used to have one, but it bit the dust…and I MISS it!!)
That might be THE only way to get me to eat bananas – and Lord knows I need more fruit in my diet!
we love eating smoothies too! I’ve also really enjoyed reading your blog!
Smoothies are me and my 5 kid’s favorite! (and we need a new blender BADLY!)
Would love to win!! We have smoothies a few times a week!!
I would love to make smoothies with my son. Please enter me in the drawing. Thanks!
Yay smoothies are sooo delicious!
I need a new blender! I think I almost wore mine out making butter in it for fun! Thanks!
We have smoothies frequently — also freeze them in popsicles. Love your blog.
We just visited my sister-in-law (and fam) and she made smoothies, when my kids saw her kids eating them up, they decided to try them and LOVE them. This would be perfect!! I’d love to see more of your recipes even if I don’t win! 🙂
I would love to start making smoothies, they look so healthy and yummy!
I would LOVE this!
Good giveaway! Smoothies are perfect on a hot day like today! 🙂
Smoothies are favorites at our house! Thanks-
We love smoothies!
My girls love those smoothies!
Love the banana freezer idea!! Thanks!
Thanks for the great info on how to freeze the berries. Would never have thought to freeze the bananas. Smoothies sound wonderful. Can’t wait to try it. Thanks!
Love smoothies. Great giveaway.
We love smoothies, too! GREAT idea on the bananas – I didn’t realize you could cut them and freeze them like berries. I will definitely start buying the discounted bananas for this! Your blog is fabulous – thanks for all of your ideas! How do you find time with three kids!? 🙂
thanks!
Smoothies are wonderful, and I could really use a blender right now. Thanks!
Thank you for the info! We love smoothies!
Thanks for the great idea
Thanks for a chance to win a smoothie kit. Your girls are darling!
The peanut butter banana smoothie sounds great! Would love to win the blender too!
WE LOVE SMOOTHIES!
We LOVE smoothies!
Smoothies are awesome!
Fantastic idea! We love smoothies at this house!
Your girls are too cute! We love smoothies as well- even the “green” ones!
Sounds great.
My wifes freezes bananas as well. The first time I saw her doing it I shaked my head and kind felt she was acting strange. Now I know she is not the only one… hehee. Please count me in.
chuck
that peanut butter smoothie sounds great!!
I’ve outgrown my current smoothie maker – this would be great!
I would love to be in the drawing.
I would love a smoothie kit. Sounds like a fabulous way to go with summer fruits and veggies.
what a great giveaway! i would love to learn some tasty recipes for my two year old girls (and for mama) to enjoy :)!
I keep on meaning to make smoothies! Yum!
We love smoothies too!
Great giveaway!
I just froze some local strawberries – which would be great in a smoothie!
hope I win
Love smoothies!!!
I love smoothies too! And your blog!
Theresa
love the banana idea of chopping and freezing! thanks for offering this one! =)
Yay! I love smoothie’s!
This kit would be great!
Love your blog!
Mary Jo
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I just finished slurping down the last of my breakfast smoothie. 🙂
It would be great to have a smaller blender for smoothie making!
We love smoothies- great giveaway. I never thought about freezing the ripe bananas. What a great plan- favorite tip of the day! 🙂
We are just beginning our adventure into smoothies! Yummy so far. Thanks for the additional ideas!
Love smoothies, would love to win! Thanks
My husband and I love smoothies! Thank you for the wonderful tips on obtaining fruit and freezing it! Sorbet also goes well in smoothies. Just a little bit can add a lot of flavor and no fat!
what a great idea. thank you so much for showing exactly how to do this; I’ve tried a few times with little success.
I love smoothies, but have never tried to make them at home. I know my little guy (and big guy too!) would love them!
I loved all your creative ideas about what to put in a smoothie. Smoothies can be a liquid “smorgasbord”! :o) Thanks for the tips. I’d love to be entered to win the smoothie kit & blender.
~Sue
My children love smoothies but our blender died. This is a great giveaway!
I love your site and you have motivated me to try my hand at smoothies.
Thanks for sharing.
Hi!!
You are such a wonderful inspiration to remember what the most important thing should be in our lives!! Our Lord Jesus Christ and his gospel!
Thanks so much!
Kate
I would love to win this! We have been freezing in-season fruit all spring and summer just for smoothies. Now we just need a decent blender! 🙂
Boy these smoothies look YUMMY! I’d love to win!
great idea on freezing the strawberries. This has always been a problem for me also. I find that it makes us more regular also. If you know what I mean
Hello, I love reading your ideas about saving money, coupons and prudent homemaking. I’ve tried some recipes and definitely cut out some coupons with your help! Thank you. We love smoothies too, homemade especially. Adding a spoon of PB and sometimes Nutella makes them even more delicious. Lord bless you in helping so many women to be better homemakers!
The smoothies sound delicious! Count us in!
We love smoothies here as well. My husband likes to buy the store mixes but I think they have too much sugar in them. Put my name in the hat. Shari
Yay!! What a great giveaway! My kids love smoothies and i’ve been wanting to get one of those blenders.
Count me in!!!
We love smoothies!
love your blog
I’d love to win this! We’ve been wishing for a blender for a while, but I never seem to find a decent one at yard sales or thrift stores.
What a great giveaway. I would love to win, my blender just broke!
Oh I love smoothies. This giveaway would be a wonderful one to win. Thanks!
Another wonderful giveaway that i would LOVE to win!
Thanks for all your great tips & recipes.
We love smoothies also, and would love to win! Thanks!
We love smoothies!
Wow- A real summer tiem treat – my kids would love it. THanks for the chance.
I love you website. You have given me many good ideas and coupons. My daughter loves smoothies.
Shauna
I’d love to make a smoothie like those you mentioned but don’t have a blender…maybe I’ll win!
Great giveaway – I could use a new blender! 🙂
Wow, it looks like i will be the first post! I enjoy your baking posts. I am also a baker and enjoy doing it. I am excited to try your pita bread recipe soon! yummy!
Smoothies are the best!! I would love to win this set!! 🙂
I would love a kit, my blender does not do the job very well. [email protected]
Thanks Teresa
This would be a great blender for smoothies. I love frozen fruit. So much that instead of ice cream me and my darling have a bowl of yogurt with frozen blueberries in the evening.
I also like the teeshirts:)
Renee
Mom of four
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Money saving mom has the best give aways! Free smoothie kit = woot! Thanks for offering this!
Love your blog and your smoothies looks so yummy! BTW, your girls are so cute! Thank you for the hard work there! 🙂
Yum- you’ve sent me digging in my freezer for frozen fruit on this 90-degree day! Love that little blender.
i love smoothies!
I have often heard you mention smoothies and would love your recipes. Thanks for offering this awesome giveaway.
Would love to win this! We love smoothies! Thanks!
I have enjoyed so much reading about your precious family. My family is grown with families of their own now, but I have really enjoyed everything that has been passed on. I look forward each day to reading about recipes and all of the promotions offered. I love the offers from CVS and all of the tips on saving dollars.
Thanks again and God bless you and your family!!
Wow! This is great. Thanks for the giveaway. I love your site.
Thanks for sharing! I love your blog, you have inspired me to save money and bake 🙂
We love smoothies at our house–I love fresh pineapple or pineapple juice with coconut milk and frozen bananas~this is so yummy! I like to add a little milk or cream as it cuts the tartness of the fruit, especially berries.
I’d LOVVVEEE a smoothie kit! Our blender leaves much to be desired when I’ve tried to make smoothies in the past!
Great ideas for smoothies. Thanks for sharing Crystal.
I just started making green smoothies and I love them! Your family is precious!
I’d love to win this. My blender just bit the dust making homemade ice cream. Thanks.
Mmmm, those smoothies look wonderful!
I was on a green smoothie kick for a while- I love the idea of buying clearanced bananas & having them on hand in the freezer!
I would love a smoothy kit. Sounds delicious!
We love smoothies!
Thanks so much for this offer – I’d love to get into “smoothies” so hope I’m the lucky one!
We’d love to win! We love smoothies at our house (I try to mimic Jamba Juice recipes!) but our blender just went on the blink.
I love smoothies, too!
What a great giveaway! My boys would love smoothies as a afternoon snack!
Whoo hoo! We love smoothies! Enter me, please.
Great giveaway
Great Smoothie ideas, I love the info on the berries.
We love strawberry smoothies too!!
I am in. I would love to win this one.
Thank you
thanks!
We love smoothies here, and could use a new blender! Thanks. Jessica, [email protected]
We love smoothies at our house. We grow our own blueberries and trade some with our friend Marge for some of her blackberries. Our smoothies tend to be on the purple side! Our blender is getting old and tired, smells like rubber burning when we use it, so we could certainly use a new one. Have you ever made peach smoothies?
These smoothies look great!! Your thoughts would be to wash your berries before you freeze them? Is it ok to freeze them without washing them? Washing them once you are ready to use them. Does it matter? Thanks for the input! 🙂
My three girls LOVE smoothies…until they wore the blender out. New recipies and a new blender would be GREAT!
Sounds delicious!
I love reading your blog!! The kids would love the smoothie kit.
Thanks,
Tonita Nance
3789 Rugby Pike
Jamestown, Tenn. 38556
[email protected]
Ohh I would love to win this!
I love your blog and love your giveaways!!!
My family has just started trying to eat better and smoothies are a great idea. Thank you for the information.
Yummy! Thanks for sharing!
I also love making smooties this time of year. You had some great idea’s, I loved the idea of cutting up the banana’s to put in the freezer. I do this with strawberry’s that we haven’t gotten to and it works great!
The smoothie kit sounds like something fun to try out this summer! Thanks for putting this together!
Homemade smoothies……yummo! Refreshing in the heat, health building, and great tasting…thanks for the ideas! I am new to your blog and appreciate the time you take to help other mamas! From one mama to another…thank you!
My littles would LOVE smoothies! What a great idea!
Cool deal, count me in.
We LOVE smoothies!! We make them almost daily and would love to win this giveaway
Sounds great! I LOVE smothies!
I love smoothies! It’s a great way for my 1 year old to get his nutrients too.
This sounds so tasty!
Crystal,
I love smoothies too. My mom got us started on them when I was living at home. I now am a single gal living on my own and still enjoy smoothies. (You don’t know of any KJV conservative guys in their 30’s middle to late or so that is looking for a wife do you:) You can take that part out:) I have started using peanut butter in mine too! I can get organic or natural peanut butter for dirt cheap:) My secret;) and so I enjoy the taste. I need to get to the grocery store more and freeze like you mentioned. I have no large freezer though:( Boo, hoo. Would be fun to win and thank you! I love your blog and turn others onto it when I can.
Michelle S.
We love smoothies at my house!
Thanks for having this contest! We actually don’t have a blender, and this would be perfect for our family right now. God Bless!
I love smoothies too. We always add oatmeal or wheat germ to it, and I think it improves the texture without changing the taste much. Also, we usually add vanilla to ours.
Please enter me into the drawing. Thanks!
I never thought of freezing bananas. I am not a huge berry fan but love banana smooties. Cutting and freezing the bananas is a terrific idea. Now if I can just get my 3 year old to like smoothies as much as I do.
Thanks for the ideas.
mmmm, smoothies! That sounds great, especially in this weather!!! Thanks for hosting this give-away!
I can’t possibly be the first comment??? We have smoothies almost every meal!
I love smoothies, but haven’t tried to make them at home yet…so this would def motivate me to begin!! Thanks!
Keep up the good work! You make a difference.
We sure do love homemade smoothies. Yummy.
stephanie I would love the smoothie kit we too are crazy about smoothies all summer.
Those smoothies look delicious!
As always, thanks for the chance :o)
I’ve recently started adding spinach to my smoothies and love it.
This would be a great giveaway for me to win. My mom and husband are both having jaw surgery this year and will have their jaws wired shut for a month each. I’ll need all the help I can get when it comes time to take care of each of them. My mom is especially picky so I’ve been trying to stock up on recipes she might like.
YUM! We love smoothies at our house…but our blender just died…so this would be great!
Mmm, I love smoothies.
We love to make smoothies as well. And our blender just broke!
Thanks for all of your hard work.
We LOVE smoothies too, I just started freezing the bananas and it works out great. Thanks for the PB recipe.