The only fruit Nick seeks out of his own volition is a slice of lime to go in his Corona or Medalla. With all the fresh fruit we have, I had to come up with creative ways to get Nick to partake of our tropical bounty. My solution? Tropical milkshakes:
Tropical Milkshakes
Puree fruit (one small Papaya, a bunch of mangoes or a few bananas) using a hand blender
Add a bit of milk, 3 ice-cubes and a few scoops of all natural vanilla ice-cream and blend some more.
Adjust with more milk if too thick.
The milkshakes are a big success. Nick now requests his daily dose of liquid fruit! 🙂
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Aug 15, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Sound delicious. Att Ann Wigmore I learned to eat milkshakes for breakfast (they use almond milk), but green ones: bunch of baby greens, sprouts (alfa alfa, adzuki), some lettuce, processed in a food processor with some flaxseed, some sunflower seed and a bit of seaseme seed plus fruit: papaya is a must (papain), banana or plantain (healthier, apparently) plus milk or kefir (yeah, Fresh Mart has life kefir, even plain, after my begging, now) or yogurt. It is a serious breakfast – yummy, too. 🙂
Aug 16, 2008 at 1:58 pm
That does sound serious! I don’t think I’d be able to get Nick to drink on of those. 😉 He will be getting a much healthier shake today: Our ice-cream was one of the few casualties of our power outage. We do have vanilla yoghurt though! 🙂
Aug 16, 2008 at 4:21 pm
lol, they actually taste a LOT better than they sound… and they tend to become addictive: a morning energy kick! But melted vanilla ice cream shake sounds positively weekendy :-))
Aug 17, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Yummy! We have been making smoothies with juice instead of milk but maybe will try your recipe next time. I am not too fond of papaya though. Are you BTW allergic to papaya as well, or is it just mango?
Aug 17, 2008 at 3:45 pm
It is very yummy. Nick really likes the papaya shakes. I’m not overly crazy about papaya myself but I made him a mango shake the other day and he had to fight me for it! 😉 So tasty! My allergy is only to mango sap; so far no problems picking papaya.