Bought a nutri-bullet blender.

Ace Modder · 2 Feb 2016 at 23:18

Enjoying fruit juice mixes at the moment. Any body else got one who can give me some cool suggestions for recipes?

I made a orange, apple, green grape and raspberry smoothy today.

Raymond Lin · 2 Feb 2016 at 23:21

I bought a Nutri Ninja a couple of weeks ago.

Pear, Apple, Carrots, ginger and a dash of OJ.

But mostly I make banana milkshakes (with vanilla ice cream)...I actually love my fruit and veg and find blending them a waste.

llamadal · 2 Feb 2016 at 23:24

Love mine, couldn't live without it.

My breakfast is 2 banana's, a few frozen strawberries, frozen blueberries, cacao nibs, spoonful of almond butter topped up with almond milk.

Ace Modder · 2 Feb 2016 at 23:46

I found that raspberries have far too many seeds when blendered up.

Raymond Lin · 3 Feb 2016 at 00:02

One tip, don't blend blueberries with milk.

It curdles and next thing you know you have a cup of angel's delight....

Snookums · 3 Feb 2016 at 00:15

If you're doing it for any health benefit putting Kale in is surprisingly not gross. It may turn it a horrible green but IMO you can't notice the taste difference.

As said almond milk is really good in them too.

DB_SamX · 3 Feb 2016 at 00:17

Use coconut water when you don't want to add juice to your drink, so it becomes less sweet but still tasty, and full of potassium.

Buy frozen fruit from supermarket.

Add supplements e.g. Chia seeds, wheatgrass, spirulina, etc for extra nutrients.

Also several threads on juicers previously posted with same tips you can read.

llamadal · 3 Feb 2016 at 09:16

I tried with chia seeds, just turns into gloop.

Avocado goes well with a lot of things as well

Ace Modder · 3 Feb 2016 at 09:23

some good tips here. I have just been adding a splash of water and ice to my juices so far.

Frozen fruit sounds good, saves watering it down with ice. Need a bigger freezer I think!

i did try a tomato, cucumber and lettuce mixture but it was very tasteless - not impressed with that, it was just like having water. No flavourings really.

randomshenans · 3 Feb 2016 at 09:24

Raymond Lin said:
One tip, don't blend blueberries with milk.

It curdles and next thing you know you have a cup of angel's delight....

Saying that, I had frozen blueberries, frozen raspberries, milk, water and whey last night blitzed, with a normal stick blender, and it's the best thing in the world.

DB_SamX · 3 Feb 2016 at 10:48

llamadal said:
I tried with chia seeds, just turns into gloop.

Avocado goes well with a lot of things as well

How many seeds are you adding? I usually only add a spoonful and it's perfectly fine.

Raymond Lin · 3 Feb 2016 at 12:32

randomshenans said:
Saying that, I had frozen blueberries, frozen raspberries, milk, water and whey last night blitzed, with a normal stick blender, and it's the best thing in the world.

Being frozen probably meant it's not in liquid form to have the reaction with milk and adding water dilutes it too.

Just try it with blueberries and milk....let it sit for 5 mins afterwards...

D.P. · 3 Feb 2016 at 17:29

Raymond Lin said:
One tip, don't blend blueberries with milk.

It curdles and next thing you know you have a cup of angel's delight....

About 5 days a week I will have a smoothie made with milk and blueberries, never has it curdle before.

it will thicken up, but then half the ingredients I add to a smoothie will thicken it anyway, i consider that an advantage.
Porridge oats thicken it up, as does chia or flax seeds, and protein powder.

The fiber in chia seeds in particular really swell up and become gelatinous, that is what helps make it more satiating.

Raymond Lin · 3 Feb 2016 at 17:40

http://www.chowhound.com/post/food-chemistry-question-blueberry-milk-cheese-278757?page=2

http://www.smoothieninja.com/smoothie-faq

You either don't really use that many or must be using some kind of special new breed of blueberries...

Jonny2284 · 3 Feb 2016 at 19:18

Snookums said:
If you're doing it for any health benefit putting Kale in is surprisingly not gross. It may turn it a horrible green but IMO you can't notice the taste difference.

As said almond milk is really good in them too.

Ditto Spinach as well as Kale. I've confused many a person at work with my green Strawberry and Banana smoothies.

neoboy · 3 Feb 2016 at 21:29

Greens can mess up the colours, particularly in fruit smoothies. Pure green smoothies can look a little unappetising too but I normally put Skyr yogurt into mine which gives it a nicer pastel colour.

Chojin · 3 Feb 2016 at 21:45

My go to is:

Avocado
Baby spinach
Persimmon or apple
Water

I try and limit the amount of fructose as I don't think it's healthy cramming in too many sugary fruits.

neoboy · 3 Feb 2016 at 22:01

I make the same above but have a banana instead of apple and stick a spoon of chia seeds in as well. These frozen avocado halves from Tesco have been an amazing time saver but I feel like they are going to kill my little 300W Breville very soon so will be buying some kind of a powerful Ninja type contraption in the future.

Ace Modder · 3 Feb 2016 at 22:25

Mine is the Nutribullet 900. 25,000 RPM blades at 900w

Currently £70 at Morrisons.

D.P. · 4 Feb 2016 at 02:23

Raymond Lin said:
http://www.chowhound.com/post/food-chemistry-question-blueberry-milk-cheese-278757?page=2

http://www.smoothieninja.com/smoothie-faq

You either don't really use that many or must be using some kind of special new breed of blueberries...

I add a handful but thete are a lot of other ingredients that thicken it up and probably prevent any curdling. Things like Chia seeds really make a gelatinous jello like.smoothie regardless of the blueberries.

I also drink the smoothie quickly.