Worlds most amazing smoothie

We finally got around to buying a stick blender, the Cuisinart CSB-76 Smartstick! So far we've only made smoothies and spaghetti sauce but it is the best way of getting vegetables into things that don't usually have vegetables. We bought a bunch of kale, and blended some into the spaghetti sauce.

Then today, I made a super smoothie. I started by washing a handful of kale and trimming off the stems. Then I put in some frozen peaches, pineapple, grapes, and blueberries, and some mandarin oranges from a jar. I splashed in some Bolthouse Farms C-Boost and some Pom Wonderful pomegranate mango juice for liquid, and then added a spoonful of wheat germ and a spoonful of flax seed meal.

Blended it up and you can't even taste the kale (it showed up pretty green in the picture but you actually can't see it unless you look realllly hard)

One thing we discovered on Sunday though is that you shouldn't eat a smoothie with blueberries in it on your way to somewhere or else you'll be scraping blueberry skin off your teeth in the church parking lot

This is definitely something to keep in mind for everyone, but kids in particular will love this. Its sweet but has no added sugar, (actually mine did because I used mandarin oranges but we ate all the other fruit in the house so I had to cheat) and you could even use low fat yogurt or vanilla frozen yogurt to make it more milkshake-like. It took maybe 5 minutes from getting out all the ingredients, washing and trimming the kale, and getting it all blended.

Plus you get all kinds of good stuff, kale is one of the most nutritious vegetables, plus it has a decent amount of calcium, and blueberries and grapes are so high in antioxidants, wheat germ is a good source of folic acid, and flaxseed meal has fiber and omega-3 fats!

Beat that, ice cream!