Wake Up to a Fruit Smoothie

     In the morning, before I head to school (I teach Language Arts in a little school now -- just in the mornings). I'm in charge of: (1.) Gathering, washing, drying & folding the laundry, (2.) Unloading the dishwasher, and (3.) Making the family's fruit smoothie. I make it entirely out of fruit we've frozen ourselves and our own homemade apple juice ...
    You just can't get any better than this!

 BLUEBERRIES

We pick these at a local U-pick Amish farm just down the road and freeze them in quart bags.

I still haven't posted about that -- Hmm, maybe that ought to be fixed :)

 RASPBERRIES

We grow these on our own hill and freeze them in gallon Ziplock bags twice a year.

Here's the post about me and my sister picking them on the hill.

BLACKBERRIES

We also grow and freeze these ourselves. In fact, we're in the middle of picking them now.
Here's a post about us picking and freezing them.

PEACHES

We buy these by the bushel in the season and either can or freeze them every year.

BANANAS

We get these by the bushel at the Amish school auction every year and freeze them in bags. 

Here's the post about my siblings and me freezing this year's set of bananas.

PINEAPPLE

We buy pineapple when it's on sale or when we find it at auctions and freeze in in jars.

Here's a post about my siblings and me cutting & freezing this year's pineapple.

STRAWBERRIES

We grow these ourselves  ut back and freeze them both in bags and jars.

    Here is all of the fruit prettily layered in the blender. Each fruit contributes its own unique taste and it's own unique vitamins. I like to include all every morning, but not usually this much. I only used this much for the post's sake.

   This blender is a Ninja and it's the second Ninja we've owned. We've gone through have a dozen blenders throughout the course of our family adventures and all of them have broken somehow or another.The one we had before this Ninja was a cheep glass one and it broke while I was making smoothies last year around this time. I won't go into the particulars -- but I have a ugly scar on my middle finger that I earned that day.

    APPLE JUICE

We buy quite a few bushels of apples every year and turn them into apple cider & juice.

Here's a post about me and my family pressing the apples into apple cider.

    Blend it up -- adding more juice if you want in thinner -- and there you have it. The perfect wake-up-call for your taste buds. We usually drink our smoothie before breakfast, at family scripture study. It's healthy to let the digestive system wake up slowly in the morning so everyone comes to family scripture study having drunk water or juice, then we have our smoothie, and then after family prayer and a blessing on the food everyone is ready for breakfast.

Ingredients:

Blueberries

Rapsberries

Blackberries

Strawberries

Bananas

Peaches

Pineapple

Apple Juice

Any Other Fruit You Can Think Of

Directions:

Combine the frozen fruit in a blender along with the apple juice. Blend until smooth, adding more apple juice if you want it thinner. Add more fruit and juices as you feel brave and adventurous. If the smoothie is too tart add more peaches or bananas, if it is too sweet add more berries (any kind).