Smoothies are a great way to put a little fruit in your diet, especially during the hot summer months. They can keep you cool and are fun to make, but my problem is I can never make the right amount! Maybe it's the size of my glass or oversized fruit choices, but after my glass is full, there's always just a little left! Here are five things you can do with smoothie leftovers:
1. Ice Cube Trays: Simply toss that smoothie back into an ice cube tray and freeze it again. Then it's available to toss into your next creation or a glass of lemonade.
2. Paper Cups: Little bits of smoothie can be a great popsicle snack. If you have a mold, that's extra awesome, just pour it in. If not, try using small paper cups or even coffee cups with sticks until things are frozen solid.
3. Add Them To Baked Goods: You can usually sub in a little pureed fruit for fats in many recipes. Brownies are a great one to test this out on. Just keep the mix in the fridge for up to a week and put them to use next time you turn on the oven.
4. Silpat + Oven: Make your own fruit leather. Pace your puree on a silpat in the oven on 200 degrees and let things gel. You can freeze the fruit first and then thaw things all at once to make it in larger batches. This trick works best on non-dairy smoothies.
5. Pudding Please: Make your own or use packets from the grocery store, but an extra cup of liquid can be a great thing to mix into your pudding. Simply replace an equal part of regular milk, let set and enjoy.
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I like to sip a bit from the glass and top it off with what didn't fit before...or I've been known to just drink the extra from the blender pitcher, before carrying on with my proper from-the-glass smoothie enjoyment.
Instead of drinking a smoothie from a glass, try pouring it into a bowl and topping it with granola--it's my favorite breakfast!
I make a smoothie every morning, enough for two servings - one serving goes into a glass to drink with breakfast, the rest goes into a Mason jar to bring with me to work. It's the perfect mid-afternoon pick me up!
I must be unimaginative--I drink what's in the glass, then pour what's left of the blender in the glass and drink that.
...........what do you mean?'left over smoothie'.......glug
I like to pour the leftover 1/2 cup or so of smoothie into a little bowl for my dog. We have our smoothies together, and he loves his cool treat every day!
I make a huge batch of smoothie at one time, then freeze the whole thing in three or four ice cube trays. When my 4 year old wants a smoothie, he gets three cubes blended with some milk. When I want one, I do five or six cubes with a splash of OJ.
@TheCozyHerbivore - please make sure your dog never gets any grapes or raisins in those smoothies (I'm a vet in my real life)! :)
Looks like I need to invest in some cute little ice cube trays, because this is a constant problem and I'm always so full after I finish my glass that I don't even WANT the rest of what's in the blender!