Saturday is market day in my area. A great time to get fresh produce, organic oils and nuts and really just about anything you can think of. There was one store with about 50 different types of tea, I just about died.
I bought a kilo of strawberries, a big bag of juicing apples and my housemate, Susan, and I decided to make ourselves some fresh juice. And it was a fantastic idea. Six small apples, twelve large strawberries and an orange later and we had a glass each of juice that we didn't want to finish! In the spirit of not wasting we then froze the pulp into ice cubes to use in smoothies the next day.
While telling one of my good friends Becca about our plan she made the incredibly enlightened suggestion of adding some of my delicious raw honey into the mix!Which we ended up forgetting to do - but it would have been fantastic.
The entire contents of our smoothie was the frozen pulp from the juice with two bananas and four fresh strawberries with about a cup and a half of almond milk. The result was thick, beautifully coloured, great tasting and insanely healthy.
This is all natural and packed with fibre. Next time, however, for texture reasons I'll add less fruit pulp and more almond milk. The pulp lended some flavour but not enough to be overpowering and would work great with other fruits as well.
Being so fibre-packed this was an incredibly filling smoothie as well! I had one of those cups in the picture about four hours ago and I'm only just starting to feel hungry again!
Got any great recipes or things you think I should try? Let me know in the comments ;)
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