Duct Tape Smoothie

Before I start this post, my husband Tyler was quite upset that I didn't mention that it was him who initially thought that Abrielle's red cheeks were from teething and not from a sunburn.  So, honey, here is your shout out.  You were right, just as you are with a lot of things with her.  You are a really intuitive father, and you know your baby girl and what she needs. Love you!

Moving on.


One of my favourite blogs is Peanut Butter Fingers (link here:  http://www.pbfingers.com/).  Julie posts a lot of the meals that she eats, and among those are a lot of smoothies.  Inspired by that, and feeling like I need a good, nutritious, carb reduced meal, I pulled out my blender and decided to whip up one of my own concoctions, inspired by her.

I haven't used the blender in a while, and we have a nice Cuisinart model that has a spout for the smoothie to pour out of.  Problem:  I couldn't find mine anywhere.  I searched, and searched, and searched and no luck.  Unwilling to not have a smoothie, and not wanting to pull out the Magic Bullet, I decided to duct tape the hole closed.

OK, confession. I tried to electrical tape it shut first, and that was a huge mess.

So, I duct taped the hole closed, and I tested it with water first to make sure it wouldn't leak.  I'm not an idiot, I wanted to make sure that this baby was water tight.  And it was.  Apparently it wasn't smoothie-tight though. 

The darn blender started leaking out soy milk before I even had a chance to press blend!  Not only that, but I was boiling apples on the stove for Abby, had muffins in the oven that were almost done, bread going in the breadmaker and huge mess that was developing.  The last thing that I really wanted or needed was soy milk dripping down my cupboards and onto my floor.   Oh well, the results were delicious!

In the mix was:
-Ice
-Soy milk
-Chocolate flavoured protein powder
-Spinach (that is not a typo)
-A banana

When it was done I poured it in a bowl and added a whole bunch of large flake oatmeal.  It was really good, but super filling.  I ended up throwing out over half of it.

I'd definitely do this again, just in smaller quantities...and perhaps in the Magic Bullet until I find the spout to my blender. ;-)