~FFF~ Ninja Made Smoothie~FoodFightFriday~

Dang, it’s Friday already?!?! What the heck happened to the week? I hope you Food Fingers are happy and healthy as the Food begins to fly. It’s Food Fight Friday so let’s do this!!

The best way I have found to consume a good amount of fresh fruits and veggies in my diet is to use my juicer or blender. I am all about that ABC (apple, beet, carrot) Juice made with my Tribest Slowstar Juicer. Take a pint, chug it down and get back to doing what I do.

Can our recently purchased Ninja Blender take these same ingredients and turn them into a smoothie rather than a juice?

Let’s keep this ingredients list as simple as possible. Something that will easily be remembered, yet great tasting.

2-Apples
2-Beets
2-Stalks of Celery
2-Oranges
2-Handfuls of Medium Size Carrots
2-Cups of Water

To make this I am going to be using the Ninja Duo blender. This thing has some serious horsepower!! It doesn’t feature that “whisper quiet” operation. This beast let’s everyone in the house know that something healthy and delicious is being made. I purchased mine from Bestbuy for around $150 but now I see it on Amazon for $115 right Here. Have you seen the price of some of those other “extracting” style blenders??? Trust me you don’t want to know. I had such good luck with my last Ninja Blender, why not try another one.

Peel the Oranges, Cut the Carrots and Beets into 2 inch chunks, Core the Apples, and Chop the Celery stalks into 2 inch pieces. Throw all the ingredients into the blender and add 2 cups of water. I imagine you could substitute the water with some kind of juice, you just need to add some liquid so the ingredients blend well. Then all you have to do is push the Extract button and let the Ninja do the rest.

After it runs through it’s Extracting process, which takes about 45 seconds, those hard vegetables had been pulverized into a smooth healthy drink.

Pretty impressive that those blades in the bottom can make a drink so smooth. For the price this beast is tough to beet in my opinion. Between the fruit and veggie prep, throwing them in the blender, and pushing a single button, this smoothie was made in around 10 minutes. Okay Okay let’s say 15.