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How to Make a Smoothie

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By Monica Curran
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Make a Smoothie
Make a Smoothie

Have you ever had a smoothie? Have you ever wanted to make a smoothie but did not know how? Well, let's learn how easy it is to make one. Soon, you will want to make them all the time.

From Quick Guide: Blender Basics
Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • Blender or Smoothie Blender
  • Frozen fruit of your liking
  • Cup of Ice
  • Cup of Water
  • Yogurt or Whey Protein, if you like these
  • 20 or 30oz Cup with lid
  • Long straw

    How to Make a Smoothie

  1. Step 1

    Plug in blender or smoothie blender. Before you can make a smoothie, make sure your blender or smoothie blender is plugged in and ready for use.

  2. Step 2

    Take fruit out of the freezer. With fruit taken out of freezer, open bag of fruit, take a piece of fruit out and rinse under cool water.

  3. Step 3

    Open yogurt or whey protein container. If using yogurt, pour whole container into blender. If using whey protein, fill the supplied cup to the rim and pour into blender.

  4. Step 4

    Prepare water. If using bottled water, open top and place a cup of water into the blender. If using some other type of water, again, pour about a cup into blender.

  5. Step 5

    Prepare ice. Now, pour a cup of ice into the blender on top of all other ingredients. Secure blender top into place.

  6. Step 6

    Turn on the blender. With all smoothie ingredients inside blender and blender top on, turn blender to low or medium speed until all ingredients are blended to a smoothie drinking consistency.

  7. Step 7

    With the smoothie mixed together in blender, remove blender top and container top. Now, pour all the blended smoothie into 20 or 30 oz container. Finally, if you want to use a straw, insert straw into drink container.

Tips & Warnings
  • Make a smoothie anyway you want to.
  • Add whatever ingredients you want to drink.
  • No warnings for this article

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lizah09 said

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on 6/9/2009 Over 200 smoothies recipes at http://offto.net/smoothies/

jenng said

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on 6/7/2009 Great article on how to make a smoothie 5*

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on 6/4/2009 Looks good enough to drink!

Diablo2 said

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on 6/3/2009 Looks wonderful. Thank you ;), 5 stars

Groundhog said

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on 6/1/2009 You don't have to rinse frozen fruit you know.

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