Eating healthy can taste good too

I know we all hear the same things about diet, nutrition, and taking care of ourselves. Few of us really do though, and I am no exception. There are ways to eat better without being a food scientist or a homeopathic Dr.
One of the things we do is drink a lot of smoothies, I personally have a hard time eating as much fruit as I should, so I blend frozen fruit up with a little juice and yogurt till it resembles a milkshake. I think you would be surprised how sweet a little mango juice can be when mixed with frosty strawberries, banana,yogurt, and blueberries. The yogurt just gives it a little creaminess. Its pretty easy to chug down your daily intake of fruit this way. I have more trouble with the brain freeze than anything else.
We don't use a full size blender, instead I found one of those single serving blenders like on TV but the one we got was at a local drug store for $20 and it came with several glasses/blending containers with the little rings to put over the threads to make it more like a regular cup(we never use them though),and a bunch of other stuff. It's nice to be able to make smaller portions to suit different tastes. I like mine heavy on the strawberry while my g-friend is more into blue berries. The cleanup is pretty painless and you don't have the problem of trying to shake the last bit out of the blender like you do with the bigger ones.

I can even satisfy my sweet tooth with a real strawberry milkshake. Forget being able to read the ingredient label I decide what the ingredients should be. The frozen strawberries are enough to make the milk component of the shake as thick as you like so there is no need to reach for the box of ice cream in the fridge. One trick I'll fill you in on though is to put a little salt in it, not much, a small pinch will do. It helps communicate the flavor of the berries. Try it both ways and you'll see.

For a serving you need
-5-6 frozen strawberries
-a small handful of blueberries
-half a banana if you like
-abut 2 tbl yogurt (may work a little better if you put yogurt in after juice)
-then fill most of the remaining space with juice
then blend to a smoothie like thing

For a milkshake
-6-7 strawberries
-fill space with milk or half&half
-small pinch of salt
-half a tsp of vanilla
then blend

You may think all this sounds pretty expensive but my costs are:
-one time blender cost $20
-frozen fruit (strawberries,blueberries,peaches) $12 week
-fresh fruit (bananas, mangoes) $2-$5 week
-juice {I go to the ethnic food section and get 1 liter box juice for $1.15ea) $2.30 week
So for $16.30 a week after the blender I get all my fruit in a form that seems more like a dessert, that was flash frozen at its peak of freshness.
I would prefer it to be fresh fruit that I freeze but its hard to find the same quality fresh as frozen and I live in Florida. You would think I could find a good strawberry.