I have been making these for my boys since they were little. They are super easy to use and best of all, you can use any left over or bruised fruits you may have so no waste!

When you see a fruit is getting overripe, cut it up and freeze it in a ziploc. You can mix and match fruits. Bananas are the key ingredient here to make it “smooth”. The more brown and overripe, the better. Again, when some fresh bananas are turning, freeze them whole, you don,t even have to peel them, how easy is that! The other important part is to have some frozen fruits on hand so don’t be shy, freeze up peaches, melons, any berries, apples etc… The recipe here only uses strawberries but basically any mixture of fruits will do.

Ingredients

• 1 whole container of 750 g plain yogourt. If you need more protein in your diet, use greek yogourt. You can use flavoured yogourt but then you should omit the maple syrup and it will overpower the fruit.
• 3 tablespoon of maple syrup. We are lucky to have our uncle’s artisanal syrup from Quebec, so it is the best sweetener but table syrup will do. You can adjust the quantity based on how sweet you would like it!
• 1 ripe banana, the browner the better, frozen or not
• 1 cup of mixed fruits, here we used strawberries. Whatever you have frozen or you can buy frozen fruits.
• 1 tbsp of flaxseed. I add flaxseed because it is good for you but several other seeds can be added as well. They also can be omitted as it does not affect the taste, just the “goodness” level 🙂
• You can add a bit of milk if you want it less thick.

From the Webmd.com website:

Although flaxseed contains all sorts of healthy components, it owes its primary healthy reputation to three of them:

• Omega-3 essential fatty acids, “good” fats that have been shown to have heart-healthy effects. Each tablespoon of ground flaxseed contains about 1.8 grams of plant omega-3s.
• Lignans, which have both plant estrogen and antioxidant qualities. Flaxseed contains 75 to 800 times more lignans than other plant foods.
• Fiber. Flaxseed contains both the soluble and insoluble types.

This recipe’s main cost is the yogourt since you should have frozen your fruits as you had them  and saved them from being thrown away 🙂 The syrup and seed you can buy one time and use them for several months. This recipe will make 4 serving cups for the young ones and young at heart 🙂

Here are the very simple steps:

• Put all ingredients in a blender. I usually put the yogourt last to make sure the fruits get well pureed.
• Hit the puree settings and let it fo its work for about 2 minutes
• Serve

How hard was that!! And very yummy