Time management has flown out the window at the Tafelski household, which makes these Homemade “Freezer” Smoothie Packets an absolute godsend!   After doing the 7 day fruit and veggie detox/cleanse, I have been having a smoothie for breakfast each morning.  I do still have the Mean Green when I am feeling a need for maximum nutrients flowing to all parts of my body quickly, but am leaning toward a fruit smoothie most mornings.

I don’t know about you all, but I have a tendency to hit the snooze button again and again and again.  Very bad habit of mine, I know.  Sigh……  Would love to be that person who used to get up at 5:30 am and walk 4 miles before PT left for work.  Being a slave to the snooze button leaves me little time to cut up fruit, clean up the mess, yell at B to hurry up and get out of the shower…….make a second cup of coffee AND get to work on time.  Similar to the frozen cookie dough balls (you can find that post here), I decided to make these packets up ahead of time.   Didn’t take much time at all, and now if I am crunched for time I can just pull one of these out and throw it in the blender.  Makes it a lot easier for B and K, if they crave a smoothie when I am not around.

I found it easier to cut up all of the fruit at once, and to place it all in a large tupperware container. There is approximately 1 container of strawberries, 1 container raspberries, 3 kiwi, 8 small bananas, and 5 mangos in the picture above.
I was able to  fill 8 sandwich size Ziploc bags for future smoothies.  Each one contains approximately 2 cups of fruit.
Now that you have the base ready to go for your smoothie’s, you can get creative when processing it in the blender.  I am loving adding spinach to my smoothies.  Sounds gross, I know, but it truly doesn’t add any flavor AND you can’t beat the nutrients.
Countless times I have tried to tempt B and K into trying one of the smoothies with spinach.  Absolutely will not budge, in fact they leave the room when they see me preparing it on the weekends.  LOL!  It’s a good thing I work out of what used to be a bathroom….tucked away so that my co-workers don’t have to cringe.  All I have to say is…..they don’t know what they are missing.  When I make the kids smoothies, I add in a container of vanilla yogurt.  For mine I use unsweetened Coconut Milk.
At this point you have yourself a smoothie……2 cups of fruit and your choice of liquid.  I will use the entire container of yogurt (6 oz) for the boys, or 1/4-3/4 cup of coconut milk for mine…..depending on how thick I want it.  You will need to play around with this to find your comfort zone and what you prefer.
In addition to the spinach I am loving the 4 above items…..especially the Matcha Powder!  I will be writing more on this ingredient soon, I promise.  If I need a little more protein, I add in the protein powder.  If I need more fiber and Omega 3, I will swap off between the chia seeds and the flax seeds.  No preference, it’s whatever I grab first out of the refrigerator.
Not a morning goes by that I don’t have a smoothie, and these Homemade {Freezer} Smoothie Packets are a huge timesaver for me.

Homemade {Freezer} Smoothie Packets