Hi readers!

So. I ended up going to a highly aerobic dance club tonight. (Seriously, I completely understand how some types of dance can burn about 500 calories an hour.) (And no, it wasn’t Zumba- it was Charleston. A WHOLE lot of fun!)

And after I got back, I thought that I really wanted grape juice. After all, I’ve got some frozen grapes in the freezer and a vitamix. Shouldn’t be too hard, right?

Unfortunately, ingredients just kept on popping up their heads saying “ooh, put me in! I’d be great!”

So the end result looked like this:

And it’s REALLY, REALLY GOOD. 

So, here’s the recipe for:

Not Quite Grape Juice… at all

Ingredients

1. 3 jumbo ice cubes (minimal charge)
2. About 4-7 frozen strawberries (No more than 1/8 of a $2.00 bag, so about $0.13. Tops. Probably close to 7-10 cents.)
3. About 6 frozen grapes (minimal charge.)
4. About 1/4-1/3 Cup Milk (Maybe 5 cents?)
5. (Optional) About 1-2 TBSP half & half (Maybe 5 cents?)
6. A splash of vanilla (minimal)
7. 1-2 tsp honey (MAYBE $0.05?)
8. A shake of cinnamon (minimal)

Total cost: absolutely no more than $0.30. Probably much closer to $0.10. So, basically negligible. Especially if you already have the ingredients on hand. 🙂

Directions

1. Start off by planning on having grape juice.
2. Turn that idea into strawberry-grape juice.
3. Realize you have milk, and could make something icecreamish
4. Scratch the ice cream idea, because you want a beverage
5. Add the ice, strawberries, and grapes into the vitamix
6. Add the milk and half & half anyways, and decide to turn it into a smoothie
7. Realize that vanilla would go nicely
8. Add said vanilla
9. Go, “Ah! I can make this ‘healthy’!” and add a shake or two of cinnamon
10. Realize that both the cinnamon and vanilla will need sweetening
11. Put in a bit of honey
12. Blend until smooth

Serving: About 1 Cup.

Simpler Directions

1. Put ingredients into the vitamix
2. Blend until smooth
3. Enjoy
4. Or don’t. Really, it’s up to you.

I hope you have a tasty drink/smoothie/thingy!