response 1 of 18:

Mar 28 16:12 UTC 1998

Blended frozen bananas come out like ice cream, you might try adding some sort
of fruit juice to liquify them.  (Actually we use the grinder.)

response 3 of 18:

Apr 4 13:09 UTC 1998

I've been using the food processor to make smoothie-type juices for a few
months now.  The idea was to get more fruit into my diet, both because it's
a good idea on general principle, and also as a pregnancy nutrition thing,
since I'm hoping to get pregnant soon.  My juice-making technique is to throw
random fruity things into the food processor, grind them up, add water as
needed, and see what it tastes like.  The hard part is restraining myself to
just a few ingredients instead of throwing in samples of every fruit in the
apartment.

Some favorites:
 * good kiwis
 * frozen blueberries
 * apples
 * oranges (not too often, but sometimes)
 * banana
 * milk

On Thursday I got curious about what an apple-date combination would taste
like.  But "kitchen sink" syndrome took hold and I ended up also adding pieces
of dried papaya and orange-pineapple juice.  The resulting combination was
a weird shade of brown and tasted good, but it had zillions of chewy pieces
of papaya in it -- definitely not recommended.

I like using frozen fruit instead of ice.
It takes only a small number of blueberries to turn the whole drink a cool
shade of purple.  Good thing, too, because frozen blueberries are expensive.

response 5 of 18:

Apr 8 03:49 UTC 1998

We picked and froze our own blueberries, I think they were about 80
cents/pound, at Zabinski's blueberry farm near Chelsea.  You can pick into
October.  Starting maybe in August.  Very easy to freeze.

response 7 of 18:

Jul 8 08:48 UTC 1998

   that sounds a lot like an orange julius, except for the powdered
sugar.  juliuses use granulated sugar.

response 9 of 18:

Jul 8 18:40 UTC 1998

I understand, Grace.  My son inhales orange juice and oranges.
If you are planning on letting him drink all he wants you buy him
a gallon to last about a day and a half.  It has to be Minute Maid
Plup Free.  When he's home for a stretch it's not unusual to buy
three gallons at a time to last, maybe, four or five days.

response 11 of 18:

Jul 13 14:16 UTC 1998

Actually our boys usually prefer apple juice, but orange is quite acceptable
fresh out of the refrigerator at meal time.  We don't encourage consumption
outside of meal times, so I don';t know how much they would go through if
they tried...   In season they like fresh oranges, too.  Jonathan's favorite
school lunch was a clementine orange.

response 13 of 18:

Nov 13 20:58 UTC 2007

Try a health food store, or an organic foodstore like Whole Foods.  

I'll check the food coop next time I'm there.

response 15 of 18:

Nov 15 02:44 UTC 2007

glad you found it.

response 17 of 18:

Nov 17 00:29 UTC 2007

yes...I've tried acai tea....Actually it was a green/acai tea, but it was 
very good, none the less. 

I see Stash has jumped on the Acai bandwagon too. According to their website
their tea "combines tart hibiscus with natural acai berry, blackberry, and 
blackcurrant flavors".  I'll have to pick some up if I see it, the next time
i'm at Meijer.

BTW, Have you tried the acai juice? I've tried a few and the best one seems 
to be made by a company called Bossa Nova. Unfortunately it costs about $3 
per tiny 10 oz. bottle.