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a most excellent present
By heather | December 8, 2008
I love smoothies. In fact, it’s 29 degrees outside and for dinner I had an ice cream cone washed down with a smoothie. I know lots of people just can’t get into them but I LOVE them. And I know that they have a trillion calories but I just feel…VIRTUOUS when I drink a smoothie. It’s fruit! It’s good for me!
(Note that this is the same argument that I used to allow myself ice cream EVERY DAY when I was pregnant, substituting “dairy” for “fruit”.)
(Also note that I am not pregnant now, yet still using the same arguments to eat whatever I want.)
The drawback is that these lovely, chilly vats of delicious fruity-ness are PRICEY. And if you make them yourself you can leave out the bad things like sugar.
If you love smoothies like I do, but your blender sucks and doesn’t completely eviscerate the ice, and is so noisy your kids burst into tears; and you wind up drinking an unsatisfyingly chunky juice drink until a rogue piece of ice clogs up straw and you give up, do I have a present for you.
(All right, a present IDEA because I am not a cool enough blogger to give away free crap. How do I get companies to give me free crap that I can keep give away?)
Here is is…You need a Magic Bullet. I didn’t believe it either because how often do infomercial products do what they claim? How could it be better than a $125 blender?
One of my friends asked me what I got for my birthday and I told her. She got very quiet, then asked, “Is that a vibrator?”
It’s not, but it is portable, completely chops the ice, and you can make the drink right in the cup! (Because my other blender complaint was taking apart the huge pitcher and having to wash all the pieces every time I used it.)
Portable proved important over Thanksgiving, when I tossed it in at the last minute and then turned fruit smoothies into something much more valuable during the holidays – a daquiri.
When I don’t know what to feed Alex for dinner, I bullet up some fruit and milk and he keeps busy painting the walls until I can microwave a toasted cheese. And then I don’t feel so bad because hey! At least he had some fruit!
It has re-inspired me to make my own baby food for Emily Kate. I did this for Alex, until I discovered just how EASY it was to buy it and that was the end of the homemade baby mush.
And, when we don’t have any ice cream, I have been known to dump whole milk and Nestle Quik into the bullet and froth it up until it resembles a milk shake.
So see why the Magic Bullet deserves a special place in your bedside drawer on your kitchen shelf? It’s life-changing! It’s healthy! It’s homemade goodness without a stove! It’s what you want for Christmas!
Topics: food, holidays, technology | 2 Comments »
Tags: it's not a vibrator, magic bullet, smoothie goodness
December 9th, 2008 at 2:59 am
I might buy one just BECAUSE it sounds like a vibrator.
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December 9th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Hmm, you’ve almost convinced me. If Du reads this we’ll have one by the end of the week.
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