Orange Peel: HCG Smoothie

I just did HCG agian and Orange Peel has a great Strawberry smoothie that counts as 1 serving of fruit. It's super tasty, but it's $5.00!!!! Which to me, is a lot of money. So I came home and whipped one up on my own and I actually liked it better than the Orange Peel smoothie.

Strawberry Smoothie:

1 & 1/2 cup crushed ice, or ice cubes
enough cold water to make 2 cups w/ the ice
1 pkg. strawberry flavored crystal light
10 medium frozen strawberries
fresh lemon juice 1/2 to 1 full lemon, to taste

Blend until smooth. If you would like you can add truvia, or vanilla flavored stevia. You don't even need to have the crysal light. It adds more flavor, but it does add 10 calories. It counts as 1 serving of fruit and this amount will make a huge cup. It makes you feel like your getting a great treat!!!

Homemade Rootbeer

Rootbeer

1 ½ gallons of cold water
5 cups of sugar
1 ½ oz of root beer concentrate
3 lbs of dry ice (broken into small pieces)

Stir all of the ingredients but the dry ice together in a large container until sugar has dissolved. Slowly add pieces of dry ice, Stir while it bubbles, have fun, drink it up and enjoy!

Recipe courtesy of Fox 13 News

Yummy Green Punch

I am so excited to make this punch again on St. Pattys day!!!! This is one of our family favorites and the kids know that we will be drinking this on the 17th.

Green Punch Recipe
1 quart of water
46 oz of pineapple juice
1 packet of lime Kool-Aid
½ cup of sugar
1 quart ginger ale

This tastes the best if you chill the water, pineapple juice, Kool-Aid and sugar first.Then right before serving, add the ginger ale.