I've become addicted to smoothies lately, and I love them with frozen fruit. But a small bag of frozen cherries at Sprouts is $5/bag! Ouch! Seeing as so much fruit is in season right now and being sold at very low prices, I've been stocking up on fruit and freezing it myself.
I pitted cherries, which is a very messy process! But at 99 cents/pound, I couldn't pass up the opportunity.
I spread prepared fruit out on waxed paper on a jelly-roll pan, then froze it.
Once the fruit was frozen, I moved it to a ziploc bag in the freezer. (Yes, I'm aware that I switched fruit on you. The strawberries were frozen already; the cherries were not.)
From there I can take out as much as I need at any given time for smoothies or other kitchen endeavors. Yes, it's a bit time-consuming, but it really does save a lot of money when I can buy fresh fruit at rock-bottom prices versus more-expensive frozen fruit.
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Anne Marie,
I need to do this more often--we love smoothise at our house, too!
I just did this with strawberries for the first time and I've been really happy with the results! I had no idea freezing fruit was so easy!
Do you have a Trader Joe's near you? What little fresh produce they have is pricey, but their frozen fruits are alway low-priced and high-quality.
My favorite healthy smoothie is blueberries, Greek yogurt, and greens powder; less healthy is mixing very sweet pineapple with soy milk and a little coconut sorbet.
I'm so envious of your cherries! They're still an obscene $5/lb here :(
No Trader Joes here. But we do have Sprouts, which has fabulously low produce prices, yet high-quality food.
The 99 cents/lb. cherries were such a deal that I had to jump on it! I think I came home with 5 pounds of cherries!
99 cent cherries!! Amazing. I was so proud when I found them for $1.99/lb. ;)
But I do the same thing. We have ~30 pounds of bananas and ~30 pounds of strawberries in the freezer right now. Okay, so our smoothies lack variety. But they're super frugal. :)
In fact, our freezers are jam-packed with fruit, gluten-free grains, and the last few turkeys from last year's thanksgiving sales. I have to take something out of the freezer to put anything else in. Time to knuckle down and eat!
YUM! I can't believe you got cherries that cheap!! They're never that low around here. I've been loving the local peaches though!!
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