Ninja blender and the smoothies

I love that my kids are always so willing to try new things.  At their urging, I recently purchased a Ninja blender that we'd discovered at Sam's Club for 50% of the cost we'd seen them at other stores.  Our old cheap blender had broken a while back.  When my kids discovered the "Ninja" blender, they thought it was a must have.  After all, it's a blender named Ninja.  What's not to like?  This is not a paid advertisement, by the way, but I wouldn't say no to that if offered!

Since then they've been researching smoothie recipes.  In the last 2 weeks we've tried 3 different smoothie recipes and plan on trying at least one more this weekend.  They're on a mission to find THE best tasting smoothie recipes around.  Of course, I'm on a mission to find smoothies that Amazing, Cosmo and Awesome would choose over a sugary dessert any day.

Which recipes have we tried?  First we tried a blueberry oatmeal smoothie, then a strawberry orange smoothie and lastly a strawberry lemonade smoothie.   Today we substituted mixed berries for blueberries in our oatmeal smoothie.  The next recipe we plan on trying is a strawberry peach smoothie. 

Of the four we've sampled, the mixed berry oatmeal smoothie has been, hands down, our favorite.  Here is the recipe:

• 16 oz. mixed berries (blueberry, raspberry and blackberry)
• 6 oz. vanilla yogurt
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup quick cooking oats
• 1/3 cup of this mixture (1 cup sugar, 1 cup berry koolaid)
• Dump in the Ninja and blend.

Honestly, I can't wait to try the strawberry peach smoothie.  I LOVE peaches.  After that, I'll probably research a berry spinach smoothie.  It'll be interesting to see how that goes over!  I'm not reporting ingredients until EVERYONE has sampled this one.  I've heard they're delightful though!

Go NINJA!