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Preparing your own food, while sometimes more costly in terms of time, can often be cheaper, healthier, and, if you're a careful consumer, can be better for the earth at the same time. And also just rewarding in a way that getting a value meal at McDonald's can never be.

Bearing that in mind, post your recipes here! Desserts, snacks, entres, drinks, whatever!

I forgot Smoothies.


I figured out the key to smoothies. Here's how I make them.

Soy milk or almond milk or coconut milk
fresh fruit anything you like
Here's the secret, instead of ice buy a big bag of frozen fruit at Costco or one of those warehouse stores. This will keep the smoothie cold but unlike ice the frozen fruit actually purees.
I put in a cap of vegetarian protien powder that you can get wherever
a little bit of sugar to bring out the fruit a tablespoon two if you have a sweet tooth or you can use honey
throw everything in the blender.

Blend.

when it reaches you're prefered consitency you can serve if it's too thick add more milk,

serve.

now alternatives,

if you leave it thick you can serve it as ice cream and put some non dairy whipped topping on it, and garnish with a piece of fruit like a a strawberry or something.
you can also store it in you're freezer and eat you're healthy ice cream later.

If you're having guests over and you're of age in you're respective countries, add some vodka or whatever alcohol you prefer. You have a perfectly respectable drink there.

ALso play around with fruit combinations. See if blueberries and coconut or strawberry and mango taste like. You don't want to be eating the same flavours over and over. where possible use locally grown fruit.

Apples are bland use if a taste like banana is overwhelming everything.

Don't stain you're skin or clothes with blueberries i"ve learned this the hard way.

if you make to much this is okay, just put it in the freezer you'll get at it later.

Also, something to do with the bruised and sad apples that no one wants to eat otherwise: