Sugar Swings! Serve Some: yogurt

Monday, October 13, 2014

Healthy Candy Corn Striped Smoothies

I think it's officially safe to call it Candy Corn season! It's chilly in the morning and night hear in the Northeast, and all the Halloween candy is out in full force everywhere. I'm not a huge fan of candy corn (but my kiddos are) so I'm trying to trick them today with some candy corn striped smoothies.

There is no actual candy corn in these - so you could call it false advertising, but whatever anything to get them to try it. These smoothies are made from greek yogurt, pineapple and tangerines.

In a blender, add 1 peeled tangerine with 1/2 cup of yogurt and about 1/4 cup of milk. And blend it up until all smoothie-like. If it's too liquid-y add a little more yogurt.

Do the same with the pineapple. I used 1 cup of frozen pineapple with 1/2 cup of yogurt and 1/4 cup of milk. The "white" layer is just the yogurt and milk with about 2 tablespoonful of honey. You can also add honey to the orange and pineapple layers if you like your smoothie sweeter. Then just layer the colors one on top of the other. Easy.

If you want deeper candy corn colors you can add a little orange or yellow food coloring but I was trying to keep it pretty simple. Top with a little pineapple and freeze dried orange. If you don't drink right away, pop them in the freezer until served. (You'll need to thaw them a little if you freeze for too long obvi).

I thought they were super yummy. A fast and healthy "candy corn" treat! Here's hoping I fool the kids into eating these today!

What is your favorite Halloween treat? And what are you whipping up this Halloween?

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

lego and superhero frozen yogurt and fruit pops...

...so i started working out for the first time in like a billion years.....i'm using one of those DVD systems that up front tell you...."you are totally going to be sore and hating life but you'll be happy with yourself once you are done" sounds fun right?...i'm only on week 1, so i'll let you know how it's going...but lets just say i think i'm working muscles that may never have been worked out---ever!

and since i'm working out, i can't have a lot of sugary cake-y sweets around, that's just way too much temptation....plus the kids are pretty much sick of cupcakes from me.....

i've been pinning a bunch of "healthy desserts" lately, and decided to make some yogurt pops with some fruit n' yogurt toppers....

these are super simple too....buy some yogurt (whatever flav you like)....i used banana, blueberry and strawberry....and plop some on a baking sheet lined with parchment and add a stick (the guru of all stuff on sticks, meaghan over at the decorated cookie, did yogurt pops but flavored them herself!--that took an extra step so i opted for store bought!)...don't freeze yet. (oh and make sure your cookie sheet fits in your freezer!)

for the toppers....i seem to keep collecting ice cube trays since i use them all the time for things other than ice! and who doesn't like lego and super heroes?

and we recently had a fruit tasting with the kiddos to see if i could get them eating more than their usual routine of fruits....(btw-they seem to think figs are the most disgusting fruit in the world....but they did try them along with kiwi, prickly pear, and a bunch of others, so win!)....

....i blended up some of the leftover fruit and added a little vanilla yogurt to the mix in a zip lock baggie.....then added some of the mix to the molds...freeze well. After about 2 hours, pop the fruit "cubes" out of the molds and add immediately to the unfrozen yogurt pops...(well immediately after you take some cool pics, if you do that sort of thing!)