Let's make a smoothie said Jett

Friday, 14 January 2022

One afternoon last week I encountered Jett looking through our smoothie recipe book (an impulse buy years ago from Kmart I think).  'Lets make smoothies tomorrow' he said.  This sounded like a good idea to me,  so - imaging a delicious breakfast banana-choc smoothie made in our blender - I advised him to make me a shopping list, and I would go out and get the ingredients in the morning.

The next morning came and I was presented with a list that included watermelon, pineapple, strawberries & lemons.   Hmm, I thought to myself, there's no bananas or vanilla yoghurt on this list.  Oh well, thinking that there was no harm in blended fruit I went out to get the items. It turns out there is economic harm in fruit, at least in watermelons that cost 3.90 a kg and are only being sold whole. Consoling myself that at least it was a healthy and one-off holiday expense, I forked out around $30 (ouch) and took it all home.  

With the fruit at home, Jett consulted the recipe book again and decided that he now needed a juicer.  Unfortunately, Jon was in earshot as Jett mentioned this and enthusiastically became his partner in this juice (officially not a smoothie anymore) project. Twenty minutes later they had done their internet research, decided that a Nutribullet was the best juicer, and they headed off together to Harvey Norman.  Thinking they would return with one of those water bottle sized appliances I didn't grumble too much at the prospect of more juice-based expense (although I did grumble a bit).

40 minutes later they returned, lugging into the house a box the size of a suitcase.  It turns out that Nutribullet don't just make the water-bottle sized appliances, they make the bigger-than-a-food-processor sized appliances, specifically for making a mess on the bench top.

The bill for my smoothie dream had now risen to well over $200, and my banana chocolate smoothie was no closer to reality. In fact, as Jon read the instructions for the new appliance, my dream was futher away - it turns out that this nutribullet can't make smoothies, only juice.  Sigh.

So after a lot of washing and chopping, the very fruity juice was eventually made. Although it was nice Jon decided it would be better with some crushed ice, which of course couldn't be crushed in the new juicer.  Sure enough the old blender had to come out for that task. The blender that makes a very nice smoothie as it happens. sigh.