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How to Make the Ultimate Tropical Minion Banana Smoothie

July 20, 2015 By Deirdre

I glanced over to the fruit bowl on the kitchen counter and noticed some aging bananas. They so needed to be used to make something yummy. We loved smoothies at my house so I decided that we should try use the bananas in a smoothie. We also happen to love Minions at my house! I decided my Minion loving boy would love banana Minion tropical smoothies! The aging bananas would be the star of the smoothie!

Tropical Minion Banana Smoothie

Ingredients:

2 Aging bananas

1 container of pineapple yogurt

1 1/2 cup of vanilla Greek yogurt

1 cup of milk

Directions:

Place the yogurt into the sections of an ice cube tray. We ended up with six sections of pineapple yogurt and six sections of the vanilla Greek yogurt.
Let the yogurt harden in the freezer for a few hours.
Mash the again bananas with a potato masher or a fork. (Kids seem to like to smash food with a masher so that is the utensil most used often at my house.)
Place the mashed bananas, the frozen yogurt cubes, and the milk in a blender.
Pulse using the smoothie speed if it has one. If it doesn’t uses a medium speed.
When it looks like the yogurt cubes have been broken into small bits, you can turn the blender off.
Pour into cups or sundae glasses.

If you want to have tropical Minion banana smoothies with Minion glass wraps ,you can download a copy of the Minion Glass Wrap Eyes we used. You will just need to cut them out and wrap them around the glass.

Here are some other wonderful Minion themed ideas you will find on this blog:

Minion Craft Stick Puzzle

Minion Costume

Minion Foam Cup Pencil Holder

Printable Minion Cards

Despicable Me Minion Bento Lunch

If your create any of these Despicable Me Minion ideas, please share a picture of them with me on Facebook.

Lunch Box Ideas- Banana and Orange Messages for Kids

August 15, 2014 By Deirdre

Placing a message in your kids ‘s lunch gives them something fun to find waiting for them when they open their lunch! I have gathered together a wonderful collection of lunch box ideas for banana and orange messages for kids. Actually some of these posts doesn’t have a message on fruit. They are just a really cute banana creations. I thought you would enjoy them so I through them into the mix.

Lunch Box Ideas- Messages and More

Magic Message Bananas from Come Together Kids look like great fun to make. Check out their post to find out how to create a message that appears just in time for lunch.

Flutter Flutter used the technique shared above to make banana tattoos. What fun and creative pictures they made!

You can learn to write on bananas when you read this post from Food Cute for Kids.

I would love to find a reminder to “Have a Good Day” in my lunch like Instrutables did.

Jill Dubien’s I Love You Banana bento is super cute. Her whole bento lunch filled with really cute lunch box ideas!

Pink Stripey Socks didn’t place a message on the bananas in her post. She used rub on tattoos for her lunch box ideas! This is such a cute idea!

Cake Whiz used apples, pears and oranges as the canvas for special messages. What fun it would be to find one of them in your lunch.

These special message oranges from Biting the Hand That Feeds You were for a teacher breakfast, but I think they are great lunch box ideas too.

A food marker is great for writing on fruit that have both thin and thick skin. This PBS Parents:Kitchen Explorers post was written by Windolonia

Lunch Box Ideas- More Messages

You are awesome!
I am proud of you!
You are cool!
Hello!
Smile!
Enjoy your lunch!
Hope you had a great morning!
Happy day!
Super Star!
You rock!

Lunch Box Ideas- Writing Tools

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I tend to use Gourmet Writer Food Decorator Pens, Assorted Colors, Set of 10or food markers when I am creating messages for my son’s lunch. They are a little more expensive than regular markers, but I know they are safe. If you are writing on a banana, its thick skin will protect the fruit inside. Non-food markers should be okay. I have used them on banana skins too. If you think it is not okay, stick to the food markers.

A pin was used to create the appearing designs. I like to make sure pins are super clean before I use them to create.

Muffin Tin Monday- A Frozen Banana Buffet

June 4, 2012 By Deirdre

My son just loves muffin tine meals. Sometimes he helps me move his dinner into a muffin tin! There is something special about have a meal or a snack in one. JDaniel loves to have a snack after his “quiet” time in the afternoon. I decided to surprise him with a frozen banana buffet for a snack late last week. He was thrilled.
JDaniel really enjoys getting to dip foods and I have told him that he can’t double dip if other people are sharing the dip with him. This muffin tin was his alone and he was able to dip as much as he wanted to. We have a found the key to success dipping is to only put a small amount of each sauce into the muffin cups.

The buffet tin is filled with two dips and four toppings. The dips are chocolate sauce and honey. The toppings are coconut, chocolate chips, sprinkles, and cinnamon. If you children don’t like any of these sauces or toppings, please feel tree to substitute them with one that your children like.

It was a lot of fun to watch JDaniel try a variety of combinations. He loved the sprinkles and coconut with honey and chocolate syrup. The cinnamon was mixed with honey more often than not.