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Apr

Homemade Healthy Veggie Popsicles

Posted by Tiffany at 1:32 pm in Healthy Eating.

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Popsicle Molds

The kids and I had fruit salad for breakfast on Saturday morning ,before we went to the zoo. We had lots leftover so I decided to make some quickie Popsicles. I threw the fruit salad into my Vita-Mix, it consisted of strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries mixed with 1-2 tablespoons of raw agave nectar. I also added a cup of fresh juiced OJ and a big handful of baby spinach.

Once it was all blended we poured the dark berry colored mixture into our Tovolo (BPA Free) Popsicle molds. We have stars and rockets and it made 12 popsicles which immediately went into the freezer so we would have a cool treat after a hot day at the zoo. And it was kinda hot!

Fruit Popsicles

They were delicious! They had lots of fiber and seeds and you could not taste the spinach at all. My kids ate these up in 2 days. They even had them for lunch the next afternoon which is a-okay with me. Actually I went to an early movie with my mom and dad on Sunday and my mom saw them eating Popsicles for lunch and wasn’t pleased, LOL. But they were eating real fruit and spinach for lunch so how is that bad?? ;)

Today or tomorrow I think we will make some banana, pineapple, spinach Popsicles…they should be a cool electric green color. The kids also want to try layering the Popsicles with different colored smoothie for striped Popsicles. Oooh delicious spring/summer treats.

Oh and BTW, I have a giveaway going on at my other blog!

Making Homemade Popsicles

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19 Comments »

19 Responses to “Homemade Healthy Veggie Popsicles”

  1. Nadine says:

    I can’t wait to try this! Do you think adding flax oil would work?

  2. SkylarKD says:

    Layering is a great idea – I’ll have to try that next!

  3. Momma says:

    ohh yum!! I have been looking for some BPA free popsicle molds. these are great!

  4. Kelly says:

    yum! love those molds!

  5. Jenny says:

    Wow that looks good. Kinda like the place we have at our mall. :D

  6. Marj says:

    Oh, those are making me so hungry!

  7. Melissa says:

    Super timing! I just bought molds over the weekend. I can’t wait to try veggies smoothies in them! Awesome idea.

    Side question- Do have an organic delivery service or do you buy from your local grocer?

  8. Jena Green says:

    Where can I get those popsicle sticks! ??

  9. Tiffany says:

    Jena, I link to them on Amazon in the post above.

  10. Tiffany says:

    Melissa,

    I buy from local places, local farms, farmer’s markets, and Whole Foods.

  11. erin says:

    how did the pineapple thing work out? i’ve always understood that you can’t freeze pineapple?

  12. Nadine says:

    I’ve frozen fresh pinapples for a few hours just to get them hard with no problem

  13. Melinda S. says:

    Thanks for posting…..we make alot of smoothies and this would be a great summer treat for the kids totally something healthy!!! I’m going to get some of those molds!!

  14. Condo Blues says:

    That sounds good but does the spinach leave a big vegtable taste in the popsicle, like eating say a green bean popsicle, or is it more like a fruit salad taste? Not that I’d mind, I love spinach. But if I were to slip a few of these to a visiting junk food loving niece or nephew, I’d need to know ahead of time :)

  15. Tiffany says:

    I had one myself and could not tatse ANY spinach or greens taste. They just tasted like fruit.

  16. Tiffany says:

    erin I made the pineapple banana ones today and they turned out GREAT!

  17. Amy says:

    Thank you so much for posting this! I’m going to make a stop at Target now for these great molds. My kids are going to love this.

  18. Melissa says:

    We also put spinach in our smoothies but I love the popsicle idea! My kids don’t notice if there’s darker fruit in it. My son is super picky and won’t drink it if it looks green. I do need some molds.

  19. Sheryl says:

    Stink! I’m so excited to pick up some of those molds! I just put them on our Kaboodle list. The molds we have are so hard to work with, I’m always having to use a knife to dig the popsicle out of the mold. The recipes sound great too!

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