I'm addicted!

A Smoothie King opened up in our area a couple of years ago. We went and tried it out. It was good but not something that we needed so we didn't go very often. Recently, Hunter got a coupon for a free smoothie from school. So we went a couple of weeks ago for a treat one Monday night. Stephen got a banana one that was soooo good. Since then I have gone back two more times to get the Banana Boat. It has banana, ice cream and ice. They also put a sweetener in it called Turbinado. Since I am taking a nutrition class I got one of their nutritional guides and was surprised at how many calories my treat was. 550 calories!! They have a thing that you can ask to "Make it Skinny" which means that they will not put the sweetener in it. So last Saturday we went and got two Banana Boats - one with Turbinado and one without. We wanted to check out the difference in taste. You could tell a slight difference but they both were still good. So from now on I am going to get it "skinny" and save myself 100 calories. I am going to try and figure out how to make it at home. It seems like it should be pretty easy but we will see. Last time we went the kids got a strawberry shake and they loved it. They said that it was the best strawberry shake they had ever had. We aren't huge fans of the chocolate that they use there though. Anyway, we need to start experimenting and figure out these good recipes at home to save on the budget because we are addicted!