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All Drinks, Smoothies and Cocktails

Fruit Sodas/Fizzy Smoothie – a fitfam alternative to coke

This post is dedicated to Funke Bucknor-Obruthe. I follow her on Instagram, and it is such a joy to see her posts. Her fun side just shines through, she is very engaging with her followers, and her enthusiasm for her job leaps off the screen. She is the mother of event planning in Nigeria, and does such an amazing job, her pictures make you stop and stare for a second. Gosh, a lot goes into what these people do. The way they transform an empty space is just sheer magic.

Like me, Funke doesn’t like the taste of water. I know, it is weird, but ugh, I don’t like drinking water at all. Like Funke too, I love me some coke. You know what has helped me battle with my struggle with coke? Mineral water. Sparkling mineral water to be exact. I tell you, it gives you that soda feeling, it doesn’t taste like water, and it tricks your brain into thinking you are not consuming water. I have lost a lot and I mean a looooooooot of belly fat since I quit coke in January.

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Isn’t that so pretty

 

I am still struggling with Maltina, but my mineral water bottle is with me every day now, and I am drinking at least a litre a day. I will recommend it to anyone struggling with sodas. Buy mineral water, or it is sometimes called spring water. Don’t buy still, but sparkling. It fizzes like coke, it has this sharp taste on your tongue, it doesn’t feel like drinking water at all, and guess what it has zero calories.

I found this picture on Instagram, and I though whoa, I am so going to try that.

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Image courtesy Yummy Life HERE

I know about fruit infused water, but ugh, it still tastes like water. This definitely doesn’t. It tastes like a carbonated drink, which is partly responsible for our addiction to sodas. It isn’t just the sugar. So, get the best of both worlds. A carbonated drink that is sweet, but instead of processed sugar, you are drinking fruit. Win-Win. I was working with frozen fruit, so I had to use my hand blender, and I also crushed the ice too. You don’t have to. Imagine the possibilities, and fruit options you can try with this. Let’s Mix

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Fizzy Smoothie
Author: Dunni Obata
Recipe Category: Drinks and Cocktails
Prep time:  1 min
Cook time:  2 mins
Total time:  3 mins
Serves: 1
 
If your smoothies have become boring, throw some life into them with sparkling mineral water
Ingredients
  • Your choice of fruit
  • Ice cubes
  • Sparkling Mineral Water
Instructions
  1. Place your choice of fruit in the bottom of a glass. I used strawberries, pomegranates and raspberries. I wanted a red fruit soda, you can use whichever fruit combinations you like
  2. Use a fork, or a hand blender to pulp to mush.
  3. Add crushed ice,, or whole ice cubes
  4. Pour over your bottle of mineral water
  5. Voila, a pretty delicious fizzy drink that is good for you and tastes great too. It takes all of 1 minute. Think about it, a can of coke will take you 2 minutes to drink, but more than 40 minutes of brisk walking to burn off. Try a fruity soda instead
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Throwing any party this weekend, or just chilling at home, make a Fizzy smoothie

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FILED UNDER: All, Drinks, Smoothies and Cocktails
TAGGED WITH: fitfam soda, flavoured soda, fruity smoothie, fruity soda
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Dooney is the blogger, recipe developer and photographer for Dooney's Kitchen. I spend my days trying to figure out creative ways to redefine Nigerian food, either by creating a new dish itself using ingredients in ways that have never been used before, or changing the approach to Nigerian cooking using kitchen gadgets.

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  1. Tehi says

    February 13, 2015 at 3:21 pm

    Dunni pls can mineral water be replaced by soda water in this recipe

    Reply
    • dooneyrooneydooneyrooney says

      February 13, 2015 at 3:29 pm

      Yes it can

      Reply
  2. Mofoluwasho says

    February 23, 2015 at 3:13 pm

    Love this. Now, I can see myself doing this with the frozen mixed berries that are sold in supermarkets here in Nigeria. Really great healthy idea, though I have been silently beefing your fitfam innovations recently only because I have not gotten with the programme yet and anytime I see your fitfam posts, I am tensioned, thinking is a skinny minny like Dooney is so into fitfam, what’s your confidence in being so unfit and round? 🙁 Lol 🙂

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    • dooneyrooneydooneyrooney says

      February 23, 2015 at 4:16 pm

      Aaaaaw, don’t beat yourself up. It is a journey, and whenever you are comfortable, you get on board.

      Reply

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