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fruit beverages

Recipe by
Susan Feliciano
Oak Ridge, TN

Eating clean for the New Year? Include drinking clean, too! The Fruits & Veggies - More Matters website has wonderful ideas for adding fruit to your holiday parties. Whip up some of these beverages for Super Bowl Sunday! http://www.fruitsandveggiesmorematters.org/healthy-entertaining#heabev

yield 8 -10
prep time 10 Min
method No-Cook or Other

Ingredients For fruit beverages

  • hot chocolate mix
  • bananas, raspberries, orange slices, etc.
  • fruit juices, lemonade, berries
  • pineapple-grapefruit juice, orange juice, peach nectar

How To Make fruit beverages

  • 1
    Fruit-Infused Hot Chocolate. Win over kids of all ages by adding fruit to hot chocolate. Quickly blend a banana, raspberries, orange zest or whatever fruit floats your boat into the hot chocolate using a blender and everyone will rave about the final product.
  • 2
    Lighten Your Spirits. Ease up on how many calories you might be drinking by only using a small amount of alcohol and adding fruit juice and carbonated water to your next after hours beverage.
  • 3
    Fruity Ice Cubes. Freeze orange juice or lemonade in ice cube trays, dropping a couple of berries into each cube. Use to chill fruity drinks.
  • 4
    Citrus Punch. Make yummy citrus punch to share at your next get together. A blend of orange, pineapple, and grapefruit juices, blended with a little peach nectar makes a luscious punch. Add orange slices and fruity ice cubes (above) to add a little more holiday charm.
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