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Who doesn't love limeade or lemonade in the middle of a hot, sunny day?
The other week, I picked up a bag of discounted limes from the produce market, and had sort of forgotten about them. In the midst of "one of those mornings", I decided that the kids and I just need to just stop doing our cleaning chores, have a little fun and enjoy hanging out together. I remembered the bag of limes sitting in my fridge drawer and was suddenly inspired to create a recipe for Limeade Popsicles, instead of our standard yogurt/fruit smoothie ones!
Blend up:
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
1/8 cup raw honey (or to taste, depending how sweet you like it)
Enough filtered water to make 1 quart or 1 litre
This would have made 2 or 3 trays of popsicles, but I only have 1 tray. So... we made a tray of popsicles and Mommy enjoyed iced limeade while she blogged! :) It you only have 1 tray like me, definitely cut these amounts in half or simply do as I did and drink the yummy excess.
Pour and pop the tray into the freezer. Wait impatiently for several hours. Dum, da, dum, dum...
(Or make a fun craft while you wait- we decided to make these cute and simple binoculars! The idea came from Camp WannaLaffaLotta at Life as Mom, which is a great source for fun things to do with your kids this summer!)
Enjoy! And drip sticky juice all over the patio (and kitchen floor) and do a whole lot of delightful slurping! :)
What types of popsicles do you enjoy making?
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The looks on their faces say it all! Yummy!
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I am a new reader and really enjoy your blog! We like to make watermelon popsicles. We just throw chunks of watermelon in the blender and pour the juice into the molds...delicious!
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Andria, that's such a yummy idea! I love it!
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What type of mold do you have? I have used the ones with and without the ridges on the stick and every time I go to unmold them the stick just pulls out, even if I run them under warm water first.
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Our standby, winter or summer, are smoothie pops.
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Cool idea about watermelon! I will have to try that. My 3 year old LOVES popsicles. We have the same molds it looks like!
Normally we do fruit juice ones. I just combine some fruit juice concentrates- like pineapple/orange, and add water, and freeze. Its simple...but today at my friend's house she had some that she made by pureeing strawberries, raspberries, some water and a little maple syrup. They were good! I liked the idea that they still had the fiber in there from the fruit.
Our favourite- 5 TBS orange or pineapple juice concentrate to 2 cups yogurt, plus 1 tsp vanilla.
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Those sound yummy.
I always make orange juice popsicles. Just orange juice. They tase great.
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I make goat's milk and berry popsicles... creamy, berrrilicious and good for you!
Raw goat's milk
fresh organic strawberries, blueberries, etc.
two tbsp of raw honey
blend it together and freeze!
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I have been using leftover smoothie to make popsicles and recently made some Strawberry Lemonade popsicles...which were a hit! I bought several jars of organic strawberry/mango lemonade for .75 ea. This was a great (and frugal) treat for a hot day!
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