Fruit Roll Ups

Meghan and Lauren

“Life is like a fruit roll up; you never know how it’s going to unfold”

-Cathy Bryson

Recipe: Fruit smoothie roll ups

Strawberry Banana smoothie

INGREDIANTS:

• 2 large bananas
• 12 fresh strawberries
• 2 tbsp of honey
• ½ cup of pineapple juice

STEPS:

1. Peel and chop bananas thin enough to blend easily.
2. Cup off leafy part of strawberries and wash
3. In blender, add fruit and honey.
4. Add in juice gradually throughout the blending to help it mix better.
5. Blend until smooth.
6. Poor the smoothie onto fruit rolls up tray liners the size of a CD disk.
7. Do that with the rest of the smoothie until all gone.
8. Place in dehydrator and dehydrate for 6 hours or until no longer sticky.
9. Voila, you have homemade healthy fruit roll ups!

RATE: ****

We gave this recipe 4 out of 5 stars. It is easy to make and healthy too! It was surprisingly very tasty. The honey we added gave it a great flavor along with the sweetness of the pineapple juice. The recipe of the smoothie was quick and easy to make though the dehydration process was very long. Overall a recipe we would highly recommend.

Hints:

• As we were making the smoothie, we found it needed more juice. About an extra ½ cup is all.
• We realised that the thinner you poor the smoothie onto the sheet, the faster it dehydrates.
• Some of our circles of the fruit roll up turned out bumpy and not smooth. We know for next time to smooth them out with a spoon before dehydrating them.
• The recipe called to dehydrate the fruit roll ups for 6 hours but most likely because we didn’t make ours thin enough; we left them in an extra hour.

Sourcing

• Healthy homemade fruit smoothies. DHERBS.com. 2012. June 14th 2012.
• Making fruit leathers. Food dehydrator instruction manual. N.D.