My kids love smoothies. I hate making smoothies.
Why?
Because my blender is a lazy jerk.
Just one orange and he starts complaining.
I have to constantly shake him awake and poke spoons down inside of him to get him to blend stuff.
Except there isn’t anything wrong with him. He is a typical blender.
In fact, last Mother’s Day, Crappy Papa actually gave me a brand new blender thinking it would be better than our loser of a blender. I thought it was love at first sight.
But I was betrayed.
It was just as useless as our current one. So we returned it the next morning. Sigh, a one-night-stand.
Everyone knows that if you want a marriage quality blender you have to invest in one of those blenders. You know the ones I mean.
Vitamix®. Everyone I know wants one. They are like luxury cars for your kitchen. “Oooooh, did you hear? So and so got a Vitamix®!”
I mentioned wanting one in my article in Ladies’ Home Journal. (It was in the May issue on page 24 but the text is online now too.)
And the Vitamix® blender people saw it and asked if they could send me one.
Send me one! For free! Can you believe that? No strings attached, they weren’t asking for a review or anything. They just wanted to send me one because I had mentioned them.
(Wow, that feels powerful. I don’t think mentioning products and then getting them for free works on this blog but just in case I really would like a hot tub. And a week-long stay in a luxury resort on a tropical island that has drinks with little umbrellas in them. There has to be umbrella drinks or the deal is off. But I’d settle for a hot tub. I’ll even provide my own umbrella drinks for that.)
So my new blender arrived.
Can a blender be sexy? This thing is sexy.
(Plus, the damper looks like a butt plug.)
And hardworking!
I filled it to the brim with everything I had. Carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, celery, spinach and beets. It worked. I was terribly skeptical and I tried to kill it but it stayed strong.
I have a new blender!
Can’t tell you how good it felt to put my old blender in a box and take it to the donation place. I dumped him. Jerk. Go “not blend” on someone else’s counter.
So here is the thing. The blender came in a big box. Except…
TWO boxes showed up. Two identical blenders. At my house. And they are worth $600 each.
I knew right away that they made a mistake. I mean, I’m awesome and everything but I’m not at two-blenders-level-of-awesome.
While I could have run off to eBay and sold their mistake all I really wanted to do was share my good fortune.
With you guys.
I’m giving away the extra Professional Series 300 in onyx. A $600 value. Enter via the Rafflecopter options in the box below.
Giveaway runs now through May 24th, 2013. US addresses* only. Winner will be selected at random via rafflecopter and then posted here after giveaway ends.
Giveaway has ended. Congrats to Lily!
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*US only because this is a giant, heavy box and I’m paying for the shipping out of my own pocket and if I had to ship it to another country I wouldn’t be able to afford to buy fruits and vegetables and then how would I make a smoothie?
Yes, it truly was a mistake that I was sent two of them. I asked Vitamix® if I could give away the extra one instead of shipping it back to them and they said sure. This is not a sponsored post. This was my idea. I received no compensation for this post. So hopefully nobody corporate will be upset over the butt plug thing. And hopefully you guys won’t get all butt hurt because you think I’ve sold out or whatever. Either way, tough. Come on, I’m giving something rad away. If you don’t like it, don’t enter. (Ha! That’s what I thought.)
I am a first item poster, but love your blog, it never fails to make me laugh!
You are awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Yes thank you for sharing. Love your blog and book!
Being a new parent, I’ve appreciated your blog so much! Especially the post about cloth diapers… How the hell do they poo every time you change them? Love your blog! Cheers!
Thanks for sharing your good fortune! 🙂
Me too! I got hooked awhile back and spent the day reading through the archives and laughing so hard!
I can’t wait for you to come to DC this week!!!
So sweet to donate the second blender!
I agree! Love this blog and love her!
WANT A VITAMIX. So I can blend and stuff.
Oh I’d blend everything! But I especially love a green drink: green apple, cuke, lemon, lime, handful of spinach and slice of ginger. Yum!
Agreed! Wahoo!!!!
A smoothie my dad and husband will actually drink: banana, apple, and spinach. But I love Carrie’s idea– sounds really good! Too bad I hate our current blender as well….
Love your blog!
So true! What a generous thing to do!! Thank you so much!
I gave up on finding the bottom of the comment section.
I’d mix soaked almonds, coconut water, spinach, pineapple, banana, and maybe some mango. Yum!
Go beyond smoothies – gazpacho and soup!
Yup making smoothies is on the list, but so is some salsa and soups!
Guacamole! Along with umbrella drinks … We can have a fiesta!
Yum, I hadn’t thought of making salsa.
And cucumber green gaspacho!
I would blend a carrot, spinach, raspberry and banana smoothie. I know exactly what you mean! Every blender that I have ever tried has mocked me each time I try to put more than one ice cube in it. 😛
Salsa, enchilada sauce, split pea soup (if you don’t have an immersion blender)…..the non smoothie list goes on and on
I agree. How cool is that. Clever and generous. How lucky can you get?
Want one. I’ve heard they are awesome for smoothies and soup. What else needs to be blended?
I’d make strawberry banana smoothies yum! This mommy needs a blender for her new home!
Forget fruit and veggie smoothies, this mama wants some Vitamix margaritas!!!! My BFF has a Vitamix–best. margarita.ever.
Word.
Couldn’t agree more Kate!
My sister-in-law swears by pomegranate juice spinach leaves in a beautifully green concoction that somehow tastes fruity. And leaves you regular!
Fruit and veggie smoothies for the kids, margaritas for mommy after they’re in bed. And no, I will not share with my husband! I deal with the six month old and the 11 year old all day. I deserve it the whole pitcher!
Oh yeah, that’s totally my plan, forget the kids’ food, this is for momma!
This!!!
Strawberry banana smoothies are awesome but I think I like the margarita idea better.
Me too! Strawberry banana is my fav!
agreed – strawberry banana smoothies are delish
Try strawberry, banana and peanut butter!!
My toddler and I make smoothies every Saturday morning to take along on our farmers market trip – a blend of whatever is in the fridge/freezer…usually yogurt, banana, orange juice, spinach, berries, chia seeds, carrots. I laughed at this post as I too have broken up with my blender only to discover the new one is not any better! Bring on the Vitamix!
I actually had a Vitamix once..never got to use it though. I wanted to make was smoothies in all kinds of fruit combinations…and leftover fruits and fruit salads make wonderful popcicles. But..my other half was cleaning out some clutter and “donated” it to the Salvation Army thinking it was just our old blender……still makes me stew a little….
Oh my gosh, that makes me upset for you!
That is terrible! And that is one lucky find for whoever found it at that salvation army
I think I want to cry a little bit for you!
Ohhh!! I’d be soo mad!! then I’d cry…. a lot…
Can’t believe you didn’t even get to use it! This must come up every time you have a fight. This really tests the forgiveness is golden thing…just saying…
This would be grounds for divorce in my house…just kidding…well mostly….
This makes me physically pained. I’m so sorry I didn’t live by you and frequently visit the local donation places. Like for real. Oh and your pain too. 😉
That is marriage counseling worthy, ha!!
Been reading your posts for a long time now! Can’t wait to get your book!
I’d blend a smoothie. Handful of frozen strawberries, block of tofu, a cup of apple juice and a tablespoon of honey. This makes a great smoothie!
Try this out! Via 30 days love your greens challenge.
Blueberry Chia Power Smoothie
3/4 C almond milk, water, or coconut water
1-2 handfuls of greens
1 C fresh or frozen blueberries
2 Tbsp chia seed gel (1 Tbsp chia seeds stirred into 1/4 C water)
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
Tip: To make chia gel just stir chia seeds into water and let it sit. It will become this funky gel stuff that looks like frog eyes. Don’t worry you are blending it up:). This my friends is LOADED with nutrients. If you thought chia seeds were healthy before, this just took it up a notch. Soaking them makes them a live food. Just like planting a seed and watering it, it becomes live and ready to grow. This is also extremely filling. You can even just take a couple of tablespoons of this to help you feel satiated. But make sure you drink a lot of water when eating chia.
I really wanted to like chia seeds, but found out the hard way, I’m allergic. Duh! I’m allergic to grass-yes, I’m allergic to the outdoors, it’s ridiculous. So ingesting grass seeds resulted in a systemic rash. I do, however, enjoy the smoothies over at “green thickies”. She adds oats or grains to her recipes to make them more filling and they r yum!
My blender is decent, but if a vitamin would let me add uncooked oats, raw carrots, or even almonds, I would be thrilled.
I agree. Your posts make crappy days better. I laughed out loud so many times while reading your book. Thanks!
Me too! I’m pretty excited about making my own nut butters and flours. I’ve been pining after a vitamix for a while now 🙂
My blender is a lazy @sshole too. I looove making healthy smoothies for breakfast for my one year old and myself but haven’t been lately because it’s such junk. Somehow takes less time to cook up some gourmet meal instead of using the stupid blender….ok not gourmet but close.
I had to throw away my pos blender. It broke after I put some ice in it to blend up a special happy mommy drink! If love a wonderfully magical blender!!! I miss my blueberry, banana, and spinach smoothies!
If you can’t afford a vitamix, give the ninja a try. We had ours for 2 years and it blasts through ice like crazy and turns ice into perfect snow for snow cones. You wouldn’t believe the stuff we put this blender through. Costs much less too.
I would so make some kick ass marguerites with that sexy beast!
Hello! Screw coconut water and ground flax! Time for a fiesta!
I have always wanted a vitamix blender! You are so lucky!!
Me too! I used my moms vitamix to make cappuccino.
I lovvvvve this blog! And you are so sweet to give away the Vitamix!
Me too! What I’d blend? Baby food, duh!
I recently became a fan Already shared some posts. I’d make strawberry banana smoothies, but I’m worried about what things my boys might try to blend. Is that where you got the idea for the gross question?
Haha reminds me of “will it blend” on YouTube. Definately don’t let your boys see any of those.
Blend oatmeal to make awesome pancakes!
Love your blog too! Thanks for doing this!
I couldn’t figure out how to leave a comment (losing my mind maybe?) so I am replying to one. I would like to use a Vitamix to drink my veggies because I have a hard time eating them the normal way. I heard this one is best with leafy veggies.
I’m with you (thanks for letting me reply to your comment)! I enjoy frozen blueberries and strawberries (no need to add ice), handful of fresh (NOT frozen!! Blechh!) spinach, Greek yogurt, and a cranberry-ish juice (yes, those new tropicana farm stand juices are Delish!). Good luck trying all of these new recipes!
I couldn’t figure it out either, and I’m too lazy to scroll to the end of 3,000+ comments! I have hated all my blenders. One time (pre-kids) I decided to make a blended soup with the last of my 1st batch of homemade chicken stock (the other “liquid gold”). While blending hot soup, the stupid plastic measuring cup-lid thingy falls through and gets pulverized, shooting burning hot soup up through the hole, all over me, the kitchen cabinets, and even the ceiling. Dumb. Even dumber: hubby and I still tried to eat the soup, picking out tiny shards of plastic from each bite! It didn’t take us long to realize it was a) not enjoyable, and b) dangerous. I would love to win this free vitamix. Not only would it save my kids from my dumb (but hopefully not as dangerous) blending mishaps, but I could sneak all kinds of things into a smoothie they would drink…even cockroaches AND worms, ha ha. Just add a banana, a mango, some coconut water, and a handful of baby spinach…good to go! (My current failure of a blender makes smoothies that require chewing. I can’t sneak anything in with that!)
Same here! The book is great, too, but the blog got me hooked! Amber, when we make smoothies with our lazy blender, we use frozen fruits and almond milk or coconut water. Simple but great!
Me too! With a real blender I would make smoothies for my kids like a true wild woman! (instead of the wanna be that I am with my inferior blender) So sad. I have so much potential!!
I didn’t think I could love this blog any more–I was wrong! I want to make smoothies, soup, ice cream, nut butter….so much!!
Yay! Vitamix!
Thank you for brightening my day so often.
I would blend all sorts of crazy concoctions and feed them to my children 🙂
Love your blog. If I were you I’dget sneaky and blend in all sorts of veggies in to your unsuspecting kids fruit smoothies.
I can’t scroll all the way down to comment….sorry…thanks for sharing your awesome Vitamix-extra-blender with your readers!
Here are some tips, followed by a great base recipe:
I freeze plain Greek yogurt in little ice cube sized blobs…line a cookie sheet with foil, scoop out blobs, freeze, and then once frozen keep in a ziplock bag.
I freeze avocados the same way…just blend together avocado, 1t. Lemon or lime juice per avocado, and enough water to make it smooth, yet still thick. (Citrus keeps it nice and green)
Base recipe:
2 blobs frozen Greek yogurt
2 blobs frozen avocados
About 1/2 cup frozen fruit (cherries, blueberries, or mango are my faves)
2 scoops veggie powder (I use It Works brand called GREENS)
1 T. Chia seeds
1/2 to 1 cup water or juice.
Sometimes I add Stevia to sweeten a bit.
I like my smoothies super thick and cold, so that’s why I like all the frozen stuff in there. Sometimes it is too thick to blend, and I have to add a bit more water…
VitaMix’s really are sexy beasts!
Me too! I’m only 19, so no kids, but I read all the post and then send them to my mom. It only seemed fitting to buy her the book for Mother’s Day!
My fave is a green smoothie! I love hiding a powerful punchy veg like spinach and not have anyone the wiser- strawberries, a ripe banana, and fresh spinach with some pineapple or apple juice is a super combo. Baby carrots too!
Frozen organic blueberries are $12 for 3 lbs at Costco! A steal compared to regular grocery store prices… Add to a couple cups of 30 calorie vanilla almond milk, frozen strawberries pinch of sugar…maybe a banana? Scoop of whey powder for me. Not the twins… Enjoy!!!! Pick me!!!
I hear you can blend an entire watermelon rind and all!
My blender is an @sshole, too.
my blender is depressed — it can hardly make margaritas or frozen drinks anymore
Mine too and I have to make smoothies every morning for breakfast. I could so use a really good blender
I want to resume my morning smoothies but my blender won’t let me!
My blender doesn’t exist anymore! Mine died and went to blender heaven lmao!
My blender has also joined the many others in blender heaven. If I had a vitamix I would blend food to feed my amazing daughter who is gtube dependant.
Mine died and went to blender hell. Cause it was an @sshole. Only good blenders go to blender heaven.
mine too. in fact I have relegated him to the cupboard above the stove. unless I’m making spaghetti sauce. and then he’s a little better at smoothness than the immersion blender. but then cooked spaghetti sauce is almost blended just from being cooked.
I love your blog. I own your book. and the fact that you just compared a part of your blender to a butt plug is the most hilarious thing I have ever heard. Love you.
DITTO.
My mum’s name is Berit – don’t run across that name very often, so I had to comment on it! Really, for all I know, you could be my mum, except I don’t think she’d openly discuss butt plugs. 🙂
I would blend up soup. Did you know you can make soup and the blender heats it up? Mind blown. I saw a demo at Costco and have been drooling over them ever since. Please let me win this!
Yes! I had this same experience and this is what I would make– so neat!
During the demo I was trying to play it cool (to the tune of $600!) but my KIDS were entranced and have been begging to go back and buy one. And then I mentioned to my mom, “How funny are the kids, begging for a Vitamix?” and she confessed… “I want one too!” So if I win, we’ll share.
That’s what I would do, too. My little guy loves pumpkin soup!
I would make green smoothies as an attempt to be healthier.
Ooh, I’d blend up some fancy milkshakes. What is it with sucky blenders? Our last two have sucked, and one of them was a Breville.
Ohh, I would love a vitamix. I’d blend up an apricot banana smoothie or I’d try to replicate Tropicana Farmstand’s strawberry banana fruit and veggie juice. I could seriously be addicted to that stuff.
I would make cheese fondue, my neighbor has one and it blends it and melts it.
Seriously the most amazing idea I’ve ever heard. Now I need to win this!!!
yum!
Oh I must do this!
I’d blend up spinach and apples and carrots since my son doesn’t eat veggies. He’s 2.5, so if I call it juice he’ll drink it! My blender is a jerk too and won’t do this now.
I add any kind of fruit I have in the house and always add spinach. Kids can’t tell. Thinking about avocado too. But don’t add kale. It destroys smoothies.
I’ve never even heard of this vitamix thing and now I want one. Thanks a lot! I’ll be doomed to want one forever if I don’t win it.
No selling out complaints from me, I’d give my left arm for a vitamix, thanks for doing this giveaway! I’d make tomato juice with all the tomatoes from our garden.
My blender sucks too!
I would definitely use the vitamix to make soup. I could throw in all those veggies that I buy with the best intentions but never use up, like kale and butternut squash and zucchini and eggplant. Yum.
The base of my blender chewed the bottom of the glass container – I think my blender had some sort of death wish and/or perhaps was just stupid. I would of course make very healthy smoothies with a new blender. Or maybe daquaris.
I love your blog! I have a newborn and a 2.5 year old and your blog has given me an idea of what to expect in a real and hilarious sense.
Thanks for doing what you do!
PS I totally believe good kitchen equiptment can be sexy, especiallyif it comes with its own butt plug.
I have yet to buy a blender. It is on my kitchen wish list. I think blenders in my price range would probably end up being the a-hole variety.
Too bad our vacuum cleaner is deciding to die, so it has to get replaced first.
We bought our first blender from an infomercial, never a good idea, but we are too cheap to buy a new one. I will blend healthy concoctions for my family, and for me, I will blend cupcakes, chocolate chip cookies, and frosting.
I would love to make smoothies for the kids! Our blender kicked the bucket, so winning one would be pretty amazing. 🙂
We love to mix greek yogurt, fresh fruit and spinach in our smoothies….and top it off with homemade whipped cream (the rest is healthy, right?)
Um, heck yes I need this! My entire family loves smoothies but I never make them because of how ridiculously long it takes with our stupid blender! Please, please, please let me win! 🙂
I would use it to make nut milks and smoothies.
Awesome blender!!! Smoothies!
You lucky chick!!!! I would die if I won!
I’d blend up some fruits and veggies- the things I can’t put through my juicer!
I’d definitely make smoothies. But I’ve also heard the vitamix is great at mixing up soups (is it true it will even heat it up if you leave it in long enough?) and sauces. I’m expecting gajillions of tomatoes later in the summer and would use it for tomato paste, sauce, salsa…
I would just go crazy and try everything I could out.
OMG … I’ve wanted a Vitamix forevah … ::: swoons ::: You’re a lucky duck. Hopefully, *I* will be a lucky duck too (If only Rafflecopter could be bribed…).
Thanks! 😀
I love making smoothies for my kids by my blender is the saddest thing on the planet. When I blend things, it comes out the bottom of the blender because the seal is busted. 🙁
My boys LOVE smoothies too…. I want a marriage blender too. 🙂
Well, I’ve been wanting something to pulverize avocado pits and this will do it! Thanks for the chance!
I’d make soups with it! I love the heating feature!
My blender decided to try and catch fire and kill us all. I stopped him at the billows of smoke coming from the engine stage though. No blender’s killing my family!
I will blend and blend everything.
I would love a Vitamix to blend up babyfood for my first born coming in October! I read your blog regularly so that I know what I am getting myself into with this offspring! Love it!
I would blend up nuts to make nut flours or nut butters
I won’t lie. I’d probably blend what I always blend: Frozen bananas, peanut butter, chocolate almond milk. But I would blend it SO FAST AND SO FINE, without shaking the damn blender.
Cool! I’m dying to see what all the fuss is about. Our blender sucks too.
My blender is horrid… would love this to make berry smoothies and milkshakes (for the kids of course… ha)
My kids love smoothies, and milkshakes
Oh my goodness, I am so in love with the Vitamix. My mom had one when I was growing up and it was amazing. Every time they have them at Costco, I stand nearby and salivate. Hope you continue to enjoy it!
I would make soups, salsas, sorbets, smoothies… anything else that starts with ‘s’ too!!!
I would love to win this.
I would blend whole coffee beans into my smoothies in the hopes of keeping up with my toddlers.
I’d love to make pancakes it in – grind the wheat berries, add the rest of the ingredients, whirr and pour out the batter. I love your blog!
You’re the best! Sadly I can’t enter as I’m in Europe and wouldn’t have anyway, even if you hadn’t posted the disclaimer. I feel bad because I had my mother’s hardcore juicer (not hardcore enough to come with butt plug, but hey) and I stopped using it for years, then my bro and his gf went on a health kick and I gave it to them, and the minute it was gone I WANTED TO JUICE VEG! but it’s too late… poo!
My daughter loves smoothies too!!! I would love one of these to make them with.
My blender sucks too but it’s not worth buying a new one until we get back from Germany. I love making green smoothies or coconut milkshakes in ours when it does want to work 🙂
My blender is just like your old one; I have to keep pouring liquids into my smoothies and turning them into fruit water to get it to finish blending. I need something better to blend up my yogurt, berries, & kale!
Yay! Blender-iffic!
Love it! I’d blend up blueberries, kale, almond/coconut milk, hemp protein, flaxseed, chia, strawberries and ice.
I love your blog! I have a 1.5 year old boy and your posts are letting me know what to look forward to!
Other than margaritas??? Okay, Kale, apples, carrots lemons. Yum.
If I won the this, I would cry.
I would make all of the perfect guacamole!
I LOVE your blog and I got your book for my birthday! Yay! And I”m not just saying this because I want a Vita Mix. But I do. Want one. And I love your blog. 🙂
Costco was sampling an amazing avocado mint chocolate chip ice cream…totally would be making that!
Hilarious! I’d dive into homemade baby food with one of these and my fit fanatic hubby would love it too! Thank you
Oh … and I got so excited, I forgot to answer you question. I’d do smoothies (of course!), but I’d also puree veggies to hide in my spaghetti sauce (so my husband and kidlet would eat squash and eggplant and have NO IDEA they were doing so). ::: evil laugh :::
I already have VitaMix and I love it!
I would make frozen mommy beverages!!
I am a new reader and am enjoying every post!
Our blender is not great but we try and do smoothies once in a while. Frozen banana, some peanut butter and kale leaves, and then usually some berries.
I would give up my brothers left arm for one of these! I know, not much sacrificing on my part, but I am a girl who kinda likes to have it all. Plus the only other thing I have is a car and I need that nearly every day.
I gave up on my crap blender long ago. I actually have 2 crap blenders back in the dark depths of my cabinets. In all honesty the first thing I would make is baby food for the twins. They’re approaching solid food point and I dread having to make it in one of the crap blenders. Making two times the baby food in a junk blender makes me feel sad inside. After that though, so many possibilities!
A blender is pretty awesome for baby food. I did it with my first. With baby #2, I just skipped blending and gave him small pieces. Take THAT, stupid blender! I will waste no more time and excess food on you!
I have a junk blender too. I have a junk juicer too. I need a Vitamix! I have a toddler who won’t eat anything so I need to be able to juice and blend all the fruits and veggies he won’t eat!
I yell at my current blender all the time….we hate each other…
Why does your blender sound like Barry White in my head?
The new one, not the stupid non-blending blender.
I thought the EXACT same thing!
I have a Kitchen Aid blender that is pretty good, but I’d love to upgrade.
Can a blender really be sexy?!
I bet it could! And it would come in handy!
Lucky lady!!
Dude, put some blueberries and almond butter in that thing. That is all.
I keep bagging up fruit and putting it in the freezer, telling myself that I’ll make healthy smoothies. Yeah right…I just have a freezer shelf or frozen, extra-ripe fruit.
OH man, that thing is seriously going to change your life. You can now blend a brick if you want. Brick smoothies for everyone!
I’d blend up some frozen bananas to make fake ice cream!
How can everything you write be so funny? I laughed at your sexy blender with the butt plug, which it does look like. My blender is an asshole too and I’d love to dump him if the sexy Vitamix moved in.
Is that really a question? I’d blend up margaritas.
I had the same thing happen with a pair of shoes I orders. I called them and they didn’t have record of the 2nd pair so they told me to keep it. Yay me! PS: Vitamix is my dream!
I’d like to say I’d blend up lots of healthy fruits and veggies. But really I want it for chocolate milkshakes.
my kids love smoothies too, but I think our current blender is going to die soon.
A good blender is essential in our smoothie-loving house. Plus my Crappy Boy likes things that make loud noises, so its entertainment for him when I have nothing else to do.
I would make green smoothies. Lots and lots of green smoothies. And they wouldn’t have the gross green flakes in them that my current blender can never seem to blend up. Also, my answer to the Not Gross Question was supposed to be blueberries and pineapple. My son decided that I was done typing and hit enter for me.
I would love to make fresh juice and smoothies–my kids actually like these, but I have had the same luck with blenders as you!
My sister showed me your blog a while ago. Whenever I need a pick me up, or a good laugh, I read some of your old posts. Best. Blog. Ever.
Oh, and I have only owned one blender. I used it twice, because it sucks. It has been punished to the basement shelf of kitchen appliances I never use. Because they suck.
Oh, and I would make fruit and vegetable smoothies. Because I hate vegetables.
I love pineapple, carrot, spinach, kale, banana, avacado, and orange smoothies. Then I make them into popsicles for the kids!
I do the spinach up as ice cubes ahead of time then throw them in when I have fresh fruit for the frozen portion of the smoothie. Nice to be able to freeze ahead.
I have the same relationship with my blender, man would love to trade his ass in.
I love your pictures!!! I hate blending anything because it’s ALWAYS a disappointing! What’s worse, my blender works perfectly for my partner. Damn thing…
I’m new to blending, but my kid loves milkshakes. I for one just want some decent soup.
Smoothies are how we trick the kids into consuming kale. And let’s face it, how I trick myself into consuming it.
Oh, how I have lusted after a Vitamix. Thought I might have finally lusted enough to get one for Mother’s Day, but no dice. Smoothie addicts unite!
I would blend fruits for smoothies for my daycare kids. They love them but I have a “lazy” blender too. I would also make peanut butter and vanilla frozen yogurt shakes for me. Yum!
Try frozen watermelon, mint, honey and a pinch of cayenne. Oh, and tequila or gin. Sublimely dangerous/delicious.
I love this blog – what would I blend?? Baby food! Lots of baby food. I “dumped” my blender (also a Vita-Mix) in my divorce and I would love another!!
My blender sucks! Oh to win this would be a dream. Le sigh!
I have been through blenders as fast as we go through socks in my house! Pretty sure the last one I got rid of had the stanky face too 🙁
SO awesome! My blender is also a lazy P.O.S. By the time I’m done making my son his smoothie, I’m ready to be committed. I’m sweaty, I’ve managed to get kale and spinach liquid on my ceiling, and I’ve mangled a spoon in the process.
I want a blender that comes with its own butt plug! I remember when they were first advertising at Costco they made a big production about blending the chicken bones with the broth. Because no soup is complete without the bones.
I’d make green smoothies and my kids would actually eat spinach. 🙂
Love this post! I think the same thing over and over…
I have a stupid blender too. Maybe if someone ever decides to interview me for a magazine, I can mention one and get it free too! 😉
Your blog cracks me up and saves me from the insanity that are my kids 🙂 Thank you.
I would make adult beverages!! finally!
plain ole strawberry and banana. Maybe some almond butter and milk too.
Smoothies. and almond milk. and peanut butter/nut butters.
I would make smoothies for breakfast! There’s a chocolate peanut butter one I want to try.
Can I make blended hamburgers? Is that a thing?
Oh. My. Gosh.
I use my currently blender AT LEAST once a day, usually three or four times. Today I made smoothies for breakfast, peanut butter pudding for lunch and a protein shake for a mid-afternoon snack. The peanut butter pudding was some ricotta cheese, all natural peanut butter, half and half, some stevia for sweetness and a splash of vanilla all blended up until thick and creamy. My kids licked their bowls.
Thank you for loving us fans so much!
I would be a pinterest vitamix freak…if it can be blended…it will be! lol
Ohh… I’d make smoothies, and soup, and my applesauce! Kind of tedious with my meh blender, lol!
you always make me laugh.
I’d blend soups and smoothies and nut butters! (And I love that I’m not the only person that thinks butt plug when they see that piece!!)
My blender broke whilst blending ICE! ICE I tell you!
Love this site! And would love a blender that won’t spontaneously combust when I feed it kale!
An thinking of making smoothies into Popsicles for the upcoming summer heat!
Smoothies, and oh geez, i don’t know. my old blender died when i tried making hummus, so probably hummus. LOTS and lots of homemade hummus.
Love your blog and have the same woes with my own blender 🙁
OMG… I’ve been dreaming of a vitamix!
Um, I bet those VitaMix marketing gurus NEVER thought to go the butt plug route in their ads – they should send you another one just for the fab idea!
I’d blend up baby food for my little guy. And frozen bananas for banana “ice cream.” And margaritas. Yes, margaritas.
Best. Giveaway. Ever!
We got a nice blender for our wedding and its great! Not a super expensive vitamix, but it blends the shit out of everything! Only prob is cleaning it. I hate cleaning the freaking blender which equates to a big debate if im going to make a smoothie for me n the kiddos because i picture having to clean it… So i hate my blender, but for entirely different reasons.
Chocolate yogurt and frozen bananas. And, no, my wimpy blender can’t even handle that. Come on Universe, Mama needs a Vitamix!
LOVE to juice -would LOVE LOVE LOVE a vitamix!
I hear kale is all the rage…. kale, really? I thought that was a garnish.
Because Vitamix is the bomb! Blends soups, smoothies, protein shakes (no grit…..yay!) I would love to win this for my Vitamix-deprived daughter. 🙂
I have never owned a blender. It would be awesome to go from none to Mercedes blender all in one stroke. (Also, the one night stand comment – yeah, that’s the stuff you say that cracks me up.)
My blender is 10 years old. Older than my marriage. Almost as old as my college degree (and just about as useless…). And I want to make smoothies. Lots and lots of smoothies. And I want the raspberry seeds to be pulverized into nothingness.
I could never afford one of these bad boys!!!
Have you made banana “ice cream”? Take a frozen banana (or two), toss them in there, blend. Peanut butter and chocolate are excellent additions. So good.
my crappy blender can’t handle an avocado. It’s almost too dangerous to know what this bad boy could do!
I just killed my blender making chocolate peanut butter cheesecake… I used greek yogurt instead of sour cream to pretend it was healthy and I think that was the death of it. Sigh.
I would make milkshakes. And Jerk Chicken marinade. Sooo good : ) And possibly margaritas. Ok, definitely margaritas ; ) My blender bowl… thing… broke so I’ve been attaching mason jars to the blender to make things.
I would loveeee to win this, I’m on a journey to a healthier lifestyle, so I would use it for green smoothies (spinach is usually a main ingredient) I hate how gritty they are, maybe a $600 blender could take care of that?
ahhhh I’ve wanted one of these forever! I got a “good” blender when we got engaged – it was NOT cheap – and it’s still junk. I’ve determined a vitamix must be the only blender in the world that really works. Pick me 🙂
A friend let me borrow her Vitamix after my son and daughter had ear tubes and adenoids removed on the same day. It was great to make smoothies. I’ve been wanting one ever since, but haven’t been able to afford it.
I have a love/hate, mostly hate, relationship with my current blender.
Love that you referred to it as a butt plug. Lol!
I have a plain old Hamilton Beach blender that I love!
Whoops, should not have hit enter. Thank you so much for the opportunity, but more than that, thanks for the many giggles you provide!!
Thank you for brightening so many of my days! I love your blog….and I share it with absolutely everyone! PS– I would love a blender! 😉
pumpkin pie smoothie – YUM! ohsheglows.com has GREAT smoothie recipes 🙂
I’d totally make a milkshake — chocolate ice cream and peanut butter. YUM.
YOU CAN MAKE SOUP! I know, because I totally had it once. A friend has a refurb blender and made me potato soup, without using the STOVE! I KNOW!
You are awesome! Thanks for sharing!
banana, berries (straw, rasp, blue), mango, honey and spinach to the top! hope i win 🙂
Mmm, fruit smoothies. With veggies secretly thrown in so that my son will eat them. Mwah-ha-ha-ha. Love your posts! (And I hate my blender too!)
Yum smoothies! My blender is a jerk too.
I love blending banana, chocolate and peanut butter together. With a little milk, yogurt, or ice cream! Yum!
I once got an extra desk chair from a big brand company…..I ..uh…gave mine away…..to charity! Yeah, …to charity….cuz I’m very generous…..like you. :]
I would love a great blender! My kids always want to make orange smoothies, and mine is horrid. If I even get an ice cube near it for a slushie, it goes into a coma.
I would blend everything. I make (well to the best of my ability with my hateful blender) baby food for my 6 month old and smoothies for my toddler. So pretty much anything that could be safely fed to my children (and maybe husband 😛 ) would be blended. Also, I LOVE your book!
What would I blend? My 4+ year old current favorite color is green. And this formerly very very picky eater likes green smoothies. And actually gets excited to get the “salad” from the frig (aka spinach). So we are currently doing spinach, yogurt, banana, with just a few strawberries (too many makes it brown – yuck). Any leftover smoothies go into popsicle molds. 🙂
Oooh! I’d LOVE one of these! (I’m shamefully in a relationship with a crappy blender, too). I would mix my protein meal shakes, with frozen fruit, spinach, kale, yogurt, vanilla almond milk, and maybe add supplements…
My blender is a jerk too, and my 2.5 year old loves smoothies.
My blender likes to make high pitched shrieking noises of protest too!
PS Your blog rock 🙂
I’d really like a Vitamix mixer. My husband just bought me a “Kitchen Aid Stand Mixer” for Mother’s Day as a compromise. I’m excited about the “Kitchen Aid” but a Vitamix would be way more exciting. I’d blend everything in there. I could make chocolate milk shakes. Mmmm…chocolate! 🙂
Omg me me me!! I love your blog anyway, but this is awesome! Maybe it would save money since my husband refuses to blend his own drinks and buys fast food smoothies several times a week!
Oh my gosh! I have been wanting a Vitamix too!! I asked for a new blender one year for Christmas, but I got one of those Ninja systems (which is good for some stuff but definitely not good for my favorite smoothies). The Vitamix is what I would really love to have! Thank you for sharing your good fortune with someone else!
I would blend up everything! I love sneaking veggies into fruit smoothies for my 3 year old 🙂
Everything! 🙂 My blender can’t handle a basic green smoothie without crapping out on me.
Ugh!I know how you feel. I finaally gave up on mine! I’d rather be blenderless I guess!
wow, that is awesome!!!
milkshakes, obviously.
Gosh these look nice 🙂
Wow! This is such an awesome give away. I sure hope you get extra drinks with little umbrellas. I’d love to win some of those too.
I’d blend…EVERYTHING.
I have heard so many great things about the Vitamix, and your post is probably my favorite one so far.
My favorite thing to make in my blender is banana ice cream for my kids. You just chop up 2 or 3 bananas, and then put all the slices in the freezer. Come back in a few hours when they’re frozen solid, dump them into a blender and pulverize them. Scoop it into bowls, add a little chocolate syrup if you want and voila, happy children eating something healthy. Can’t beat that right?
Now if only I had a blender that would actually make those bananas smooth…. 😉
Our most recent blender does okay, but I bet a Vitamix would kick its butt.
I’d blend up some strawberry bannana smoothies!
I have a decent little lime green blender. He’s a jerk sometimes too, but he matches my toaster, so until I win this puppy I’ll have to keep him around. 🙂
Hell yeah I want a Vitamix blender! My kitchen totally needs a sexy makeover! Go Rafflecopter Go! Pick me!
You know, I have never actually believed that any blender was up to the task, but after reading this, I may have to adjust my thinking….
Me and the kids love smoothies!! Usually I do a cup of whatever frozen fruit I have, a bunch of vanilla ice cream, and if I have fresh fruit, throw some of that in there too! Don’t forget a healthy dose of sugar to top if off. OH, and I love to add caramel as well (instead of the sugar. or as well as the sugar. Either way 🙂
Getting stuff for free makes it that much sweeter!
And…the power of words! OOOO! AAAAHHH!!!
Congratulations on your new toy! No more chunky smoothies.
I have the same issue with my crappy blender. I would love a marriage quality blender. Perhaps I’d then use it more often. I’d make all sorts of healthy green smoothies and possibly some frozen drinks for myself, but mostly the healthy smoothies. (Actually, mostly the frozen drinks probably.)
I’d blend up a delicious gazpacho– pineapple, jalapeno, cucumber, lime, and seasonings… Mmmm! And maybe a traditional gazpacho, too. I love any and all gazpacho unconditionally! 🙂 Thanks so much for always being awesome, making me laugh, and spreading the everyday joys, frustration, and humor of parenting, crappy pictures and all. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Totally would make gazpacho too! Or a pumpkin and yogurt smoothie.
my blender sucks too. i would blend up some yummy butternut squash soup. and smoothies. and anything else that i can eat, cause, why not, i don’t have time to sit and eat a “meal”. plus every time i go in whole foods i stalk the vitamix area.
I mix fresh fruit, spinach or Kale, almond milk, coconut water, chia seeds, flax seeds mostly
I would blend up coconut milk, banana, cocoa powder and almond butter 🙂
I’ll blend everything I can get my hands on! But first I think I’ll make banana gelato (:
dude. WANT. I was in LABOR and this infomercial came on. It was this and the nuwave oven. It was in the middle of the night.. no one was awake and I couldn’t even lift my arm to turn the channel. Must have this blender. I earned it watching all eleventeen hours of that damn thing work in all its splendor.
Id blend anything and everything because the vitamix CAN
I’m not really a blender person, that’s my husbands job, but if I blended something it would be a chocolate shake. I know, very creative!
Oh I would die for a Vitamix, I make protein shakes everyday with vanilla or chocolate protein powder. My favorite combos are choc powder/spinach/pb2/almond milk and ice; van powder/spinach/strawberries/pineapple/coconut extract/almond milk and ice; or choc powder/spinach/mint ext/almond milk and ice. So yummy!!! My kids love fruit smoothies as snacks too 😀
I love love love your blog. I can so relate to almost everything
My blender has been banished to the basement, because it too sucks bad! My girls love milk shakes and it’s such a pain with a crappy blender. We would be in milk shake heaven with a fancy working blender!!!
Lucky duck! I want a Vitamix!
Oh, I just made a yummy smoothie this morning *with my rather old, but still fairly functional blender that my hubby brought into our marriage. (I had to get a new gasket, and new blade to make it not leak.) My smoothie had: One champagne mango, pit removed, because even a Vitamix probably wouldn’t want to blend up a mango pit, and I’m not sure why you’d want to. One Banana. Bananas are the staple of most smoothies I make. One frozen nectarine. And about 1/3 cup of frozen blackberries. (They do leave little gritty seeds so if you don’t like that, and/or the Vitamix doesn’t pulverize the little seeds, you could maybe blend the blackberries first, and strain out the seeds, and put that back in.) And then I added a 1/4 cup of orange juice, and about 1/2 cup of Greek yogurt. Plain. Blend, blend, blend… so good.
There’s also this, which is my own recipe knock off for a “Samba Loose” corporate smoothie: http://offthecuffcooking.blogspot.com/2012/02/chocolate-peanut-butter-banana-smoothie.html
I would totally blend up all sorts of things. I won’t let just the children benefit from healthy veggie smoothies and fresh marinara. I’m gonna grind up some bone marrow and chicken guts and make my dog fresh ground food. And if the kids go rouge, I will be serving it to them for snack. with crackers. crackers, that i will grind in my new vitamix and bake in my own oven.
Love your blog. Vitamix blenders are amazing!
I’m really loving smoothies now! I do a lot with frozen bananas, apple, Greek yogurt and peanut butter. I also like spinach, Greek yogurt, frozen grapes, avocado and lime. Using a vitamix would be amazing 🙂
I would mix frozen strawberries, frozen yogurt and bananas in the blender. So it might not be the most impressive combination, but still…YUM! The next time I might leave out the frozen yogurt and add a splash of rum. 😉
I would likely blend up everything from soups, to mayo, to baby food (expecting our third and the last one was just born February ’12, I know I’m crazy, I blame my husband) Lets see, smoothies, juices, anything that I currently use my crappy food processor for, because I too have had a rocky relationship with blenders. LOL
50 Shades.. Kitchen Edition
I would make soo many smoothies – fancy vegetable combinations and fruits. All of a sudden, I’d be losing weight with no effort at all, right?
Salsa…. I would blend salsa
I would blend all kinds of smoothies again!
I miss having a working blender.
Hummus, Green Smoothies, Amazing Frozen Banana/Cocoa Powder “Ice Cream”, Ice for Snow Cones… Plus, I love being sneaky with that spinach!
I don’t know what I’d blend, but my last blender committed suicide off of the counter, so I would be over the moon to win! Well, I guess the initial blend would have to be some margaritas to break it in!
I’m a big kid that has to be forced to eat my vegetables. So I like to throw in kale or spinach in my banana, strawberry and blueberry yogurt smoothies. 😀
Summertime is the best time for an awesome blender! I would make healthy smoothies, and perhaps the occasional adult beverage. 🙂
I’d probably bring it to work so my nurses and staff at our pediatric office could be healthy…or maybe leave it at home to make fancy alcoholic drinks for me and my hubby since our kids will be at camp for 6 weeks this summer….or both!
I would make milkshakes and margaritas and smoothies and all of it. yummo!
Me too!
Smoothies are like gold in our house – they are some of the only veggies I can get into DD. We are also well-intentioned white folks who have a produce share, so we get BOAT LOADS of produce. Long story short – green smoothies are the way to go.
And delicious purees.
And pretty tasty soups.
And margaritas. Most importantly, margaritas.
I used to have a blender, until I decided to try to recreate paneras amazing broccoli and cheddar soup. In case anyone is wondering, you should not pour boiling soup into a blender. It will shatter, and you and your kitchen will be covered in soup and glass shards. If I had a vitamix, I would try to make the soup again. But maybe, I’d follow common sense this time. Maybe.
I would blend up “coffee” for my daughter who refuses to drink milk unless I put it in a starbucks cup and call it coffee. And hide veggies in smoothies because I don’t eat veggies and I want to try to trick myself.
I have a sturdy old Oster blender but it is louder than a jet plane and is responsible for my increased hearing loss. Is it worth for smoothies?
I would blend everything and anything! LOL
I want it I want it I want it!!!
Wow, I would love to win! It would be great for summer cocktails.
Oohhhhh a new blender would be *singy singy voice* AAAWWESOMMMMMMEE! The one I have is my finaces and its, well…we dont use it. LOL I would be great to use a blender again. Thank you!
My blender is older than me and I am 35!
That is so cool. I need a new blender!
My children are fruit and veggie-a-holics! I think they would love to venture into the smoothy world! I love your blog, it never fails to make me laugh out loud at my work desk and then get some strange looks shot my way 🙂
I would blend everything I could get my hands on 😉
So funny, I’m glad I’m not the only one who hates every blender I’ve had too.
Our favorite thing to make in the blender is something my kids call “banana swirl.” Basically, freeze some bananas, add a little milk, vanilla, and sugar just so it has a smooth consistency, and you have something like soft-serve ice cream made almost entirely out of bananas. My boys love it and beg for it, but my blender really can’t handle it so this would be AWESOME to win.
I’d use the vitamix to help with encapsulating my placenta!
LOL, I could have written this myself….minus the humor…and fatastically happy ending. I thought I had found true love with my Ninja, then…one of the kid’s left the base of it near the vent to the oven, oven was on….melted NINJA (note: NINJA’s cannot withstand 400 degrees). Since that was my 1000th attempt to find a blender that ACTUALLY worked to satisfy the smoothie demands of my FOUR (sometimes adoreable) children, I have boycotted blenders and smoothies…hurumph
I would make green smoothies like a boss! My girls and I enjoy them for morning. Peanut butter chocolate smoothies are pretty awesome rad too!
Bananas. Bananas and anything RULES. Bananas, chocolate chips, vanilla ice cream, a little milk and a little ice… and wahay! You can add some protein powder if you’re interested in that sort of thing, or just enjoy the delicious banana-y goodness on its own.
Also: raspberries, because I’m THAT person who likes chewing the seeds when they get stuck in my teeth. Mmm… seedy…
Love this! I’ve wanted one, but just can’t justify $600… I’d have to make multiple pitchers of margaritas, like everyday, to make that worth it! But free, you bet! Sign me up!
Thanks for keeping us entertained!
I’d blend up fruit and yogurt – can’t go wrong with that! (:
Seriously…I suffer from the same blender curse. Last time, I spent $60 on this blender/food processor combo. It worked GREAT the first time I used it…and I began bragging about it to everyone I knew. Well..blender must have heard me… and got too excited…cause it’s had performance anxiety ever since. No amount of poking, shaking, or readjusting works… he just cant grind it anymore. Typical blender.
I need a sexy new blender thats not suffering from some sort of dysfunction! ;-D
I would blend up stuff for popsicles – my kiddos all freak out over homemade stuff like that. Yogurt, strawberries, and blueberries are their fave combo.
Pineapple Juice, Birthday Cake Vodka and ice! Delicious and perfect for summer! All healthy like, any sweet fruits with almond milk and kale.
I would make the best spinach smoothies 🙂 love them!
It takes me approximately 16 days, with 13 stops to make a green monster smooth in my current blender. Please send help!
I’d blend up delicious fruit and yogurt smoothies (I’m not very original). My 3-year old loves smoothies!
This is AWESOME. My kids love pumpkin pie smoothies, but if I, too, possessed a Blender of Non-Suckitude, I’m pretty sure I’d say screw that crap and make Ice Cream. Because I’m the mom and I can.
I would blend ALL THE THINGS!!! my current blender is lazy too. :/
Favorite blend – carrot & orange, SO TASTY! Also, you crack me up – EVERY SINGLE POST. Also, I would love a vitamix. I have a blender that is wimpy and two crappy juicers. : /
I would blend up everything! I mean anything that would look cool whizzing around, anything that might sound crazy being chewed to bits, and probably test the limits of this epic blender. I would make some avocado/yogurt/fruit smoothies and hummus too…
We really would welcome a sexy blender into our lives…any time 🙂
I’d make homemade hummus! Yum!
My kids have wanted this blender since they were entranced by the vitamix lady at Costco, haha!
Frozen banana lemonade- ice cubes, fresh lemon juice, banana- can sweeten to taste!
I’d blend up smoothies. And soups, too.
Awesome!! I think You should mention Tiffany Co. next and see what happens 😉
Truly just this morning I was wondering if buying a vitamix was worth spending the money I don’t have…because I am a midwife and so needing a higher level of energy! And I am a lazy cook. I will blend every local organic fruit and veg I can find.
I have a dying blender as well but havent wanted to spend the money on a better one. who has that kind of $$ anyway?! I am exploring the world of gardening and now getting into juicing and smoothies to be healthier and use all homegrown organic produce. I would LOVE a vitamix Blender!
Vitamix anything are the best!
My blender sucks too! It is constantly laughing at me.
I make smoothies all the time in my craptastic POS of a blender. I really want to make my own almond meal/milk and my current blender will not do it.
I hate blenders! They never work, so we bought one of those handheld, dip into the cup blenders…. even more horrible. Enjoy your new toy!
Woot! Amazeballs blender! Here’s my hat, there’s the ring.. tossing it in!
Oh, I’d make smoothies, milkshakes, frappes, slurpees, and marinades just for starters.
I would blend everything i could get my hands on! I’ve been wanting to try juicing, and some of my friends said the Vitamix works great for that.
I can’t tell you how much I drool over this every single time we walk by it at Costco…
I would make coconut milk whipping cream, grind grains for my sister’s gluten & dairy-free bread and of course, the obligatory green smoothie.
I should win this just for being healthy!
I’d make Smoothies, anything that would get my daughter to consume a veggie! For me, milkshakes. With kaluah.
I would make some green smoothies ALL the time!
My blender is pretty crappy too. 🙁
This is one of my favorite blogs!
What wouldn’t I blend in a Vitamix? I could stop buying processed foods and feed my babies delicious and healthy concoctions and they wouldn’t even know what they were eating!!
I would blend up a heck of a lot more than I can now with the poor little stick blender that I currently use! It can handle bananas, berries and maybe some spinach but that’s about it. I have chard growing in my garden that I would love to blend into a smoothie but alas the stick blender isn’t capable.
I would love a better blender than my kitchen aid which loves to stick on pretty much everything I throw in it……
I am also looking for a food processor….any recommendations? I would love one that has a small bowl and a large one!
What an awesome giveaway! I’m so jealous of your newfound love!
VITAMIXXXXX yessssssssssss!
LOVE your blog. It makes me giggle! If I win I will use for fruits and veggies. Hubby likes to juice Kale so in the VItamix it would be easier and I can sneak it to my Daughter!
I need this! My stupid blender always leaves chunks when I try to do smoothies. And I think I could sneak kale into smoothies for my kids easier if the smoothies weren’t crunchy when I was done blending.
Free blender? Of this level of awesomeness? YES PLEASE! What I’m using now to make our green smoothies is so tiny I have to make 4 at a time. My family needs a worthy blender. NEEDS!!!
hubba hubba thanks for the chance to win a hunka hunka burnin’ love…you ROCK!
OMG I’ve been dreaming of a vitamix FOREVER. I’d blend things like alllllll the time! Juices, Smoothies, Ice Cream, Soup, Sauces….OMG..AHHHHHHHH!!!
Thanks for doing a giveaway!
I’d love to have that blender! I, too, have a jerk blender. It pretends it is going to be awesome and next thing you know there are still whole strawberries floating around.
Strawberries, pineapples and blueberries with some apple juice 😉
and I thought I owned the laziest blender in the world! So awesome about the vitamix!
OMG, I just saw the topic on my facebook feed and before I even opened it, I knew your woes. Seriously, you can push and button and it does the same thing. [CRUSH] low hummmmmm [JUICE] medium hmmmmm [BLEND] high whirrring hmmmm sound
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Finds chunks of ice in blender stuck in blades and slushy fruit against the sides.
For those that may enter and NOT win, here’s a frustrated pro tip: Put your liquids in the blender first, then soft fruits/veggies, then harder fruits/veggies, then ice. The Juice gets spinning and the harder stuff floats on the top and then gradually pulls the others into the fold. BUT I have to shake the base a few times.
I feel cooler than Fonzie and like a Domestic Goddess when I can actually make a real smoothie.
I already own a crappy blender… I want me a Crappy blender! Personally, I put cocoa powder in a lot of my smoothies. Yeah. Especially with frozen blueberries.
Fabulous give away!! Thanks for sharing the wealth.
Oh, that is the only thing I miss from the coffee shop I used to work at…their superior blending powers! Has the word gotten out in your neighborhood? Are people showing up in droves to have you smoothie their handfuls of items?
I make smoothies every day for me and my son. I would LOVE LOVE LOVE a new blender that’s up to the task!
I used to scream at my blender as it feebly chipped away at frozen strawberries. Now I briefly microwave them and everyone is happy. We love baby spinach and frozen Costco fruit blended with greek yogurt (also from Costco). In fact, the baby spinach is from Costco now that I think about it. Costco smoothies. That’s how we roll. You can’t go wrong blending any of their frozen fruit.
Always get at least a chuckle if not a loud guffaw reading your posts. I need a new blender…mine is coming up on 36 years….it was a wedding present!
I would love a nice strawberry banana for my summertime sweet! I am CONSTANTLY fighting with my blender too!
I would blend up lots of fruits and veggies and make smoothies. Honestly, I’d like to try blended up old paper scraps and making new paper, too.
We LOVE blending chocolate ice cream, and adding a few scoops of those strawberries you put over ice cream. Try it. Wicked good!
I love crappy pictures!! 🙂
I love to blend strawberries, blueberries, banana, spinach/kale, coconut oil, hemp seeds, chia seeds, ground flax seeds, coco powder, and a splash of almond or coconut milk. I love it and so do the kids!! They never can tell that it’s healthy 🙂 Muhahahahaha
My husband and I love to read your blog together 🙂 Your description of an ill crappy papa sounds surprisingly familiar … but of course he denies it.
Um … an idea for blending. Spinach and bananas makes a surprising healthy/not-taste-like-total-crap version of ice cream. But personally, I’m thinking daiquiris with every type of fruit possible!
I like mango and strawberries. I add some milk or yogurt, ice, sometimes a banana, probiotic, chia seeds. Maybe a side of worms. Just kidding about the worms. Also, be careful with the mango because you might be peeling it with the vegetable peeler of death and it might take a chunk off of your finger and then you might have to go to the doctor. And then you might have to wear a plastic bag over it or wash your hair with one hand. Not that I have any experience with that part or anything. 😉
Who doesn’t want a sexy blender?!!?
My daughter has discovered my blender. No good can come of this. I just hope she always puts edible stuff in it.
I love making fruit smoothies, malts, and frappe drinks with my blender, but I’d love it more with a Vitamix! Seen those babies in action, WOW.
I just bought a new blender so my kids can make smoothies. Picked only because it’s red and looks sexy in my kitchen. I have a feeling it’s going to be a loser.
Oooh. My kids would love some creative milkshakes. Chocolate peanut butter banana? Yum!
I’m in the UK, but could I enter the giveaway and share the love with a friend in the states? She in Sommerville, Boston and also has a jerk for a blender.
I want to win! Love your site!
blending is awesome and would be great with a Vitamix!
I would blend up a kale and fruit smoothie. I have heard those are awesome. 🙂
yeah — not so much unless you only use a little bit of kale.
True dat. Kale is lovely, and it doesn’t take much. I like mulberries in our smoothies.
I want to blend ALL THE FRUITS!
I’ve been dreaming about a Vitamix forever!!! Strawberries, bananas and pineapple would be my mix of choice. I’d probably throw some spinach in there to make me feel good about myself.
Random computer pick me….lol
Me too please! I have to make baby food for my baby! And my blender has about given up the ghost…
This blog makes me feel so much better about my parenting! Also, I have 5 kids and even the stupid Cuisinart blender sucks!
I recently had to buy a new blender too because mine was a loser also. I make my own applesauce for my toddlers and they loved puréed avocado with banana.
I about died reading you call your blender a jerk! Haha 🙂 loved this post and as always your drawings 🙂
Ohhh I’d love one. And I love the drawing of Jerky Blender. 😉
I am pretty sure my blender is your old blender’s cousin.
We fight with our blender constantly too! lol Loved your blog, as always.
My blender sucks!
Ooooh I have had the same problem! I even had a magic bullet I finally had to throw away.
I love my Ninja but I would divorce him in a hot second for even a fling with a Vitamix!!
The possibilities are endless with this thing. Ice cream, salsa, smoothies, SOUP!!! Yes. This thing makes a MEAN baked potato soup.
I have a Ninja. It actually blends things pretty well but it doesn’t do it quietly like a real ninja would. It terms of volume, it should probably be called “A Five Year Old”. If I add ice to it, it should be called a “Five Year Old Girl Who Has Just Been Told She’s Going to Disney World For Her Birthday”. It also doesn’t make soup or ice cream like a Vitamix can. Anyway, if I had a Vitamix, I would blend up lots of different frozen fruits with a little coconut milk and protein powder and maybe sneak a little fresh spinach or kale in there, too. Thanks for sharing your bounty with your readers!
I’ve always wondered if THOSE blenders were worth it. I can’t bring myself to shell out the $, so I really hope I win yours so I can find out for myself. =)
I’d try my hand at pina coladas… the unhealthy kind!
I hate my blender too. I even bought a name-brand, supposed-to-be-super-cool one in an effort to “upgrade”, and hated it too. I hear such amazing things about the Vitamix, but, like you, the price tag has always been too steep for me. Winning one would be super-awesome! (and might help hubby forgive me for the *other* one I bought)
Okay I am posting about this blender because I want one so bad! Not because I am fat and need to lose weight but because my ultra successful best friend has one and she makes margaritas in it EVERY TIME we come to visit. All I have is one of those embarrassing cheap ones. Ugh. Plus I am so cheap I even buy the Military Special brand of rum. Sad. A Vitamix blender would make me so cool….I just know it!
Lol…I am just kidding. I am not actually THAT embarrassed of my cheap blender but she always has the cool gadgets.
i’d blend anything cold & with coffee.
clearly i need a vitamix. my daughter has begun demanding lime slushies, which involves crushing ice. my loser blender does not approve. help. i like blending berry smoothies myself.. just berries and apple juice. or berries and ice cream.
Love your blog. Have been wanting a blender that works for years. Winning this would be awesome.
I’d make raw desserts
We have an asshole blender that we attempt to make daily breakfast smoothies in. For mango type citrus smoothies ( don’t correct me, I’m on a roll) we always add carrots to the mix. If we are berry based, we add spinach. I just want to make sorbet! Enjoy your vitamix!
Wondering how long until Crappy Baby tests out the Vitamix on his Lego pieces.
ah-freakin-mazing.
I would blend anything and everything, especially fruits for popsicles this summer! I so need a blender!
Just think of the Margarita possibilities!
Your blog makes me LOL :). I’ll read a new post and crack up, and my 1-year old just stares at me.
Yum! I love smoothies.
I’d be making hummus like a mad woman.. love that stuff with veggies!!
Love your blog and Vitamix!
Yeah I would make some adult beverages with my blender…. and probably some smoothies… maybe.
Our kids are all about the smoothies, so we do our best with our blender! A bunch of my friends sweat by their vitamixes, but it’s just not in our budget. 🙂 Happy blending!
PS We all loved your mother’s day post. I got one of the four — a good nap!
Whoops, that was supposed to say “swear”…I’d rather not see them sweat by their blenders.
I’d blend away any fruit or fruit and yogurt combo with several cups of leafy greens hidden in there. Margarittas for me and the Mr in the evening! I never get slushy drinks because my loser blender refuses to do ice. Or even frozen berries. Or anything that I haven’t already diced to bits. Basically, my blender just collects dust.
I’d blend up smoothies. The kind with spinach and fruit.
Or soups. I love me some soup.
Or ice cream. Love me some ice cream, too.
I would blend every fruit I had! Haha! Orange pineapple strawberry! Yummy. Those blenders are amazing! I saw one the other day at a Costco demonstration and it was THE blender of all blenders! I have 8 kids. I would use the crap outta it! LOL!
I am now obsessed with the soup idea.
I’ve been wanting one of these for awhile, and last week we stood at the demo counter at Costco for like 40 minutes sampling everything. I’m mostly excited about the fruit and veggie ice creams (banana + everything!) and the soups.
I would blend vanila greek yogurt, strawberries, bananas and I guess some veggies (but only because I feel obligated).
I am in lust with the Vitamix. I need a kitchen Lamborghini.
My blender sucks too. I have to keep a paper towel under it because it leaks. Hopefully I win the new one. 🙂 And your stories are hysterical so please keep them coming!
My blender really sucks. It doesn’t even have a lid so I just hold a plate over it and hope for the best. I would probably make awesome smoothies if I had a blender that worked.
I used to have one of those lazy blenders. Then I got a Kitchenaid immersion blender and haven’t had a regular blender ever since. I tell ya, my old blenders couldn’t even blend a ripe banana. It was ridiculous. I love that you can even make SOUP in a vitamix. I mean like get it hot and everything. How cool is that? I would also make good smooth hummus. Cause vitamixes are awesome like that.
I would certainly make A LOT of smoothies for my 3 boys! I would love to use it for soups (you can hide so much goodness in soup!)
I have a jerk blender too!!! I desperately need to replace it, and of course would love to do so with a Vitamix!!! I have been dreaming of making my own ice cream, sorbet, and frozen yogurt in a blender since I keep seeing recipes for stuff like that all over Pinterest! Did you know you can apparently make Banana ice cream using JUST frozen bananas?!?!?!
I like making blended iced coffee things, along the lines of a Frappucino. The Vitamix crushes ice like nobodies business!
Argh! “NOBODY’S business.” What’s wrong with me??
How lucky are you? I always thought Vitamixes were sexy too…those and those giant KitchenAid stand mixers. I’m in the same boat you were in. I keep buying cute, cheap little blenders that promise so much and never live up to expectations. I would love to finally be able to make a smoothie for all of my kids at once…or guacamole that isn’t just chunks of veggies that look like they’ve been chewed up, lol.
Nice!
OMG Vitamix is totally sexy. It’s the ONLY sexy blender. Ever. So very hot.
I have been having the same issues! I have been trying to be more consistent at making healthy delicious juice/smoothies for my family, but I absolutely DREAD fighting with our worthless blender or my ancient juicer which constantly chokes up on me. With one machine like that, I could donate 2 machines to a more casual user. Oh, how I can dream…
I like avocado and coconut milk and I LOVE your blog.
Pina Colada night every night!
Everything! I’d blend everything! I’d probably even try blending my old crappy blender! 😉
I would blend up some soup! since the viatmix can also heat up food, what an easier dinner that would make 🙂
My toddler would love it if I made smoothies but I too suffer from the “jerk of a blender” situation.
The best mix is apple, lemon, ginger..Then you can add whatever to it, some greens, etc. Thanks for the giveaway!
A part of my blender is broken, and I’m terribly missing my smoothies. I like to mix yogurt with frozen strawberry and banana – simple strawberry banana smoothies are my thing. Though sometimes I like to make Wendy’s style frosties with ice, vanilla ice cream, and chocolate syrup. My husband does weird things like blend ice cream sandwiches with ice and milk…. Green smoothies are yum too!
Would love it! Congrats on the free blender & thanks for Sharing!
Oh my goodness, I would love to win. I have the Ninja, which I consider the poor womans version of the Vitamix. The Ninja is awesome and works very well but I have always wished for a Vitamix…crossing my fingers!
LOVED this post. Love them all…but the pictures on this one are hilarious as is the writing. 🙂
Our only blender is a margarita machine which works alright but is a pain to clean. Smoothies at our house are made using an emulsion blender that does it’s best but frozen peaches are more than it can handle. I suspect that the Vitamix could kick some serious frozen peach butt.
My blender is brown and yellow and from the 80’s….it works if you talk nicely to it…whisper sweet nothings in its ear…
I bought my BFF your book and she LOVED IT. I could totally use a new blender asap!
I would make smoothies for my son and i to share. I might turn mine into a frozen adult beverage 😉
Smoothies, of course, because my children looooove smoothies! And broccoli cheddar soup. My mom has a Vitamix and that has been my favorite so far. YUM. Or pizza soup.
I’d love to blend up some yummy raw soups for this summer!
I would blend some fruit and yogurt. I gave up on regular blenders years ago.
What to blend? What wouldn’t you blend?! Soups, smoothies, cake batter, margaritas, salsa, shave ice for snocones – the possibilities are endless!
Baby food. Boring I know, but necessary!
I Usually Blend Lots Of Fruits… Kiwi, Strawberry, Banana, AndApples With Low Fast
I’ve had similar bad luck with blenders in the past. In fact, I’ve gone to a stick mixer for basically everything. The one thing they can’t handle is ice.
So my suggestion to you for your spiffy blender of awesome is to make the sort of fruity iced drinks that go great with umbrellas!
I would make date milkshakes with it. And other assorted healthier things. I love the crappy blender illustrations!
You never fail to make me laugh.
I would blend up strawberries, blueberries, yogurt, and tofu. Thats right tofu… delish.
I’d be interested in making soups or flours…my friend has one and says they do all kinds of awesome stuff!!
avocados and coconut milk and mango and banana! ooh girl!
Every. Single. Blender I have owned has SUCKED. My current one can’t even make a decent milkshake! When your 5 year old is extremely picky about E-V-E-R-Y-T-H-I-N-G a good milkshake is a must!
I am pretty sure I would make peach, mango smoothies every day if I had a vitamix 🙂 And of course milkshakes for my little men once in awhile too!
Nutella milkshakes! And green shakes to attempt to get some more veggies. And baby food for my little guy.
I have a great smoothie I make- it is a little heavy so it is more like a meal replacement.
1C pineapple- I buy the frozen
1C Kale
1/4 Avocado
1/2 Mango- can buy frozen too
a pinch of cayenne pepper
Coconut water or almond milk
Blender batter pancakes! (We use buckwheat to stay gluten free.)
Mmm, I’d mix advacado smoothies. With wheatgrass shots and blueberries. I’m not kidding.
LOVE IT. SO REAL TO MY LIFE!
I use our crappy blender to make “smoothies” out of vanilla yogurt, baby-food fruit (mango is my son’s favorite), and milk. He loves them. And if it’s the only thing I can get down his throat before school, I don’t feel so bad. I also use it for guacamole.
Ohh! Vitamix blender! And a contest!
I would make my own juice cleanses
Oh the things I would do for a vitamix! I’ve literally wanted one since I was a kid and saw one on a vitamix demonstration!
We make smoothies everyday with our jerk of a blender but I love blending frozen chopped bananas with a blop of peanut butter…. INSTANT ICE CREAM!!!! Note: my blender shuts down when I try to blend frozen bananas….argh!
We so need a blender. We have a very old bullet that needs a new home.
I would blend up some delicious baby purees!
The butt plug comment made me LOL… 😉
Almonds for almond milk. And lots of veggies for green juice.
I NEED a Vitamix! Except…I can’t afford one. So this would be awesome!
I would blend up grains! Love to make my own flour! Soups would def. be at the top too, as well as my own hummus, almond butter, you name it!!
I threw my blender out a long time ago because it didn’t work for sh*t. I keep thinking I should buy a new one so I can make my kids fun things like smoothies but I don’t like to spend money so instead I just talk about it. A lot. Would be cool to win one so I can shut up about it.
My blender is evil, too. I think it laughs at me and plots when I’m not looking
I’d smoothie it up all day long!
My blender is a leaky inefficient jerk. We would be in smoothie (and smooth soup!) heaven with a working blender! A Vitamix would make me swoon. You should make gazpacho!
I’ve never been a big smoothie person but this blender sure would make me stArt!!
I love your post…..i am sure you can appreciate my love of fruit & vodka 🙂
WOW! That’s so awesome! Pick me for the other! I wanna make smoothies too!!!!!!! And my very old kitchen would absolutely be humbled by a schweet Cadillac blender on it’s meager counter space.
Vitamix Blender would be treated like royalty in this house. or on my counter. where ever. I need Vitamix! I want Vitamix. Come to me Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vitamix! Vita – wait is this overkill?
I’ve had a fair share of asshole blenders. I have a Kitchenaid one and it’s….ok. Not love, that’s for sure.
Smoothies for sure, margaritas, slushies (watermelon and lime – OMG!), we have a bullet blender – but it’s tiny. 🙁
I love blending soups. My blender is pretty crappy too, though, and always leaves my soups grainy… Oh, what smooth soup I’d have with a Vitamix!!!
I would blend bananas and mint ice cream. Turns out it is really tasty! Course I like some really odd food.
Got your book! Loved it! I totally know the stinky cow place! Those california cows commercials always puzzled me, till I heard they filmed in New Zealand, then it made sense! lol!
Our favorite fresh juice is apples, carrots and ginger…super tasty!
First off, I LOVE YOUR BLOG!! Makes me laugh out loud and my kids think i’m crazy cuz they have no idea what i’m laughing at.
Second, our favorite smoothie is frozen spinach, kale & strawberries blended with a fresh banana, mango, flax seed and a splash of juice. My boys love it and it’s super healthy!
I hate blenders. Also food processors. Can you fix me??
Please pick me!
We make green smoothies in our blender, I also use it for the sauce and filling for my white green chili chicken enchiladas mmmmm. Man I’d kill for a vitamix!
I have wanted one of these forever!!! So glad you got one (and love the plug comment LOL)
I didn’t know you could do soup in the blender!! Genius!!
My favorite combo is strawberries, blueberries, spinach, honey and coconut milk.
I hate my blender too!!! I blend root bear floats in the summer time! Much less mess for the kids to dig out the ice cream.. Yummy!!
I’d blend paper and water to make papier-mâché (yeah, so I googled for the correct spelling). Maybe I would make my own paper and write a thank you letter to you and vitamix. Ohh, or maybe I would blend my current blender just to show it how a REAL blender does it.
Love your posts – as I’m sure others have said – you’re writing my life!
If you like the Vitamix, then you’ll LOVE the Thermomix – does everything the Vitamix does AND cooks, sautes, steams, weighs as well! It makes the perfect risotto at the same time you’re steaming the perfect chocolate pudding! I’m an addict!!
I would blend up smoothies! My blender is broke so this would be an amazing thing to win!!
My little blender is a peice of crap, I love to make fruit smoothies, everytime I put more then a few slices of a fruit it just stops running. I would love to have this blender and fill it to the brim with every type of fruit and yogurt! YUM!
any fruit (no pineapple … that crap will destroy any smoothie), kefir, spirulina and SPINACH! BLAM!
We are a smoothie loving family so this would be awesome to win!
I sooo want one. I would make nut butters, soups, and our daily smoothies 🙂
If I win this, I will be the happiest person in the entire world.
I make smoothies everyday! I am so ready to dump my crappy blender! : )
I love your blog! Its hilarious!!
Everything! Blend EVERYTHING!!!
I would make my own almond milk – god I’d love to make my own almond milk! My daughter inhales the stuff and my current blender can’t handle almonds to save its crappy little life. In fact, it can barely handle the double crushed ice for our smoothies 🙂
How awesome! Thanks! Enjoy your new blender! I hope I’m just as lucky!
Banana daiquiris, pina coladas, margaritas…oh and maybe a smoothie or two for the kids.
I would blend up strawberries spinach mango kale and yogert
I would love love love a Vitamix to make my baby super healthy baby food and to puree veggies to hide on baked goods for my preschooler who is currently anti veggies lol
OMG I have only dreamed of ones of these…I kill blenders too : /
My wife loves this blog and we would love a vitamix! She doesn’t know I’m entering this contest, so shhh…
I also hear kale is all the rage!
So excited!
V8 makes those tasty fruit and vegetable combo drinks where you can’t taste the veggies. My kids actually like them. You should try something like that and try to hide the veggies from your kids. I have no idea what combinations work, but you should be able to do something with carrots and maybe some strong fruit flavors like strawberry and banana. Maybe. Good luck!
I make my girls smoothies most morning and my magic bullet just isn’t cutting it anymore. Poor thing was smoking a little the other day :(. I would LOVE to win the vitamix!!
We love smoothies here, but I’m also in the middle of baby food purees so being able to blend up the veggies without chunks big enough to choke the cute baby would be awesome!
I swear, my blender screams at me everytime I use it! I really, really, could use a new blender! I would make hot sauce! I could go back to sneaking veggies into the kids foods!, and who doesn’t love smoothies!
Maybe homemade ice cream? Could I do that?
I’d blend up smoothies for my kids. Try to sneak a little more veggies into their diets. 😉
I am saving money for a vitamix so it would be even more awesome if I could win one. I would make kale smoothies for my kiddos. Thanks!
I probably would mix up anything and everything that wasn’t that healthy for me….chocolate sounds yummy. Although, I do like oranges and pineapple and perhaps there is some tasteless, invisible-to-the-naked-eye-good-for-you vegetable that I could throw in there as well. 🙂
I addition to all kinds of yummy smoothies, I would make tomato soup!
Clearly adding rum to anything you blend makes a difference!
You are so awesome to share your good fortune with us!
I would blend really yummy fruits like pineapple and cocoanut, and then throw in some rum. Or maybe some tomatoes and celery and, why not, some vodka! (Are those the ingredients of a Bloody Mary, I’m really not sure but I think I remembered the most important ingredient!)
I would love to dump my jerk of a blender for 2 reasons. The first, because he’s a jerk. The second because then my husband would get off my ass about buying him a Vitamix. That’s all he ever talks about and I’m sick of hearing about it. Then I would blend everything that I have in my fruit drawer in the fridge! I’m not good with coming up with food ideas, my husband is the cook so I would only think of dumb things like bananas and he would have to suggest putting strawberries with them!
I love making smoothies! I stuff spinach, carrot juice, Greek yogurt, OJ, frozen berries, bananas and avocado in them, so if the kids and I only eat crap the rest of the day, I can rest assured I at least started off with some good stuff.
I would blend up blueberries. Lots, and lots of blueberries. Blueberry smoothies are the only thing I wanted to eat when I was pregnant, and now my son looooves them. Hey, it could be way worse!
coconut yogurt, frozen bananas, almond butter, cinnamon, vanilla…then a few mini chocolate chips on top! (Frozen cherries are good too instead of the banana)
I love my VitaMix…I blend everything, but my families favorite is a “chocolate” milkshake, contains milk of choice, rice protein powder, cocoa powder, frozen banana, handful of almonds, chia seeds, and ice! Enjoy…
I would make margaritas with it, screw this healthy crap!
I love making smoothies. You could throw in almonds, berries, a frozen banana and spinach, with enough water to blend. Yum!
I grew up with the original Vitamix. We called it the airplane engine. I would make a tomato soup in it!
I’d make green smoothies for my 2 year old!
I love my vitamix, I use it at least twice a day!!!!!
TOTALLY WORTH IT!!!
Love your life – can totally relate to your life!! Even if I don’t win, I think it’s very cool of you to give away what you could have easily sold. I too lust after the Vitamix as do so many people. Maybe someday! Until then, I look forward to hearing more about your adventures in mixing
Green smoothies!! It’s almost impossible to make a nice smoothie in my current blender…esp since, oh yeah, my husband just dropped it on the floor and shattered it into a million pieces! lol.
I love green smoothies. Use any fruit you like and add spinach, or kale, romaine and a little water. It will look gross, but tastes great.
I have been wanting to buy a mixer (currently my blender is just a margarita maker), but I wanted to wait till I had the money saved for a Vitamix 🙂
The Vitamix is awesome! My favorite is blending up frozen berries, spinach, cinnamon, coconut milk and coconut butter. Yum!
A vitamix would be amazing! So exciting that you can make easy smoothies now 🙂
So awesome! I’m jealous of your dual blender windfall, and what a great idea to give one away. 🙂
I work at a health food store that I generally can’t afford to shop at, but all of these health-conscious customers come in telling me that they make fresh nut butters and even their own flours in their Vitamixes. I desperately want to make my own wheat-free flours because it’s expensive to buy them and my 7 month old is allergic to wheat.
Oh yes, I have big plans indeed!! I would do salsas and smoothies and protein shakes galore!!! Pick me!!
let’s go rafflecopter! pick me pick me!
I like to make fruit leather so I would blend up fruit of any kind, including dates to make it sweet, and dry it in the oven.
I SO need this !!! I have no fancy sexy kitchen things. Plus I’m a vegetarian and i totally answered I’d rather eat worms. Also i loved cloth diapering my wee one. BG’s were my favorite !!
Thanks for being so darn cool & sharing !
I’ve been lusting after the Vitamix blender after seeing the demos at Costco… We have a KitchenAid that has been going strong for 5-years (crushes ice at any speed) so it’s a bit more difficult to break-up with it. *sigh*
I would make a mean green smoothie! 😀
Posting a comment so I can earn 3 entries… go Vitamix!
My BFF has been wanting one of these forever. My blender is in working order and does the job, so I’d love to be able to give her one of these!
In addition to all kinds of yummy smoothies, I would make tomato soup!
Homemade orange julius
I so know what you mean – I have purchased several blenders and even that so called “Magic” thing – but I can’t bring myself to spend that much money on one blender – I dream of a perfect Margarita without the big chunks or even a protein smoothie that doesn’t have a whole strawberry stuck at the bottom! 😉 PS I so love your stories!!
I hope you get a hot tub….I’ve always wanted one!! I understand your love for your blender….I am having a love affair with my new Breville juicer
I have never owned a blender but now I know just to go all in and not waste my money on a lazy blender lol thanks!!
Our blender died when my husband (being the sweet man that he is) put the little rubber ring in the dishwasher, they came out a different shape and size. Now we are blenderless!
Besides that I love your site and your humor, I often tell said husband crappy stories at night.
I LOVE making peanut butter-banana-plain yogurt smoothies. I ask my son if he wants one as a “treat” just so I have an excuse to make them 🙂
I have been saving up for a Vitamix forever!!
I also suffer from using a loser blender. I want a sexy new one! Please! 🙂
Holy cow, that is a sexy blender. My mother has a pretty amazing Breville blender that does wonderful things with pesto, but this looks crazy. I would make allll the blended items. Smoothies. Soups. An entire basil bush-worth of pesto to stuff in the freezer. Wow.
Almonds for almond milk.
I could SO go for a green smoothie! Kale with pineapple. Maybe add some banana and mango. I have an original Ninja. It’s not sexy at all and it’s ninja skills are not all that impressive.
I’ve discovered green smoothies in the morning. It’s like a free veggie serving (plus lots of sweet fruit). I’ve even gotten my 5 year old to drink some if he dresses up like a frog and pretends it’s swamp juice. 🙂
OhMyHeck! I Have THREE blenders And None Of Them Work Worth BEans. I Would Be Whipping Up An Orange Julius Like Five Time A Day. Ooooh, And Salsa. LoTs Of Salsa. mmmmmmmmmm
Hummus!
1-2 garlic cloves
2 cans of garbanzo beans
1 tsp tahini
lemon juice to taste
salt to taste
evoo until you have reached the right consistency!
I would make lots of varieties of pesto like sauces- basil, arugula, spinach, kale, etc. So I could then put it on noodles of any sort and trick my two year old into eating dark green veggies 🙂
My current blender is the same one I’ve had since i was a kid, so its about 25plus years old. With a new one I would make Chocolate Peanut butter Milkshakes for my son, my Mom and me, Banana Nutella Milkshakes, Strawberry banana smoothies. Mango Strawberry Banana Smoothies, and i would finally try the whole odd smoothie juice thing that my friends all Rave about.
So cool. I make smoothies and wonder at how my kids always want some, even though they have spinach and this weird green powder in them. I would do that more.
I won my blender at Dave & Buster’s, along with a crock pot. They both suck.
You know children NEVER finish their yogurts? Blend those with frozen fruit. yum.
LOVE your blog and would LOVE a blender too!
We LOVE smoothies, but our blender sux too! I would so use it to make those yummy sunbutter smoothies with banana and coconut oil and Greek Yourt or Coconut milk throw in some ice…BAM! one awesome smoothie! AKA: milkshake for the 4yr old!
Love your blog. And would love to have a Vitamix. Our current blender hates us.
I thought I was the only one who shakes her blender… again you have made me realize all us moms are doing the same crazy things.
I have been dreaming of owning a Vitamix for SO. LONG. I would blend my nasty protein drinks that never get blended quite enough so there are always big chunks of ice and little pockets of protein powder that surprise me with their
awesometexture and flavor when they explode in my mouth.Oh and smoothies for my four year old. Because I love him and stuff.
We actually make “Starbucks” drinks from a blender. Vanilla bean ice cream with a few scoops of instant coffee…add caramel or chocolate. BAM! *drools*
I would make tons of green smoothies. You take 1/2 apple, 1 orange, 1/2 lemon, 1 banana, 2 huge cups of raw spinach, some ginger, and 2 cups of water. Blend it all together for a HUGE very drinkable green smoothie! My blender takes forever to get it smooth, so I’m sure a Vitamix would make it easier!
… and just when I thought I couldn’t love this blog any more. I get asked by my kids daily “What are you doing?”. Mommy is cursing at the blender, because I’m expecting my $25 blender to do things a $25 blender just. won’t. do. We’ve started on the Dr. Fuhrman program.. (Eat to Live books and such) and EVERYthing is blended. Everything. Soups (you’d be amazed the veggies you can make taste amazing with no salt, no sugar just by pureeing them), desserts (avocado chocolate pudding anyone?), blended salads (basically a smoothie with less fruit and more greens). Every meal involves moving some sort of pureed produce from the food processor, to the $25 blender, then to the little bullet style blender… just to get it ‘sorta’ smooth. I want a vitamix SOOOOOO bad!!! I’m talking that baby would save me hours in the kitchen a day. This eating healthy stuff is hard when you don’t have the right kitchen gear! Fingers, toes, everything crossed… I would sooooo love that baby like one of my own.. 😉 <3
I love vitamix! could really use some smoothies myself this summer too…hint hint…hey Vitamix, if I don’t win wanna send me one anyway? lol.
yay for non crappy giveaways!
Now I’m hungry…. 🙂
Definitely smoothies! I would have loved this for baby food! I tried to make baby food in a smoothie maker for my son (now 15 months) and it was a very exhausting/frustrating experience!!!
I blend Greek yogurt, bananas, strawberries, a little vanilla extract and a few ice cubes. Little one loves it!
Well, I made a comment, but now I don’t see it – so I’m going to comment again b/c I don’t want to have entered without leaving a comment! Either way, carrot & orange is delish, and I have a lazy blender and TWO good for nothing juicers. : /
I wasn’t going to leave a post and then someone mentioned that you could blend and heat up soup with this thing. I need to blend and heat up soup all in one appliance. That is so cool.
Wow soup? I wouldn’t have guessed!
I love to do a vanilla protein powder with strawberry and banana or pineapple, strawberry, and coconut. Throw in some spinach too (can’t taste it, but oh so good for you)
Mermaid Sweat: apple, cucumber, greens, lemon, ginger!
Smoothies are awesome, I have one every day
Woo hoo!! You’re fabulous! Same thing in our kitchen. If I won this- bonus- wouldn’t have to pull kale out of my teeth all day!! Lucky for everyone else too. It’s a win, win!!
I feel like every blender I’ve ever owned has crapped out sooner than later when you try to use it to actually blend things. Sure, it works great if everything is already nearly in a liquid state from the start. I love smoothies for lunch as an alternative to salads so you can still get all your greens & fruits but I have to do the wiggle & shake with my blender to get the finished product. It ends up taking way longer than it should to make a smoothie. Favorite combo – spinach + almond milk + vanilla protein powder + frozen strawberries + frozen peaches.
I too have a jerk blender. I always buy stuff to make strawberry and banana smoothies for breakfast, thinking, next time it will go better. It never does. *tear*
Those things are magical!
My kids are obsessed with smoothies and I’m obsessed with trying new blenders (they all have sucked) I usually do ice, almond milk, Greek yogurt, banana, frozen berries, and spinach or kale. And sometimes flaxseed. I’d love a vitamix!
I’ll be totally honest & say I’d use the badass blender to make margaritas. The kids would get one smoothie, which they wouldn’t drink, so I’d get points for trying. The rest of the time- margaritas for mommy & daddy!
I would make an avacado raspberry smoothie recipe the way I’m supposed to make it, instead of the pretend way I make it in my food processor. The blender stays put in the cupboard. Using the food processor works much better, until I look at the sink full of 50 thousand pieces that need to be washed. I have to avoid ice cubes, which means I have to plan a day ahead for smoothies by ensuring my avacados are frozen as well as the raspberries (which I buy frozen.) But this is what I would make first.
I would blend everything and anything. I’d make salsa, and smoothies. I’d make spaghetti sauce. I’d make glorious food love.
I’d blend up some frozen bananas and make “banana ice cream.” Yummmm. But, my current blender is a wimp.
Banana ice cream is the food which banned my blender to the cupboard for good, and turned my food processor into a smoothie/ice cream maker. You still have to add a little milk though, which sucks for consistency.
I’ve never had a goob blender… I’d be making mango lassi, ice cream, frostings, and of course…SMOOTHIES!
Love your blog! Mostly I blend up veggies and fruits in whatever combination promises my kids will eat them!
We bought a vitamix for “juicing” but ended up taking it back to get a real juicer. But I miss my blender so much!! I want it back!! Not to mention, did you know you can make butter in a blender? Yeah!
I love your blog! I tell everyone to read it! I hear that you can blend spinach with fruit and you can’t even taste it!!!How can that be true?! I think I would have to try that!
Plain Greek yogurt, banana, various other fruits, spinach or kale, and some almond milk. And flax. Yummmm!
I love to blend but hate my blender 🙁 All three of my kids love smoothies but they take *forever* to make. I would also love this blender to make different veggie mush to hide in meals 😉
Blueberries. I would blend blueberries, and more blueberries. That’s all I craved when I was pregnant, and now my son looves them!
I, too, dream of a blender that doesn’t suck.
I would die for a vitamix 🙂 Love your blog and I just finished your book.
I love your blog. I never post. But for a Vitamix?? Hells, yes.
*Squeal!* OMG I would LOVE a sexy blender for smoothies- all 3 of ours suck! 😀
I would make a smoothie for my son and a frozen adult beverage for myself. And i would call it mommy’s special smoothie;)
I would blend fruit smoothies, sneaking in some vegetables to get a few down my picky eater and to use up odds and ends in the refrigerator.
I have wanted a Vitamix forever!! Like most of us! Lol the Vitamix is great for smoothies, but you can also use it to grind coffee beans, flax seeds, chia, soups, etc.. I would be the blend master for sure
Ooo I could blend a lot of healthy smoothies with that which is something I need to start doing anyway. I really would make HEALTHY smoothies and not mega chocolate milk shakes with chocolate chips in them.
I cannot tell you how many blenders my hubby has gone through making shakes (he’s a triathlete and a weight loss surgery patient so he makes protein shakes all the time) in the past two years alone! We have gotten to the point that we just buy the cheap $15 blender from Target, that way when it dies we didn’t lose too much money because of it!
Your blog is great! I would use a new Vitamix to make banana “ice cream”–frozen bananas with a little liquid (milk, almond milk, whatever), and some nuts. Mine always poops out when I try to make it. Thank you for making me laugh!
<3 your blog!
I love your blog and would love to win!
We make green smoothies every morning. My kids can’t wake up without a green smoothie waiting for them!
I’d make soup, soup, and more soup. This is the only way to get veggies into my kid. Then I’d make more soup, and probably more soup after that. Hmmm, hope it arrives with a recipe booklet for other options.
Making baby food in a crappy blender is not fun…
I’d make all sorts of smoothies. My blender is crappy and I’ve been using an hand blender to make individual smoothies, but that gets tiring if I’m making a batch for the family.
I would blend veggies to hide from the family in our foods 🙂
My blender sucks too!!!
This morning I made a smoothie with Sweet Potato (cooked it was leftovers from last night), cinnamon, apple sauce, almond milk and oats. It was very good and filling 🙂
I would blend up a delicious vitamin packed smoothie for the kids!
Just curious…did your “Carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, celery, spinach and beets” taste good? Or were your intentions not to create something tasty, but just to see magic happen before your eyes?
I’ve been wanting one of these to blend dates and nuts for homemade Lara bar recipes. Look into them! Cashews, dates and chocolate chips = nom nom nom
Every other morning I make my kids a smoothie with a banana, low-fat yogurt and some kind of frozen fruit. I would love to step it up a notch!
The idea of my kids eating their veggies in a smoothie almost makes me swoon!!
I have been thinking of a Vitamix for awhile. My problem, though, is that my current blender sorta works … so hubs doesn’t want to spend $$ on a new one, yet! 🙁
My blender is still technically working, but it smells like burnt rubber when I use it and my smoothies taste slightly off. The vitamix sounds awesome!
We have the same problems. In the 5 years I have had kids we have gone through maybe three blenders. They never seem to work well!
I LOVE your blog! My mother-in-law has one of these and they truly are amazing. I would love to use it to make baby food (i know, how boring, sorry) and smoothies for my ridiculously picky toddler.
My kids love smoothies too, and I’m forever mixing up “proprietary blends” of veggies to sneak on my ultra picky two year old. That way if he won’t eat the veggie in front of him, he’ll get some mixed in his meat balls, or spaghetti sauce or whatever else I manage to sneak it into. Since I too have a lazy blender it takes FOREVER!
Mostly fruit and yogurt smoothies for us.
I blew up my Magic Bullet Blender trying to crush ice!!!
Um, forget healthy smoothies I’d blend myself a damn MILKSHAKE!! My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard …
Adjusting to a new allergy free lifestyle is tough. Even more so when you learn how much you need a blender to make most of these things. And mine is a real a-hole. I need to win this. For real.
I love the personification of the blender! I know exactly what you mean about shaking the dumb blender to make it keep working…mine decides the blades can’t go through anything if I’m not shaking it awake!
Vitamixes are like the Dysons of the kitchen. You know you want one, but admitting it makes you feel kind of lame, like perhaps you need a hobby…
I would make so much soup and dip that I would turn my house into a restaurant specializing in first courses.
I love your blog and am on a new healthy eating kick. My blender is also a jerk. I would make lots and lots of healthy smoothies. Pick me rafflecopter!
I would SO blend up some watercress, onion, potato, milk, vegetable stock and seasonings to make some YUMMY watercress soup (my specialty). My blender is “okay” but the last time I tried to make my watercress soup it left chunks and pieces of not-so-blended watercress… *sad face*
Amber, you’re the best. I usually make strawberry banana orange yogurt smoothies for my boys, but I’ve been known to sneak some kale, spinach and other veg in there. Pinterest is busting with smoothie ideas. You and your sexy new friend should check it out.
I love your blog, and I’d love to win a vitamix!
OMG I killed my daughter’s blender trying to make my own laundry detergent! Now I’ve got a freezer FULL of cut up bananas, berries, mangos, etc that will never be smoothified because dammit I am a blender murderer and need a quality, sexy blender to keep up with my freaky blending habits!! and I’m broke 🙂
I am sooo envious. Those things are amazing. I don’t have a blender because my experience with them has been aweful, but I really would like to have one.
Love your blogs but this one about the blenders is too funny. I love green smoothies so that would be the combos I would use in the Vitamix if I were to win it. Right now my one of my favorites is: 2 cups spinach, fresh,1 1/2 cups almond milk, unsweetened, 1/2 cup water, 3 cups pineapple, fresh,2 tablespoons coconut flakes, unsweetened. The only thing missing is the beach to drink it on!!
Ooh! I think Vitamixes are sexy too! I would put EVERYTHING in one…fruit, veggies, nuts…I heard you can even make ice cream!!!!
I would totes make a piña colada WITH an umbrella straw!
I would love to make some green smoothie with it!
I would love this. My kids love smoothies too! (and my sisters!) I had all the ingredients for them last month and went to make them, but couldn’t find a blender anywhere! My mother supposedly has two, but that means PIECES two two different machines that don’t fit together. I had to borrow a bullet from my father in law, which was nice but not good AT ALL size wise. They came out incredibly thick and weird! hahaha
My 21 mo old looooooves smoothies. He can’t talk much yet…but everyday he pulls me by the hand to the kitchen, points to the blender on the counter crying “mee mee” until I make him one.
I blend up trees and shrubs for some real roughage. Ok no I don’t but I bet the Vitamix could if I wanted it to.
I also have a blender that I have to coax and persuade to work. I’m not sure why I keep it. I also have a Vitamix that is some older version and that I also got for free so if I win THIS one I will give away my current one! Feel the ripple effect of Vitamix love!
I like to blend fruits up to make fruit roll ups with out all the crap preservative whatever else in them. Like 3 apples, and a small handful of strawberries, squeeze of lemon or like, the end.
Wellllll.. I’ve never won a single thing in my life, but I figure it’s worth a shot!! I’m trying to lose some weight, so I’ve started drinking a lot of shakes. My son loves them too! My blender is awful, and I’ve been eyeing the vitamix for about a year now, lol. So here’s my comment. 🙂 Thanks for all the funny stories.
I love smoothies too! My favorite way to use a blender is to make milk shakes. 🙂
My family would love this! My son loves smoothies but I rarely make them because I have a crappy hand held blender. I am to cheap to buy a bigger blender because I know it will just crap out on us in a few months…A Vitamix would be perfect! 🙂
I like making soups in the winter with my current crappy blender. Pumpkin and soup and a bean soup have both been winners so far. Not to mention split pea.
Oh, I want the blender. Please, please, I want the blender. And here’s what I’ll blend in it. If you don’t know Thug Kitchen yet, you totally should.
My coworkers (mostly young men) are all into juice diets. You have no idea the street cred I’d get from this!
I think we’ve been through a blender a year in the 12 years we’ve been married. In the early years, we tried to make frozen alcoholic concoctions….and then we discovered wine….soooo much easier!!! Now, I use mine to make baby food and crepes….and milkshakes and smoothies!
I want a sexy blender! We have buckets of frozen berries in our fridge just waiting to be blended.
We drink our veggies here! My favorite is an apple pie smoothie with soy milk, fresh ginger, apple, avocado and spinach. Add cinnamon and vanilla for flavor!
i want a vitamix!! that would be awesome!
Love your blog and book! I would blend up lots of fruity adult drinks 😉
Your blog is the best! I read it every time it pops up with a new post! I also secretly adore the traffic I get on my own sad little blog from posting here!
I would totally try to replicate all of the Jamba Juice smoothies if I had a blender!
I waaaaaant one! Chocolate shakes are my favorite thing to blend up, so that would probably be the first thing I’d try!
Whatever fruit I have around and I try to sneak some veggies in there to hide it from the kiddos. I love reading everything you write! 🙂
I need to win this!!! My nutriblast is dying a slow very loud death.
Also, I love your blog, hilarious, always makes me smile.
The hardest I have laughed in DAYS!!! Sexy Butt Plug Blender… wha? He even had a sexy strong dude voice and a grunted when he crushed those veggies for you… oh the powerful mind!!
I’ve never commented on here, but I’ve been an avid reader for awhile now, absolutely adored your book. I’ve got quite the Mommy crush on you (in the least creepy way possible!) and totes would be your best friend 😉
Huh, here I was thinking I just bought crappy blenders all the time.
My blender is a jerk…It doesn’t even want to blend the spinach I put in my strawberry banana smoothies even after “liquifying” it for 5 minutes. Whips up homemade mayo nicely though.
I would blend up frozen margaritas and stuff to put in Zoku pops!
Mmmmm…. Kiwi (with the peel on, I’ve heard it’s great for you, but yuck if not blended!), and LOTS of mint, apple and kale. Yummm!
Everything. I would blend EVERYTHING if I had a vitamix blender.
So you’re telling me a new blender won’t solve my smoothie issues? Unless it’s a Vitamix? well, then sign me up!
I have an ice shaver – which works fairly well – and two blenders, which do not. I bought the first one in college and the main criteria was price, so I couldn’t expect too much. The second belnder was rated a Best Buy by Consumer Reports and I ordered it online and paid shipping. Still not happy. Would love a Vitamix!
So excited! I have always wanted a Vitamix…you are right-they are the luxury cars of the kitchen. I would blend anything I could get my hands on! I also have a totally crappy blender!
My blender is cool because its orange and matches my kitchen, but if I had a Vitamix, I’m pretty sure it would make me it’s bitch. I would so blend stuff every day. Positive.
I was wondering why our blenders just give up. We’ve been through a Magic Bullet, and an Oster blender with the glass container. They just quit working, after a month or so of 1 smoothie per work day. SO not worth it!
I would go nuts for one of these 🙂 Smoothies are my favorite!! And I hate the chains that like to take my $12 for 16oz of greatness that I could have made myself.
Ah, the Vitamix…who doesn’t covet this thing?!? Glad you’re having fun with yours! Hope I win!!!!
Love your blog!! Have wanted a Vitamix forever, but just can’t afford (or justify) the price!!
So… I would probably only blend milkshakes, because that’s really what a blender is for, but my husband would use it to make uber-healthy spinach banana peanut butter smoothies or something like that. And even though it doesn’t have Jack LaLanne’s signature on it, he would be in seventh heaven if we won this. Talk about best Father’s Day gift ever!!!!
LOVE your stories. Having three ‘crappy’ children of my own, I can totally relate to them. My kids also love when I make smoothies! Super simple, too: any flavor yogurt and 1-3 different fresh fruits or berries:-). We don’t even add ice.
I would blend ALL THE THINGS with this blender. Seriously, I love smoothies, but my blender is a lazy jerk too. I love making Mango Banana smoothies, and Strawberry Banana. Berry blend Banana, Strawberry Mango, etc. I don’t put ice in my blender, but use frozen fruit, which sucks more. Vanilla yogurt, frozen fruit, and fresh fruit. Yummy smoothies of awesomeness! Also, I have seen recipes for kale and fruit smoothies but I’m a little squeamish on the idea…
My favorite thing to blend is the Classic Green Monster from OhSheGlows.com!! Almond milk, frozen banana, almond butter, spinach, chia seeds, ice & occasionally protein powder 🙂 Delicious!
I love your blog!
For the record, I would make something alcoholic with the Vitamix. Maybe a daiquiri? Margarita? Summer is coming!
Ahhhh! I have a blender from Goodwill because mine died and our budget was Goodwill-level. It can’t blend pre-blended things. I would sooooo love this.
My family loves blended juices (or smoothies, but my husband likes to call it juice for some reason, so we comprimized and call the BLENDED juices, because they are really not juice.) We put all kinds of fruit and milk, ice cream or yogurt, or all three… Sometimes we put chocolate chips or peanut butter. I made a peanut butter banana smoothie with ice cream once, and it was sooo good! Also, I make my own refried beans and blend them in the blender since we don’t have a food processor.
I have an ice shaver – which works fairly well – and two blenders, which do not. I bought the first one in college and the main criteria was price, so I couldn’t expect too much. The second blender was rated a Best Buy by Consumer Reports and I ordered it online and paid shipping. Still not happy. Would love a Vitamix!
Why, MARGARITAS, of course. 😉
I would blend apples and lemons. My friend would make apple lemonade in hers and it was delicious
OMG I know the feeling! Your stories are hilarious! I follow you on FB and read your blog… the only blog I ever read!
I would blend cookie dough just because I could.
My blender sucks too. I have to pre-crush the ice before I put it in 🙁 but I like to put spinach and flax seed in my fruit smoothies. You can’t even taste it ! 🙂
I would make smoothies for the kids. Throw in a bunch of veggies and they will never know what they were eating:)
Kale, strawberries, carrots and apple. Yum.
Not only would this totally change my smoothie game, but the satisfaction of throwing out my old jerk of a blender would just make my year.
I’d make milkshakes. For sure. Chocolate banana ones.
Yes please.
Your blog is hilarious! And my blender is a terrible as your old one! I would love a Vitamix!
My @sshole blender committed suicide when it **mysteriously** fell over into my sink. I have a freezer full of frozen bananas awaiting a non-jerky blender! And if you can get frozen mango, it’s the ultimate treat in just about any smoothie. Enjoy your sexy blender!
Long time reader, first time commenter! Love your work 🙂
WOW! Thanks for the funny reality of bad blenders!!!
I found your blog recently and am a big fan. Thing 1 and Thing 2 (my 6&4 yr old) are definitely on the crappy siblings wavelength. I posted the Mother’s Day wish list on my FB and pointed it out to my husband and….got it all! Happy Vitamixing!
Every time I see one I drool. Especially when they do the demos and within 5 minutes they have made soup, ice cream, smoothie, and have cleaned the whole thing!
I love my VitaMix. Our favorite is a chocolate “milkshake” with frozen banana and unsweetened cocoa powder, chia seeds, sneak in the spinach, milk of choice, ice, and a handful of almonds…enjoy!
You make me feel like a normal parent whenever I get down on myself. You rock!
Best thing to blend? Chocolate ice cream and a little bit of milk. Milkshakes are the best. Pretty good if you have chocolate milk on hand, too!
That is soooooo awesome! ….. and so unselfish of you, Crappy Mama! Wish I win this giveaway! Crappy Mama and Vitamix rock!
Love your blog!
I have a magic bullet. Not the vibrator, the miniature blender. It does alright, but has nothing on the sexiness of the Vitamix. Even with a name like “Magic Bullet” it’s not as hot. Upgrade me from the sex-toy sounding blender to the REAL DEAL! Please? 😉
I’d blend up some milkshakes, some iced drinks (boozy and nonboozy) for this summer. If I could shred cheese with the thing I would.
I threw my sucky ass blender away, after I blenderslammed it a few times in the yard. I’m blenderless, need Vitamix!
I’m pretty sure I would pretend to make things that are healthy but really make frappes all the time.
I would blend yogurt (generally vanilla) and all kinds of fruits. Also: Vanilla yogurt + chocolate + crunchy peanut butter = IN MY MOUF.
My go to smoothie is banana, peanut butter, almond milk and spinach. You can not taste the spinach at all but it does make the smoothie green. My 2 yr old doesn’t care about the color….yet lol! Oh and I am so super jealous you got a vitamix…if I win, I promise to make the world a smoothier place 😉
One of my favorite dahl recipes came from Vitamix. Thanks for sharing the wealth.
I just started being a healthy product consultant, and I would love this vitamax to make healthy food for my family too! I hope I win!! thanks!!!
I would make lots of green smoothies (you really can’t taste the spinach in them when there’s lots of fruit! – no, really!) Also you can whip up mayonnaise or aoli pretty easily too, and blend soups. I have blender envy!
Most blenders can’t handle making hummus. You should try to make it with this one!
My green smoothies! my blender sucks also and always leaves vegetable chunks in my green smoothies. gag. :/
Very familiar story!
My kids love a blend of ice, chocolate milk, and banana!
I’d be all about the green smoothies. Hubby needs to lose weight, and soon as this baby is here, I’ll be starting, too!
I would totally blend up veggies in smoothies ninja style to give to my kids!
Your blog is hilarious! And my blender is as terrible as your old one! I would love a Vitamix!
I was an idiot recently and left my food processor lid on the stove. I turned on the wrong burner (new stove and the nobs are backward to my old stove) and melted my lid. 🙁 This blender would make it all better. 😉 I love to blueberries and spinach in everything.
Salsa! Hummus! Spinach and berry smoothies! Dutch Pancake batter! Ohhhh! The possibilities! 🙂
Boo to only US addresses! I want one! If I helped with the shipping cost, would you send it to me in Canada?! 😀
Your blog keeps me sane and laughing at 2am when my 2yr old thinks its perfectly acceptable to wake up and want to watch cartoons.
p.s. energy smoothies would help so much in those situations!
Why yes, I would love a new blender!
green smoothies. I’ve been wanting to make them for my little guy. He would love them! But alas, no blender.
I’m pretty jealous of your fancy new blender. I also have a lazy blender. My solution to this problem has been to not blend anything for the last 10 years.
I would kill for a vitamix!
Dammit. I live in the Great White North. Well actually it’s green at the moment. But Great Green North sounds stupid. But I WOULD PAY the shipping if I win. Really I would! I looove smoothies..but only from sexy blenders, not asshole ones!
I would blend up some fruits and concoct some yummy ice cream in my ice cream maker. I LOVE sexy kitchen appliances!
This would be awsome!
I So Love Your Blog You Hillarious Take On Everyday Life Makes Me DaY A Little Brighter
I just read about a cheese fondue in one of the comments. *raises hand* Me, please.
Eeee, my mom’s been scouring the internet for used Vitamix’s lately! She’s the biggest juicer/smoothie maker, and because of her diabetes she’s decided she needs the fiber of blended smoothies instead of juice. But our blender is made of suck. Thank you so much for allowing one of your fans to have it!
What wouldn’t I blend up? My blender is a jerk like yours, especially when I’m making up baby food. So that would probably be first. But then I’d go crazy with smoothies and soups and ice cream (frozen banana, peanut butter, cocoa- ever tried it? Amazing!)
Woohoo!! My mom has a vitamix (and had one from the 80’s for years) and I’m always so jealous when I have to go use my laimo Walmart blender. 🙁 And I’m doing a smoothie challenge that requires use of the lame blender EVER SINGLE MORNING. I have to do frozen fruit or ice, and what lazy ass blender wants to deal with that crap?
I have to have surgery in Sept. After that surgery I can only have liquids (smoothies count) for so many weeks and then pureed foods for another couple of weeks. This would be amazing to have!!
Green smoothies! With non frozen fruit because my crappy blender can’t handle it.
I am forever hating our blenders! Hubby was on a smoothie kick a few weeks ago and I about killed him with chunks in his smoothies :D.
Love your blog, and would love a Vitamix!
We are a hardcore smoothie family, or rather, everyone in my family except my husband LOVES smoothies. We’d blend up some great green smoothies full of spinach, strawberries, greek Yogurt, flax seed, and whatever else is in the house. YUM!
I would use it to make all kinds of smoothies! I have gastroparesis, so the list of foods I can eat is pretty limited. I do have a juicer that I use, but I have smoothie recipes that I can’t make because my Ninja won’t get rid of the seeds in things like strawberries. Crystal Saltrelli is a CHC with gastroparesis and she posts about the different things she uses her Vitamix for. I would love to have one.
I hate all blenders for the exact same reason. I would love to try a luxury blender!
I only ever used to own one blender, and that was for crafts, because I thought they all sucked. I do have a newer one that I use to also attempt to make smoothies but usually just ends up with some swearing and a burning hair smell. And we eat the partially blended chunks out of the jar with a spoon. I just tell my son that’s what a smoothie is and all those other people are just over doing it because they don’t know.
They don’t know how fun it is to find a lump! Or chunk. Like a birthday surprise in your smoothie. Every morning.
I would blend all sorts of things! I would make my own oat flour for baking, make smoothies bc my boy loves them (and he doesn’t even know he’s eating swiss chard!). Most importantly though would prob be the fruity drinks with an umbrella that would be made oh so delicious in the sexy blender!
what an awesome company to send you two! I too broke up with my blender after it refused to chop up my ice for a much needed margarita. Don’t they know the importance of a good chop?
Oh Vitamix, how I love you!
Love to blend up a frozen banana, ice, almond milk, raw cacao, raw protein powder, flax and udo’s 3/6/9 oil.
Chef husband “hates” Vitamix but he’s cranky and jaded. I would love to try it and see what he “hates” about it.
I’ve been coveting those blenders too!
I need a vitamix! All the spoons I need to shove down there to make my pos actually blend would be so relieved! My kids and I love mango, pineapple, raspberries, blueberry, baby spinach, banana, almond milk, almond butter, and flax meal smoothies!
You started with “blender.” I was like “Bleh!” You said “Vitamix.” I was like “Yay.” Then you said “Free!” Saying “Double Yay!!!!” super loud here!!
Don’t you feel better now that you dumped that worthless POS?!
My blender is evil and enjoys spitting its contents onto the walls and ceiling. Especially if said contents are staining, like tomatoes.
I should say that I would blend healthy stuff, but what I really want is a margarita that doesn’t have chunks of ice in it.
You are so good at capturing life’s moments in writing! Thanks for sharing, and for sharing the extra blender – that’s nice too 😉
Happy Food Allergy Awareness Week! A vitamix would be awesome for my food allergic kiddo! She has developed lots of food aversions and smoothies are the best way to round out her limited diet! She has Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome and vomits violently until she goes into shock. She has about 25 safe foods at age 4.
I love your blog & I’d love a vitamix!! I’ve been in love ever since i saw a demo.
My blender is a jerk, too. It leaves giant lumps that my kid promptly throws onto the floor. We’ve given up on smoothies lately..
I have a lazy blender I would love to kick to the curb!
I’ve wanted one of these since I fell in love with one that my BFF has. I’d like to make some great smoothies, since my current blender refuses to: Apples, berries, bananas, kale, carrots, who knows the combinations I could make with a Vitamix. One I’ve really wanted to try is banana, peanut butter, chocolate, and almond/coconut milk. It just sounds so good, but my blender sucks.
You make my day. I love the way you write. Anyone can relate, and you have the best humor on the internet.
SEXY blender… come to mama.
I’m not sure what I’d blend, but anything with fruit and/or ice cream sounds good to me! I’ll pass on the green stuff.
I would blend everything under the sun, just so I can tell my husband, “we can make that at home!” whenever he tries to sneak out for Jamba Juice or milkshakes or even soups and any other pureed, blended concoction peeps can think of nowadays.
OMG I would LOVE a sexy blender- all 3 of the ones we have suck! I would make smoothies for sure, and likely marinades for BBQ, milkshakes, mixed ‘adult’ drinks….
I love this site and your funny family. 🙂 I would love to win that blender because I am trying to get my family healthy and we like to do smoothies and I like hiding veggies in the pasta sauce.
LOVE your blog and would LOVE a Vitamix. I am one of those drooling fools every time the name is uttered. My 6 year old and I make smoothies (usually green smoothies) everyday. My current blender sounds like it’s a distant cousin of your old one. I would love to not have to pre chop everything so finely before putting it it! It would save lots of time and energy, but as a rule we single moms don’t buy $600 blenders. I buy thinks like a new furnace, ya know…fun stuff :/
I’d be a one of those green shake hippies with a shiny new vitamix!
I would make an apple lemonade smoothie!
You can pretty much blend everything with vodka. If you don’t drink vodka, substitute with ice cubes. The latter isn’t as much fun, but it makes a nice, cold smoothie.
Oh, awesome! I’d make smoothies. I have one of those crappy, regular blenders, and smoothie-making is not fun.
I too have experience with a lazy blender 🙁
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OMG…the butt plug reference made me laugh so hard! I use a blender every morning for mine & my hubby’s green smoothie. It’s not the easiest thing to make smoothies with but it’s something that I feel is super important for my hubs & his MS. 🙂 Even though the blender isn’t a super awesome fancy one, it does get the job done…eventually. ** HALE TO THE KALE! **
I think I’d make tomato soup, and use it a lot for smoothies.
mmmm I would start blending lots of summer gazpachos like peach or watermelon! Yum!
Frozen margaritas for everyone!
Oooh-I’d blend up a mean frozen berry smoothie with the frozen fruit I buy with good intentions and no action.
I lust over these all the time! On the Internet and in the store it’s a little obscene lol! I would make smoothies, peanut butter, ice cream and be all secret agent and hide veggies so my husband would eat them without complaint!
I can’t even remember the last time I made a smoothie because of the evil blender! And even worse, I can’t make any of the yummy blended drinks that require an umbrella! Now that is a real tragedy.
That’s so awesome that you got those for free, just for mentioning it!
I blend up trees and shrubs for some real roughage. Ok no I don’t but I bet the Vitamix could if I wanted it to.
I also have a blender that I have to coax and persuade to work. I’m not sure why I keep it. I also have a Vitamix that is some older version and that I also got for free so if I win THIS one I will give away my current one! Feel the ripple effect of Vitamix love!
I like to blend fruits up to make fruit roll ups with out all the crap preservative whatever else in them. Like 3 apples, and a small handful of strawberries, squeeze of lemon or like, the end. 😀
Happy Food Allergy Awareness Week! A vitamix would be awesome for my food allergic kiddo! She has developed lots of food aversions and smoothies are the best way to round out her limited diet! She has Food Protein-Induced Enterocolitis Syndrome and vomits violently and can go into shock. She has about 25 safe foods at age 4.
*DROOL* I have a jerk blender too. And it smells of blender B.O., aka melting rubber and lubricating oil. I have to make my own Almond milk and a VitaMix would allow me to do so sans raising my blood pressure in the process. PICK MEEEEE!
Hi Amber! How great of you to share your good luck! I hope you use yours to make your own hummus! Throw in cooked chickpeas–from a can if you like–and save the water from them, add garlic, tahini paste, a bit of salt, a bit of sesame or olive oil, sneak in some spinach, olives, or other goodies as you wish. Add the chickpea water while blending till it’s as smooth as you want it to be. Makes me hungry just thinking about it!
I want (NEED) this. Desperately. And you are funny, lady. Want to be my best friend?
Oh my gosh I would LOVE one of these! They can be used to make flour… I have Celiac’s disease & can’t eat gluten. I would use it to grind up rice & make rice flour… A staple in our house! And dreamsicle smoothies of course… That’s a must. 🙂 (vanilla ice cream, dash of vanilla, frozen OJ concentrate, OJ & milk.)
Vitamix are awesome, sure would make homemade baby food easier! No more lumps!
Well, I for sure wouldn’t blend worms OR cockroaches. Probably strawberries, mangoes, and pineapple. And maybe some spinach
I tried their tortilla soup at a home/garden show once. It was to die for. If the recipe is in the cookbook that came with your vitamix, you should def make that. Yes, make soup in your blender. lol and then make some ice cream for dessert.
I am currently living a blender-less life. My last blender cracked, thus leaving a lovely mess on my counter. I even tried that “Bullet” blender thing – that ended up in the trash too. When I am actually able to blend something, my favorite is chocolate ice cream, peanut butter and bananas. Adding some chocolate syrup makes it extra chocolatey and oh-so-yummy!
I’d blend up bananas, and any other fruit that doesn’t contain berries (allergic!) with either some yogurt, or vanilla ice cream. I LOOOOVE blended fruits to make smoothies.
My boys LOVE smoothies. I also HATE making smoothies because of my asshole blender. A vitamix may change my mind!!
A Vitamix could save me from my cupcake addiction OR I could make a cupcake smoothie!
I’m really craving a strawberry lemonade they sampled at a vitamix demo. a layer of grapes at the bottom, a handful of strawberries, a small lemon wedge, and a couple handfuls of ice. It was like juice! And soooo good!!
I’d like to think I’m really inventive… But I really just want to make a milkshake. Can’t go wrong with that. Yum.
these super fancy, nice blenders are the only ones that really work. thanks for sharing!!
Hmmm…I’d blend avacados, garlic, jalepeno, scallions and cilantro. Throw in a dash of lime juice and a touch of salt. Guac! (And, I’d drink my pineapple, oj, banana and rum drink with it! Yum!
Haa Haa! Love the butt plug vitamix comment! You always catch me off guard with your risque comments. 🙂 Keeps me coming back!
Ooo, I’d of course make smoothies for my kids, but what about Gazpacho soup for summer, or even all the garden veggies to make a marinara sauce for supper! Easy peasy
Dear Vitamix God- if I win this I swear I’ll eat more veggies!
Hummus sounds good. Make some hummus!
I still have the blender from my bridal registry soooo… I guess that makes it 12 years old. It stopped working approximately 11 years ago :/
LOVE your blog and would LOVE a Vitamix. I am one of those drooling fools every time the name is uttered. My 6 year old and I make smoothies (usually green smoothies) everyday. My current blender sounds like it’s a distant cousin of your old one. I would love to not have to pre chop everything so finely before putting it it! It would save lots of time and energy, but as a rule we single moms don’t buy $600 blenders. I buy things like a new furnace, ya know…fun stuff :/
I would blend up soups for my little old business. Delicious delicious soup!
Thanks for your crappiness!!
I have been thinking about a Vitamix for a LONG time, especially lately as I make baby food for my 8-month-old. The first think I’d probably blend (for him) in a Vitamix is one of my favorite stews, maybe with beef and potatoes, or perhaps a family recipe of Colombian beef stew.
Your blender and my blender are obviously in cahoots. Mine is a blender/food processor combo, and it was a wedding gift 12 years ago. It was great the first 7 years because I didn’t use it. Then I had babies and needed to make baby food and it really can’t be bothered. So I hope I win. Because I need to make baby food. You want them to eat, don’t you?
I totally understand your plight!
I like food
I love that you are giving away a blender almost as much as I love your blog!
I would be so sad without a blender. Hopefully the one I have doesn’t turn on me like the last one.
Oh my gosh! Smoothies would be at the top of my list too! That and garbanzo beans for falafel. And soup. And probably one hundred other things! My mind is coming up with all sorts of uses for a Vitamix now. How fantastic. 🙂
Ha! I also have a jerk blender.
I don’t even have a blender… The one I got as a wedding present 12 years ago quit working 11 years ago. I would love to make my own fruit smoothies as well as soup purees!
ice and frozen fruit, as even my NINJA can’t hack that.
I love to use frozen bananas and frozen strawberries with a splash or two of almond milk to make a really yummy fake ice cream. It’s so good I almost don’t want my Blue Bell… almost.
We live on smoothies here!
Hmmm…I’d blend avacados, garlic, jalepeno, scallions and cilantro. Throw in a dash of lime juice and a touch of salt. Guac! (And, I’d drink my pineapple, oj, banana and rum drink with it! Yum!)
My blender is an a-hold too. I would love to make my own powdered sugar. Oh and blend homemade mayo!
Love your blog! I’ve been married 13 years and never got any of the “fancy- schmancy” appliances (aka Kitchenaid mixer, etc.) because they are just too damn expensive. So to win this blender would be a dream ! My kids love beets…yes, you read correctly. Lol The new juicing/smoothie craze would be a great way to nurture that love! I woud make drinks using beets. Thank you for thinking of your fans, very generous of you.
I have a smoothie for breakfast every morning! My blender sucks at breaking up my almonds tiny enough, so they always get stuck in my straw 🙁
My favorite smoothie combo is bananas, greek yogurt, blueberries, strawberries, milk, and ground flax seed. I’m also a sucker for plain yogurt, peanut butter, bananas, and milk. Yum.
I’m boring and like to blend instant vanilla latte, almond milk, and ice with protein powder to start my day.
My 4 year old always asks for a chocolate shakey aka milk, ice, and chocolate syrup. 😉
Tempting to move to the States just to enter. Ha! But alas, I won’t. However, since I’m commenting for once, I should say that your blog is super duper awesome and definitely gets me through some very hard and frustrating days with kids. It’s impossible not to laugh when I read about what seems to be my life, but in your words. Somehow, your words make it funny and not so dark and dreary for me. Thanks! You’re like super awesome!
Yey! Free stuff is so awesome!!!
Make a cold blended coffee drink using coffee ice cubes.
My blender is an a$$hole, too. The blade broke right off into the last smoothie I made. Not only did it try to maim me and my kid with a slashy smoothie, but now it doesn’t even pretend to blend things.
Y’all. You can make soup in this thing. I would make pesto pea soup, and never have to deal with being burned in the face ever again while blending it.
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OJ, frozen peaches, yogurt, vanilla, spinach and ice.
Funny. Everyone we know has a Vitamix but my Consumer Reports devoted husband bought what he thought was a Best Buy ninja. No comparison. Our neighbor’s Vitamix just came last week. We borrowed it last night (just reading your post now) and used it this morning to see if it was really that different.
Yep. Sadly.
Love the artwork here. The veggies in the blender actually made me lol. Well, not exactly out loud, but I did smile. 🙂
Many moms in our twin group has the Vitamix. It’s AMAZING! Smoothies are made almost daily.
A quick recipe for smoothie:
Frozen fruit of any kind, nuked for 30 sec, add a fresh banana, plain yogurt, milk and some leafy veggie, like spinach and kale. I’ve also added tofu in the past. Kids and adults love it! No added sugar necessary.
a soup. oil and chorizo, remove chorizo, add 1 potato a 1 cut cauliflower and chicken stock. and water. cook for about 30 min. blend, then add the chorizo back and ground pepper. enjoy!
Seriously awesome giveaway!! Thanks so much for thinking to do that with your extra! I just returned a blender because I thought it had a glass carafe (like the salesperson said it did…) Boo BPA. 😉
Love your blog and I’d love the blender, too!
Holy cow! I SAID I left a comment so I totally had to, but my scrolling finger nearly died on the way down here. So, clearly, I need a good blender–one with good buttons that you don’t have to mash really hard. I don’t think my finger can take much more. Plus, a new Vitamix blender could be the key to finally getting my family healthy, and I know we all want that! Thanks, Amber! (And Vitamix!)
I have a smoothie machine, but it rarely gets used. Not that we dont love smoothies, its just a pain in the ass to clean for a few glasses.
I have a magic bullet knock off and I’m down to one cup for it. My little boy is always asking for smoothies, and he only gets banana ones, because it’s about the only thing the blender can handle. I would so love to get one and try it out.
My blender must be your old blender’s brother:( It is on its last leg but it was a wedding present so its 10 years old at this point but we will soon be retiring him. So this free blender would be great!
I can’t even tell you how many blenders I’ve been through! I’m currently using an immersion blender to use for single smoothies LOL I like using frozen fruit combos of mango, strawberry, banana, blueberry, raspberry, blackberry w/ peanut butter or spinach or greek yogurt :o)
I would use the blender to blend up tomatoes, peppers, onions and such to make my Granny’s homemade salsa. Since i haven’t had a blender since a friend borrowed it 8 years ago and is still making milkshakes in it now lol
My blender is a total asshole. I don’t even get it out anymore because I know it’s just gonna disappoint me again. If I had a Vitamix I’d blend up some creamy soups! And smoothies for my kids since I can’t get them to eat a veggie. Like, any veggie. EVER.
I was making cake pops in my jerk of a blender. Totally got all hot and non-worky and COOKED my cream cheese in the cake pops. Ew. I wanna make CAKE POPS!!
I just spent hours last night on Amazon agonizing over which inexpensive blender will be the most effective and least likely to break in a week (secretly WISHING I could afford the Vitamix!) It’s only fitting that this should be your post for today. *sigh* Maybe this means it’s meant to be?? Hope I win!
I’m a smoothie whore. My kids love them, too, and they cry when I make one for myself and don’t share. But I’m a honey badger.
I love blending up my morning protein shakes. Almond/Coconut milk, protein powder, frozen berries, and spinach.
I always hoped my shiny blender would be like a Vitamix, but it is sadly a wanna be Vitamix and pales in comparison.
Wow. Vitamix gave you one (two) for free? Interesting. I work for an orphanage in Haiti where we use a blender everyday for food/juice making. We go through a crappy blender every 2-3 months and so we decided to try to buy a good one. Some friends (who had an “in” with one of the higher-ups in the company) asked about getting us a discount the answer was a big fat no. It’s frustrating to hear that when a semi-famous blogger mentions them they get one (two) for free when they were unwilling to even offer a *discount* for an orphanage in a third-world country. Typical.
The story ends well though. A bunch of people got together (unbeknownst to me) and chipped in to buy one for the orphanage. It works well, and since Haiti is the place where appliances go to die, I a pretty sure Vitamix will lose money on the 5 year warranty.
I would start out by blending some fresh juice with some kale blended in to start my week off right. I would have juice for breakfast and lunch and then have a nice sensible dinner. By Wednesday, I would be snapping at my kids, mouthing off to people on Facebook and so sugar-starved I would take 10 ounces of frozen strawberries, 1/2 cup of sugar and 2/3 cup of cream and eat it all. Maybe I would add some kale.
During the summer we like to make smoothies and then pour them into Popsicle molds to freeze. Really tasty!
I am my blenders b*tch. I do what it wants. That means, in order to have a smoothie, I have to fill it with my ice and frozen fruit and then fill it with warm water so that my contents melt enough so it doesn’t have to work so hard. If I don’t, I pay the *no smoothie for me* price along with the gag inducing smell of a burning motor.
Love your blog and have never commented before but you’ve successfully convinced me! I have a magic bullet and while it’s ok – it certainly is not a vitamix!!!
I would love a Vitamax! We loved frozen drinks. I have an ice shaver (which works fairly well) and two blenders (which do not). The first one was bought while I was still in college, and price was the main consideration. So it’s not surprising it fails to live up to my standards. The second one was purchased after I graduated and had a full-time job. It was rated a ‘Best Buy’ by Consumer Reports. It was never as good as I hoped for, and it’s performance has degraded over time. (I’m sure it’s all attributable to abuse … which the Vitamix apparently takes really well.)
I would make soup – fresh HOT soup – just by putting fresh whole veggie and cold water into the blender and blending that sucker into oblivion and getting instant hot soup!!! PS – you rock.
I’m not sure what I love more.. your stories… or your pictures!
My favorite smoothie I’ve made is not exactly healthy but a little healthier than the alternative I was craving:
Frozen banana or two, a little almond milk, a cup of kefir, a dash of agave nectar, a tsp of vanilla extract, some Nilla wafers (I have no idea how many I used I just finished off the bag we had, I’d say maybe 12) and fill the rest with frozen spinach because I always add spinach to any smoothie I make because you can’t taste it and spinach is oober good for you. Bam, banana pudding smoothie.
I’ve been wanting to buy a new blender / juicer, but just can’t bring myself to spend the money. In the end, I’m sure it’s worth it to get all those yummy nutrients in the bod. YAY for sexy blenders!
I am such a smoothie rookie but have good smoothie-making intentions! Right now I am using the Magic Bullet that sounds more like something you should find in your bedroom not in your kitchen.
A better blender would mean a better cook….right? That’s what I tell myself.
I would love to make some green smoothies with it.
You are so lucky! Love it!
I don’t even have children but I love your blog!
Sad face for only US shipping. How bout if you sent it COD to Canada and I paid the shipping??? 😉 Of course, this is if I won….
I’d so make margaritas. Daily. And virgin margaritas for the kids. I guess those would be smoothies …
I would definitely make smoothies that didn’t have giant hunks of frozen strawberries in them. And maybe gazpacho this summer.
sooooo lucky!! And soooooo smart! 🙂
I hate my blender. The bottom fell out of it and dumped smoothie all over my counter.
So jealous!!! I would kill for a Vitamix. My old blender is elderly and powerless. If it tried to take over the rest of the kitchen appliances it would most certainly lose and be the prisoner the appliances kept in the dungeon. Yes. Anyhow, hubby thinks anything over $50 for a blender is certifiably insane. He doesn’t know the power of the Vitamix!
Frozen fruit & frozen kale = I don’t care if you don’t eat your vegetables! I also put califlower in their rice and Mac and cheese. :p
We have been trying juicing, so I like lots of fruit blended with greens. It’s surprisingly tasty. But I’ve discovered it is no accident that I’ve avoided beets my entire life. They taste like dirt. At least raw.
I have never owned a blender, because I don’t want a useless piece standing on my counter. The Vitamix would be a dream come true!!! I haven’t even thought about what I could do with it 🙂
a soup. oil and chorizo, remove chorizo, add 1 potato and 1 cut cauliflower and chicken stock. and water. cook for about 30 min. blend, then add the chorizo back and ground pepper. enjoy!
I love smoothies and such, especially my two boys. Always wanted one…but of course, $600 is a LOT of money in our household! Would love one 🙂
LOVE your blog and would LOVE a Vitamix!
I’d blend up some strawberry lemonade (strawberries, whole lemons, ice, sugar)!
Love your blog!! My all time favorite…peanut butter banana shake. Love peanut butter banana anything.
Ohhh man I was JUST talking about how much I wanted one of these! I would be blending all sorts of dark greens and veggie smoothies. It would be awesome for me AND my toddler as we are both vegetarian and looking for any way to add more veggies (instead of carbs) to our diets!
The ‘Magic Bullet’ was supposed to be the incredible-blend-anything-miracle-product, but mine has serious issues with the thicker things I try to blend (hummus, even avocados give it issues!). I could make healthy fruit-and-veggie smoothies (most likely milk, cauliflower, and strawberries, since cauliflower has a light enough flavor to be masked in the smoothie – ha), hummus, avocado sauce for pasta (avocado, olive oil, a little lemon juice, basil, and a bunch of garlic – mix with pasta, dump parmesan all over the top, mix in some bacon if you like – YUM!) – all sorts of good stuff 🙂
I understand your love of the blender….I’m having a love affair with my new Breville juicer!
Vitamix blenders make the smoothest avocado for guac, too!
Yummy fruits and veggies! All kinds blended and yummy!
I would love to make some homemade pesto and salsa 🙂
SMOOTHIES and MILKSHAKES and GUACAMOLE and SALSA and PESTO
That sounds like it would be great for making gazpacho, which my kids actually eat.
I love pineapple, strawberries, shredded coconut and orange juice blended!
I would make a watermelon/lime smoothie. I’m a big watermelon and smoothie fan, so the two together…excellent!
We bought a juicer, but it comes with so. many. parts. and you have to clean. them. all. every time, but it’s. so. much. work.
As you can tell, I’m less than thrilled about this, so I never use the freakin’ thing.
Our blender is seriously old and I think I broke it trying to grind up chocolate to make those deliciously addicting “Neiman Marcus” cookies… However, my parents got one of these Vitamix blenders from Costco, and it’s fantastic! They make soups and salsas and all kinds of yummies with it. You’re going to love using it! I hope I win one, ‘cus I’m way too poor from Infertility treatments.
Seriously love your blog. I’m not a mom (yet), but I still read it all the time and even had to buy your book.
I’d make that frozen banana ice cream that made my blender smoke. :-/
Couldn’t scroll thru to leave my comment so I will reply… My blender makes weird smoke smells too! My 3.5 year old wanted Daniel tiger’s banana swirl and I almost lost the blender in the deal! Why must they all be so terrible? My new fave thing is finding smoothies on Pinterest using spinach. I love spinach but hubs won’t eat it!
Congrats! Glad you’ve found your blender love! Personally, I’m still having a love-hate relationship with my blender lol. But my favorite thing to make is shakes! The Hubs and I enjoy them. Only thing is that it does take a lot of work, because it never seems to be capable of handling the job lol – so it’s always … stop, and then turn it off and use a spoon to try and move the stuff, put the lid on, blend for another 2 seconds, and repeat lol
U are too funny! Thanks for making me laugh always. Much appreciation! Oh yes, thanks for sharing!
My old roommate used to have a vitamix and it was THE BEST. Seriously. I ran out of cinnamon one time so I put a cinnamon stick in it. Problem solved. I miss that vitamix so hard.
It works as a juicer too! Parsley and ginger in everything! Mom nom nom!
Wow, that was super nice of them to send you one for free, just for mentioning you wanted it! Hooray for non-crappy blenders!
Vitamix’s rock for making raw cheesecake filling..so good!
2 words, green smoothie.
Trick the veggies into the kids! Mwahaha
I would definitely use it for soups – makes them so creamy & dreamy! Or also for smoothies…probably coconut milk smoothies or milk kefir smoothies for my kids!
i have coveted a vitamix for years
My hubby and I have been through at least 5 blenders in the last 8 years. They all suck and they all fall apart. We finally took his grandma’s old heavy metal blender and it still works great. In other words I feel your pain! Congrats on your new blender!
Wow! Great giveaway and very generous of you!
I would do whole fruit and hide flaxseeds in there since apparently the Vitamix pulverizes them!
We currently have a Magic Bullet for making smoothies. A Vitamix would be awesome!!!
Love your blog! You always make me laugh, keep up the great work!
Those babies are so powerful you could grind stumps with them! I wouldn’t do that though. I would make margaritas during naptime on hot summer days. Or blended coffee drinks. Or ice cream. And when my kids were awake I would tell them it only makes green smoothies and to drink up!
kale, strawberries, carrots and apple! Yum, try it!
I blend smoothies for my smoothie lovin’ kids. I hate my blender too. Because it smells like it is going to burst into flame while blending. It acts likes it working hard, and getting all hot, and what do I get? Chunks. 😛
My kids just got into smoothies; it’s a great way to trick them into having more yogurt and fruit. Recently, I’ve been fantasizing about a Nutella and banana smoothie. I can almost taste it! Unfortunately, my blender is a little… temperamental and leaks and is very noisy with no actual blending going on. Mama’s fantasies dashed yet again!
I soooo covet one of these blenders. What would I not blend? Well, other than the aforementioned cockroaches and worms. Smoothies, frappes, salsa, soups, sauces…..
Would love a new blender, the possibilities are endless!!
We love fruit smoothies in our house!!!
Wow, I wish I had your kind of luck. I’d love an accidental Vitamix!
I like the blender saying “hey baby”, it’s hilarious!
I would blend everything!
What a great prize! My blender just broke so I hope I win!
I never even knew blenders were anything but jerks! I’ll have to check out the Vitamix. 🙂
My blender is a jerk too! I have a garden full of goodies and a SPECIAL garden where everything in it will make the most AMAZING homemade salsa. If the blender would work.
I feel ya on the blender probs. My blender is a lazy jerk too! In fact, I have divorced my last three lazy jerk blender affairs and am now currently single. Well, not technically single (my husband doesn’t get off that easy!) but I have lots of delicious frozen fruit in my freezer and absolutely no way to make a smoothie. Not sure if I have ever commented before- but this was worth a shot. pick me! pick me! (sang in my booger pickin voice) 🙂
Man, oh man, I’ve wanted one of these for years! My MIL has one and swears by it. She’s made all kinds of awesome stuff. She even made homemade fro-yo. Yeah. She froze some fruit, threw it in the blender with some greek yogurt and VOILA! If I had a Vitamix, I’d totally make a bomb-ass vegetable soup, some delish mock “mashed potatoes”, and a peanut butter, banana and chocolate frozen concocction that would blow your mind!
OMG. Want.
I would use it to make smoothies and juice blends and maybe margaritas to freeze into popsicles. We seem to have skipped spring entirely and just moved straight into summer here.
I would make smoothies. And green ice cream. And try the recipes in their book.
Oooh! My friends just bought one of these bad boys and they’ve been blending up fruit/veggie/protein shakes for lunch. They made me one with a banana, spinach, and I think mango with some vanilla protein powder and it was delicious!
I’m pregnant, so who knows what wacky combinations I’d come up with if I actually had a blender. But I’d definitely blend up all kinds of fruits and then freeze them in to popsicles to get me through being pregnant in the heat and humidity of summer!
I would use the blender to make Margaritas… I mean really healthy smoothies for the kids.
How awesome, that is indeed a sexy blender. I need a sexy blender in my life.
I’d blend raspberries, peaches and yoghurt. Ooooh…
My almost 3 y/o and I share a smoothie almost every morning. 1 banana, a little juice, a couple of frozen strawberries, lots of frozen spinach, and yogurt. I thin hers out with milk and thin mine with water.
Ooooh, it heats stuff too?! *Drool* I’d have to try it out and make soup!
I’d make smoothies for kiddo’s lunch too. We got cool silicone popsicle tubes and I’ve been wanting to send smoothies to school for a while but I have a lazy jerk blender too.
Frozen bananas and cocoa for amazing choco-banana ice cream. Chocolate avocado pudding. Cream sauces. If I had a Vitamix I think my life would be complete.
I don’t know what I love more.. .your stories or your pictures!
I would make green smoothies. I keep trying. But my blender is a lot like yours. I so feel your pain about the shaking and not blending. I really want to try and like green smoothies. But its hard with chunks of spinach floating in it. So yeah. I have dreamt of getting a vitamix. Serious.
I would love to make homemade peanut butter and almond butter in that vitamix!!!!! awesome!!!! and not offended by the butt plug comment, I’ve seen the Vitamix, it’s an accurate description 😉
Morning smoothies for everyone!
Margaritas and smoothies!! Love your blog!
What I wouldn’t give for a lump free smoothie. Peanut butter banana is a house fav!
I would totally blend all kinds of things, but definitely include avocado. They are rich and creamy and all kinds of good for you!
Oh my gosh I would LOVE a vitamix! You’re so lucky! I would make smoothies everyday. And soup! And guacamole!
I would definitely blend healthy smoothies for the whole family. And some chocolate too.
I have always wanted a vitamix! I make smoothies twice a day and could really use one!
I’d make some milkshakes and frozen drinks (boozy and non boozy). And I’ve read it makes soup and melts cheese. The thing heats up? Want one!
I’d love to try juicing with a vitamix! It seems like it would be so much easier to clean than my old juicer.
I also own a jerk blender… would love to join the “new” I don’t own a jerk blender club…
My blender was a Christmas present. From my husband. I didn’t think small appliances were present material? I though those were just things you need. It was better than the year he bought my cutting boards though.
And I’d make milkshakes. And salsa.
If I had a non crappy blender, I would blend all sorts of things for my toddler. Currently she will only drink water out of a cup or Jamba Juice… But I can’t afford Jamba Juice every day haha
I would make a meme with this blender and it would be all “Hey Girl”—great giveaway.
I should say fruit and healthy stuff, but what I’d really make is a margarita that doesn’t have chunks of ice in it.
My honey gave me a Vitamix for Valentine’s Day and it is AMAZING!! So if I win will you please send it to my friend Amy G? She really wants one for her family. And then are a super cool family. And she’s the reason I found your super amazing blog. And clearly I love the words super and amazing right now. Because everything about today’s blog is super amazing. Like two-blenders-super-amazing.
OMG I fight with my blender on a nearly daily basis. I shake it, spoon it (not in a good way), hit it… I would die of smoothie/green juice happiness with a Vitamix. If only….
This was too funny! My husband and I have been married for almost 18 years and we have gone through so many blenders for this very same reason! We make smoothies every morning for breakfast and I knew we will kill our current blender soon.
I want to win!!! 🙂
Soups! Delicious delicious soups! I’d make 127 different kinds.
Thanks for your crappiness!!!!
http://pinterest.com/pumpkinbear/recipes-made-in-my-vitamix-blender/ 🙂 A few good ideas! Chili’s homemade salsa. You know that sounds delicious 😉
Ooooh, a Vitamix would be so much fun! I could blend stuff just to see what it looks like blended. And then I could blend things I actually need too and count on it to happen.
I use a juicer rather then a blender for vegetables, but if this blender can truly juice vegetables that is awesome because cleaning a juicer is a pain in the ass. So my juicer usually just sits there on my counter staring at me. I would use spinach, celery, carrots, apple, cucumber, parsley, zucchini, beet, fennel, ginger, and garlic. Enjoy!
OMG – this may be the most excited I have been about a blog give away EVER. Thank you, thank you, thank you!! And adult drinks. I will use it for adult drinks after my kid goes to bed.
Best Rafflecopter EVER! My new favorite smoothie is blueberry, avocado, oj, mint and lemon juice. So legit.
I would die. I would also make gazpacho by the gallon and make my son deliriously happy by making Banana Swirl with him just like Daniel Tiger.
I wish I could live off of smoothies. Life would be simpler.
My boys totally love smoothies too and my basic one is not a fan of ice or frozen veggies so as you so perfectly put it – it’s an asshole! I can’t even imagine the possibilities with a VitaMix!! What a clever idea and great promotion.
I would totally make healthy things for the minions and not just alcohol loaded things for when they’re in bed. Lol
Ugg, we go through more blenders than I care to count!
We make smoothies every day with way too many ingredients, but we love them. My blender is terrible too and takes forever to get the job done.
We saw a Vitamix demo at Costco and loved the samples. They put tomatoes and carrots in with the fruits and we couldn’t taste them at all! My 3 yr old is scared of the loud sound though, so when they turned on the Vitamix without warning, my son tossed the smoothie at me and all down my leg in an effort to cover his ears as quickly as possible. I’d go through it again for a free Vitamix though!!
I’d blend chickpeas and onions sauteed with a mild curry-powder (and oil and something else). It’s like hummus, without the tahini, and with curry.
It’s just so bloody difficult to get it smooth in a crappy blender.
three kids can kill a blender pretty quick, I would love to see if I can kill this one to. Kind of sinister, I know but true.
I blend Greek yogurt with frozen fruits. And it’s a pain because it craps out after a few seconds.
We currently have a super temperamental Magic Bullet for smoothie making. My fave is pineapple, banana, and orange juice – fake pina colada!!
I’m trying to get my family to eat healthier, so this would be great for making healthy smoothies!! Also…I could probably make a mean pina colada with that…just saying 🙂
Man! A blender I don’t have to shake and hit?!?!
I love Vitamix!
I love your blog…and I have seriously been lusting after a vitamix forever. I am an appliance junky!
make smoothies for my 10 month old!
I’m in the dark. I have never heard of this blender! Off to Google I go.
Oh, and I’d mostly blend chocolate and bananas! because I’m boring and don’t even like fruit all that much.
My daughter only eats her vegetables if they are blended. This would be a wonderful addition to our household.
Woooot! Hope I win!
I love to mix spinach in with just about everything.
I am still using a 1950s blender because it works marginally better than any blender I can afford! I would love a Vitamix, because then I wouldn’t have to MacGyer my juicer so that it doesn’t look like the lame one on TV with juice going all over the counter. I don’t usually beg, nor do I think it will make a difference, but I will feel better: Please, please pick me!
Oh, how I’ve dreamed of owning a Vitamix…I’d blend just about anything I could in that thing! I’ve heard people use it for soup, dough, fondue, and then normal blending stuff, too. It totally blows my mind! I’d probably start off with some good ol’ green smoothies and then venture into the non-traditional items, like cheese fondue. Yummo!
My folks love their vitamix. I’m so jealous. I would make awesome milkshakes.
EEEKK! Would love one of these to make post workout smoothies. And all kinds of other stuff.
Would love a not crappy blender!
As a mom of 8 you put my life into Laughter!!!
I seriously need this!
ooooh, me! me! I would heart a vitamix.
Nothing like having to close the door at work – or have coworkers stop by and ask why I’m snorting. LOVE the blog, and REALLY REALLY want a Vitamix.
I’m thinking some fab smoothies, and margaritas! Great giveaway!
I’ve always wanted a Vitamix but uh, yea I don’t have that kind of money. I would definitely be making a sh** ton of smoothies lol My son loves them as do I. I have a magic bullet, and well, I think it’s seen it’s final days.
I would blend all kinds of fruits and veggies for my super picky 2 yr old!
I read the headline for this and thought you were going to tell us some amazing blender disaster of a mess.
I’ll tell mine instead:
I once made a lovely chocolate milkshake for my boys, who were about 2 and 4 at the time. I used the last of the ice cream, because of course. I mixed it up, it tasted delicious.
And THEN, I picked up the pitcher part of the blender. And the whole bottom of the pitcher came off — and the milkshake poured all over the base of the blender and the kitchen counter and the kitchen floor.
I took the kid’s to Wendy’s for frosties instead.
Baby food for the female version of Crappy Baby.
Ah, who am I kidding, margaritas for the Virginia Crappy Mommy!
Parsley and ginger in all the juices!
Beware the revenge of the discarded blender. He’ll show up again on Facebook and leave stalker-ish comments on your posts and have old photos of you two on his profile page where he has perfectly pureed some frozen berries and you look like a hag. It happens.
I totally want this blender to make soup, smoothies, milkshakes, and maybe even go on a juice diet, hahahahahahah, not really, but maybe.
I would blend my green/kale smoothies! And I think we have ALL been there with the “normal” blenders – shaking, cursing, etc. 🙂
I dream of being able to afford a Vitamix!!!
soup, def carrot soup
We’re big fans of juicing. My daughter gets all into it. We do carrot, apple, cucumber with a wee bit of spinach for her. I haven’t blended in a million years because blenders suck. However, if we had a vitamix… hmm… I dunno, I might feel too much pressure to eat a frothy mix of kale and celery. There is so much vitamix peer pressure out there!
I’d make smoothies! We had a really cheapo blender we got as a wedding present that managed to actually last 9 years before the motor burned out. Hubby got me a new shiny blender last year, which blends pretty well, except the way the pitcher is designed makes it so the stuff doesn’t actually like to go down to the blendy part, so I constantly have to shove a spoon in there or shake it a bit to get everything to blend.
If I had a good blender, maybe I wouldn’t have the need to hide it under the counter in the back of a cabinet! The possibilities are endless, fruit smoothies, protein shakes, milkshakes, yum!
I soooooo need this. My blender sucks too. AND smells. Like burning. It is almost strawberry season here and we need smoothies!
Love your blog! Would love to win the blender.
My blender leaks out the bottom. I would love a Vitamix!
I would blend up all sorts of kid-friendly things that my current blender leaves all lumpy, sad, and vaguely smelling of electrical overheat.
I want this thing soo bad! I would be the blendiest blender who ever blended with this vitamix!
You should make homemade hummus. I have tried to make it with so many blenders and killed them all because the tahini is soooooooo thick that it burns out the motor….YES i’ve burned out a number of blender motors doing this! lol! U should try it and blog to tell me if your new blender survives!!!
I don’t blend regularly-I don’t have the cupboard space to store a blender! But if I won this bad boy, I’d let it sit out on my counter to show it off to everyone who enters the kitchen!
I’m not very original, I’d probably just blend a crap load of berries and some yogurt…..or ice, tequila and margarita mix.
i’m sure you’ve already blended all the normal stuff like bananas and peanut butter, or bananas and strawberries, or bananas and chocolate, (can u tell we like bananas at our house?) or a frozen bag of mixed fruit with NO bananas. but if you want to try something a little bit crazy and super tasty, try this recipe, its from the vitamix sample guy you always see at the store.
1 cup grapes
1/2 banana
1/8 cabbage (raw)
1 cup spinach
1/4 lime with peel
4 slices pineapple
1/4 avacado
1 tbls honey
ice to the top
i hate most of these ingredients, but blended together in smoothie-form, they are amazing! not sure how that works, maybe its the magic of the smoothie gods.
And for WW folks, if you’re doing the Winning Points program still like me, its only 8 points, so drink half for your AM snack and half for your PM snack and get your fruits and veggies in first so you can use the rest of your points for chocolate!
You are so lucky! I would LOVE one! I would make smoothies every day…and soup…and guacamole!
I would blend anything I wanted too! 😉
I make 2 smoothies every day and am about to chuck my blender out a window. It takes almost 5 full minutes to blend the green smoothie! I have been coveting a vitamix for months!
I’d blend up everything. Maybe even my kitchen sink. Like a boss. Steak smoothies? I’m your girl.
my kids would be so happy to win this!
Oh me! Me me me! Pick me! I would love a snazzy new blender to go in my new corporate housing. Maybe that would make it all better, lol!
I’d love to blend up soups. I’ve stopped with my current crappy blender because it makes my kitchen smell like burning.
I have a nutra-bullet, works pretty dang well considering! It is a bit small but it works much better than my lazy blender
I love your blog. I must find your book. I have a late mother’s day present to give:)!
I would blend things for Popsicles. Our new favorite is blended up pineapple with pieces of fruit like kiwi and blueberries stuck in it. But I really just want to watch it blend a carrot.
Smoothies, split pea soup, cake batter, protein shakes, margaritas, mojitos…
I would blend up some hummus, or make my own Luna bars, or make blended soup, or…..
Oh please oh please I wanna win!
They should add the butt plug reference to their ads.
They make blenders that don’t suck! Who knew.
What WOULDN’T I blend up with this thing? Mostly, I think I would blend soups. Yummy, creamy, butternut squash soup, or tomato basil soup, or curried sweet potato peanut soup (its amazing, trust me).
I have heard that one can grind wheat with a vitamix. GRIND WHEAT, PEOPLE… and if one can grind wheat, one can probably grind almonds into almond flour, and brown rice into rice flour… the gluten free flour possibilities are endless!!
I would blend carrots, cucumbers, apples, and oranges because that’s what I like to juice 🙂
I hope the blender I have doesn’t turn on me like the last one. I love blending
I would blend the hell out of some smoothies. But I have nothing right now which will blend said smoothies. 🙁
sweet, and great for your fans too!
Cucumbers, watermelons, and a little mint blended is incredibly refreshing!
Soup! And smoothies with healthy stuff snuck in for my toddler.
Thank you very much for sharing your doubled gift with us !! Crappy Kids will now be happy with their smoothies all summer long! For an awesome idea, try banana, strawberries and mango together. I swear it’s so yummy!
I want to dump my blender too! Give me the courage to kick it to the curb.
BLEND ALL THE THINGS!
ugh, our blender is the leftover bachelor blender, there’s no way DH would let me spend that money on a Vitamix so yea. we are all about using the wooden spoon to poke the smoothie into blending.
Im sure I won’t win! Because I NEVER do, but… never say never right?? And you never thought MERELY mentioning you want a blender would get you a free blender so…. here’s to hoping! lol
I’d blend peanut butter and chocolate!
I love your humor, and have told all my friends to follow you. I would love to win your extra Vitamix for my husband (he bought me a new camera so this would get 1/3 of the way to “paying him back.” Thanks!
Vitamin? Freakin awesome!!!!
oh man. this is perfect! I was *this* close to purchasing a vitamix in costco last week but couldn’t pull the pennies together. my blender I have now totally sucks. and not in the good way 🙂
If I had a vitamix I would make banana sorbet. I’ve only had a sample of it but it was HEAVEN.
thanks for the chance to win. I’ve always loved reading your blog!!
We were just talking about these blenders and how we could really use one. We have a two year old and another due in October. We would use this gem for icy drinks, vegetable purees, soups, and anything else we could think of blending. This would be AWESOME. Thank you for sharing!!
Dude, the husband and I were just discussing how we want one.
We blend up banana, milk, frozen pineapple and frozen strawberry. Easy peasy!
I have been trying to get my hubby to buy me one of these!! You can make almond milk! How awesome is that??
hmmmm what WOULD I blend up…. I’m in a chocolate malt mood, so I’ll go with that 🙂
I was drooling over one of these at Costco last week. We’d put it to use making smoothies using our homemade yogurt and homegrown plums, since that’s the only way my middle son will ingest milk.
Milkshakes!
Like everyone else has said, my blender sucks and I never use it because it sucks. It would be nice to have one that doesn’t suck that I would actually use!
Hi!
I would make silken tofu smoothie/milkshakes. With lots of delicious frozen fruit. And alcoholic beverages. Like mudslides. My blender is pretty terrible, so I never make these things. It would be awesome to win a vitamix and be able to. Yum.
I would blend everything! Juices, soups, smoothies, hummus – I REALLY need this to make hummus. I had a montel williams blender and it died, 4 days after warranty expired
I’ve given up blending with my $30 blender, but can’t quite bite-the-bullet to buy a nice one. I would love to win.
Oh, and I’d blend strawberries and lime juice to make a sorbet.
wow that’s an expensive blender! i doubt you would send all the way to bonny scotland but just incase i’ll retweet, fb post and whatnot! good luck with the hot tub! lol x
I’ve been thinking about doing some “juicing”, eating more fresh veg and fruit – this blender would be the perfect excuse to get going!
Also I am a fan of “Enemy of the State” and have blender envy.
The only blender I have is a cheap, crappy blender. Like, cheapest one off the shelf at Walmart blender. That’s all my husband would let me buy 🙁 I miss living at my mom’s and her awesome blender. I like making virgin girlie-fruity drinks.
Oh, I swear I could have written this blog article and you provided the crappy pictures. Except my story doesn’t end with a sexy Vitamix sitting on my counter. Or does it?….
Banana ice cream. Two bananas, broken into chunks, frozen and then thrown into a blender with a generous amount of canned coconut milk. Blend blend blend and then give to your kids as a totally healthier alternative to soft-serve.
I make a smoothie for my 16 month old that has baby cereal, avocado, blueberries, bananas, and milk. He chugs it down!
Blenders are awesome!
I can come up with a good mix blend for you…tell me what you like! I’m digging avocado, lime, spinach, coconut water, raw honey. YUM!
We use the 4-4-4-4 rule around here for smoothies. 4 ounces of milk, 4 ounces of concord grape juice, 4 ounces of frozen fruit (any kind), and a banana, which weighs–you guessed it!–about 4 ounces. Yum.
I makes some killer garden smoothies!! A variety of berries that we grow, black raspberries, dew berries, strawberries, mullberries, vanilla yogert, and ice. If the berries juice is a little lacking use a little slash of juice!
I’d blend up everything. I want silky smooth hummus. I want to-die-for kale smoothies that trick my kids. I want creamy, non lumpy avocado ice pops (seriously so good … ripe avocado, coconut milk, dash vanilla, dash honey, dash cinnamon, smidge salt, heaping scoop of cocoa powder. Chocolate pudding pop heaven.)
Yeah, we have a vitamix. We don’t do smoothies or other blended beverages very often, but make milkshakes and especially peanut butter. This one looks even nicer than ours.
I LOVE green smoothies! So easy, and so good for you (without tasting like something that is good for you!).
I would love this. My kids love milkshakes and smoothies and I hate making them with our blender because it doesn’t like to well blend!
awesome!
I would blend everything! We love smoothies but have the same problem with a crappy blender.
I am a mango whore…really, anything with mango in it is MINE ALL MINE!!! I want some mango ice cream…which according to the demo at Costco the Vitamix can do! WOOT! My blender regularly flips me the finger when I make smoothies (which is everyday) and it smokes sometimes too…really..smoke comes out of it…LOL!
I gave my mom a blender for Christmas – months later I am still hearing about all of her awesome combinations.. .. I would love to be able to make some of my own!
Summer is coming… Some blended drinks would be great!
Smoothies, smoothies and more smoothies!!
And salsa.
And pesto.
And tomatoes for sauce. Yum!
Ive always wanted a vitamix but the hefty $600 is too much for my wallet. Thanks for the giveaway!
I love you and this blog. Please pick me so that I can make truely scrumptious hummus and salsa for me and my 1 year old!
I baby my current blender, out of fear. Even though it was expensive and has an “ice crusher” button, I would NEVER put ice in it. Would love to move beyond the soft stuff and blend raw beets to make smoothies! Or use it to make my own wheat-free pancake batter. And give my immersion blender (and walls) a break from pureed soups.
WOW!!! Thanks for the excellent comics to go along with the reality!
I’ve been lusting after a Vitamix for the last few years. Or a Blendtech. I’ve been using a margarita maker a friend got us for our wedding lately, because it’s the best we’ve got. My friend was mildly offended that we were crushing up veggies for baby food instead of ice for margaritas. (which, to be fair, I find slightly unfair as well.)
This is my first ever post! Long time fan. Was going to send you a pic of my daughter reading your book, but never did :-p. Anyhow, I’m sure this post will be lost amidst the onslaught of vitamix hopefuls… And I have no good recipes because I am in desperate need of a working blender, and have not yet been able to experiment. My daughter is s fruit junkie, so she would be thrilled to have her mom make smoothies. Just the other day, she wanted strawberry soup. Not sure what she means, but it would be my first experiment if I had a new blender!
Love your blog. Thanks for the laughs 🙂
VITAMIX WOULD BE SA-WEET! All fruits and veggies would be blended up, I’d love it.
This post has me drooling.. you can make smoothies AND high quality adult beverages with that thing!! Soooo lucky!!!
Since the Vitamix is such a strong beast, I’d blend up the annoying little recorders my husband bought for my boys in the Target Dollar Spot. Something about the music they make drives me nuts! Other than that, I’d blend all the yummy smoothies I have to drink on my new diet plan. And, I live in Los Angeles, so I can just pick it up from you – no shipping needed!
Smoothies and hummus for sure:)
You are hilarious! 🙂
I would make soup and smoothies for me and my little one once she is able to start eating real food! I hated fruit smoothies until I got pregnant, but now I’m hooked! Quick filling raw healthy meal, very little chewing! Life doesn’t get any easier than this!
I also have a jerk blender. It leaks every.damn.morning. when I try to make my protein shake. And it stopped blending ice cubes and frozen fruit after day 1. So clearly I need the Vitamix!
Oooo those smoothies you trick your kids with. I only have an immersion blender because the dishwasher melted the top to our blender. Gah!!
My blender is just like your old one. A lazy ass piece of s**t! Would love a new awesome sexy one. I would make smoothies for my kids. with a little veggies that I would sneak in.
Oh how I hope I win. Kale carrot juice would flow like wine.
I’d blend up some fruit with whatever green vegetable you’re supposed to mix it with these days. Spinach? Kale? Or I would probably first blend up these frozen cherries that have overstayed their welcome in my freezer. I’d blend those with some ice and greek yogurt. That sounds legit, right?
I’d LOVE a sexy blender 😉
What would I blend? Margaritas. I mean, green smoothies. One of those. Maybe both.
I have no idea what to blend–I haven’t had a blender in years. Literally, like 10 years. I’d live to make green smoothies, but no blender.
For a blender, I’ll stop stalking your blog and actually comment. I just love seeing your updates on my facebook feed- the pictures might just be my favorite part.
To answer your +3 question, I’d blend me some smoothies! And try to make soup or ice cream (different batches…or the same one, depending on how it goes). I also once saw an infomercial for this blender that could make powdered sugar out of regular sugar in a blender- I’d have to try that…while pretending I’m on an infomercial.
Happy Thursday!
I just stopped using blenders all together because every blender I’ve ever owned leaked from the bottom!
I need this thing to blend my veggies. Mine sucks!
The jealousy I felt at hearing about your free vitamix was astonishing and powerful. I have coveted one for 15 years, and have been through 9 thrift store blenders in the meantime-some of them lazy jerks and various other personality disorders. My current favorite smoothie has a handful of dates, an avocado, some baby spinach, a bunch of mint leaves, a large handful of almonds, a Tablespoon of coconut oil, some peppermint extract, a banana, some ice and water, and is served with floating cacao nibs. Mmmmm. It would be better if it were actually smooth. I’ve entered about twenty Vitamix contests in the past it seems, but I’m not going to stop trying, because it is currently time for a new blender again- current dysfunctional one is pouring contents out from the bottom every time I try to blend- such a mess.
My blender only works on pulverize mode. And even then it doesn’t blend ice. Nothing like chunky piña coladas!
I would blend everything in my CSA box and not share with the kids.
I have to have surgery on my esophagus and stomach in Sept. After surgery I can only have liquids (smoothies count) for 2 weeks and then for another 2 weeks I can only have blenderized foods… a Vitamix would be amazing…
these always brighten my day!
Ooooh…. I have been debating on ordering one as I am killing my blender and my immersion blender making smoothies and protein shakes! I’ll hold off ordering until you announce me as the winner! Onyx totally works for me, too! YAY!
I want to be able to make a coffee smoothie, like they do at Panera. So that’s what I’d try first. And since my daughter begs me every morning for a smoothie… I guess I’d make that too. I guess. 🙂
I would treat the 2nd Vitamix right. I have a home for it and everything. 🙂
Vitamix rules!
Love your blog! My favorite post is Penis Pizza, but I love them all! 🙂
Thank you for the funny blog! I know I’m supposed to make, you know, smoothies with kale and stuff, but frankly, I’d put in ice cream and milk and maybe some peanut butter.
I, too, have been through many crappy blenders. They all look good in the commercials. 🙁
Oh my how I would love this blender. I have been coveting one at Costco. I even had my husband convinced we needed one – I might have fibbed just a bit when I told him it was $300. Then he found out it was actually more like $380 – which he sees as $400. Blender purchase was called off.
First time poster here, but I love your sense of humor! Strawberries and bananas for a classic smoothie over here!
Very cool giveaway. I love reading this blog! I always come away amazed at how universal kids’ behaviors are. 🙂
My hubby and I were so jealous the other night, watching “Hell’s Kitchen” when the gals all got Vitamix blenders as a prize!! And now you are giving one away!! Woo hoo!! My hubby loves to cook and would love to blend/chop/mix all kinds of concoctions with this blender!! We can’t afford one, so we have the standard crappy one and would love to donate it to someone else! Haha 🙂
Just starting the Zone diet. Smoothies make life so much easier when I can’t just make toast. Gimme! Pretty please?
I would blend everything! Juices, soups, smoothies, hummus – I REALLY need this to make hummus. I had a montel williams blender and it died, 4 days after warranty was up
we’re a vegan family, so we are veggie fiends and a lot of our recipes call for ground up nuts and seeds of all varieties. My sucky blender can’t handle anything either!
I’ve had about 5 blenders since college I think and they all suck. Definitely need to get a Vitamix someday, but the price just annoys me. 🙂
I would love to try making black bean soup in it! It would be much easier than using my immersion blender.
Love you!
Oh my goodness I would LOVE this blender! I have never heard of this, probably because unless I actually win the lottery, I will never have one. I have just about given up on blending stuff and given into a chain smoothie store. But I would be so much happier if I can get organic fruits and veggies at the Farmer’s Market (I live in a very agricultural city) and make my own! I may even buy a book on stuff that actually tastes good to blend that are not berries and bananas. 😀 Or I will probably just google it, I am cheap like that. I too would need the money for the fruits and veggies. 😉
I would blend up pesto. My pathetic blender handles my smoothies OK if given enough liquid, but I ruined a rubber spatula the other trying to get it to make my pesto 🙁
I have wanted one of these for YEARS!!!!!!! Our blender will blend fruit ok, but feigns sleep for anything more. I keep buying newer ones and keep getting disappointed. If only I had saved all my money buying the cheap ones, I’d have the $600 to get a true blue awesome Vitamix! Then I would make soup, dips, oh my life would change and I would finally be complete. Please, complete me, Amber.
My kids ignore smoothies half the time. But they’re so fab I’ve never understood WHY. Anyway, my favorite smoothie is a mixture of berries, oranges and lime sherbert. Because my favorite smoothie place makes one like it…but I don’t like spending $6 on a drink.
My blender just doesn’t like ice. I’m not sure why, but it can blend up anything else but as soon as you add ice, it gives the cold shoulder. *sigh*
Would love the blender, probably almost as much as I love reading your blog! 🙂
I would blend bananas!! and yogurt or ice and maybe some chocolate… b/c eating healthy is for losers! lol jk
I would make soups and smoothies for me and my little one once she is able to start eating real food! I hated fruit smoothies until I got pregnant (I used an immersion blender, which does the job, but you sure aren’t going to be able to add Kale or raw apple to your smoothies), but now I’m hooked! Quick filling raw healthy meal, very little chewing! Life doesn’t get any easier than this!
Lucky lady!!!
I want it! My blender leaks everywhere and I totally have to do the spoon poking trick to make it do anything.
I’m currently 5 months pregnant and since I can’t drink wine I drink limeade slushies to make me *feel* like it’s a margarita.
When baby is old enough I’ll use it to make yummy healthy baby food for him. Pick me! Pick me!
I would blend smoothies with spinach and veggies hidden in them because at 21 weeks pregnant I still get sick whenever I eat and am trying to feed hulk fetus so that he doesn’t eat my bones, muscles, and soul. I had a lazy blender last year and the glass pitcher broke and I so do not want to spend $500-600 on a “real” blender so I have been living without one. Oh and hollandaise sauce. I’d make that. MMM….eggs benadict…
Love Crappy Pictures and would love to own a sexy Vitamix blender too! 🙂
I have the feeling that I might actually try smoothies (which are the only way I might even consider eating fruits) if I had a beauty like the Vitamix.
Have you heard of Thug Kitchen yet? Look him up on Facebook if you haven’t.
I think I would just blend everything in my fridge together just because I could because Vitamix’s are the s$*%!
Seriously. I want one.
I am trying to get my hubby to buy me one of these! I would make almond milk!! And ice cream, of course.
Smoothies, lots and lots of smoothies, and blended soups, and hummus, mmmm hummus, my blender sucks so bad I’ve been using my immersion blender for everything. I love my immersion blender, but it’s not made for all that stuff.
chocolate orange fondue in the vitamix, O.M.G.!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2WLYRNHWL8
I am over my blender as well! And my food processor too. It has a setting for Parmesan cheese but I think it’s just because they had room on the front and felt they had to put words there, because it doesn’t do anything to Parmesan cheese except hold it tightly under its blades and, I don’t know, snuggle it? Unfortunately, snuggling is not a step to making a tasty pesto, which is probably what I would use it for. And also probably smoothies, because with a functional blender, why not?
I would try those gross-looking green smoothies that everyone says are SOO healthy. . . you know, they always say “oh I just threw in whatever was in my fridge and it’s so yummy!” Yeah, I’d do that.
I’d blend up a great green smoothie!
I would make smoothies for the boys! They think it’s a treat not knowing that it’s good for them – win win!
First of all, I can’t believe you wrote “butt plug”. LOL I just about choked on my water laughing at that one.
Anyway, I’d make an espresso smoothie! One banana, one handful of frozen strawberries, one handful of frozen blueberries, and two shots of espresso. YUM!!!
Not sure if my other comment went through! But I would love to win this!!!
I would so love to make some good smoothies without chunky ice! Or maybe a margarita……hmmm
I may have commented already but my laptop was being a jerk… so I am not sure! But that blender sounds awesome! And my kids would love to drink smoothies from this blender!
They made some kind of green apple “ice cream” when they demo’d it at Costco. It was delicious.
I would grind grain.
oooh I’d love a vitamix! I make green smoothies almost daily! we get alot of leafy greens from our CSA, and there’s only so many salads I can get everyone to eat.
BLEND ALL THE THINGS!! My kiddo loves smoothies. His bday is May 24th – I feel lucky!
at least your sucky blender went to a donation place, my four are sitting in the garage, wasting space still, haunting me… taugnting me… mocking me… they know the’ll be here for a long long time.
OMG ! I am dreaming of a vitamix since I first saw it !
We have a wedding in september in wich my husband and I are best man and bride’s maid. Expenses for this wedding are piling up (dress, toxedo, shoes, 150$ each for the cover to the wedding) I almost cried when I realised that it is going to cost the price of a vitamix (and sincerely, let me choose between a vitamix and a wedding…. I’ll do a smoothie fiesta, noooooo wedding ahahah)
So here it is, my chance to get both a vitamix and to pay way to much money to go to a wedding 😀
An enormous amount of homemade frozen margaritas!
You know… I think I have a blender, but I rarely use it because on top of the choking, I hate CLEANING the damned thing. LOL! But hey, a SEXY blender may just change my blending ways… 😉
I have a vitamix and start almost every morning with a nice blended shake full of spinach, kale, frozen blueberries, and half a banana. I add a splash of almond milk, a date, cocoa powder and flax meal. 🙂 I’ve experimented and come up with other varieties, but tend to fall back on that one as my favorite. 🙂 Hoping to win the vitamix for my daughter in law, so she can fill the grandbabies’ bellies with yummy drinks. 🙂
You make me crack up. Jerk blender, i thought I was the only person who thinkst he word jerk is funny. anyways what i woudl blend in it maybe some strawberries and carrot.
Ooooh.. I want!!! I had never even realized what Vitamix was until today, because I am lame. Like everyone, I like to blend tasty boring fruit smoothies. (Banana, berries, maybe some spinach, and twice now my own placenta… But that’s another story. And I don’t want to blend placenta again. I’m fresh out. So yeah, berries.)
Soup is awesome too.
My blender isn’t a jerk. But i think he’s an invalid. He’ll blend just about anything, but then he starts putting off this awful burny overworked smell… Kinda like the vacuum… I suck at appliances.
On reading this, I am so incoherent. I blame kid #3, the newborn. Even though he isn’t a jerk. Happily though he at least doesn’t’ smell like burning. Yay!
I love your blog, and I love smoothies. My blender sucks, too! Maybe it is related to your old one. 😉
I’d blend whatever can be blended! Except maybe meat…I tried to make my baby pureed chicken once and it did not turn out right. Even my baby was offended.
Best art I’ve ever seen! Oh and the Vitamix would rock my smoothie world!
I make smoothies every morning with my crappy blender! I shake it pulse it and poke it until it finally gives in and blends! My 2 favorite combos are pear/banana/greek yogurt and milk, with a little ground flax and cinnamon. I also really like orange/mango/peach with greek yogurt and milk…it tastes like a creamsicle…YUMM!!
yes please
I would love a new blender. I need to hide veggies for my kid to eat them.
me & my kids love to blend yogurt strawberries& blueberries
I am *sooooooooooo* excited to be entered into this giveaway. How do I become famous enough to simply mention a product and have the company send me one? 🙂 It’s very kind of you to be giving your second away (and very kind of the company to allow you to do so), and pay for the shipping! You’re one awesome lady!
Sounds like a wonderful treat! Way to share the love. 🙂
I would do some of the million things I’ve pinned 😉 Fruit/veggie smoothies (and freeze some for summer treats), as well as some of those fun slushy drinks (both alcoholic and non)
I’d blend up strawberry/banana yougurt pops. Seriously my kid’s favorite… blend up vanilla yogurt, strawberries, bananas, a little bit of honey, pop ’em in the freezer, voila… summer treats that don’t suck.
Also, margaritas.
oh man. i work around these blenders all the time. if only i had an extra 600$ lying around…
sadly, the thing i would want to blend most, peanuts, are what my wife is allergic to. cruel fate 🙁
My blender is a jerk too. If I had one that actually blended I’d probably be more inclined to make smoothies and the sort. I’m not very original though, so just your typical bananas and berries would round out our or smoothie making.
I have long since given up on blenders… can Vitamix make me believe again?
I would love to make yummy smoothies that my daughter and I could enjoy all summer!
I kill blenders on a pretty regular basis. I have had a few smoke.
for this purpose I am afrid of shelling out 600 bucks on somehting I can break.
So i stick with ones i buy at thrift sotres for3 bucks and go through them twice a year.
unless I got one on the cheap.
Thanks for donating the 2nd one! how kind! I would blend veggies and fruits and make virgin margaritas all summer since I am pregnant and can’t have tequila but want the taste of them! 🙂
I’d blend up a lot of crayons and then throw the dust at runners outside. I’m sure they would like that.
I am becoming a smoothie lover! I would love to have one that can handle more than liquid & just a few other ingredients.
OMGeezey – I have lusted after Vitamix for forever … I’d make so much stuff if I had one. I’d even mill my own damn flour (because that’s just how I roll.)
My husband just dropped and broke our crappy blender. It was crappy, but I miss it. My mother-in-law generously gave us her crappy blender (she has a fancy schmancy one too) and believe it or not it is crappier than the one my husband broke. I can’t even imagine one that would blend veggies… mine won’t even make milkshakes. 🙁
I have a friend who owns a Vitamix, and she loves it. She makes her own almond milk, and that’s something I really-super-really want to do. We spend SO MUCH on almond milk for my little one, and it’d be great to save there! Not to mention, all the smoothies I’d make him because he sneers at any and all vegetables.
My kids LOOOOOOVE smoothies! I finally got a blender that can handle them, but the warranty will be up next month, so we all know it will die in July. I was saving for a Vitamix, but I had to use that for som unexpected expenses, so now I’m tarting over on that. I would love to win one!
The business piece of my juicer looks like this: http://www.omegajuicers.com/parts-accessories/masticating-juicers-parts/auger-white-8003-8005.html
OBVIOUSLY I need a blender with a butt plug.
…and if I won this, I would make smoothies and soup and almond milk.
I love pineapple banana oj, but I am so cheap, I don’t like to buy the cartons. I buy the super cheap frozen concentrate and make it myself!
I actually started a green smoothie challenge on the 1st and I am using a “crappy” blender. I would love to win this vitamix! My fave smoothie ever ( and one my kids love!) from the Challenge is the Strawberry Bliss Smoothie.
1-2 handfuls spinach
1c. milk
1c. frozen strawberries
1 banana
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbsp honey ( or more to sweeten to your taste)
Ice (optional)
So delicious!
Frozen strawberry lemonades are awesome! Strawberries, lemons, ice, water, and either sugar or appendage. My blended sucks too. Would love to win!
I would give it to my mom, and she would make a beet smoothie! Beets, mixed berries, a banana, and some yogurt. Nom!!
We have been trying to go gluten free with a kiddo with ASD. I have recently discovered chickpea pb and cc cookies and blackbean chocolate cake. I kid you not. It works and you can’t taste the beans. You have to blend them up so it is not chunky and my blender just doesn’t get the job done. I think a Vitamix would knock it out of the park.
I’ve dumped more blenders that I care to admit. Ok, so it’s actually 5. I would LOVE to own a Vitamix!
omg a Vitamix!! Totally hot, I’ve been drooling over them for years!
I would grind up my own gluten free grains, millet, almonds, ect. If I can get my hands on it I will grind it up!
Love your blog. Also, lol butt plug.
Sweet! A Vitamix is on my wishlist for sure!
Vitamix!!! Yeah, you lucky dog you!! Who doesn’t want one of those? I swear if I had one, all we would eat is soup and smoothies for a year!!
Spinach Artichoke Dip in the vitamix!!!
https://www.vitamix.com/Find-Recipes/S/P/Spinach-and-Artichoke-Fondue
I’d love to win a blender, mine broke up with me months ago!
I WANT ONE! I love blending salsas! I would totally put this beauty to use! Jalapenos, onion, garlic, salt, special seasonings, tomatoes and all kinds of other things to make yummy salsas!
This is an incredible giveaway! I would love to win!
I’d blend smoothies, because I’m trying to be healthy but I hate just about every healthy breakfast food out there. Except smoothies. Who doesn’t love smoothies?
I could use a vitamix. Glad they were so awesome with the mistake.
Holy cow!!!! This is AWESOME!!!! I love you! 🙂
Having a blender would make summer easier with kids and smoothies!!
Easiest thing ever:
Break a few bananas into pieces.
Freeze for 4-5 hours.
Put in blender.
Blend until smooth.
Eat.
Magic banana ice cream.
awesome! That’s the blender in my “dreams” list as well 🙂
Slobber, slobber, drool. Is it wrong to get more excited about a blender than shoes?
My picky eaters love smoothies!
I am slowly but surely killing my blender with pre-run smoothies. I can’t go without one. I would love a vitamix!
I don’t really measure anymore, so sorry, but here is a good combo. It doesn’t officially have sugar added, so I pretend it’s really healthy
1-2 bananas
some milk
about 1 T of cocoa powder
about 1/2 T of peanut butter
some ice
The real question is what wouldn’t I blend? I love smoothies so I’d make lots of green smoothies with fruits and veggies. I’d also blend soups and stuff. Liquid diet, here I come! (:
I would love to win this!
must.have.vitamix.
smoothies.made.daily.
husband.does.not.understand.
pick.me.pick.ME.
Holy bejeezus, I had to scroll down for ages! Smoothies do sho. Or as my 4yo calls them “groovy smoothie”. Thanks Fresh Beat Band. And thank YOU for the chance to win!
I really want to love my blender. And now that I think about it, it’s not a great blender. But I always thought it was more of an “it’s not you, it’s me.” kind of thing. My crappy picture would show the blender yelling at me “Finally! Decided to use me this year? I miss Christmas and Easter and Girls Nite because you dont want to wash me? You’re L-A-Z-Y.” At which point I would not appreciate being spoken to that way and suddenly remember why I didn’t want to take the blender out for the last 6 months, because I’ll have to take it apart and try not to slice my fingers off while cleaning it and probably lose that rubber ring – Again -. Maybe next time I get the blender out and it starts in on me, I’ll just remind it that it’s fairly boring. Maybe I’ll make a snide remark about how it’s not a Vitamix. That should shut it up.
Maybe some blueberries and oats and yogurt and chia seeds and honey. or whatever.
We had one previously and made the stupid mistake of selling it. I regret it everyday. If we had another, I’d blend the fool out of everything (but especially a yummy spinach smoothie)!
I was given a juicer………..
There was a reason I was given a juicer…….
There was a reason why they were getting rid of their juicer…….
There is a reason why the juicer went to the good will. It either sucked, or I wasn’t capable of getting the juicer to juice. lol
Sounds like a vitamix could be a dream come true. haha Never heard of one nor seen one in action.
I have friend who just got one and I’ve had blender envy ever since!
blended coffee!! my summertime favorite
http://thenotsoskinnybaker.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/skinny-caramel-frappuccino/
What would I blend? Margaritas to share with all the other moms!
The question is what wouldn’t you blend in a vitamix! My friend has one with the large capacity thingy and then a smaller one (so cute) and I just lust after it! LUST…
I never have luck with blenders. 🙁
I don’t even have kids and I love your blog!! You are the funniest lady.
I would blend up green smoothies, and fruit smoothies for my 2 year old. We would also make lots of yummy soups and such.
I’d make some yummy baby food, but my blender is a jerk!
Leaving the obligatory comment, because I WANT THAT BLENDER 🙂
I have the child who runs out of the room, hands covering her ears, if I get the blender out of the cupboard.
I wonder what one of these would do to her poor fragile psyche.
My boys love smoothies! Thanks for sharing your extra blender – that’s really awesome of you.
The first thing I would blend with my Vitamix
Strawberry Limoncello
1 cup frozen or fresh strawberries
3 TB simple syrup
3 TB lemon juice
1 cup limoncello
1 cup club soda
And then smoothies for the kids of course 😉
Oh wow could I use this! I’d make smoothies, and all those pinterest recipes I can’t make cuz my blender sucks.
I know, not helpful. But the 600+ other people had great ideas! 🙂
Ooooh! I’d love a Vitamix!
Oh man, do I want one of these! My little girl has multiple food allergies, so I cook EVERY meal, EVERY day. Good tools always help! 🙂
And here I was just a little while ago doing the same thing with my crappy blender. Shaking it all around, pouring in more milk, pushing all the different buttons just hoping it would blend a decent smoothie. Oh to have a Vitamix!
Avocado smoothie, try it I dare you. It’s super easy. 1 avocado, some sugar or your preferred sweetener and milk. yum!
I would blend up lots and lots of delicious protein shakes with banana, pineapple, coconut milk, etc. My current blender is a bit pissy about having to work so hard to blend the frozen fruit so I could really use this blender.
I would love to win the vitamix because our crappy 1st nanny broke our blender and I just had #2 and loved making the baby food for #1– so I desperately need a new blender, and I wanna be like the cool moms in my hood who have a vitamix
I want to start juicing to get more veggies in my diet…I would love this!!
So I guess with all these comments my chances of winning are pretty low.
I’m DYING for one of these!!!! Lucky you!
I could totally use an amazing blender like this. My food processor just isn’t big enough and ends up with food goo all over under the work bowl. I could make my own nut butters, make amazing soups (that my daughter might even try), and make super yummy smoothies. Coconut milk with mango and pineapple sounds good right about now.
This seems like such a dis-service to the awesome-ness that is the Vitamix, but I would make baby food. For reals. For a 5-month old with no teeth. Vitamix would be calling ME the jerk after that 🙂
Oh man. I wish I’d asked for a free island getaway first. It’s practically a done deal now.
As for smoothies, my current favorite is chocolate, peanut butter, raw milk, ice, and protein powder. But a close second is pineapple, mango, peach, raw milk, ice and protein powder.
Amazingly generous of you!! I’d blend all sorts of smoothies for my three, soon to be four, kids. 🙂
hummus!
i love making nut butters, smoothies, soups, sauces anything really
I love your blog! I’m trying to post a comment -_- but my internet keeps going crazy
I would mix bananas, ice maybe yogurt and possible chocolate chips… b/c eating healthy is for losers! lol jk
I’d just throw it in there and put caution to the wind and guess the amounts lol
I love to make smoothies with soy milk, orange juice, a banana, and frozen berries. I’ve also tried blending frozen bananas, which is delicious like a super healthy ice cream but difficult for normal blenders to handle (I broke one). Your Vitamix should be able to take this on easily! Thanks for sharing your good fortune!
Having a blender would make summer time easier with kids and smoothies.
We are a milkshake family so that is what would be whipped up in our house. We haven’t had a blender in years. Our last one was a pathetic piece of crap also and when it died on us after a couple months I refused to bring another loser into our house lol.
I’d blend pesto, ice cream, my own nut butters, my own flour, smoothies galore, and soup! YUM!
I love to make smoothies but my blender equally sucks big time. My 2-yr-old calls them “moo-mees”
I was JUST swearing at my blender this morning. Hubby doesn’t understand. I need something that can crush ice, for the love of
Pete!
Smoothie, soup, anything!!
Fingers crossed, toes crossed, hair crossed….oh WTH, I never win anything!!! Still entered though!
Do you find yourself just staring at it lovingly throughout the day? Because I would.
Yay!!! Blender! I want a blender! Love your blog, as usual!!!
This sounds exactly like my life, my blender is terrible! I hope I win.
Hmm things to blend up… Carrots. I would like to blend carrots! But, they can’t be alone.. so perhaps carrots and beets together to make a juice. Mmmm that sounds yummy right about now!
I would blend my favorite smoothie. Cucumber, apple(skin and all), banana, strawberry, blueberry, water kefir.
Ice cream! Lots and lots of healthy ice cream w almond milk, honey & frozen fruit. Yum!
I have resorted to only using a hand blender because our blenders suck too. Thanks for offering this one up!
OMG, I’ll totally ho myself out for the vitamix! I could link you to one of my pinterest pages, I have a few of smoothie ideas up there and everything on there is stuff I tried and can vouch for (no pinstrosities). Does that work? If so, hopefully the link above works! (put it in the website line). Come for the smoothies, stay for the iced coffee recipe (the best I’ve ever had – really).
I would make some green smoothies.
My blender has no lid because my kids used it for the top of their snail house. Out of all the things in my house to use for a snail roof, they used the blender lid. And yes, I know I could wash it, but in my mind their would still be snail slime on it so there is no way I could enjoy anything that came out of it.
I’m so jealous. I would *LOVE* a Vitamix blender. You’re blog is hilarious. I love reading it. It always makes me laugh.
Thanks for sharing.
If there is one thing that everyone should agree upon, it’s that this blender is SEXY.
My blender is a jerk too! I could totally use a new one: smoothies for the kiddies, Rita’s for mama 🙂
So many people have commented and are actively commenting that my browser quit!
I would make smoothies and soups and nut butters and margaritas and ohhhhh what WOULDN’T I make?
I blend up carrots, frozen strawberries, bananas, and blackberries. Add a little cream…yum! Actually, I have to use carrot juice, but I would use carrots if my blender could handle it!
Oh my goodness, I’ve been drooling over the Vitamix for sooo long! I have blender envy!
Every morning, in my crappy blender, I blend:
1 cup unsweetened almond milk
3 scoops soy protein powder
2 tbsps ground flax seed
1 tbsp chia seeds
1 cup frozen blueberries
1/2 frozen banana
I’m dying to try some new recipes, especially green ones… but my blender sucks! I can’t afford a fancy, schmancy one so I’ll just enter here and keep my fingers crossed that I’ll get lucky!
First time commenter – love this blog.
I don’t normally go ga-ga for a contest – but I’ve been coveting a Vitamix for quite some time. I’ve got a decent blender for now that was a wedding gift, but a Vitamix… that’s like the Cadillac of blenders. I’m pretty sure it would change my life… or at least be used to make even more margaritas than I usually make… either way: major life improvement.
(I guess I would use it for other things besides margaritas… but if we’re being honest… it’s mostly a margarita machine.)
Um I would adore a Vitamix! Our blender is so crappy it smells bad when I blend something. And I need a little spice in my life when I open up my pantry and see IT sitting there. Thanks!
So nice that you’re giving it away! I was just on Facebook last week asking if Vitamix blenders are really worth their cost… the answer was an overwhelming yes from our friends. I’ve recently been making “Zombie Monster Smoothies” which are just chocolate almond milk, banana, peanutbutter and spinach. Kids love itand I love getting them to eat spinach!
I’m boring… I’d use it to make breakfast smoothies for the kids. 🙂
I would blend up yummy fruits and sneak veggies in so my kids would be tricked! Mwah, hah, hah.
Sorry, no great ideas for you, but I would be happy to smoothie the crap out of some frozen fruit with that thing.
You’re blogs are so funny. They help remind me to see the humor in motherhood. Especially when having a crappy day!
It’s not for me you see. It’s for my 5 year old who put a Vitamix on his Christmas list. I promise I’ll share!
My blender got displaced by an immersion blender and a magic bullet. However, it is a pain to have to make smoothies one at a time and the bullet is really mostly for making baby food.
Blend margaritas. And daqueris.
This is AWESOME!
I’d blend everything. Just everything. Just to see what I could blend.
My fantasy for a while has been to get a blender to sneak fruits and veggies into my children’s diet through juices and smoothies!
My 20 blender is uber crappy! My poor kids don’t get smoothies anymore either!
I have a lovely bright red kitchenaid blender, which SHOULD have been awesome. I mean, their mixers are legendary for awesomeness, so the blenders should be great too, right? NOPE. I can smell the motor getting hot after it’s been on for like ten seconds. I like to make smoothies every morning and smoothies call for a vitamix, that’s just how it is.
My blender SUCKS. SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS. Love your blog, love your humor, would love a Vitamix.
My kids love smoothies, too. I have a magic bullet, and it’s also a loser. TOTAL LOSER.
Our favorite smoothie recipe:
LOTS of spinach or kale
tablespoon of flax or chia seeds
teaspoon of virgin unrefined coconut oil
lots and lots of pineapple and mango
plain greek yogurt
some protein powder
whatever random berries you might have in the house. red ones preferred because they cover the green from the spinach
little bit of oj or some other fruit juice
ice cubes (unless the pineapple and mango is frozen)
blend blend blend (in small tiny amounts, because like I said, the magic bullet is a total loser and can’t actuallly blend a whole dang smoothie at once)
I need this because my old blender is a drunk. He is too weak to blend anything but alcohol and ice chips. Not even real ice cubes. Now that I am recovering from surgery, I don’t need alcohol. I need green smoothies and power shakes for my new found love of running. I would like to make fruit smoothies for my children and pico and guacamole for dinner. With a new Vitamix I would be able to ditch the alcoholic blender and the crappy food processor too. Please, make my day!
I would blend fruity smoothies with spinach smuggled into them. And then I would freeze some into popsicles.
I would love to win a new Vitamix blender! I have an old one that my mother-in-law gave me as a hand-me-down and the pitcher base broke a few weeks ago. I’m saving up for a new one, but my kids miss their berry-spinach smoothies!
Love your blog! Seriously always makes me laugh.
My blender isn’t so much a jerk as a grumpy old man. He served me well making margaritas in college, but I think my husband’s last attempt to make green salsa in it was the final straw. We’re almost to the solid food stage with my son and I’d love to make my own baby food. Not sure Mr. Grumpy Blender will stand for that!
PS Love your blog. Discovered it a few months ago while I was nursing what seemed like constantly and read through the archives. Baby got a “milk shake” I laughed so hard! Thanks for showing me what I have to look forward to.
I have killed two, yes two blenders trying to make hummus in them. The first one involved a wooden spatula. The details are fuzzy. The second involved a potato masher. Apparently they can create one heck of a vacuum, which is bad. I currently have the parts for two, maybe three blenders, and I don’t think I have a working blender between them.
I would blend up carrots, spinach, strawberries and watermelon..hmmm.
I want the vitamix!!!!
I think it’s a tamper, not a damper. Sorry if someone else already commented that, I’m way too lazy to read them all. My favorite recipe is this one: http://www.averiecooks.com/2011/05/vanilla-avocado-banana-ice-cream.html. It is beyond awesome. My kids beg me for “green ice cream.”
We make green smoothies all the time– lots of spinach, pineapple, mango, carrots, and coconut milk. Even my 3.5 year old and 1.5 year old love to drink it and call it “ice cream”.
I would give it to my mom! And she would make a beet smoothie. Beets, banana, mixed berries, and some yogurt.
I don’t blend anything crazy, but the kids love their smoothies. And hey, alcoholic tropical drinks for the adults! With ICE… Blend in some ICE!! slushy tropical goodness!!
I’d blend up clementines, a bit of coconut milk, honey, cinnamon, and ice. Kind of like a Orange Julius…yeah, my blender can’t handle my ideas either.
i’d make some salsa verde
parsley, oregano, thyme, garlic or shallot, olive oil, salt
or i’d my my son’s favorite smoothies!
one half banana, large handful of fresh blueberries, four medium strawberries, a small handful of raw almonds, a big dollop of plain greek yogurt, a tsp of local honey, a scattering of flax seeds.
Kale! Add kale to everything!
I have a lazy blender too! I never thought about it until you described it so eloquently. Love your blog!
my twins love smoothies, and all icee concoctions! I would do a lot of older banana and fruit drinks, soups, etc. I would look for things to blend, bwahaha!
Butt plug – best line every (or at least for this week).
I would love to blend up some strawberries, raspberries along with cranberry juice and some vanilla yogurt for a refreshing treat with my new Vitamax! Also, a few margaritas would be tasty too!
My favorite smoothie ingredient is AVOCADO!!!
I like to blend strawberries, vanilla ice cream, and milk and ice with a little sugar. Husband likes to add rum but that wouldn’t be good for Crappy Baby! A friend blends vanilla yogurt, kale, avocado, blueberries for her son, who loves it. May have spinach in there too.
I would make Popsicles for my kids & drinks for me!
Ooh a Vitamix! My brother-in-law and sister-in-law have one and they use it to make their own rice milk. I would love to try making my own flours, making smoothies without ice chunks, and maybe making some nut butters. So many options!
My blender hates this post with the burning hot intensity of a thousand overheating motors and fervently hopes that I don’t win so it can go on not-blending simple dang stuff like milk and frozen banana and smirk while we clog our straws with the half-chunky, half-soupy, not-blended mess. Me, I hope I win.
I’d blend me up some hummus! I have a decent blender but chickpeas have been known to stall it.
What a great giveaway! Love your blog, and hate my blender!
Blend margaritas. And daiquiris.
I’ll gross you out and say I would blend up Dessicated liver.=)
I would probably make smoothies. Boring, I know. Maybe use it to blend up delicious Bacon-Cheddar Cauliflower Chowder… (last time I just left it chunky)
dang, everyone wants the blender! i used to have the hp3 blender, (3 horsepower! yes, a kitchen appliance w/ horsepower), which is the main blender competition of the vitamix, and i could blend anything in that thing. you can make soup, hummus, ice-cream thick smoothies, etc – oh, here’s a good one – you can make your own flours (like oat flour), or flax seed meal, or nutmilks. i have currently been reduced to using my roommate’s magic bullet (also sounds like something that belongs in the bedroom) and nearly killed myself making cream of zucchini soup because there’s no steam vent and the dang thing blew it’s top, exploding scalding hot soup all over me and my kitchen. consumer warning: do not blend hot soup in the magic bullet. well, hopefully this was helpful 🙂
love your blog – i have a three and a half year old and a five and a half year old, so i can completely relate!
I could make the most amazing green smooties ever! It would pulverize everything so perfectly!
broccoli fennel soup!
My mother has had a vitamix for several years. I have intense jealousy. It could even destroy our relationship. (maybe not)
But man do I want one!
I got my son to drink blueberry-strawberry-banana-spinach smoothies at one point. He even said they were yummy. Then he got suspicious.
Soups, smoothies, green drinks, flours…..what WOULDN’T I blend up. 🙂
My favorite though: Milk, strawberries, banana, 3-4Tbs coconut oil, small squeeze of agave nectar – AMAZING shake.
I just used my blender this past weekend and was very frustrated with the lack of actual blending that occured!
If I had a really cool blender like this, I would make margarita’s for my neighborhood!
I’d make smoothies or homemade sauce.
Mango + rice milk + honey into blender. Freeze in shallow dish, then scrape into cup for frozen ice granita.
Gah! I had to scroll though all those comments on my phone! I’d love a real-working blender!!
Yay for Vitamix!
Ooh I would love this for my DIY coolattas. Much easier on the wallet than my DD’s habit.
How awesome of you to raffle off your extra blender! Thanks so much! If I win I will give it to my mother-in-law. A recent head injury has caused her to have trouble chewing and I think this would help her so much!
I want to join the cool kids in the vitamix gang!
I love your blog. You crack me up. I feel like you are my twin… except my butt is way bigger ;o) BTW – If I win, I live in Germany, but my address is a US address so don’t discount me if I win. *Fingers crossed* … toes too!
Milk. and Ice Cream. I’d blend up a milkshake.
I love your blog! and I would LOVE a vitamix!! It’s springtime and fresh juice is calling my name!
This is perfect for making babyfood, in addition to smoothie~~~
My parents have had a Vitamix for about 20 years and it still works great! Mom always made spaghetti sauce in it because she could add lots of veggies and we wouldn’t complain about finding chunks in it. You can blend granulated sugar and make powdered sugar if you run out! I would make smoothies for my kids.
My husband loves smoothies, but I stopped making them years ago because our blender sucked so bad. Great post.
I’m going to go with being completely honest here..I just want it to make a decent margarita. Okay, I might use it for something healthy. But yes. Margarita.
Pick me!! I sooooo want one. I’ve been wanting one since like forever. How awesome are they for letting you give it away? How awesome are you for sending it to one of your fans! Love this blog. Love Vitamix. All around love.
I am incredibly sorry if I have 3 comments on this… I am attempting to “comment” and my page gets stuck after I submit. My 3 kids would love to drink ANY type of fruit smoothie I blend up in this thing, I am particularly thinking of a strawberry banana variety… mmm. oh I “lied” when I said 3 kids. The 3rd, I would probably just blend up some natural baby food as he is just 8 months. 🙂
OMG, I would LOOOOOVE one. We make smoothies everyday!
Oh my !! So excited, I’m sure it’s a looong shot..BUT someone has to win !! Thanks Amber for sharing your good blessings !
I would make green smoothies, but I’m loving all the other ideas posted…nut milks or flours? Can I do that with a blender?
Half a bag of frozen organic mixed berries, 2 cups of spinach, 2 bananas, and half a carton of unsweetened vanilla almond milk…the smoothie that I make every morning. And if I win this thing and don’t have to poke down all of the above ingredients with a wooden spoon every morning – I would be that happiest gal on earth!
Nuts! I wanna blend up nuts in one of those blenders and make my own nut butter. Or seeds! Sunbutter is soooo awesome and yet so expensive.
I’m not normally not a kitchen gadget kind of person or even a kitchen type of person but a blender that actually works….now that I’ll type for!! Love your blog, keep up the crappy amusing work!!
Oh I hope I win, I want to dump my blender too!
Omg….my blender is miserable 🙁
I make smoothies almost every day for myself and my 2yo daughter. Our blender is “eh…”
Currently, this is my favorite:
Pregnancy Green Smoothie! I’m 31 weeks along so I’ll be making these A LOT this summer.
http://oldsoulcharm.blogspot.com/2012/04/super-pregnancy-green-smoothie.html
How cool would that be??? I’d love to start doing green smoothies, but it takes a pretty powerful blender to make them smooth. 🙂
I’d love to make some açaí smoothies!
My birthday is on May 24, so I’m hoping birthday luck is on my side and my name is randomly drawn. =D
I have an AMAZING “Roasted Garlic Red Potato Soup” recipe that requires me to blend some roasted red potatoes. I bought a new blender specifically to help me with this recipe, to no avail of course, because all blenders, while great in concept, actually suck!
Happy Birthday fellow Gemini!!!….May 24th is also my birthday!
WOW – relatively new reader, so first time commenting and there are A LOT on here! But I would finally try adding some spinach to my smoothies. I pretty much don’t eat veggies, but someone said that if you have a really good blender, add a little spinach for some great nutrients. But I, like you, have a crappy blender that i would never in a million years try putting spinach in.
you are the best, how sweet that you would think of little old us. 🙂
Oh, I see them on QVC all the time! I love when he makes ice cream or pasta sauces!
OK, so I really want that sexy blender, but checking off all those sweepstakes entry steps makes me feel like I actually accomplished something today! That in itself makes me a winner.
I love your Crappy life. =)
I don’t know if this is a real thing, but I’d make a black forest shake. LOTS of cherries, dark chocolate ice cream and some whipped cream. Oh, chocolate graham crackers for crunch? Maybe a touch of Nutella in there for some extra unnecessary naughtiness. Do you think that would even be allowed to do in a Vitamix?
My favorite smoothie (and I apologize, I just eyeball the amounts):
spinach – couple handfuls
mango – frozen, 2/3 c or so
pineapple – frozen, 2/3 c or so
almond milk – to reach desired consistency
protein powder – 1 scoop
orange juice – just a splash (for flavor and only if we happen to have some in the fridge)
I just found a recipe for a mango raspberry smoothie. I’d mix up a big ol’ batch of that!
We have an old Vitamix, and have about blended it to the ground. I want a new one soo bad! My daughter is tube fed, and we blend up all of her food, every single day. It’s fantastic, it will blend anything!
so many reasons to follow your blog… never thought a Vitamix would be listed as reason! you rock!
I have 5 kids. I would make smoothies at least once a week and soup broth all winter and all kinds of healthy pulverized sneaky veggie/fruit things. I hope I win. 🙂
I don’t have a VitaMix, but I know very cool people who do. And, they love using theirs. And they love reading CrappyPictures, too.
definitely green smoothies.
Love your posts, and so does my 13 year old daughter (when I point out the really, really, extremely LOL funny ones to her. Usually b/c she hears me laughing). I don’t know what I would blend – my current blender is so sucky (and at least 25 years old) but I would love to have the ABILITY to make smoothies. And I probably would. If I had a blender. A blender that actually works without the whole stick a wooden spoon in there to move the stuff around.
I want a new blender. I have to shakes ours to get it to do anything.
I would love this!!
Yeah Vitamix!! You so deserve one, thank you for sharing the opportunity!
I have the exact same problem you used to have. Except the little thing in the middle of the lid that is supposed to be a little measuring cup didn’t stay where it was supposed to. So when I had to shake my blender awake, I had to make sure to hold that little thing down. . .otherwise I ended up covered in partially blended smoothie.
That is soooooo awesome! ….. and so generous of you, Crappy Mama! Wish I win this giveaway! Crappy Mama and Vitamix rock!
Spinach, banana, frozen berries of whatever varieties I happen to have in the freezer, greek yogurt, orange juice. It’s how I get greens into my toddler. He thinks it’s a treat.
My kids love smoothies too…. I need a better blender!
Even your giveaway posts are funny. I am hoping to get that kind of power in my house. Not the get free stuff power, just the blending power. Do you read the giveaway post comments?
I would love this!!
I would blend a bunch of healthy stuff for my kids that refuse to eat anything with nutritional value.
I like making smoothies. My favorite contains strawberries, bananas, yogurt, a splash of milk to make everything blend easier, and ice. And some honey if I have it around.
I’ve read that Vitamix blenders can be used for grinding grains, so I’d like to try that.
The Vitamix is like the Aston Martin of kitchen appliances. The butt plug thing is bonus!
I’d make some yummy fruit smoothies! I found some amazing ones on Pinterest!! Wish my blender wasn’t broken. Lol.
Your blender story is MY blender story. Minus the happy ending…
Please!!! I need a happy ending!!!
I’d blend up my kids left over dinner that they always refuse to eat. Then, they’d just drink it without knowing it. I’d add some apples or something to make it sweet. Because I’m nice like that.
Wow! I’ll have to sell a kidney if I ever buy a Vitamix!!!!
Our blender is a jerk too, and we loooooove frozen smoothies! We often buy the huge bag of frozen fruits from Sams club or Costco, and although it takes some effort to blend it all, the taste of the sorbet-like texture is so so good! I can just imagine how awesome would be, to make frozen smoothies in this blender!!
They are definitely a luxury kitchen item!!
I have been looking at these blenders for a while. My Stepmother has one and because she can do no wrong in my 9 yr old’s eyes, he actually CONSUMED the vegetables Grandma N so lovingly blended for him. I was shocked. But my skeptical mind says “if I buy one, he will not drink”. So this would ease my angst of my 9yr old veggie phobia and not feeling like a chump if he dumps it down the sink. LOL!
I would make soup!
I love this blog! Congrats on your new blender, I finally decided to chuck mine last week! My husband has 9 food allergies (yes, 9!!!) and I have to make every. thing. we. eat. from scratch. Therefore, a Vitamix would literally change my life!
No new ideas… I’d just love a blender that worked.
I had a blender. It sucked. So I got a magic bullet. It sucked less but still sucks. I want to blend the crap out of stuff. I want a vitamix.
My 22 month old WILL NOT drink milk. Even chocolate milk. But he WILL drink smoothies (especially if he thinks that I have made it for myself). Is using bait and switch on a toddler acceptable? The closest thing I have now to a blender is the Baby Bullet that I used to make his food in when he was little(er). Thank thing is a jerk!
MILKSHAKES! Any kind of ice cream.
*That answer might be swayed by my pregnancy cravings… for milk shakes. All kinds.
I definitely agree. I’m pregnant too and all I want is ice cream and milkshakes.
I would make hummus and pesto every day for life. I totally agree about the luxury car comment. I get so jealous when I find out a friend has a Vitamix. Currently I go to my friends house and use hers. 🙂
I’d blend everything… well, anything. I don’t know. I don’t have a blender. I’m a blender virgin, I guess… But thinking about it, I’d probably make something completely frivolous like margaritas for lunch (we homeschool, yes, margaritas for a homeschool mom’s lunch is COMPLETELY reasonable!)
I feel that way about my blender lol. It’s awful!
We blend smoothies with real fruit and ice at my house, but if I get this what couldn’t I blend?
I would love this! I also have a non blending blender….sigh.
My 22 month old WILL NOT drink milk. Even chocolate milk. But he WILL drink smoothies (especially if he thinks that I have made it for myself). Is using bait and switch on a toddler acceptable? The closest thing I have now to a blender is the Baby Bullet that I used to make his food in when he was little(er). That thing is a jerk too!
‘ICE CREAM’: frozen cherries, milk, and chocolate! That’s it. Yum yum yum yum.
I’ve never owned a blender! Can you believe that? I, along with a billion other mamas, would make a sh** ton of smoothies with this bad boy. Also, can you say iced coffee blenders?!
OMG I would LOVE to win this! My old Oster is really worn out and starting to fail on me and I blend at least a couple of times a day because my youngest son has issues with swallowing food. I pack yogurt, bananas, berries and spinach or kale into the blender. The kids and I also do a pbj smoothie with yogurt, berries, and peanut butter.
I want that!
I used to have a vitamix. Long story, but it is now being of use to my brother. See? I am selfless. However, I want one again and can’t afford one.
My favorite thing to make was soups! Oh it was so easy. The chicken tortilla soup was amazing. You can’t do that with other blenders!! I also made almond milk with it.
You should blend your old blender.
Hi would blend everything!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
Actually I think “THINK” I would attempt to make my own green smoothie. Spinach and banana and some protein powder. Friends keep telling me how easy it is but to tell you the truth… I am frightened lol
OMG! I would love a vitamix. I have been making green smoothies in my old blender and they are like “sip”…..”chew”…”chew some more”… I have been stalking used ones in eBay for months, but they still are out of my budget. Thank you for sharing your extra.
I would blend Chia seeds, greek yogurt, blueberries and a dollop of almond butter with a wee bit of coconut milk. Mmm….
Add spinach to your smoothies! Great way to add nutrition without your kids knowing!
OH my goodness I have wanted one of these for so long! So very very jealous!
I don’t even have a blender. I have a food processor that I melted when I sat it down on a hot stovetop burner. It’s a jerk, but it’s kinda sorta my fault.
I’m boring and would probably do stuff like spinach, strawberries, and bananas… But maybe I’d try to sneak stuff in there like kale… Or mango… Mmmm
Pick meeeeeee
Love your blog! I have been following since your “What its like not to sleep at night” post, which was perfect timing for me when you wrote it. It wasn’t until a month ago that a friend told me we are from the same home town! Small world. Anyway, my daugther loves smoothies too, and I too hate my blender. However, I trudge through using it because its such a great way to get veggies into her. Here’s her favorite recipe. She’s 3. I always serve this one with pizza. I figure it balances out the unhealthy part 😉
2 big bunches of kale
2 bananas
Vanilla almond milk
If I have frozen berries on hand, I add them in. If I’m making this one for breakfast, I also use a cup of plain greek yogurt.
🙂 Cheers. Thanks for making me smile with your posts!
If I win the vitamin, the first thing is do is crapy pants, and them is make ALL THE THINGS!!!! Soup, hummus, pesto, pasta, juice, smoothies, mmmmmmyummyy!!!! Come on random generator!!! Pick me!!!!!
I love milk, apples, and peanut butter in a Vitamix smoothie. You don’t even have to peel the apple with a Vitamix! Just cut it up and throw it in. Seeds and all!
OMG, How awesome!!! Lucky you, and hopefully me. 🙂
Personally, I’d probably only blend up milkshakes. But think of the things that my boyfriend, the cook, could blend! Things like breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks!!! Gosh, so many possibilities!!
I would sooo love a blender that works!!
I’ve heard of making crepe batter in a blender, and I think I’d give that a try with a blender like this.
I’d love to win this! We love smoothies but don’t make them often because I’m afraid it’d kill my blender 🙁
I would love to be able to make smoothies, but I just have a regular blender that barely makes a milkshake.
My lame blender broke but it couldn’t handle the smoothies, juices, and soups that I wanted to use it for anyway! Thank you Amber for offering your second one.
I would love to blend up green smoothies and breakfast smoothies for my 2yr old boy
I just found out I have to lose approximately another 10 lbs to fit into my wedding dress by late July. Clearly, I should be on a smoothie diet, but woe to me, I have no Vitamix to blend my fruits and veggies!
I bought a rather expensive blender thinking it *might* just work…but still an a-hole
Can’t stop laughing about this! (or anything else you write, really.)
Dude. I’d blend everything. Every. Thing.
I hope your kids are witness to your amazing generosity (for giving away and not selling the extra one) and honesty (for contacting Vitamix about the mistake)! What a good role model you are.
Here’s my blog post comment — I love your blog and have been lusting after a Vitamix! Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
the only way my son eats veggies is if i hide them in a “fruit” smoothie and freeze it. he thinks its just a popsicle 🙂 i need a vitamix in my life!!!
Holy comments batman! You know you are giving away good shit when….
I had to share my blender, or lack thereof, story from this weekend. I forgot that our blender died. No one was sad, it was cream colored and none too efficient at its job. I always meant to buy a new one but lets face it, I would rather buy shoes. So over Mother’s Day my husband asked me what I would like to eat for dinner to which I responded…margaritas. I had a new recipe that I was dying to try out. My loving husband trucked to the liquor store to buy me tequila for Mother’s Day, can you say klassy with a k?! When he returned I gleefully pulled out all of the ingredients and then realized that I had no blender. I wanted a blended marg and nothing else would do! I pulled out the food processor to chop up the ice and blend the tasty drink. Did you know there is a line on the machine that tells you not to fill it with liquid above that line? Evidently I wasn’t aware. I turned on the machine and liquid went everywhere. So for Mother’s Day I spent the afternoon sipping margaritas from our kitchen counter top.
Love your humorous take on life!
I would blend bananas and spinach with vanilla soy milk and ice. Because that’s what I demand of my crappy blender. And it’s yummy.
I wonder what my Ninja would say if I brought home another blender-lover….. Especially the one that looks like a butt plug.
It would probably say something dirty.
My daugher loves smoothies! I have a similar love hate relationship with smoothies because I too have a crappy blender! I would make her a smoothie everyday and then whip up a green monster for myself! thanks for offering the giveaway!
Oh, the Vitamix. I’d love to have one, but I’d also like new garage doors, a new roof, a termite treatment for the house, etc., so I don’t have one yet. I’d like to be able to make quick sauces and smoothies, and I’d love to kick that bulky Ron Popeil juicer to the curb.
I would totally blend my starfish kids so that they stop kicking me in the spleen and stay on their side of the bed!
VITAMIX
I really want to try hiding veggies in smoothies to get my almost-4-year-old to ingest some actual vegetable matter that doesn’t come out of a can (he loves chicken noodle soup with carrots but a child cannot subsist on smushy carrots alone!).
I want sexy hey baby blender at my house!
I would so blend up my old blender… and then whip a batch of *ahem* “healthy drinks” to toast the jerk’s demise! Rum is healthy, right? Don’t answer that.
Hummus! Pesto! Salsa! Kale and mango smoothies (with coconut milk)! Dutch pancake batter! Yum yummy yum! Ohhh, the possibilities are endless…
I first got your book and read it in two days full of roaring laughter and neglected children (oops). Then I found your blog and spent the next week reading every post (even the giveaway and blogkeeping posts). I probably lost a few hours of sleep. I did. I definitely did.
You are the best, keep it going until the kids are married (or as long as you can). I would love to meet your new Crappy In-Laws, we all have them.
Ooooo!!!! I want to win… Plus I scrolled allllllll the way down here to comment on my phone!
I would soooo love a Vitamix blender! I make smoothies everyday and would love to use a good blender that actually gets all the chunks out 🙂
I don’t ever blend anything because, like you said, they don’t work well. And I just can’t spend that kind of money for a Vitamix!! Lucky you!
Smoothies, most definitely. But I’d love to crush some ice for summery cocktails. I feel like my current blender would totally crap out if I put ice in it.
Slushies are my favorite. I love them. In fact my last blender died because of my love for slushies. Every since my last blender died my husband will not buy me a new one because I want this one. A Vitamix one. He said it’s not worth it for slushies. But it is. But if I could get it for free then we would both be very happy.
I currently have “El Cheapo” sitting on my counter. He has a smirk face and says,”You just try…haha!” (say this in an Antontio Bandera cheezy voice). I can only semi blend some things. Making pico de gallo for Cinco de Mayo was a fail. Sure would be nice to make my twins some nice cold smoothies with Summer fast approaching.
i want a new blender please!
love your site! and I’d love a blender 🙂
My blender likes to get my hopes up. It works fine. Then it doesn’t. Then it works fine again. Until it doesn’t.
Awesome contest. I need a new blender. I hate mine too.
I have no idea what I’d blend, but I’d try to make some yummy fruity something.
This is the smoothie my 2 year old son and I make every day: Frozen fruit (we really love cherries or peaches), orange juice, coconut water, a banana (perfect for those ones constantly going bad or ones you peeled for him that he decided he didn’t want), kale (it’s really great! I swear!), and a little bit of agave nectar. My blender is really awful too so it takes forever to get it even slightly blended. We do the ‘smoothie dance’ while we are waiting! I’ve been secretly dreaming of a Vitamix the way I used to secretly dream about Sting!
I would so blend everything that comes out of my garden and local farmers market… I mean, I’ve totally been intending to eat better, but eating takes so. much. effort.
Bonus: in the fall, VODKA!!!
My 2.5 year olds constant tantrums for “no food”, only getting nutrition by smoothies killed my blender this week. I think this is karma.
I’d blend some millet and lentils. I want to make Ezekial bread, but my blender looks faint if I put anything more substantial than a frozen strawberry in it. Granted, I’m probably supposed to get a food processor for this, but I hear the vitamix can handle it. I’d love to find out!
This would be awesome to help me with my weight loss goals! Crossing my fingers!
I’d blend a stealth veggie smoothie for the kids. Veggies with enough berries to fool them into drinking it.
How amazingly sweet of you!
I would blend a banana smoothie-ripe bananas, frozen vanilla yogurt and milk. It sounds boring, but it’s delicious!
Or!!! Carrot juice with orange juice. Add some vanilla frozen yogurt. You will thank me later!
p.s. I used to work at a smoothie place-feel free to email me for delicious secret recipes.
I’ve always wanted a Vitamix but it was never really in the budget. Supposedly you can make all kinds of stuff, not just smoothies. I was always afraid I’d splurge on one and just end up making smoothies. I think you should try blending up some hummus and soups in addition to your smoothies.
Thanks for all the chuckles and for doing a giveaway! 🙂
I would totally blend up the strawberries, cherries (sans pits), bananas and pineapple my mr. just brought home from the store.
My husband and I have been DYING for a Vitamix! We want to blend our combos from our juicer. My favorite that I want blended: Kale, apples, cucumbers, beets, ginger and carrots. Tastes way better than it sounds! 🙂
I would blend everything. Mine is on its last legs. It smells like burning plastic every time I use it. Which is weird, because I don’t think there is any plastic to burn… I really need a nice new blender. My kids are getting sick of chunky smoothies. Smoothies shouldn’t be chunky…
I would LOVE a Vitamix! My mom has had hers for probably 30 years and it still rocks. Of course, I’ve tried to convince her to give me hers – she won’t budge, and I don’t blame her. Thanks for the opportunity!
My son is graduating college in two weeks, and I don’t really have a graduation gift for him. Yeah, I know I have had 4 years to pick something out, but it just wasn’t on my radar until about a week ago. He has gone thru two “Magic Bullet Blender” contraptions, a hand-me-down regular blender AND a brand-new regular blender whilst making healthy smoothies (he is a Kinesiology major, after all) as well as milkshakes during his college career. This would make a great gift for him — I bet he would be more impressed than he was when he and his girlfriend visited me for a couple days during the last Spring Break and I brought home pizza and beer for dinner!!!
I love green smoothies, however my current blender doesn’t get the whole “smooth” thing so this would be awesome to win. Thank you for the chance!
I am STILL laughing about the butt plug comment…yep…I need to get out more often.
🙂
Love this blog
You’re very generous! Didn’t know I wanted a Vitamix, but I do now!
I will blend all the things! But specifically, I will blend far more of my frozen blackberry stash. I hear the Vitamix does a splendid job with seeds.
Oooh, I totally think a vitamix would be sexy…on my counter!
This blog makes my week.
I’d blend up fruit & veggie purrees for the reusable squeezy pouches I bought for my 2.5 year old who refuses veggies, but would suck down a pouch in a heartbeat.
I’ve been trying to eat a little bit healthier lately, and even though my smoothie trickery hasn’t worked on my almost 4 year old, I haven’t given up. I can usually manage to get him to take at least 2 sips of them, and hey, 2 sips is better than none. What I’d blend up is: kale, organic low-fat vanilla yogurt, a variety of berries (strawberry, blackberry, blueberry, and raspberry), banana, flax seed meal, chia seeds, almond milk, a tablespoon of shredded unsweetened coconut, a touch of water to get to desired consistency, and maybe a spoon of nutella or two 🙂 And you can’t even taste the kale! However, if I want the wee one to drink ALL of the smoothie, I’d leave out the flax seed meal and chia seeds – I’m pretty sure I could get it past him at that point! LOL
yay
I have a pretty nice blender that I do like, but I have heard great things about Vitamix especially in a Plant Based FB group I am in.
You are AWESOME for giving away the second blender! I would blend up some orange banana smoothies for my kids 🙂
I apologize for not reading all 1000+ comments, so I don’t know if it’s been suggested, but I love making Nut-Date Balls in my vitamix. (I’m entering this contest to give it to a friend.) Nut-Date Balls taste better than they sound, and are super easy. I just toss in a handful of nuts, a handful of dates, and a teensy bit of salt. Let Mr. Vitamix go wild on high, tamp along the way, and there you have it. Roll into balls or just shove it in your mouth as you pull it out. You can see ChocolateCoveredKatie.com for better instructions. 🙂
Squee!
I, like you, have a crappy blender. My smoothies are chunkies. I would love to know the taste of a smooth drink!!!
I know these blender would help me make big batch of smoothie for my big family of 6! I know you can make peanut butter too, yummy!! I wanna win!! 🙂
I’d blend myself a delicious green smoothie every morning!
You are awesomely generous! Blessings!
I have a friend, a lady farmer who is now in her 70’s, who uses her Vitamix for *everything*. She makes the most incredible sorbets in it. So I would make a lot of sorbet with cool flavors like grapefruit Campari and rosewater mint. And smoothies. xoxoxo
I don’t know what I would blend but something with yummy fruit in it.
What a great idea, to share the wealth with your fans! I love your blog, and I think you are so great to share with your fans.
3 words: bourbon chocolate milkshakes.
I’d blend us up some smoothies! Our cheap-o wedding present blender is no good. LOVE your blog, btw!
I’ve been wanting a Vitamix for years – have asked for one from my husband for birthdays and Christmas, but he just thinks is a glorified blender – I know that it isn’t!! My friends love theirs. What I am most looking forward to (besides amazing smoothies where I can hide all sorts of nutritious things that my kids won’t know are there 😉 ) are making nut milk and nut butters. Hopefully I can buy one for my self soon!!
Any combo of frozen fruit plus some plain yogurt, plus some keifer if you dare. We like strawberries, pineapple, mangos, blueberries, peaches, raspberries, and blackberries in pretty much any combination. I like to add some avocado, but the kids don’t like that much. It doesn’t really change the taste a lot, but they still don’t love it.
Love your blog! Bought your book and loved it! Really want a Vitamix!! If I had one I’d make smoothies (obvs), salsa, soup, margaritas, daiquiri’s and whatever else I could dream up 🙂
I think I may have broken my blender with frozen fruit.
I have a blender. It’s like your old blender. It should go to the local donation place… but I still have it. Because someday I might want to “not blend” something, with all the exciting spoon-poking, shake-it-up action included.
But I am pretty sure I could part with it if I were to win a Vitamix. Pick me? 🙂
I would love to get a Vitamix and blend up..EVERYTHING. Because it’s a tank. Did I mention I love Vitamixs.
i would love it for smoothies too! soups and almond butter!
salad dressings everything!!!
This is the best blog! I can’t decide which I enjoy more: Amber’s posts or the people who post back! Funny attracts funny, I guess 🙂
You are awesome! I love protein shakes made with frozen blueberries.
I love blending milk, bananas, and spinach. I know what you’re thinking, “What a sick weirdo! I can’t allow him to besmirch a $600 blender with that nastiness.” I know it sounds, looks, and kind of smells weird, but it’s delicious!
SMOOTHIES, for cripes sake!
I like the ghetto version of coffee shop drinks with whatever’s on hand.. chocolate milk, check, generic instant coffee, check, random fruit that’s too ugley to get a kid to eat it but still edible, check…stuff that my child would never eat if she knew it was in there. She loves it and I’m a rock star.
I would blend strawberries and mangos.
Ohhhhhh my goodness!! A Vitamix is to me like a Ferrari (or other fancy cars, I don’t really know any other names) is to other people! I would make all kinds of concoctions! It’d make sneaking vegetables into my kids diet so much easier!
My favorite smoothie is plain yogurt, frozen banana, 2 handfuls of spinach, mango chunks and a few drops of vanilla extract!! YUM–add some ground flaxseed. I would love to win so I can make healthy smoothies for my family!
Heh, this contest seems in danger of crashing your blog. 🙂 Not that I am surprised. I would love a vitamix! I have a Breville, which is pretty good, and a lot cheaper, but not quite up to the pulverizing everything level!
I used my mom’s food processor to chop up worms for a baby bird this morning. Think the Vitamix could do that? We could feed a whole flock of baby birds!
P.S. I did wash the food processor after, but don’t tell my mom anyway!
Baby food! I’d make baby food! Not for me but for a friend.
My blender went to blender heaven a few weeks ago. I went to make a strawberry smoothie and it just went grrrrr…. phhhht and that was it. 🙁
I would blend up all kinds of smoothies for my husband, he keeps saying he’s fat and needs to juice. I go along with it bc its funny
Smoothies…and probably baby food!
I love your blog and I so wish I had a not-sucky blender. I don’t think I have ever owned one that worked well and didn’t leak. I would use it for smoothies and fruity alcoholic beverages.
I would blend anything that wouldn’t jump back out. Those things are AMAZING
I’d blend healthy stuff, sure. Also blend not so healthy stuff like ice cream and peanut butter 🙂
Either my first or second comment since not sure if it took before.
I actually like my blender but have heard amazing things about Vitamixes and would love to try it.
Thanks for giving away your extra. And way to go Vitamix for sending it to you.
Vitamix, now with butt plug! Love. It. I can’t understand why it’s not part of their marketing campaign.
Let’s see what to make… spicy sweet potato hummus? soup? smoothies? anything with tequila?
I’ve been dying to get one of these for years! Crossing my fingers!
WOW! Love the comics to go along with the reality of old blenders!
For real? What an awesome giveaway. I’m glad I’m not the only one with an over-active imagination.
Kale, spinach, blueberries and/or blackberries and/or raspberries and/or strawberries and about a thumbs worth of ginger. They are fantastic smoothies!
My blender is also a jerk that only works if I shove a spoon down his throat, and I work way too early to make breakfast so a smoothie is my only real way of getting breakfast in to me (6 am start time people, I am not getting up early enough for oatmeal!) so I unfortunately just have to deal with his jerktitude. I’m getting married at the end of July, maybe someone really nice will buy me a non-jerk blender haha
We make smoothies daily too! My blender is just okay, but even DD says the Vitamix is a better blender and makes better smoothies. We love our orange smoothies – frozen OJ concentrate, 1 cup milk, 1/2 cup honey (or 3/4 cup sugar), 2 TBSP vanilla, then 2 cups of ice. Awesome!
I love you’re blog, you are hysterical and your drawings always make me smile! You know what else I love? Smoothies! Every morning I blend strawberries, bananas, peanut butter and coconut milk for breakfast. However my crappy blender sounds very similar to your former crappy blender. Very, very tired and crappy. Imagine the creations I could make with a Vitamix, whooboy! Enjoy your new studmuffin of a blender!
Wow! I’m entering, I would LOVE to win the Cadillac of blenders!
This is just what I needed today, because:
A) I never win anything, but maybe this time I will!
B) I had a partially CRAPPY day, the cherry on top being my son getting a huge bump/cut on his forehead. Sigh, one of those days.
Thanks for the laugh, I needed it! 🙂
Love you, love your blog, and would totally love to win a Vitamix! I need to dump my looser blender, too.
I would blend up some baby food for my 6-month old’s first meal!
I bet it’s post-divorce quality, too. 🙂
I seriously want one!!! Our current blender would be so sad but he’d get kicked to the curb in a heartbeat if we had a vitamix!
Love this – looks amazing!
I love your blog! I would totally blend fruit smoothies and see if I can find a fruit combo that my toddler, who’s recently decided she’s picky, will like!
Oops, I see we were meant to tell you what we’d blend. We love to make smoothies. I keep some peeled bananas in the freezer, so I usually put in one of those, one regular banana, some frozen blueberries, soy milk, dash of cinnamon, scoop o flax seeds (ground). That makes 2 delicious smoothies. I also use it to make sauces or hummus etc sometimes. Have fun with your new blender!
Smoothies, lots and lots of smoothies. Also I live in VA so I will grab my book (your book) and see you in DC
PB Chocolate banana smoothies because they are my favorite 🙂
I hate my blender as well. It is a lazy s.o.b. I would love a VitaMix to blend up some smoothies. I bought a reciped book for smoothies at 5 Below. It would be nice if I could use it with a new VitaMix blender. Mango, papaya, orange and pineapple would be a definite staple.
I would totally use that for orange julius and smoothies and my hubbie’s favorite frozen coffees so he stops wasting money at QT
How about banana, orange sherbet, mango, and pineapple juice? (Probably a knock-off of some Jamba Juice drink out there.
That would be a petty amazing belated mothers day gift!
AWESOME!!!!!!!!
I would love to have one of these to make homemade smoothies for my 14 month old son :). How awesome are you for giving us the change to win one!!!
The Hubby has be DYING for a blender to make fruit smoothies for.ev.er. Only he’s been drooling over a Ninja but I think he’d settle for a free Vitamix!
My favorite all time is 1 cup almond milk, 1 ripe banana (riper the better), 1 heaping tablespoon of peanut butter, and 5 ice cubes.
if I win I will GLADLY split the shipping!!!
We have a Vitamix and love it! My 4 year old has no idea his strawberry “ice cream” is full of spinach! Muhaha!
Smoothies! Make them all the time with my 3-y/o (crappy boy) and 1-y/o (crappy baby). P.S. I had to scroll (on my iPhone) FOREVER to get to the bottom of the comments. Holy cow, there’s a lot of other people out there (like me) who hate their current blender.
My husband and son love smoothies. My husband makes one almost every day in the hot weather. I use the blender for hummus, sauces, salsas, almost anything. My blender is a jerk too. I have lots of spoons the jerk has bit into when I tried to wake his ass up to finish the job.
in fact I have two partially usable blenders.
I would make margaritas! With little umbrellas! 😉
Baby spinach, banana, mango, pineapple, strawberries, cherries and orange juice. This was my lifesaver when I was preggo and I used all frozen fruit. Easy and delicious ( my fussy 3 year old loved them!)
I so hope I win! I need a blender in the worst way! (I have to have mouth surgery in a few months and will be on a liquid diet for 3 months. Yuck!) I love your Blog by the way. I pull it up once a week and my husband and I have a great laugh.
I’ve been needing a new blender! I think I have the brother to your blender that just got dumped in the donation box, they need to be reunited.
Ooo, my blender is a jerk too!! A loud one!
I would totally pulverize anything I wanted in a Vitamix.
1 15 oz can of pumpkin
½ cup of Milk
1 cup vanilla frozen yogurt
6 Gingersnap Cookies
½ tsp cinnamon
½ tsp allspice
¼ tsp nutmeg
¼ tsp ground cloves
½ tsp vanilla extract
Pumpkin pie in a cup.
I have damaged many a spoon stirring the contents while my blender is “blending.”
What a great side effect to having a successful Blog!!! Love it! (and I’d love one)
I would blend oranges, pineapples and bananas. I may or may not add kale…and vodka.
I would use it to blend babyfood for my baby and smoothies for the other kids.
and maybe margaritas for me. lol
I would make banana, strawberry, greek yogurt smoothies for my family for breakfast.
I love it! Enjoy your Vitamix. Now if I win, is Vitamix going to show up at my house and try to confiscate this ill-gotten uber-blender?
mmmm id blend me up some yummy milkshakes 🙂
I’ve heard nothing but good things about these blenders yet never had the chance to see one in action. Would love to see how quickly they make up a smoothie.
I would make lots of green smoothies for my daughter and I!
I’m not very creative with my blending. I would try to make smoothies first, then maybe some soups.
I love that you are doing something us mommies are rarely exposed to, a giveaway of such an amazing product! I’m lucky if I can get everyone’s tushies wiped before nap! Thanks for making this so easy!
Id blend up some spinach with pineapple, banana and some seeds ) pumpkin, sunflower and flax 🙂
I’d blend vinegar, blue and red food coloring, glitter, and a picture of Pat Robertson and see if the result is a homemade douche. (The purple and the glitter is for presentation. No reason not to be festive at every opportunity.)
Love Vitamix!!!!
I would use for post-run protein smoothies, soup, nut butters, and salsas. Real butter too!
I have been saving up for a Vitamix for months! Nothing else can compare! I’m going to green-smoothie my entire garden this summer. 🙂
AAAANNNNNND, it wasn’t until I filled out all the entry stuff that I saw this contest was only available for Americans. SIGH, sometimes it’s hard to be a Canadian.
I would love a blender, period. I’ve never had one and pay $6 every time i want a smoothie. Its great You are giving it away!
I love making green smoothies in my blender, and my kiddos are gaga over spinach. I accidentally (no really, it was an accident, but I wasn’t sad to see it go!) dropped and broke the top part of my crappy blender and have a NutriBullet now, but I would still love one of the big fancy ones.
I would love to use this to make soups!
We love: Strawberries, Oranges, apples, with a little bit of ginger root and some kale!
We used to juice but our cheapo juicer was wasting too much of the fruit/veggies so we stopped. My 3 and 2 year olds still beg me for a fresh smoothie/juice. Something like this would be a total blessing, esp since I’m about to give birth in 4 or less weeks and would love to use it to blend healthy smoothies while I’m breastfeeding!
You super-lucky duck!! I have wanted a Vita-Mix for thirty years (no kidding, my oldest kid is 33). I would make everything a Vita-Mix can make, but I would start with soup and ice cream, and then move on to smoothies and almond butter. Thank you (and Vita-Mix) for the opportunity to win!!
If I promise free babysitting can I win?
thanks for sharing! I’d maybe try to be good and get into my protien shakes again or try green smoothies. Not sure my current blender can handle anything more than bananas. 😛
You are an awesome lady, and I hope you love your new blender!!! 🙂
I would blend everything and anything! I would hide yummy leafy greens in my kids smoothies, make green smoothies for my husband before work and make soups, juices, dips- you name it I would make it! I have been wanting a Vitamix for years!
Spinach and fruits. Frozen fruits. Nuts. Old cellphone. Everything!
Ooooh I would blend my post-yoga smoothies in them. And, of course, margaritas and cookies and cream shakes!
I would blend up my favorite smoothie. Chocolate almond milk, frozen banana, and almond butter. Yum!
I would use it to hide veggies so the kids accidentally ate something healthy!
MARGARITAS!!! & maybe some green smoothies 🙂
I would blend any fruit with ice cream to pretend its healthy!
I use my POS blender to make hummus … slowly.
I can’t even blame a real blender for my bad smoothies – I’m using an old Beaba Babycook! It’s an a@@hole, just the same.
Vitamix is wonderful at adult blended drinks too, I”m just saying. . .
Congratulations on your new blender….
I feel the same way about blenders. I currently don’t have one because I was at the “all of these succk stage”! How cool would it be to win a Vitamix!
I would so let my eight year old daughter create a new concoction. With adult supervision, of course.
I would make molè sauce!
My husband desperately wants one of these. I hate making thinkgs in blenders (except milkshakes – they are worth it!) but maybe that’s just because the blender we currently own stinks too. 🙁
Fruit smoothies & milkshakes
Oh my gosh… a Vitamix is on my “someday I’ll have” list! I really want one but they’re so expensive. Sometimes they have demos set up at Costco just to taunt me! 🙂 I would blend up soup and smoothies and most definitely drinks that require little umbrellas!
I am in SERIOUS need of that blender. Please please please! 🙂
I would add greens to our smoothies. I can’t do it now with our blender, but I’d really like to eat healthier.
I heard about a combination of apple juice, ginger and spinach that is supposed to be really good.
fruit! fruit! fruit! okay and maybe some alcohol.
Holy wow. That’s awesome. We’ve been pining for one ourselves.
My mom has a 40 year old vitamixer that still works great. It was grandmas and then my mothers. It has needed a few repair parts but it keeps on going. She actually grinds popcorn to make cornmeal. Those things are awesome!
I always get so excited when a new blog post comes, and this one rocks cause there’s a giveaway!! YAY!
we had the same troubles with our old blender! hubby shopped around and ended up with a Ninja one. but man, that Vitamix looks amazing!
Dude. I would blend my SHOE if I had a Vitamix.
I want one too please!! My toddler is starting on solids again after being put on a special diet and this would be perfect!
I’m not really a smoothie person because I also hate our blender, but maybe something with coconut milk and frozen mango or pineapple… mmmmm.
I have had an on-again/off-again relationship with my blender for the last TEN YEARS! Now that I have two kids in the picture, it’s time to get with a blender that can handle all that. if I don’t win that raffle, I just might have to invest in one of those puppies. Hope you enjoy yours!
Can you add alcohol to the Vitamix?? I will try and mix up some amazing concoctions…all healthy of course!
I would blend up breakfast smoothies with fruits, yogurt and oats! Some adult blends would also be in order with coconut milk, pineapple and rum!
Thank you for the butt plug comment. I’ve been having a horrible week, and that just really made it better!
I heart your content.
I think this blender will work really well for making baby food! Not that I have a baby anymore. But if I did, I bet this blender would have made terrific baby food!! Maybe instead of buying V8 fruit juice, this would enable me to make my own! And my veggies would never spoil because I would blend them before they could! It would be terrific!!
Awesome giveaway!!! You so deserve a blender =)
I would use a Vitamix for everything, but especially to make soup!
It’s margarita time!
Mango, pineapple, mint and spinach…
“(Plus, the damper looks like a butt plug.)”
I almost choked on my salad!
I would definitely make some fruit smoothies, milkshakes, and “mock”tails (breastfeeding, so none of the good stuff… yet) as well as try some of those “green” smoothies.
I’d mix up some margaritas…duh!
Dude. I would blend everything I could find. Frozen fruit. Carrots. Kale. Legos.
OK — probably I would only blend smoothies. Oh! And margaritas!
My girls love smoothies too…and frankly they are a pretty easy way to get some fruit in them for breakfast. And they can drink them on the couch. While watching My Little Pony. Easy morning! So I would make smoothies…Banana and Strawberry!
I really really want that blender please 🙂
I would make chocolate milkshakes like it was my job! Thanks for the chance!
Mmmmmm….smoooooooothieeeeeeeeeeessss….
I would blend up my morning smoothies! I LOVE those packages from Jamba Juice – I measure NOTHING! I cut ZERO fruit! I LOVE THEM! And my current blender is a lazy SOB like your old one!
I covet a Vitamix. Every time I see one, I think “oooh baby, the things I could mix up with you. Oh yeah.” and I give it bedroom eyes.
Also, thanks for the bookplate sticker! I got it and had already read the book, so it took me about a week in my messy house to unite the two of them as one. My book has been plated, so much obliged. And thanks for all the laughs.
You and Honest Toddler should team up to do some joint posts. I think the universe would explode with AWESOME if that happened.
I would blend up some smoothis and some cheese fondue and make some butternut squash soup.
Love this post, you crack me up! PS your book rocks my world, I was in tears! And finished it in 2 days… that coming from a mother of 2! I don’t have time to read unless you count chicka chicka boom boom for the 8,693,349 time! Your blender is sexy and I would love that hunk in my kitchen to make smoothies for my two little ladies. Also I would love it for the start of my spaghetti sauce where I have to cram it with veggies! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Whenever I make smoothies, I use frozen fruits, fruit juice (any kind) or organic lemonade, vanilla yogurt (or ice cream if we happen to have it). Blend it all up and you have a yummy treat.
If you were thinking about doing sponsored posts in the future, I think that butt plug comment sealed the deal. For you to do sponsored posts about butt plugs.
I would love a new blender. My kids have taken over everything! They already figured out how to use my Keurig. So now I have to HIDE it so they don’t make all my chamomile tea!
Hilarious! My blender is totally a jerk. And my kids cry because it is so loud.
Seeing as how my oldest will only consume fruits and veggies that are pulverized, this would be an AWESOME addition to our kitchen! You rock.
Make muffin mix in a blender! Add oats, berries, whatever, always turns out awesome and no complaints from a 2 year old about ‘stuff’ being in their muffins! Plus, easy to pour into the muffin tin and less clean up. 🙂
Vitamix rocks!
And I’m loving your drawings! 😉
Ooo! A vitamix! I could make frozen coffee. I haven’t met a blender yet that does a good job with ice.
I would love to have a Vitamix Marriage Blender!! It would make all my other small appliances so jealous 🙂 My kids love strawberry banana smoothies, but my blender doesn’t do too good with chopping up ice.
Ok, fine. I’ll admit I want one. PLEASE!! 🙂
Smoothies are an awesome breakfast before school for 3 kids….they complain about the kale, but you can’t taste it!! So…I keep adding it every morning. I’m known to burn a motor in a blender…let me attem!
My kids love smoothies, my blender sucks. Try making smoothies for 5 kids and a husband with a suck blender. I also like Ani’s idea, margaritas sound fantastic!
I have wanted a Vitamix for years, and I adore your book and pictures. Thanks for not only making me laugh but for sharing your good fortune with us!
I WANT ONE
I’d blend up a yogurt smoothie! With berries. Yum. I’d love to hear that baby crush some ice.
I would love a sexy blender! Then I can be cool and make smoothies too…
I didn’t even know there was a blended out there that doesn’t totally suck!
I’d make vegan smoothies!
Smoothies. Savory ones. Sweet ones. Especially ones made with frozen stuff because my current blender cannot handle it. Also margaritas.
Cilantro, because I love blended cilantro way more than regular cilantro.
So nice to share !
I would love to have this to blend all kinds of things…baby food, smoothies, COCKTAILS! My last crappy blender recently put itself out of its own misery by jumping from a very high cabinet onto the tile floor!
I want it.
I would blend up whatever I could find. Spinach, frozen fruit, a hammer, whatever! These things do it all, right? My kids could use some more iron in their diet…
I can’t afford one of those but I found a $45 magic bullet solved my blender problems (especially the cleaning factor. I hate cleaning the damn things!)
Green smoothies with lots of spinach, banana, blueberries, carrots, and mango!
I’d make Hummus! What a treat and cost savings!
I thought Vita-Mix was a total gimmick for hippy granola crunchers….until my parents got one…..Wow. I make due with my crummy little blender, but a Vita-mix would make things SO much easier…if I could just get my hands on one….hmmm….where could I get a Vita-mix…..for free…legally…?? 😉
Oh, right. What would I make…I would make smoothies, a daily occurrence here…and soup and hummus and salad dressing and…and….and…. (also in the allergy boat, where everything has to be made from scratch)
Dude!! I would blend ALL.THE.THINGS!!
I’ve been wanting to get into smoothies but like your previous blender, mine is also a lazy jerk.
My MIL wanted a Vitamix, so my husband and his three sisters went in on a birthday gift to her. It took four families to buy one. Two days later, that same husband tried to mix bread dough in my $20 blender and burned out the motor. ‘But my mom’s could have done it!’ Sigh. Yes, yes it could. We use it all the time to make banana ice cream and assorted gluten-free, casein-free baked goods for the nieces and nephews. My husband asks why I don’t buy a new blender since I like his mom’s, one that wouldn’t be GFCF dedicated, and I told him I have blender envy and would want to smash the one in my price range with a hammer.
I would blend up peanut butter, bananas, milk and chocolate ice cream…for the best peanut butter banana chocolate milkshake ever created!!!
My crappy blender smells like burning hair every time I try to use it. Which sucks, because my crappy baby loves smoothies, too.
What would I blend? Probably make more salsa. My blenders that do that are getting tired. Also, margaritas and daquiris. Anything with booze. And maybe milkshakes.
I would make a mean smoothie with a blender that actually worked. That and soup. Mmmmmmmm
Amazing! Would love a new blender!
Make a delicious cherry berry smoothie! Take frozen cherries and berries of your choosing, add a little milk, maybe a little berry juice or punch, and bam! It’s tasty!
Okay, Amber, you have way too many fans. How am I supposed to win a blender when you have this many fans? Well, it’s worth a try. I’d make smoothies, and hummus, and soup, and pesto, and salsa.
A strawberry banana smoothie with oatmeal and peanut butter sounds delicious!
I’d blend a strawberry,banana smoothie if I had that blender!
I’d also sneak and blend up an ice cream shake after the kids were in bed LOL.
My kiddos and I would love a new blender! Pretty please.
I Always put plain yogurt in smoothies. Extra calcium and protein. NEVER any gross green stuff. Ewwwww
I want a Vitamix and a Dyson, but I could be a used Honda with the money. Pick me!
I saw the Vitamix demo at Costco a few weeks back and have been dreaming of it’s awesomeness ever since. The kids keep asking me for the smoothies and dairy-free “ice cream” (spinach, banana, apple juice & ice cubes) they got to try. We’ll never buy one but it did give me the idea to add spinach to the kids smoothies and they love it so there is that… but yeah, i’d love me a real Vitamix!
Uh. Here’s a crappy comment.
Banana ‘Ice Cream’
I freeze ripe bananas and then blend them. Then return them to the freezer until they get to ice cream consistency. You can use toppings for ice cream (less healthy) and put it in cones. My family LOVES it!
Winning this blender would make my decade 🙂
I have a blender curse as well. My first one leaked constantly and my current one smells like its about to catch fire. Which is odd because like you say, it’s lazy.
I am not just saying this because you are giving a Vitamix, but I adore you & your posts.
You should blend up espresso, peanut butter, milk or milk substitute, and chocolate chips.
My crappy kids love your crappy pictures. I love your crappy book. You are craptacular <3 ( in a good way)
Thanks for sharing the love! Your site is hysterical!
I want it! I’d blend up “special recipes” like I did as a child where I got to choose all the fix’ns (means it was usually ice cream, milk, sugar, vanilla, fruit, chocolate), but it was soooo fun!
We are looking to start blending too since our boys are not very fond of veggies. XD
I would love to win the Vitamix blender! I have a really old one that my MIL gave me and the blender just broke. I’m saving up for a new one, but my kids miss their berry-spinach smoothies!
There are a ton of yummy smoothie, frappe, & shake recipes I have pinned that I would be trying out! 😀
Kind of excited about this, considering I’m not a blender type of person. Change my mind for me!!!!!
I’d love a new blender. My daughter asks for smoothies once in a while, I go to make one, then remember how much my blender sucks, and convince her not to ask again. Repeat every 2-3 months! We like vanilla yogurt and pretty much any fruit.
soup! too lazy to chew so veggies and noodles with chicken soup
My blender is a sweetheart. But he’s tiny, too tiny to keep up with 3 hungry boys, and old, so old he used to only keep up with me. I sure hope I win. He’d like to retire. 🙂
Wow- lucky you to get a VitaMix!
I’d make EVERYTHING! We have food allergies, so I’ve been wanting a Vitamix for FOREVER! 😉
Baby food! I would LOVE to have a Vitamix for my 4-month-old when she starts solid food in a couple months.
I know your kids are a bit too old to eat baby food (or not, I won’t judge), but maybe you could whip some up for your friends with babies and lazy blenders.
Ooh, what a cool giveaway! And a cool mistake. Love the sexy blender.
Me please! My blende sucks!
Carrots, Spinach, Apples and maybe some other assorted fruits and veggies that I have lying around. I’ve had veggie smoothies made by a Vitamix and they are awesomely healthy (and good tasting if you have someone making it that knows what they’re doing).
I’ve always loved everything about your blog and would also love to incorporate the Vitamix into my families new gluten free ways. Have fun blending!
Wow! Lotta comments!
Love your blog! Yeah blender!
i’ll blend carrots, spinach, pear, and honey
This is awesome – thank you! I’d pay my own shipping – that’s crazy for you to offer because that thing is going to be a beast to ship!
So sweet of you to give away the extra blender! I’m sure that karma will come back around (possibly in the form of a hot-tub or vacation with umbrella drinks).
I’ve been experimenting with different smoothie recipes lately, and I’ve been doing some research on “superfood” ingredients. Some easy ones are flax seeds and chia seeds, which have tons of nutrients and omega-3s, and bee pollen. You can add these to about any smoothie and it gives it a health boost without compromising the flavor!
Also, my mom is a health-nut when it comes to our dogs, and with all of the sketchy ingredients in commercial dog food these days, she’s resorted to using her vitamix to blend up chicken, veggies, etc. for home-made super-healthy wet dog food…and it’s still cheaper than the nice pre-packaged stuff! Just a tip for you dog people out there… 🙂
I would want to blend up some homemade ice cream. YUM!
peanut butter smoothies all day long!
Please make me replace my ninja.
I would blend a few things: Homemade sorbet by just adding some ice, a few squeezes of lime or lemon, and some berries with mango or pineapple for sweetness. The kids will love it and it is so much healthier!
I love Vitamix, and I love your blog!! You always know how to make us mamas laugh.
Ice cream! Vegan… for my son who can’t have dairy.
I would love to win the new blender! Mine is crap as well, which sure makes smoothie making difficult. Come on, Vitamix!
I had no idea $600 blenders even existed!
Our current blender sometimes “pukes” out the top for no apparent reason, so this would be great to win! I would mostly make berry smoothies; maybe sneak in some kale or spinach..
I would blend up some of this awesome spinach/walnut pesto to have with pasta. Mmmm, carbs! I have to get the spinach really smooth so my kids don’t know it was spinach…I just say “veggie sauce” and they actually love it!
I would love to make more kale smoothies but my blender refuses to blend kale into a smoothie. It just grinds it into gross pieces, yuck. So please let me win 🙂
I’d love one. We had to choose between a vitamix and a juicer…juicer won out.
I would make smoothie popsicles for my screamy teething baby. 🙂
Homemade salsa! And baby food 🙂
Love your blog!!!! I think the perfect smoothie is watermelon, kiwi, a bit of greek yogurt and ice! So refreshing!
ohmigawd!!! I’m so jealous!! I want one too!!!
How friggin cool is that?! And what an awesome chick to give the “extra” away when you totally could’ve gifted it to family and been the coolest gifter EVER!!! 😀 Would love this sucker for my daily juice/smoothies! <3
I too have a sucky blender. It just doesn’t show me the love.
Mango smoothies FTW
My favorite is “I will so pulverize these veggies for you.” Ha ha I love this blog and your book! Keep up the good work!
We have smoothies for lunch quite a bit. My fave combo is strawberries, bananas, raspberries, blueberries, spinach, Greek yogurt, milk, oj, flaxseed mill, and wheat germ. Whew, it seems like a lot of stuff when I typed it out! The family had these for lunch today! Could use a better blender though 😉
I would blend a PB and chocolate protein powder smoothie with raspberries because it’s important to get your sweet tooth taken care of in a way that doesn’t take down the candy store. 🙂
What would I blend? Oh honey, I am a salsa freak. I love the stuff. I just want to make my own. I own a Ninja and yes, it’s not a jerk but…the vitamix…oh the soups I could make. I can still operate a blender from my chair. The stove is now the jerk because it is waaaaaay too high from my vantage point. Me and a vitamix…we could be best friends. Have dates, everything! Oh wow! What a great give away. Even if it’s only a dream. From now until the contest closes, I can pretend there is one out there with my name on it lol.
I’ve always wanted one of these! I want to “break up” with my crappy blender. 🙂
Ohhh, I would love to dump my no good for nuttin’ blender!!! That thing sucks.
You never fail to make me laugh and I swear sometimes you have a hidden camera at my house 🙂 As for the Vitamix, I keep looking at them and I know we need to get one since my youngest is entirely tube fed and a really good blender would literally change my life by making her meals so much easier. Again thanks for the posts and the laughs!
O.o why hello there lol classic!!
What would I blend?? ANYTHING I WANT :))
I have an old decrepit Magic Bullet, It takes like 45 minutes to make humas or Pesto! Which is awesome fresh made… So i Suffer! You should try it in the fancy blender… It would probably be done in 4 and a 1/2 seconds!!! Toast some pine nuts (or wallnuts), buzz up some Parmesan cheese (1/4 c of each) throw in a garlic clove or 2, 2 tsp. salt, add like 3 c of basil, and a handful of spinach to keep it looking green, whirl up a bit, and add 1/4 c of olive oil, or more till you like the consistency…. Delicious in omlets, paninis, or pasta, pizza… It’s just good!
Spinach, kale, apple, lemon, and celery. YUM! Also, baby food…bye bye blender!
I love your blog and your book too!!
My blender is a second-hand one from my Mom, likely from their wedding in 1970. It still works, but I don’t use it for anything too challenging – like ice. I haven’t even tried that. I don’t want to kill the old dear!
With a new blender, I would make breakfast smoothies for my boys. Then I might actually get out the door on time!
Obsessed! I just received mine as a gift from my love a few weeks ago and I fell even deeper in love with him. I’m not kidding.
If I win, I will give it to my very jealous sister who is a broke kindergarten teacher. She totally deserves it!!!
I’d even try one of those nasty kale based smoothies for this. PS- it would be nice to have 1 piece of kitchen gadgetry that cost more than $35
My dad got a Vitamix at a garage sale one time for 30 bucks because someone didn’t know what they had there. Been stalking garage sales ever since, but this would make a better story if I won one on this awesome sight! Loved your book, by the way!
Vitamix???? I’d post my first born child for that…though she’s 27 at the end of the month…still want her? I have been making smoothies with the protein powder from The Virgin Diet – tried my first kale in one and was sooooo surprised – no one lied when they said it didn’t taste like anything!!! The thing is, I have ruined 2 good spatulas – and was sent to the kitchen “doghouse” for that – using the do nothing blender I have now…Pick me! PICK ME!!!!
Soups !!! I LOVE SOUPS !!!! I’m sure my tubie will too!!!
love it! we just had our blender brake too….
Holy crap woman I think I would have had a heart attack if TWO Vitamixes showed up on my door. That’s awesome! XD
Oh, I forgot to say what I blend. I love me a green smoothie. Spinach and pineapple with flax and almonds is nummy!
Smoothies! Frozen mango, banana, organic yogurt, milk. Blend. Yum. Juice! Pineapple, fresh ginger, orange, carrot. Blend. Yum!
What an investment! I have always been curious what the big fuss is about!
I would make my daily green smoothies!
My kids love making homemade milkshakes, but have to use our tiny mini-food processor. This would be an amazing prize to win for my family. Thanks for the offer!
I’d blend up a big batch of PB+J smoothies!
Smoothies sounds great – especially if I add a little rum or tequila 🙂
*crosses fingers* I hope hope hooooope I win! 🙂 we love smoothies.
Vitamix, now with butt plug! Love. It. I can’t understand why that’s not part of their marketing campaign…
Now, what to make? Spicy sweet potato hummus? Soup? Salsa? Smoothies? Anything with tequila?
I love smoothies. I’m a purist. No dairy or yogurt (or weird supposedly nutritional but not regulated supplement powders allowed). Just fruit.
Right now I do not have a blinder, just a crappy food mixer or processor. It does work but always smells like its burning up when I get done using it. I like to make healthy things my kids would eat or drink esp since my 4 year old only thinks he is picky ( he’s not he just thinks he is cuz he would rather eat snacks all day and not his meals). And my 2 year old isn’t really picky but she doesn’t like alot of junkish type foods she’s a health freak.
I love my stick blender, but it only does so much. If I had a Vitamix, I’d be able to make nut butters without breaking both a food processor AND a blender.
Oh I need this!!!!
Yea, my blender went the way of the donations too. Now we use one that makes like half a smoothie at a time. For 3 kids. I would love a vitamix!!
I heart Vitamix and Crappy Pictures
A vitamix has been my dream since I first started watching Top Chef. You’re one lucky lady!!
I would sooo blend all the frozen fruit pieces hiding in my freezer. They look so neglected, and my current blender is the biggest jerk ever.
I love to blend yogurt into anything. Nothing green. Eeewwwww
I’d make green juice galore if I had a Vitamix. Oh and milkshakes!
I’ve been making a lot of protein shakes with spinach and frozen fruit. The KitchenAid blender does ok but it does take some prodding and coaxing. I’d love to see if the VitaMix really does change my life!!
My husband would die if I told him I won a vitamix. He’s been lusting after one for a loooooooooong time!
I would love a vitamix!! My blender is terrible with smoothies at this point!
Wow!! Look at all the replies! Would love to win, Vitamix is awesome.
I would so make smoothies for me and my kiddos every morning! I love the spinach/kale/mango/pineapple/banana smoothies from Tropiucal Smoothie so I would probably make that!
I would make almond butter and almond milk… oh yeah, and smoothies!
Wow! What a nice company to send one and then let you give away the oops one. Those look like such great blenders!
I’d make Salsa. I use to make salsa in mine all the time, until my husband dropped our glass bottom and it shattered into a million pieces, like my heart! But I like to make two things at once in mine.
Salsa:
3-4 tomatoes (any, they all taste the same)
1/2 onion
3 cloves of garlic
1 jalapeno
1 serrano
(Want it spicy add another serrano. Want it spicy but not colon cleansing spicy add a jalapeno)
Handful of cilantro
A little water
(If you feel it needs it)
Lime and salt to taste
I pan cook my garlic and peppers, mainly to make my house smell good. Add it all to your blender.
Leave 1/4 in the blender, add avocado, BOOM guacamole!
I’ve been wanting to make “green smoothies” a habit, but also hate my wimpy blender!
I’d blend up more vegetable in to smoothies. And make piping hot VitaMix soup.
Ahh, blending!
I make green smoothies using recipes from http://www.rawfamily.com. These smoothies are the best way to get my 2yo to eat his green leafy veggies, like kale, chard and spinach.
Beets? Did you cook them first? If they can deal with raw beets, I’m sold.
Love your blog, got the book. you totally rock
I want this blender so bad! I would blend lots of green veggie smoothies.
What wouldn’t I make? Meatloaf, but still… 🙂
I just want something that can blend spinach without leaving grit in my smoothie!
You might fall in love with this. Okay, so when you go to the store buy the already ripe reject bananas in a bag for $1 or whatever. When you get home, peel them and slice them into bite size pieces, then place in freezable plastic bag and stick in the freezer.
Then when you get a craving for something sweet put some of your frozen banana pieces in the blender and voila! You just made healthy and amazingly delicious ice cream from bananas! I like to add chocolate chips.
Cheaper than icecream and better for you too. Great for anyone with dairy allergies and stinkin’ delicious for everyone!
I’d blend up some margaritas…duh!!
So excited. I know it’s along shot, but I am definitely one of those people who have always wanted one. I even stand around at the Costco demonstrations (I think it’s a BlendTec and not a Vitamix) just to see what he makes. My kids actually drank green smoothies out of it. Something they would never do with the one I have now. I have two favorite combos: banana, chocolate milk, p-butter, flax seeds and greens like spinach or kale. The healthier one I like is a tropical one with mango, pineapple, avocado, spinach and yogurt. I usually use some sort of juice like apple and coconut milk.
I bought a Vitamix blender for my bosses wife recently and it is AMAZING!!! I would love to have one! My kids love smoothies, and I love being able to sneak fruits and veggies into their meals. MY favorites are spinach and kale, banana, blueberry, raspberries, strawberries, and greek yogurt!
I would actually give this blender to my friend Jen who is 27 years old with 2 kids and has stage 4 pancreatic cancer. It’s been her desire to get a Vitamix so she can eat healthier and get more fiber to lessen her cancer complications and feel better for her kids.
I currently juice fruits and vegetables, but would love to start blending! Thanks for giving the second one away!
Pick me, please!!!!!!! I would make all sorts of things 🙂
I’m not sold on the Vitamix. I don’t doubt it is a great blender. But do I really need $600 worth of blender? I don’t think most people do. But, hey, if it is free, I certainly wouldn’t turn it down. I would use it to make smoothies for my kids and soups. I love soup.
Such a great idea – I also have 2 young boys so I would love a Vitamix! Thanks for sharing the good fortune
I dream of a Vitamix! Sad but true 😉
omg perfect timing! I just crapped my blender making hummus. I too had a lazy one. I mean come on I fried it making hummus!
opp as far as what i would make. Smoothies and milkshakes are #1 with the kids. Hummus too of course
So wait, I can leave up to 3 comments for the giveaway? Hmm. Thanks for this giveaway by the way! What an exciting blender opportunity!
First, I think I would blend my daughter’s leftovers and pretend like she had to eat it, as a joke. Maybe I would pack the rice/broccoli/ketchup/chicken smoothie in her lunch, for laughs. Most likely she would just freak out.
This blog is awesome! Also awesome is that the company is letting you give away one of their blenders. Thanks for being so generous!
Yes, I’ve always wanted one of these too! But I didn’t know they were THAT expensive. No wonder I don’t have one 🙂
I feel your blender pain! I too could use a new Cadillac blender!
You are awesome! I have wanted a vitamix for so long! It would be perfect for my morning smoothies! Kale, bananas, blueberries… Yum!
I don’t own a blender and would love one!
This would be a huge help with my kid!!
my Crap for a Blender has a huge incontinence problem and leaks when it’s turned on so I’m afraid of being electrocuted over the sake of a damned smoothie. Currently, I’m drinking Margaritas on the rocks because of said Crap for a Blender- so my first thing I would make would real Margarita’s aka Mommy’s Slurpee!
For the humans (currently) shorter than myself?? They can have boxed Crap-a-Roni and cheese. Cheers!
Awesome Give-Away! Thanks so much! I invested in some quality cookware this year, a blender is on the list for next year for sure! Healthy foods make healthy bodies who are easier to parent–right? 😉
oh oh so many comments already. scrolling down was hard work.
by the way i really want that blender.
Just discovered your site, and I admit to spending yesterday afternoon reading instead of working – you’re a hoot! I suspect I’d be blending up lots of fruit smoothies, as we’re all in a smoothie phase for now. Also, soup. Nom.
I’ve always wanted a Vitamix!! Would use it for so many things! How cool that you are giving your extra Vitamix to someone! It will make some person very happy!! Blessings!
Oooooo! I’d blend up some zucchini soup. Or a cup of almond milk, a frozen banana, and a spoonful each of cocoa powder and peanut butter. Or baby food to put in pouches for my toddler to feed himself on the go. Or…or….
I love your blog and I could use a new blender. My son just killed our last one making his smoothie concoctions! I just told my husband that I don’t plan to get a new one until he moves out because it’s the second one he’s killed.
Holy crap that is a lot of comments. EV eryone wants a blender.
I know I will not be satisfied until I get this blender…just can’t justify spending $600!
Oh Amber ~
HOW I would love that Vitamix. It would make me truly delirious with joy and lots and lots of veggies. Plus, it would kick my current blender’s ass!
So. love. my. Vitamix.
I actually thought I’ve killed it a few times but it keeps going and going and going.
Fruit smoothies are the BEST. I can hide all kinds of veggies in them for the kids. 🙂
I love your blog! It literally makes my day and picks me up when it’s a rough one! You’re awesome!!! P.S. I’d love a vitamix! 😉
I would make kickass smoothies! the type that my crappy blender won’t allow me!
Just love your blog and always appreciate your generosity. Keep up the wonderful work of bringing such joy to us with the honest truth of parenting 😉
the 25th is my birthday! 🙂
Love the risque butt-plug vitamix description. Your humor keeps me coming back for more!
I need a badass blender!
I love your posts! This is totally how my current blender laughs at my efforts to concoct yummy beverages…and everything else. My idea of a concoction (for your giveaway)…bananas, coconut, pineapple and vanilla yogurt. YUM!
Feeling lucky 🙂
I’ve always wanted to do a smoothie that was sweet but incorporated beets and kale. While I like both, I never want to eat as much of them as I feel like the health benefits warrant. If I could drink them, that would be great – like liquid virtue! However my blender looks like your old one and refuses to cooperate. He promises big things but when it gets down to it, he gets jammed up and then leaks.
i’d make hummus!
I’d make kale and pineapple and banana smoothies for my kids. Sounds gross, but they are yummy!
strawberries and bananas…. always the go to smoothie!!!
This is my favorite smoothie, hands down. http://healthyblenderrecipes.com/recipes/raw_vegan_mango_salsa_green_smoothie/
We make lots of smoothies at our house. Our blender is dying. Hoping for some digital luck here!
I would love to have a Vitamix! My current blender is collecting dust in the pantry because it is essentially worthless. I would be sneaking vegetables in for my son (and husband!) all over the place…smoothies, desserts, batters, etc. 😉 I also want to try to make my own (healthier) energy gels to use while running.
I’ve been eyeing the vitamix FOREVER and really really really wish I could afford one…
I also have had my string of bad luck with blenders. I got the magic bullet’ thinking it would be da bomb and it da sucked ! It works well enough for smoothie type stuff but the. 1, 2, 3 touch thing.. dang infomercials
Oooh! I NEED for my green smoothies–and margaritas! Uppers and downers, baby! 😉
I like to make yogurt/fruit combinations, but then freeze them in popsicle forms to make “breakfast” popsicles. They are smoothies – just frozen. And because they look like popsicles my kids want to eat them for breakfast. Win for them. And because I control what’s in them, they are healthy. Win for me. It’s wins all around!
I would blend smoothies and popsicles! Hooray for summer arriving!
Fruit and spinach and … carrots?
my blender is a lazy jerk too…and it was the present from my hubby for mother’s day 2 years ago…lmao!
I have never made a smoothie but i WOULD if I could win that blender!
Love the post, as always.
Having just dumped my slick-looking rocket blender that made beautiful smoothies all of 6 times, I can sympathize. Here’s hoping I win the vitamix so I can also savor a long-fought victory 😉 Either way, I love your comics.
I would blend all the things. My family would be eating everything pureed for weeks just out of my pure excitement. The baby would be thrilled.
I wonder if Vitamix will regret sending you one of their products when you likened it to a buttplug. Your blog is the best. 😀
I would make lots of smoothies.
I would blend anything I could for my daughter who isn’t able to eat solids! I’m trying to get her to enjoy eating 🙂
I love fruit smoothies- berries mixed with bananas, or actually a banana/peanut butter/cocoa smoothie is delicious, too!!!!
I have a vitamix and would LOVE to win this for my sister. This would rock her world! THanks for giving away your bounty 🙂
And by the way – rice milk, spinach, frozen blueberries and a teaspoon of honey…is…awesome!
I would make healthy smoothies for my 16 month old. Well, for the family too, but mostly for him. LOVE your blog!
I would blend my son a smoothie with lots of delicious berries and yogurt, his favorites. AND spinach, muhahaha.
I have just so much want right now.
Ah, a Vitamix!! So awesome!!! I would drink so many more smoothies if I could throw away my “not-so-blended” blender and use a Vitamix!
I just got ice pop molds so I want to make some of those. Strawberry, orange creme, mango lassi… I don’t know how I’m gonna do that though since my blender is a lazy jerk too.
I would blend all the nasty green stuff like kale and collards into fruit. I tried that with my blender but smoke came out of it instead of a smoothie, which I figured wasn’t good. Then I tried the food processor, but it turned it really frothy. Like a kale frappe. Gross. So now I just lurk at te grocery store and get free samples from
the vitamix dude.
I think you’re wonderful. For real.
I would blend up into smoothies all the stems and little veggie pieces that I now throw away b/c I am too lazy to clean out the nasty counter top composter.
Hmm…green veggies! My juicer largely spits them back out.
Wow, a Vita-Mix would be AWESOME! My son loves to make yogurt fruit smoothies, and our blender makes these horrible noises like it’s going to die. I, on the other hand, would make frozen margaritas! YUM!!
I love it when companies surprise you with accidental free stuff. Once, when I was a kid we got a free brand-new couch. A couch! Enjoy the blender!
I just scrolled for an hour and a half to get to comment. I would make “smoozies” as my kids call them. Yum! We have no blender and need one BADLY!
yay vitamix!
We make smoothies all the time. It is my go to for getting vegetables in my little one. I have a Susan Somers blender (don’t judge me). The other day I tried to make a spinach, banana, peanut butter smoothie and it couldn’t even chug through the baby spinach. If I had this fancy thing the first thing I would blend is a recipe for watermelon smoothie I saw on Pinterest. Frozen watermelon, frozen banana, little bit of lime juice and zest… Looks fantastic!
Yeah for you! And for whomever wins the second one (me! me! pick me!!).
My favorite blended anything is a coconut mocha (copycat of Dutch Bro’s). You put in ice, add coffee, coconut syrup, coconut milk and a little shredded coconut and blend.
My second favorite thing is a peanut butter banana chocolate smoothie. Pretty much explanatory and I add a little ice or frozen bananas instead of fresh and milk.
This is an easy one. Strawberry banana peanut butter milkshake.
They make $600 blenders? Now I have seen everything.
I have the exact same feelings about our not so N***a (neither quick nor fierce) & B****t (there’s no magic about it)! I have been dying to blend up kale, bananas, chia seeds, maca, berries, & coconut oil EFFICIENTLY 😉
YUM! This is AWESOME!
Holy comments batman! I’d make smoothies, baby food purees, ice cream, but most importantly, margaritas. My blender is a total jerk and doesn’t crush ice enough to be sucked through a straw.
you are so awesome! thank you for the chance to win!
Oh, how I would LOVE a Vitamix! I have a magic bullet and it does the job with soft stuff, but I’d murder it if I attempted hard veggies.
I don’t own a blender… really should get one… but I want to make margaritas and fancy soups.
I love making smoothies, and my daughter loves them too. And now I’ve discovered making smoothie popsicles in my Tupperware popsicle maker! I’d blend bananas, strawberries, kiwis, and mangos, and orange juice and almond milk to make amazing fruit smoothie popsicles!
And apparently you can make soup in a Vitamix, so I’d definitely try that too! Maybe roasted red pepper and butternut squash soup!
Oh, just noticed, US addresses only. I live in Canada. Boohoo. Well, there are some free ideas for you anyway! =)
OoOOooohhhh!! My parents got a Vitamix when we were growing up. It blends ANYTHING! Even wooden spoons…. uh…. be careful with that lol. 🙂 I will blend faithfully the frozen bananas that I didn’t want to throw away…. and frozen blueberries…. and strawberries…. I love frozen fruit smoothies but gee, my blender is a jerk, too!
I know it’s an extra container but I’d love to be able to make my own rice flour and grind up quinoa into flour more than 1/3 cup at a time (I currently do this in an old coffee grinder).
mmmm can it blend chocolate chips??? I would love to make a banana and chocolate chip smoothy….mmmmmmmmm…… I have also never had a nice blender ;_;
Yay! I’ve wanted one for soo long. Thanks for sharing with us!!
I love to make mango-pineapple smoothies with fresh mango, fresh pineapple or pineapple juice, plain yogurt and a pinch of sugar. Yum! It makes great popsicles too.
Also, I love your blog and your book.
Love the blog! BTW, not sure if you can do juices with this but thought I’d plug a friend’s app called “the Juice”, available at the app store. She’s a freak about juicing and the app has all sorts of great things you can blend together for smoothies, including both fruit and veggie mixes… together with their nutritional content etc. 🙂
Not normally someone to promote something like this, but we’re both designers and she’s a good friend.
Happy blending!
I would blend the shit out of some greens. “What’s that kids? You don’t *like* kale? Well, here, have this *delicious* banana-strawberry-and-not-kale smoothie!”
I would use spinach and strawberries and OJ and vanilla yogurt!
Need a new blender. Mine blew up making baby food carrots.
OK, if I don’t win the Vitamix will you let me come over so you can make me a smoothie, some juice and soup??? Please?? I have a decent Ninja and they are a lot better than a cheesy one night stand blender (I know, I’ve owned my share of them!!!) But I would seriously LOVE LOVE LOVE to own a Vitamix.
I think with this thing I could make pesto that was actually done before it was started . . . what an awesome toy, butt plug or no! 😉
Wowza! What a fantastic mistake. :0) I wouldn’t mind being a winner! Thanks for the oppotunity.
I think I would just start blending everything!
I will make the best margaritas ever in it!
I love your blog and I love Vitamix. We use one at work but I would love one for home!! I sneak away from work to regularly check out your blog. It makes me smile every.time!!
I’d blend fruit! And more fruit! And maybe some yogurt. Ice? Oh, I’ll figure it out. 🙂
I’m a pretty boring person, so I’d probably stick with margaritas. Would kale be the right answer?
I suck at blending too! I would love this blender! I would make margaritas!
I LOVE your blog and I would LOVE a Vitamix!
I, too, am a first-time poster, but long-time lurker. LOVE the blog and your book…..you inspire me to follow my goals/dreams to do the same with my life! Thanks also for the giveaway, and for passing along a little love and support to your fans. 🙂
Also, just realized I forgot to mention what I would blend in my brand-spanking-new Vitamix….something of the kale variety (my latest obsession), but doused with enough fruit so my kids/husband would drink it (they being of the decidedly NOT kale-loving camp).
Been reading your blog for a while and thought I would come out to say I really enjoy all your posts. I live in Canada and would love to get a chance at winning your second awesome blender…I will pay the shipping costs for you. 😉
I’d love a new butt plug! 😉
I would blend carrots into everything because my husband and son won’t eat them otherwise!
I’m totally not original – would probably blend up some mango-banana smoothies, or come fall I would probably make butternut squash soup.
The questions isn’t, what would I blend with a Vitamix…the question is, what WOULDN’T I blend with a Vitamix???
I think the blender we own is from 1972! 🙁 It’s bad…..
I want to dump my blender. I have been DREAMING of buying a Vitamix, but there’s no way I can splurge on one, considering that I’m just about to finish craaaaa-zy expensive nursing school. So winning one would make one awesome graduation gift, just sayin’.
You have the most awesome crappy pictures EVAR! Try this recipe for a kicka$$ smoothie: 1 frozen banana, 1 handful blueberries, 1 handful pineapple, 1 tbsp ground flax seed (or oil), 1 cup spinach (or kale), 1 tbsp honey, cover it all with almond milk and blend to smoothness perfection. Enjoy! =)
I would blend homemade frappuccinos, but also try to make my kids drink some healthy smoothies. I have a higher priced blender, but nothing close to the Vitamix, and mine still doesn’t blend that great. We actually had to return the first one because it died not long after we got it. It just can’t handle much.
Loved your book! Hoping to win the sexy blender :o)
I soooo want to dump my blender! and maker delicious healthy smoothies for my family.
Would love this!
I,too, have been betrayed by my blender. It taunted me with a booklet of mouthwatering recipes but all I got was chunky globs. My kids will surround the counter chanting for smoothies only to have their mouths cut by ice shards. It is a sad affair and one that I must end, but alas I am weak. I have not been able to bid farewell to my noisy, leaking, smelly (yes, smelly) blender. This opportunity may be my only chance to break free from this sorid association between myself and my blender.
Could so use a new blender, mine decided after our last move that it no longer wanted to work right. Love your blog.
I buy small packets of almond butter and use unsweetened cocount milk to give my smoothines some extra pizzazz. i think the word pizzazz is under-used.
I have heard you can make your own flour and powdered sugar with these things! I would probably make baby food too, since I’m 8 months pregnant.
Pesto. Really, any type of pesto but definitely mint pesto. My mint plant is an overachiever and our nightly mojitos aren’t cutting it (pun intended) anymore. Wait a minute! I could make frozen mojitos with a VitaMix! Yes, definitely frozen mojitos.
I would blend up some strawberry orange shakes. Its everything I want and more. I also am a chef, so vitamix helps me blend down my soups!
A good friend of mine has a vitamix, those things are awesome! You can make hot soup with them by just throwing in the veggies and BAM! It heats it and everything! Blend and serve! I would have soups all the time 🙂 Have fun with your new toy!
Ooh, ooh! I new a new blender soooo bad, but I’m too broke to spend $600 on one. Pretty please 🙂
For just a moment, I’m sad that I live in Canada….
Oh my goodness. I need to have this. I would use it to sneak healthy food into my children and for delicious soups. Wait, did someone say it makes the best Margaritas? Forget the food, it’s strictly for cocktails.
I currently use a small blender for my morning smoothies. It works, but I am looking to go for a more vegetarian/whole foods diet and a Vitamix is what is missing for the more vegetable-based smoothies I want to make!
Thanks for the pictures in this post – they made my day. 🙂
I make my daughter and I smoothies everyday! Strawberry, banana, yogurt, and juice. Sometimes spinach and sometimes blueberries…but those suckers are expensive.
ooooh….I wanna make margaritas….or smoothies….anything really…I’m easy
blend baby blend
I want to blend all the things! My daughter loves smoothies, and I’ve heard you can hide all sorts of gross veggies in them if you have a really good blender, bwahahaha!
I’d definitely jump on the smoothie train! I feel your pain about a sucky blender.
Woohoo! I’d make some mango lassi–we have like 6 mangos right now that need eatin’! Course by the time the blender got here they’d have been eaten long ago…
I love your blog, pics, and general crappiness 😉 I’d love a Vitamix to start juicing more, making smoothies and being more healthy.
Cheers!
I like to put fresh ginger in every smoothie ever. My hubs does not, and he likes to put in vanilla syrup which makes it too sweet for me. So we have to make our smoothies in separate batches.
We’re growing peanuts in our garden this year, and I would use the Vitamix to make peanut butter. For reals.
Sign me up baby! We love our Waring, but I’d LOVE to have a Vitamix!
ohhhh i sooooooooo want this!!!
I make this smoothie on a regular basis- Handful frozen strawberries, add fresh berries- blueberries if you don’t like to crunch seeds, blackberries if you do! Add 1 kiwi, 1 cutie, a little water, spoonful of plain nonfat greek yogurt, a handful of spinach (can’t even taste it in the smoothie) and a little coconut oil (cuz coconut oil is a cure-all and I can’t stand the taste of it so it MUST be blended into oblivion!!!) I can even get my son to drink this one, if you use blackberries it turns purple, otherwise the spinach will make it look kinds brownish green and it will gross out the kiddos! My blender’s on its last legs, it hates when I add the spinach- I think one day soon it may explode, barfing up the greenish brown goodness all over me! Enjoy!!!
Oh i really really want one! This pregnancy the only thing i want is veggies and veggie juice!
I want to dump my blender. I have been DREAMING of buying a Vitamix, but there’s no way I can splurge on one, considering that I’m just about to finish craaaaa-zy expensive nursing school. So winning one would make one awesome graduation gift, just sayin’.
I want one! OK, I know the odds are long, but I’ll try. I like berry smoothies with pineapple for sweetness. I don’t have a blender that works well enough to try things like kale. Ice is a struggle. I also like protein powder shakes. Well, like might be a strong word, but I drink them. Throwing in some fruit and peanut butter makes them go down pretty easy. Love the blog.
I would blend soup. And make my own sunbutter!!
I’m in desperate need of a blender, my kids are always begging for smoothes. but like you can’t afford the ones that don’t suck and don’t even have one.
I don’t have a blender. Alas, I am in your boat except I refuse to spend money on a cheap blender. I know those cheapies will not work except teach my children new profanities as they hear me yelling them at the blender from the kitchen. If I were to have such a lovely (and you’re right, sexy) thing as a Vitamix, I would mix up fruit and veggie (from the garden) smoothies. The hubbs desperately wants to start a juice diet. I would (maybe) get up early every morning to make him a lovely, healthy smoothie breakfast. I can see it now, the sun shining behind me as I Vanna White a tall glass of veggie/fruit smoothie for him. The angels start singing as he takes a sip and grabs me in his arms to give me a big (freshly brushed) kiss for the amazing Vitamix smoothie I have presented him. He will gracefully glide off to work and send me flowers and chocolates while I lovingly, adoringly, and neveryellingly take care of his two loin fruits. ahhh, as it is though, without my Vitamix, the kids are screaming, I’m begging for a few more minutes of sleep and he is tripping out the door to rush off to work, the laundry is piling up and dishes are concreted together, needing to be washed, all because my Vitamix is non-existent. I would also make margaritas..
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Oh my goodness! I love Vitamix. I would totally love one for my kitchen. Same problem– love smoothies but HATE my blender! I even have two. Neither work.
LOVE your stories and your new book is HILARIOUS!! I’ve shared it with every mom I know. Who doesn’t NEED a new blender!
I would be making smoothies and milkshakes for my family every day. And i am intrigued by these other posters talking about making soup. Sounds yummy.
Oh and hollandaise sauce. Super yummy.
I should not have read this post at work. I’m drooling just thinking about what a VitaMix can do. A co-worker says their margarita recipe is to die for. But you have to add your own umbrella.
Tropical smoothies, and hide some of my son’s veggies in them like spinach and avocado. My fave combo of fruits is still banana, peach, fresh pineapple, coconut, mango. Dip the rim of the glass in colored sugar and add a funky fruit garnish. Breakfast, tropical style. Might even go super healthy and hide some oats or protein powder in it for myself.
I would blend up a ton of stuff, at once. Every vegetable out there!
I have a crappy blender and have been dreaming of a sexy Vitamix for YEARS! What an awesome giveaway!
I would make an awesome smoothie!
My son has a severe iron deficiency so as an attempt to pump him full of natural iron, I make smoothies every day with LOTS of spinach. Sadly, my blender is a piece of crap and refuses to blend most the time. I’d give an arm and a leg for one of these bad boys. Okay… an arm and a leg from one of my kid’s baby dolls. Not my own.
I would blend oreos, bananas, ice cream, and malted milk powder. . . oh yeah!
I’ve been a reader for awhile now, but I’m a first time commenter… Honestly, I really want a milkshake right now! So, I would blend some chocolate ice cream and some milk! Simple, I know, but it’s what I want!
My kids need something else to argue about, so it should probably be over using the Vitamix. At least that is something that is at least worthy of arguing over!
I would make smoothies and soup and learn to blend some veggies.
What an awesome giveaway! I too hate the under-performer that is my blender. I would start making fruit smoothies for my daughter to start. Them if the awesome blender IS truly awesome – I would look for recipes!!
I would make some super duper energetic smoothies to replenish calories from scrolling down this crazy long comment list on my iPhone.
So jealous. I love Audi’s. Maybe the will send me two!
Oooh! OOh! pick me!
I would SO love a Vitamix! I’d make smoothies and green juice and pina coladas!
Wow, what a great giveaway!
I have no idea what I would blend, because I have never had a blender that doesn’t suck. I will start researching immediately, though.
I like the organic frozen berry mix they have at Costco, but my blender doesn’t like frozen things, so I microwave the berries for 30 seconds before dumping them in. I also have popsicle molds have have been freezing my smoothies so that I don’t have to wash the blender as often.
Fingers crossed for this one!
I never really knew why people would spend so much money on a blender until I recently became a vegan. Apparently they’re almost necessary for cheese substitutes and cashew creams. If you pick me I’ll mail you all the vegan treats I make with it 🙂
Thanks for the giveaway! I have the same issues with my blender that you had before you dumped him….
I craved smoothies during my third pregnancy. I sometimes had two or three a day! It was a daily battle with my jerk of a blender, too.
I’m in need of a new blender, since I murdered mine making smoothies for my daughter. Unfortunately a Vitamix is out of my budget, and it seems like I would probably just kill any other blender…so right now we are smoothie-less and I need a new blender!
Thanks for keeping parenthood real.
Laughed out loud at “the damper looks like a butt plug”. Of course blenders can be sexy. Especially $600 ones!
I have a tiny little 16 ounce blender from Walmart and it’s cute, but it doesn’t crush ice or do any heavy duty blending. I like to make shakes with frozen mixed berries, chocolate protein powder, PB2, blackstrap molasses, and spirulina, and they are delicious!!!!!!
I sure would love to have a legit blender though. 🙂
The baby food. I would blend up everything to feed the baby. And then I’d make myself a green smoothie 🙂
We make smoothies almost every night. Our little $15 blender has been getting rather hot lately! Would love something like this.
I’m going w/ Frozen peaches, bananas & vanilla yogurt. maybe a little protein powder for boosted vitamins. Yum!!
So yeah, I do really love smoothies. Throw some spinach leaves in a fruit smoothie for an easy way to get my kiddos to eat their veggies! But the truth is, I really want this blender because of the butt plug thing. That’s what I call my husband on a daily basis (all in good fun of course). So everytime I would use the blender I would giggle and say look hunny, it’s you! And he would roll his eyes causing me to giggle more. Ahh, good times, good times!
OMG I will pay for the shipping, I am in Canada, practically neighbours! 😀
btw, hilarious post 😀
Ah, a Vitamix!! I would definitely throw away my “not-so-blended” blender if I had a Vitamix Blender! 🙂
The Vitamix is the dream blender… I’m dreaming of a cold ginger-apricot-coconut slushie.
My blender is crappy! And now it’s smoothie weather. I need a champion blender to make some healthy frozen fruit masterpieces! Plus, I got into juicing recently and some of the recipes involve juicing, then doing some blending, then mixing the two together. This would work great if I had a blender that actually blended things other than the ever popular and already smooth pudding mix.
I would blend up all kinds of things…Soup, smoothies, shakes…margaritas…
Peanut Butter!
I’ve loved your site for over a year, AND I bought your book. I would love to win this blender. My kiddo has dysphagia and a feeding tube, and this would allow me to blend real food to a consistency he can tolerate.
I love your giving spirit ! So so many ppl would have resold it for sure, & I love that you are spreading good health.
I have a great recipe that requires a blender that does not fail !
THIS IS AMAZINGLY DELICIOUS !!!!!
1 cup kale
1.5 cups coconut water
1 cup mango
1 cup blueberries (frozen are great)
1/4 avocado
1 TBS ground flax seeds
1/8 tsp Cayenne pepper
1 TBS lemon juice (fresh)
How awesome are you?!! Love love love your blog. Always yelling at my husband to come read. Never fail to make us laugh
That is fantastic! Congrats. I am on my 3rd blender as it’s a constant struggle to find one that just gets the job done. Would love to win this! Good luck everyone. 🙂
Kale. My blender does ok with fruit smoothies but the second I add kale it’s a clumpy mess.
I <3 you.
I’d love a Vitamix!!! The little ones and I are vegetarians, and LOVE green smoothies… my blender does not.
I would like to win this for my husbando. We don’t have a blender now and all he wants in life is “a blender that is strong enough to take your hand off” (his words). He really wants to make fruit smoothies for our two year old son, and hey, maybe we could sneak some veggies in there because the little guy won’t eat them. I think I’d like to make some of that frozen banana “ice cream” business that’s all over Pinterest, and probably put in some Nutella because yum. Thanks for the giveaway.
i would blend up everything! thanks for giveaway!!
i would be willing to pay for the addition shipping to canada. how nice of them to send you a blender
I actually own one of these sexy machines… but my grandparents do not, so I would gift it to them. That should make up for all the forgotten birthday presents and put me at #1 grandchild position again. 😉
I would love one!
Fresh chili paste and waffles.
Yay! Blenders are fun! THanks!
I would make chocolate chip smoothies 🙂
Holy crap, yo! I want one!!
My boys love smoothies as well. If its a fruit, it’d make it’s way into the blender.
I don’t blend, not only due to my crapp non-blending blender, but because I hate washing it!
I would make the kitchen sink smoothie for my son and myself. Bless his little 2yr old heart .. but he runs from veggies. Juicers suck and are wasteful unless you are into making compost…and I’m not that bored yet. Plus if Montel says its amazing, and You say its sexy… it must be mind blowing!
I would love to win this blender. We had a crappy blender and it died. We live in the south and I’d love to be able to make blended up smoothies and popsicles – even with vegetables – for my littles this summer. Thanks for your generosity with this raffle – fabulous idea!
Oh my goodness! I’ve been wanting a Vitamix FOR-EV-ER!!!!!
I think that I would blend smoothies with veggies for my extremely stubborn son. But many of the other comments seem awesome too!
I would probably be boring as heck and just do simple smoothies, but they would hopefully absorb some of the awesomeness from the blender
My blender sucks too, hope I win!!!
I love making smoothies. I would be using it everyday! Please pick me!!! pick me!!! besides, I read your blog faithfully!
Nice to have a spare to give away. I would love to blend up a choco-banana protein shake. Or a coconut-pineapple blend.
I would love this! I am a picky eater & have a 2 year old. We could use more good for us food! If we have this we can sneak it in! I love your blog it makes the moments in parenting that you want to rip your hair out funny! 🙂 I still need to get your book! I can’t find it at my target. I guess I just need to order it online already. 🙂
I would blend so many fruits and veggies with a sexy blender like that. *swoon*
So it took me forever to get to the ends of the comment,obviously everyone wants a vitamix. I am a busy mother of 4 girls and love your blog. I too had a lazy blender and kids that love smoothies so I purchased a ninja. It is great for smoothies and destroys ice but has a rough time with other things. I have seen a vitamix demo and fell in love, my favorite recipe is a handful almonds, a banana, some agave nectar and ice. It makes the best ice cream. My ninja can’t do anything with almonds or other nuts but the vitamix makes a creamy dreamy substance! So enjoy your wonderful vitamix and get creative.
I love that you made blenders funny. 🙂
Do me a favor: go to the website http://www.willitblend.com. It’s not vitamix, but another blender company and they workout the kinks in their blenders by blending things like cell phones and dvds of bad movies. The head of the company is in all the videos. He looks like he has the most awesome job. Actually, he just retired, but I really hope he keeps blending stuff. You can go to You Tube and find the videos, too.
Meanwhile, send me the vitamix. Really. I never win anything. And I’m counting on the fact that you say you read all the comments (this post is nearing the 2000 mark). Let me know if you go to the website. It’d be really cool if you could email me that you did so I don’t have to look through all the additional comments to find out. I know. You’re busy. But still…
I would make strawberry, banana, blueberry, spinach, and yogurt smoothies. Then I would freeze then into Popsicles for the kids.
I have drooled over these blenders for years. They are wonderful!
Jan
Awesome post and website!
Wow, you need to scroll a lot to get here! Have a similar hate relationship with my blender…to the point where I don’t really use it. I fake it with my food processor…
I have the exact same blender problem. If I wasn’t so cheap, I’d get a blender that works! I’d really like to make fruit smoothies, hummus, icy beverages, baby food, etc.
What wouldn’t I blend?! Soups, sauces, smoothies, shakes, make my own baby food, hummus, a hamburger and fries for my friend who just had her wisdom teeth removed…all sorts of stuff! Thank you for the chance!
Love your blog and totally jealous of your vitamix.
I would totally blend up some almonds. I love to make my own flour for pastries, but neither my food processor or blender can hack it.
you are hilarious!
I would make all kinds of smoothies in the morning – I try to “blend” in my food processor and the kids just won’t go for it!
These things are awesome. I want one. Then I can throw out my lazy blender. It would be a beautiful moment.
Try pineapple, beets, lemon – yummy. Your blog is hilarious. I really want the Vitamix!
I entered, and I am in Canada, but if I win I will pay for the shipping 🙂
Love the blog! I love blending frozen bananas and pb or chocolate or (fill in the blank) to make “ice cream”. Good Luck!
I would love a new blender . . . thanks!
I love to blend almond milk, honey and cinnamon, with ice of course. 🙂
I would like to do a 33 day juice fast (or feast, but that sounds so gross to me for some reason, “juice feast” {shudder}). Or make extra creamy cashew cream cheese spread.
Oooh, keeping fingers crossed! Great giveaway!
Oh man what wouldn’t I make with one? I don’t even have a crappy blender let alone a vitamix.
Greens, bananas, strawberries, wedge of lime, almond milk, coconut oil
I am trying to eat healthier, so this would be sooo helpful. You are right about blenders not blending. Yesterday my strawberries in my smoothie did not blend!
I make myself lo cal lo fat smoothies every day and would really like one. I currently use the crappy normal blender that you have to shake and poke.
I like some form of greens with either a quarter avocado or a soft banana, some sort of fruit or berries, a tbsp or so of honey, some flax seeds, some yogurt, and about four ice cubes. Delicous! And thanks for the opportunity 🙂
This would be so much better than the blender I have now. Spinach smoothies are the best. Love the blog!
I know there’s only about a 1 in 1000 chance that I win this thing, but you asked for ideas for smoothies so here it goes: citrus fruits (no peel), ginger, berries, something green like spinach or kale, something with protein like yogurt, maybe some coconut milk, kiwi. mmmmmmm.
I make a smoothie every morning, and just blew out the blades on my oster for the fourth time.
Too funny. My favorite is a frozen banana, kiwi, mango and/or pineapple, spinach, chia seeds, flax seed and coconut water.
My fav smoothie combo is carrot juice, frzn papaya, frzn cherries, frzn bannana, and a big scoop of cocoa powder.
Yummers.
I just want a way to eat kale where I don’t have to chew it up with my own (non-goat) teeth.
Our family would love this! My son loves smoothies, and isn’t a big veggie kid (go figure) and this would be amazing to “hide” them in the drink!!! We always do fruit smoothies (apples, blue berries, strawberries, whatever we have on hand) and he always asks for more!
Love the blog! If I got the Vitamix I might actually make some of the smoothies that my kids always ask me for 🙂
I love your blog!!! I bought two of your books the day they came out. 🙂
I’d blend everything! I have a friend that makes soup in hers! She doesn’t even have to heat it up because it spins so fast that the Vitamix heats it up. Also, I’d make a ton of smoothies. I recently got a new blender. I plugged it in and it was already broken! Ugh!
I have the SAME problem! I was even given a baby bullet at my shower… Same deal; ;
Love your blog! Bought the book, love it too. I’m a single mom and my son and I love making smoothies! Our favorites are pineapple and orange for breakfast or even grapes and blueberries. For the afternoon we usually make a chocolate peanut butter smoothie that slightly resembles a Reese’s cup! Enjoy your vitamix! I know I would!!
I want to try one of those green smoothies that everyone is raving about on Pinterest. Something with apples, spinach, and pineapple.
I am so glad i’m not the only one who openly hates my blender. My favorite thing to blend up whenever I have the patience is banana, peanut butter, and a little bit of milk. Close second is oatmeal, milk, cinnamon, brown sugar, and raisins – oatmeal cookie smoothies!
We make smoothies all the time. I have a crappy blender too. We do all kinds of fruit/green smoothies. Nothing very unusual, though. Cocoa- banana, PB banana, PBJ, berry banana… Lots of bananas.
I would blend up a fertility smoothie. Blueberries, hemp seeds, yogurt and EPO.
Logging into Facebook and seeing that new cartoon posted always puts an extra smile in my day. I would totally make fruit and yogurt smoothies for me and my toddler. He might even share some with me, too! 🙂
I want this soooo bad!
Like you, I have had my share of crappy kitchen appliances. The worst offender is my can opener. I’ve had 6 different hand-held, hand-powered and NONE of them worked. So then I went electric. Yep, you guessed it, those don’t work either. Now I avoid buying anything that requires a can opener, because I can never open the stupid can. Anyhow, back to the topic at hand: blender ideas. My favorite blender idea is making adult smoothies. That’s right, smoothies that just for those of us over 21! Make the smoothies with your favorite healthy ingredients (oranges, strawberries, bananas, grapes, spinach, carrots, cucumbers, spinach, whey protein, etc. – whatever makes you happy) then add a healthy “splash” of your favorite adult beverage. Add wine to make sangria, vodka to take the edge off, rum to spice up life, etc. Garnish with your choice of fruit wedge, celery stick, or paper umbrella and ENJOY!
My daughter and I would have too much fun with this 🙂
You are very generous to give away your extra Vitamix. For me, I would blend different combinations every day, it would beat the heck out of my current blender. I make smoothies regularly and my daughter loves them too. If I won, I would have friends and their kids over for a Vitamix smoothie party, YUM. 🙂
would love to get one of these! i’ve been dreaming (sigh…) about them forever. pretty please?
I would make a bunch smoothies, my girls love chocolate peanut butter banana smoothies, little chocolate milk some ice little peanut butter and a banana, their favorite 🙂
I don’t even have a blender 🙁 this would be great
I entered the contest! There are tons of entries! Good luck everyone! 🙂
I blend any frozen leftover fruit in the freezer with yogurt for kid smoothies
I would make strawberry/mango/raspberry smoothies every day! My daughter and I love smoothies!
Ooohhh… The professional series! I would (what, would?… WILL!) I WILL blend all manner of yummy and healthy treats for my family. I may even try meat for the baby. But who knows, maybe a meat smoothie would be good. I’d also try grains. I’ve been wanting a grinder so when I feel like baking bricks..erm… I mean bread, I could use super fresh wheat and grind it up in my new vitamix! Please, please, please! I’ve been wanting one for SO LONG!
Nearly 25,000 entries already, odds are totally in my favor. I’m going to win this thing! Seriously though, thanks for the chance!
I would SO blend up some of the gobs of kale that show up in the summer with all sorts of yummy juices. I might even throw in a beet. And vodka.
I’d make that banana ice cream I’ve seen online
I feel like I need a sexy vitamix in my life!
i would blend up all my hopes and dreams. hahaha. no, seriously, i would blend up everything! i heard you can make the most amazing soups with it!
Good heavens…I know that you say you read all your comments…I can’t imagine how long it has taken you to get to comment #1810. You are a dedicated woman. And generous one. I would have kept the other one for my “summer [yeah right] home.”
Not to sound all stalker-ish but I love your posts. They are my second favorite thing when I sit down at my computer with a cup of coffee. Sorry, coffee is first. Wait, and then the sitting part. But then your posts. Definitely then. Thank you.
My husband wanted a juicer until we were at Costco and the Vitamix guy was demoing the Vitamix. He made us a blended coffee drink Starbucks style, a fruit and veggie smoothie, soups, and ice cream in like a 15 minute time frame. I have a hard time getting my kids to eat veggies, especially my 18 month old, so this is a good way to hide them! Unfortunately as much as we wanted to buy it, kids needs come first and couldn’t part with $600 right now.
Whatever the ingredients are for the smoothie to get rid of migraines. I think pineapple and spinach are involved.
Oh man. I’d blend everything. EVERYTHING. But most likely it will involve alcohol because I’m an adult and I can blend what I want to! 😉
Also, tomato basil soup. Mmmmm.
I hope Canadians can win.
I would blend mango, banana, spinach.
And then, with a different recipe, I’d make soup.
I don’t use our current blender much for the reasons you mentioned, plus I find it so annoying to clean all the parts when I do use it. But I’d love to make more smoothies and to get into juicing – seems like a great way to get more veggies!
I, too, have hated all of my previous blenders. So much so, that I gave up on them and don’t even own one right now. But I really miss smoothies! I’d love a Vitamix!
I want a vitamix! My blender smells like burning rubber whenever I make a smoothie…
Love your blog and I love smoothies!
I would blend anything and everything!! This machine would get a workout! How about something chocolatey? Nutella and peanut butter shakes, yumm!!
Our favorite smoothie is banana, mango, spinach, kale, and almond milk!
I would blend frozen raspberries with plain kefir both from trader joes.
Oooooooooo….me me me pick me!!!!!
I love your blog. I bought your book. I would make smoothies for my kids too!
crepes?! A vitamix is the one kitchen appliance I would reallly love. pick me!
My blender is a jerk too!! My smoothie-loving toddler would love for me to win this!
I would blend EVERYTHING!!! 🙂
Oh dear lord- there are 8 zillion entries…
My daughter loves smoothies and I pretty much burn my blender to death I use it so much!
Easy smoothies? I’m so in!
I will try to blend everything LOL
Love making green smoothies with spinach, bananas, apples, and strawberries with a dash of chia seeds!
I would like to blend up ice and fruit so I won’t have to go out in the heat and stand on a hot parking lot to pay too much money for sugar water called a sno cone this summer.
I would blend up beets and carrots and kale in my yummy fruit smoothies!!
I make smoothies every day, but my blender sucks! I always end up with big chunks of stuff still in there. So I’d use it to make my daily smoothies.:)
Wow! What a great deal, thanks for sharing!
What won’t I blend? Frozen alcoholic drinks, smoothies to make my picky son eat something other than mac and cheese, soups because I hate chunky creamy soups, and maybe juices for me, on those rare days I’m momentarily motivated to be healthy like that.
Ohh we need a blender!!! My little one loves smoothies
I’m not sure what I would blend up. My Vitamix DID quit on me after only 6 months of blending basic smoothies. I’d probably go crazy and blend up everything in sight.
I have to admit that I feel a little giddy every time I see a new post pop-up on my Facebook status feed. As the mother of a VERY active, almost three year old, I can relate to many of your posts. Keep up the good work!
Oh man…I don’t Tweet! Three chances gone right there…
Spinach, kale, bananas, strawberries, mangoes, apples, and yogurt!
I would start making Glowing Green smoothies every morning! Being a busy mom I definitely don’t get all the vegetables into my diet that I should.
I would blend smoothies and soups and my favorite–potatoes!
I would blend up anything I could get my hands on from the farmers’ market!
love your blog! Thanks
I would make ice cream!!! I saw a demo in Costco it was so yummy. And healthy!!!
When I was pregnant I decided to start juicing…way too much cleanup I discovered. Then I moved to smoothies, I thought I had a nice blender and then it took me 15 minutes to make one stupid frozen berry and spinach smoothie. Apparently blending anything frozen was asking entirely way to much. So now I food process my spinach before hand and take my berries out the night before. I would LOVE a Vitamix!
one of my favorite things to make in a blender is a virgin bloody mary green smoothie. lots of horseradish, and add some beets for depth. yum!
With something that cool I’d be tempted to blend something zany like the “will it blend?” people, but in real life I like to blend milk, bananas and whatever other fruit is in season (strawberries and peaches are the best). Frozen fruit makes good smoothies without adding extra ice, which I think dilutes the other flavors.
Me me me please! I make purées out of veggies and hide them in all my kids food 😉
I’d be blending up all different sorts of hummus my current lame blender can’t handle. and smoothies! and soups!
Love your blog! I would make The Food Babe’s Pineapple Grapefruit Hari Shake.
going to give you my favorite recipe. Make a lemon syrup with the juice of 1 lemon, 1 cup of sugar and 1 quart of water. put 2 cups of this in the blender along with 1 and a half cups of frozen strawberries. This makes a delicious smoothie that does not water down as it melts.
my go-to smoothie lately has been banana, berries and spinach, with a scoop of protein powder. it totally covers up the spinach taste! i would love to be able to toss more veggies in there, but my little magic bullet wouldn’t be able to handle that. a friend of mine recently got a Vitamix and i was indescribably jealous. i would love to make MY friends indescribably jealous, too!
I would love to make some smoothies so I can stop spending so much at Smoothie King!!
My friends at work (NASA) have these and are always rubbing it in my face – my Vitamix turns vegies into MICRONUTRIENTS! I can absorb way more than you! THey do, however, share their amazing smoothies with me from time to time. The latest was cucumber, kale, ginger (easy on that stuff), beets, and tomatoes. It was great!
AHHHHHH! I want one so bad. More than a new car. My sister has one and I am so envious of her smoothie making abilities. Thank you for sharing!!!
I like to blend smoothies! I’d love a VitaMix for that purpose…and making soups! and sorbets! YUM!
Everything!!!! I want to make soup.
My husband tried to blend chickpeas in my blender… It started to smoke so he took the blender outside, plugged it in on the porch and continued on… after all he didn’t want to set fire to the house. Needless to say, the blender died and the hummus he made with the chickpeas wasnt so great either. I think I need this blender, I bet it could blend those chickpeas.
hummus hummus hummus!
I’ve heard in a VitaMix, you can blend avocado pits into lotion…
OMG..you got TWO vitamixes for free?! Thank you so much for sharing the wealth. I love to make smoothies too. My boys always think they want one…until they take one taste. Oh well, more for me!
I’d use a vita mixer to blend smoothies for my two year old! She adores them and I rarely make them because our blender is so pitiful.
Gazpacho!
Tropical smoothie + spinach = Leprechaun Smoothie!
Blend up frozen spinach, frozen mango chunks, vanilla yogurt (or half an avocado to make it vegan), pineapple juice, a banana, and some chia seeds.
How much of each? Oh… you know. Some. Enough. Depends on how many people it’s for. Just blend up those things together and you’ve got yummy nutrition in a cup. And if I win the Vitamix, I can stop overheating my cheap hand blender 🙂
How on earth did you manage to get 2?! Everyone around the block will be saying “Did you hear?! AMBER got TWO Vitamix blenders!”
Thanks for sharing the wealth!!
Love your blog! My husband and I read it all the time! And our blender is horrible!
Shoot I got all excited and entered before remembering I’m a Canadian! If I win by accident I will pay shipping annnnd ship you some yummy veggies back. *smile* Purple carrots ship well right?
love ur blog!!
We are a smoothie lovin’ house and a Vitamix would sure beat the pants off my current blender!
Totally jealous of your vitamix. Told my husband what I wanted for Mother’s Day and he said, yeah, right. Pick something more affordable. No vitamix for me. Or maybe…
I’d make smoothies for the baby! (once he’s old enough, of course!) I guess I can make them now for the big baby in the house. 🙂
Me me me! Pick me! I’m in the process of losing a LOT of weight right now and that vitmix sure would help me make my fancy protein and fruit and veggie smoothies!!!
everything! i make smoothies almost every day.
I so want to win this. A girl can never have too many blenders…
Awesome! You lucky girl. I have blender envy (and blender issues). With my first baby I wanted fruit smoothies about 3 times a week and am too cheap to buy them. The blender made it 3 months 🙁 and the little spokes on the bottom wore (melted, were gnawed, disintegrated, were liquified, etc-they were just gone one day! ) off!
This Baby wants fruit smoothies too but no blender here.
Our wedding blender bit the dust a few years ago and I’ve been eyeing a Vitamix for a long time.
My little man’s favorite smoothie is frozen berries, spinach, pineapple and hemp seeds. Yummy. I yearn every time I see the vita mix demo at the store. Husband thinks I’m nuts!!
OMG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!I would love – love – love a Vitamix. I have four kids and my three girls love fruit smoothies. I would make a tomato, celery and plain yogurt smoothie with lots of hot sauce LOL… (and if it is a particularly bad day I would add some vodka) 😛
I would make much more interesting baby food mixes since the vitamix can heat and then blend! I wouldn’t have to go through my current multi-step process that leaves my kitchen such a mess… And I would make kale, pear and banana smoothies for my morning breakfast. You rock Amber!
That is the EXACT blender that I have been eyeing for the last six months. Professional Series. In Onyx! I look at it and drool every time I shop on Amazon. It’s in my “saved” section. Yes, it is one very sexy blender.
Holy cow that would be awesome! I’d make yummy smoothies too
I’d blend up some fruit and greek yogurt smoothies. I’m pregnant, and it’s going to be summer, and it’s going to be hot. And I’m going to be reaaaallly cranky. This would help tremendously in my crankiness levels. And my kids will thank you. 🙂
(Thanks for the awesome giveaway!!)
I love your blog! so m cuh so that I went through withdrawls hwen you weren’t able to post for a while. I would love to win this mixer. I actually need one and thought about buying one, but they are so expensive. 🙁
Avocado, banana, lime
I would blend lots and lots of smoothies for myself and my family. I would also make almond milk and meal…ajd lots of other delicious paleo and gluten free goodies!
Hey, I’m commenting to see if I can win this thing. Have no idea what you should blend with it. I have no idea what *I* would blend with it, but people really seem to like Vitamixes and if I can get one for free, why not?
I too hate my sucky blender! Not sure what I would blend up first, probably just some smoothies.
It’s my birthday but we just bought a new house so the only way I can get me one of those bad boys is to win it!
I make greek yogurt, banana, spinach (or chard), strawberries (or other berries) and anything else that sounds yummy and healthy into the blender to make green smoothies. You can also freeze these into green popsicles. yum!
I’d blend REAL food for my son that has a feeding tube! Vitamix blenders are the ONLY blender for tubbie or kids!
I’d blend REAL food for my son that has a feeding tube! Vitamix blenders are the ONLY blender for tubbie kids!
LOVE this post! I am planning on getting a Vitamix for myself for my birthday and your confirmation just sealed the deal! (Unless I win the free one, of course!) 😉
I would make blackberry milkshakes 🙂
My kids/husband are smoothie fans, too. I’ve been thinking a blender that would actually manage to blend veggies in with the fruit would be awesome since my kids are veggie-phobic if they can actually SEE the veggie. My current blender is a good-for-nothing like your ex, but I can’t afford to dump him. Every now and then he does romance me with a chocolate milkshake, but it’s never as thick as I would like it because he’s way too lazy.
A smoothie tip – if you have fruit that is probably not going to get eaten before it goes bad, because everyone is sick of grapes, strawberries, that last banana, the suspicious looking mango, etc. chop it up and freeze it.. then add it to smoothies later and feel all clever efficient. 🙂 Also, mangoes thicken smoothies to an unreasonable degree.. just fyi.
smoothies, smoothies, and more smoothies!
Ooh, a vitamin! What COULDN’T you blend in a vitamin?!?! I tend to be really boring with smoothies- frozen fruit, yogurt, honey, brewers yeast. But everyone in my house loves them! Thanks for the giveaway!
my husband just said yesterday he wants a new blender and i said “there is only one worth getting and we don’t have $600 to spend on it!”
First time posting, but I love your blog! I would blend up some delicious margaritas!
Filmjolk, bananas, berries…mmmmm!
Home made peanut butter!
Can you say butt plug on a page about kids? Oh wait, so you CAN, but should we? OH wait, so you did, but… well, hell. I think I like you even more now. (sssshhhh. don’t tell the puritans. then again, they don’t think their kids are crappy out loud, so they’re probably not reading this anyway). Did I mention the time my toddler opened the adult nightstand drawer when we had company? Good times.
I would make a carrot soup! Sounds so good…
Every time my 5 year old sees a post from you on facebook, he makes me read him the entry. In my attempt to keep him potty-mouth free, he thinks you’re called “Crabby Pictures”… the other day he was with his friend in the basement (a girl) yelling PENIS at the top of his voice. I went scold him, but he said “Mommy, I’m telling her the Crabby Pictures story” — because “Penis” instead of “Pizza” is his all time favorite.
And Vitamix rocks!
My best friend has one and taunts me. Every day. My favorite smoothies is banana, avocado, berries, kefir, and peanut butter. If you add “healthy” things like wheatgrass or kale, the peanut butter really hides every flavor of healthy.
I am a crazy vegan and I have always wanted to try and make my own almond milk… but you need one on ‘those’ blenders! I’m so jelly!!!!
Crappy blenders… I so relate! Especially my oh-so-picky-eater daughter who can spot anything remotely resembling a vegetable in the smoothies that my blender spits out :-/
I’d make my own almond milk, blueberry smoothies, and a zillion other things!
OMG OMG OMG! A Vitamix!!! I am so excited that I might pee my pants! Ok ok ok… what would I blend up? Well HELLOOOOO…. what WOULDN’T I blend up?!?!?
For starters, I have a supercute 3 yr. old named Ralphie. (No. I will NOT blend HIM up. So chillax, people). Ralphie is autistic, so he has certain food and texture and sensory issues as a result. But joy of joys, he LOVES smoothies!!! I could make him some really great smoothies, instead of having to buy them for a gazillion dollars each at our local Red Mango. (No offense, Red Mango. You’re tasty and all. But… overcharge, much?). I could also do that thing that many mommies do, where they blend up healthy foods like (gasp!) vegetables, and hide this secret puree in other foods he DOES like to eat. This might help him to get more nutrients in than constantly eating… well… umm… french fries. (Hanging head in shame). HEY! STOP LOOKING AT ME THAT WAY! He’s so hard to feed! It’s not my fault! His therapists are always lecturing me to sneak in veggie purees into his other foods, so with a new blender, I could totally try that. And now, to make it more about ME, (because it’s always all about ME, dontcha know!?), I would love to use the vitamix to cook with. I love to cook. LOVE it. I have a half-assed little blog that I post in once every blue moon, called Hallet’s Hideaway on Tumblr. (www.halletshideaway.tumblr.com). I’m way behind in posting on it, I know. But it’s proof that I LOVE to cook! So it would get a lot of use. I could make kick-ass soups, and sauces, and my beloved beloved PALETAS. Are you familiar with the heaven that is a great paleta? Paletas are basically Mexican popsicles that you make with fresh fruit. So, for example, you throw some avocados into a blender with some honey and milk, blend that up, pour them into a popsicle mold (one of those molds that makes fat wide popsicles, not the dildo-y looking ones), and freeze. Voila! Paletas! I would also love to make them with mangoes, or strawberries and banana, or guava… Although guava does have those annoying little seeds that make my teeth hurt. Because I have crappy thin enamel on my teeth, even though I brush and floss. A LOT. I should go to the dentist soon. So I can enjoy some guava again.
Anyway, please please PLEEEEEEEASE pick MEEEEE! I realllllly want that kick-ass blender with the butt-plug included! I could really use it! (The blender. Not the butt-plug. Ok… well… maybe. But… nevermind).
HOOOORAY for non-crappy blenders! HOOORAYYYY for VITAMIX!!! HOOOORAYYYYY for YOU!!!!
~Lenore and little smoothie-lovin’ Ralphie
PS: He calls them “groovy smoothies”. You’re a mom of little ones. I’m sure you can guess why. 😉
I once had a cheap plastic blender explode due to the apparently rock-solid ice I was using to blend margaritas. It shot out the side of like shrapnel. Which made me REALLY need a margarita.
I have this same fight with my children EVERY.SINGLE.DAY! Only, add in battles over who gets which color straw and cup.
Can’t wait to see who wins… I hope its me. But no matter what, it is very sweet of you to give away the second blender.
A frozen raspberry lime margarita, natch. Or if I feel like being healthy, a bloody mary with lots of veggies.
I’d be blending up some green smoothies! My toddler has suddenly decided not to eat veggies. Or anything crunchy. Or lots of other things. Smoothies it is!
I’d blend up green things to feed my son who will NOT eat anything if it’s green, or if it’s not green but has any OTHER coloured bits in it. He likes smoothies. I trick him with smoothies.
I’ve been looking for a reason to dump my crappy blender.
I would love to blend up some fruit leather mix and hot-spicy-green-avocado salsa.
Smoothies, soup, baby food, margaritas, …what WOULDN’T I blend!
Loved this post as it describes my relationship with my blender to a “T”. Going to enter your contest now as I would really love the Vitamix.
I feel your pain. Blenders can be weirdly unreliable. I used to have one which was older than me, but hardworking and reliable, if clunky. When it finally died, I bought an expensive brand name one as its replacement. The replacement, however is dreadful. It is poorly designed and hard to clean, and it makes an awful “burning plastic” smell any time I try to blend anything thicker than apple juice. I would love to be the winner of your excellent Vitamix blender.
I’ve dumped my blender(s) numerous times! Time for a Vitamix!
I’d be blending up all kinds of smoothies. For me (not because I’m selfish and wouldn’t share but because my children have an irrational dislike of smoothies. I don’t get it.)
I’d make homemade powerballs and “likelara” bars..and milkshakes…lots of milkshakes
Strawberry, banana and Vanilla yogurt smoothie for the kids. For me I love carrot juice.
We have a Margaritaville blender, but it’s just for margaritas. I LOVE it, but would like one for non alcoholic drinks too, now that I have kids and all.
I love to blend up banana, cocoa powder (or chocolate protein powder), peanut butter, chia, milk, ice, and a splash of vanilla. Like a chocolate peanut butter shake! My son loves mixed frozen berries, spinach/kale, chia, milk, ice.
my kids love smoothies and my blender is a jerk also 🙂 we love any fruit with greek yogurt and honey.
My girls and I have green smoothies every morning. I have to make them with my crappy old blender. I also would love to make but butters but my 20 year old food processor died.
I love how you tried to kill it! And I read the blender part in a deep sexy voice. Blend up some nuts and try to make peanut butter.
I don’t make smoothies very often, but I feel that if I had a blender like this, I would DEFINITELY make smoothies! 🙂 I love the picture with the flushed cheeks! Love the blog – always makes me laugh!
You can throw flax seed in there and it will make it GROUND flax seed! I know, b/c my mother let me borrow hers after my first baby, for 2 months, but not after any of the other babies…guess 2 months 2 long. I would totally make the ice cream out of bananas – JUST frozen bananas (and coco, peanut butter, whatever..) My crappy blender requires something wet, so it’s not like ice cream at all – just another smoothie. I would also try to make whip cream out of coconut milk. I heard if it’s chilled it will work…not for me.
yay! I have always wanted one of these! Random generator, pick me, pick me 🙂
I too have blender misfortune! I would of course mix up some smoothies for the kids but really a margarita after they go to bed sounds awesome!!! Thanks for sharing!
Fruity drinks with ICE! My blender will not do ice.
I made myself a smoothie the other day that sounded really weird but tasted great and was super healthy. I have a long history of not getting along with blenders, so I was happily surprised that my <$25 blender actually worked this time.
peanut butter (one large glob crunchy natural stuff)
banana (one)
mango kombucha (maybe 1/2 a cup? 3/4?)
and cocoa powder (1-2 Tbsp)
yum! (no, really)
Commenting to enter! Not witty enough to actually post real comment.
LOVE!!
OH MY GOSH I want this so bad!!!!
OMG. I am addicted to spinach smoothies and would LOVE a new blender cause mine is kindof a jerk, too! Here’s my recipe: water (8 oz.), protein powder (2 scoops), almond butter (about a tablespoon), little bit of honey, tons of spinach (I buy fresh bags and keep in freezer), 5 strawberries (fresh is soooooo much yummier than the frozen bags, even if you keep them in freezer), 1.5 bananas, little bit of ice if needed for smoothie consistency. Makes 2. MMmmmmmm…. I have to have it every day. Hidden greens! Can’t even taste the spinach!!!
I would blend some green smoothies for my little one and me with whatever is in the fridge (usually kale, carrots, beets and chard) and for dinner I would blend up some yummy asparagus soup!
Beets! I like to juice them, but there’s no way my blender can handle them.
I was just looking at these in Costco today! I am loving the tortilla soup and all the smoothies she made. I think my favorite was the lemonade though!
I love smoothies!!!
I accidentally read someone else’s comment too fast and thought they wrote “Soul Food Margaritas.” They really wrote “Soup. Baby Food. Margaritas.” The latter sounds a lot better. Also, I don’t think I did the raffle right but I would love that blender–thanks for sharing!
almond butter!
love your blog. You always have stories that I can relate to. Some of the things your boys do are so similar to what mine have done. (I think its a boy conspiracy.)
Even “crappily” drawn your Vitamix is sexier than my blender! Makes me want to blend up some frozen banana chunks and peanut butter, maybe toss in some cocoa powder and pretend I am eating ice cream….
I’d totally use this to make a crap-ton of smoothies (I love to add greek yogurt for a little extra tang)! My son and I both love smoothies, but I hardly ever make them. Seems like it takes more time to fight with my blender than it would take to mash and process everything by hand.
I have been making smoothies and my blender also sucks. I swoon over the Vitamix!
you’re a lucky momma!
I would be blending everything! I love smoothies, especially this time of year.
this is hilarious. my dad would be jealous. he loves his vitamix!
I would be blending up some yummy stuff into my morning Kefir. And I could make some more strawberry-kale popsicles, only this time actually have the kale BLENDED into the strawberries!
Love your writing, by the way! 🙂
Awesome and whoo hoo!!! I’d totally whip up batches of “nut” flour and coconut flour to save buying them ($$$) at the store.
Thats why I never end up making smoothies for my kids. I love them, they love them, even when I put veggies in them. But the blender was always evil, taking its time, making funny noises, at one point it actually started smoking and my dog freaked and broke it. I havent gotten a new blender since. They are always a disappointment.
The husband is dutiful – he churns up the leftovers that are 1 day too old for me to eat and 1 day from when I get around to cleaning out the frigge (so you KNOW they’ve been in there too long).
For the kids? I’d be so Alice (not Carol Brady, because you know she never got her hands dirty) and have science experiments – how many vegetables do you have to add to make spinach a color other than green? What makes beet juice turn a different color? (FYI – nothing. but man, do you get some healthy stuff in there while they figure it out. next experiment? how long do you have to crush to get the beet juice off your teeth? FYI – the dentist would be proud.)
But for me? I would make a lot of things that taste like the mixed drinks I don’t drink now because I’m trying not to be a crappy parent (or have social services show up at my doorstep because my neighbors are nosey). Though, social services may show up anyway because apparently I’m letting my kids drink “dirt” milkshakes (see science experiments above – guess what color everything turns?)
I could be an awesome mom and blend up some tasty purees for my new little guy…but that doesn’t seem fun at all. What *does* seem fun is making delicious smoothies for myself with NO bananas in them. Yum 🙂
Also, soups.
I recently bought a Ninja blender that I’m very happy with otherwise I’d enter. Sexy blender sounds nice.
I would blend up some frozen bananas, some berries, and a maybe little bit of vodka. Just to take that healthy edge off of it.
I’ve worked in a couple coffee shops over the last decade or so, and I would divorce my husband and marry a Vitamix. Really.
We also called the stir-stick thing a butt-plug. Which makes me love you even more. I don’t know that we ever knew the real name for it, it was always the butt-plug.
And I never thought I’d type butt-plug so many times in one place. Did you?
Fabulous giveaway!! and Huzzah! and Thank you!
My wonderful husband is obsessed with smoothies, but refuses to acknowledge the awesomeness of the VitaMix! Our collection of blender fails make your crappy blender look like a pro!
My blender is also very un-sexy! It is loud enough for astronauts to hear!
I have loved Vitamix for almost my whole life. I remember going to home shows with my parents and all I’d want to do was watch the Vitamix demonstrations over and over and over. To this day, that’s still my favorite booth at the home shows!
I am getting to the age where I may need to blend a lot of things just to stay alive. (Im almost 65). But top of my list would be any flavor of daiquiri!
Love your blog. We make a mean PB & J Smoothie! Yummy! 🙂
I want to make soup!! And smoothies. I can’t wait to plant my garden and I bet this would rock for tomato sauce!!
pick me! pick me!
I always see these at Costco and repeat “Just keep walking, just keep walking, just keep walking”. Would love to get one!
My husband and son blend some oats down to oat flour, then throw in some (de-pitted) dates (pulse a few times to break them up; too long and they become nuggets with the oat flour), then blend it all with almond milk and some honey for sweetness. I think it’s a little grainy and tastes like dirt, but they love it!
My birthday is next week, and this would be AWESOME! I mean, if you really wanted to, and needed to, you could probably grind a whole human in one of those babies, bones and all, and it would just come back for more. I’m really not an axe-wielding murderer, just a mom who’s also a student and has a few classmates that could stand to conveniently “dissapear”…
Whoops…missed the question part. 🙂 I would totally blend the basil I grow in my little garden along with olive oil, walnuts, and Parmesan cheese for some amazing pesto sauce.
I would blend banana, strawberries, raspberries, milk and oatmeal 😉
I have been wanting a vitamix for so long… I seriously yell at my blender every morning while attempting to blend my green smoothie… It is so irritating! I could totally relate to the post 🙂 I read about a guy who blended an avocado pit with his vitamix!!! Are you kidding me? I can barely blend a banana with my piece of crap!
My blender is also very un-sexy! Very! Very!
I’m getting married in two weeks and all we have is one of those silly magic bullet blenders from an infomercial! Only single serving smoothies for us 🙁 A vitamix would be a wedding gift dream come true!!! Hopefully all kinds of multi-serving green smoothies and homemade almond butter in our future!
Pick meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee please!!
I need soups people!! I need perfectly blended soups!!
I would make sofrito! It’s a Puerto Rican cooking base that uses green peppers, onions, garlic, cilantro and a few other things. I use it for almost everything! Constantly making sofrito definitely needs a good blender. Thank you!
I want to blend up some milkshakes! (And sneak some spinach in that for the kiddo.)
I have been wishing for one of these! I’d be blending up green smoothies for sure!
I saw a Vitamix demo at Costco and she made “ice cream” with just coconut milk, frozen strawberries, and spinach. It was actually delicious and I’ve been wanting my own Vitamix ever since!
I’d blend up some smoothies, salsa, banana ice cream. Yum!
Man, I am smoothie boring. Fruit and yogurt. That’s all I do. Reading this post has given me a smoothie complex.
Well, I’ll mix ALL THE THINGS, of course. I’ve wanted one of these fancy blenders for FOREVER. *le sigh*
Oh, I’d blend up some baby food! I bet this thing would make much smoother purees than my baby breeza. Maybe add a few pages of your book for fiber (only the ones I’ve read already, of course).
I don’t even have a blender, cuz they are just so crappy…yours is mating with mine at Goodwill…I heard the Salvation Army and Goodwill have escapes
i love adding fresh ginger to my veggie/fruit smoothies! I also love cuke, kale, celery, apple and lemon. i really really really need a vitamix, lol!
Oh, my gosh, I would never have to throw away my nasty fruit drawer remnants because there would never be any remnants that didn’t make it into a smoothie. I’ve heard that adding banana or avacado to berry smoothies makes them richer and smoother.
i haven’t dove into the smoothie-land quite yet, but maybe one day i will. you know, when i have time and my hair stops falling out. says the mother of a 18month old boy.
I would just blend a normal strawberry smoothie. Yum, yum!
Orange Julius – I saw that somewhere above. That’s the way to go!
thanks!!
I’d make some frozen margaritas 🙂 Maybe a healthy smoothie or something thrown in there.
My son LOVES smoothies. This would be so great for us!
I’d make some frozen margaritas 🙂 Maybe a healthy smoothie or something thrown in there every now and then.
Love your blog, you always crack me up and I have shared many of your posts on FB. This is my first time commenting. You asked what we would make in the fancy shmansy Vitamix. My 2 year old is obsessed with popsicles. I’ve been making homemade popsicles for her using molds. My favorite combo is Mango Orange. And after I pop out her baby brother this July, I will be making that combo, adding Rum, and drinking it myself rather than freezing it for her!
I would love to win! I have a tubie baby who relys on 100% of his food & nutrition thru his gtube. I’ve tried to blend fresh veggies & fruit in my regular blender but it clogs his pump so I am dependent on jarred baby foods & fighting to get the necessary calories in daily. If I could blend real foods to puree consistancy so his pump does not clog, I wouldn’t have to get up obscenely
early or stay up ridiculously late to get the required calories in. His schedule is so strict I have a hard time going anywhere. He is also volume semsitive… so he eats smaller, thicker amounts frequently. A half hour off & our schedule goes to hell. With a vitamix blender I could grind in seeds & nuts thst would boost oir calories &
I blend up some smoothies everyday in my little single serving blender – I just tried an apple and banana with spinach and a little cinnamon. Yum!
What would I blend? Milkshakes. Ice cream, malt powder, milk and chocolate syrup. I’d let my husband make the smoothies and then happily drink his hard work.
I am a single mom and one of the things my son and I really enjoy doing is making smoothies in our crappy blender too! Our favorites are pineapple and orange or grape and blueberry for breakfasts. And in the afternoon we like making a chocolate and peanut butter smoothie slightly resembles the taste of a reese’s cup. Enjoy your vitamix. I know I would!
I stalk Craigslist for Vitamixes, but no luck so far. I keep hoping someone will post one for cheap, not knowing how amazing they are. Until then, winning this would be amazing.
Ooo I know all about sucky blenders!! I’d love to win Vitamix!! I’d whip up some hummus and soup for me, smoothies and milkshakes for my son and hubby, and baby food for my daughter! Thank you for the giveaway!!
My mom had a Vitamix when I was growing up, now that I’m an adult, I curse my lack of money to afford my own, so I really hope I win.
My mom has made all kinds of awesome stuff in her Vitamix, everything from homemade nutbutters (almond, peanut, chocolate-nut, etc) to soups (easy tortilla soup FTW) to smoothies and ice creams. I always loved PBJ smoothies: a little bit of one of the nut butters (usually peanut or almond), some ice and milk (or vanilla ice cream) and fresh/frozen raspberries/strawberries or other fruits commonly used in jellies (believe it or not, raspberry pomegranate smoothies with a bit of PB and white chocolate is AWESOME).
If I one this Vitamix I think I would keel over. I’ve never won anything. Fingers crossed! My favorite smoothie is Kifer and frozen mixed berries.
omg, i am all atwitter with excitement — i hope i win! I’d blend up tons of roasted veggies into a nice soup and freeze it in bags so I wouldn’t have to cook for six weeks! Then I’d make my kids and me chocolate protein powder/frozen cherry smoothies every morning for the rest of the year, then I’d do vanilla peach, then I’d do chocolate/sunny butter/banana!
Morning: Mango, banana, strawberry, spinach, flax
Afternoon: Apple, grape, kale, chia
Evening: Pineapple, coconut, vodka 😉
I just found this really awesome recipe for a strawberry cake from scratch & you have to puree the strawberries… pulled out my “jerk blender” & of course, he wouldn’t puree for me… so, I would LOVE to toss the jerk & puree my strawberries the way they are supposed to be done! I wanna show the old blender who is boss!
I’d sneak veggies of all sorts into fruit smoothies for the kids. And soups. And make ice cream. I’ve coveted the vitamix since seeing it at a home show expo when I was still in college.
I share you venom towards the standard blender. They are lazy leakers! If I had a Vitamix, I would blend joy with broccoli and make Happy Soup.
something tropical sounds good right now.. mango, coconut, pineapple juice. I have no idea really, I am blender-less and have not made a smoothie in a long time, though I would love to give it a whirl again! (haha- pun intended)
My kids love smoothies, but dad got the blender in the divorce, I got the kitchen aid mixer. That’s ok. The blender we had sucked.
I like to blend peanut butter with my smoothies.
If I had an operational blender, I might make all sorts of junk. Salsa, pesto, smoothies, salsa, definitely salsa. Mmmm…
Do this!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHpcqVzmAYY
BenjimanTV Green Juice!!!
Awesome, Awesome Giveaway! I’d love to fire my old blender! What would I blend? With a Vitamix, the answer is, “Anything I want!”
I just used my crappy blender last night to blend a strawberry/yogurt mix for my new popsicle mold! Then that evening my sister and I were talking about super awesome blenders and getting into juicing so I can sneak some veggies into her (her hatred of veggies goes far beyond even my pickiest child, lol). We don’t even remotely have the money for such a thing,though. I could totally use a new, free, non-crappy blender! And I’m a long time fan, I bought your book, and I always enter your giveaways and I never win, so you owe me, girl!!! Lol.
My favorite frozen smoothie is this (for 4 ppl to drink it): Several handfulls of fresh spinach, 1/3 cup OJ, 1 cup frozen unswt strawberries, 1/2 cup frozen unswt blueberries, 1/2 cup frozen unswt peaches, 1/2 cup fresh or frozen unswt mango, 1/2 a medium banana, 1 tbs of chia seeds, 1 cup sweet vanilla almond milk (do not use coconut milk it will separate with the OJ), 1/4 cup heavy cream.. Blend, stop blender, shove spoon down there to make it blend, blend again *repeat 30 times unless you own a Vitamix*.. Taste it. Yum. If not sweet enough add the other 1/2 banana, if too thick, add extra almond milk and extra dash of OJ. You can also take out the juice and almond milk and put about 2 cups of vanilla ice cream with all those fruits and the spinach to make yourself something to eat with a spoon. 🙂
I already have a Vitamix, but I would love to give one to my mother-in-law as a gift. My favorite smoothie is frozen pineapple, frozen bana, and kale.
Wowsers, what a giveaway. I would totally make my own almond flour with this thing! And smoothies, lots and lots of smoothies as opposed to ‘lumpies’ that my blender spits out. Thanks for the opportunity, Amber!
I would blend ALL THE THINGS! Veggies, fruit, whatever I could find!
Plain Greek Yogurt, Strawberries, Coconut Milk, Banana. Blend up and pour into Popsicle molds to make homemade Popsicles.
thanks for the giveaway – i would blend kale & grapes!
Um…what wouldn’t I blend?? I’d give anything for a Vitamix!
I love my Vitamix. Owning a Vitamix instantly makes someone cooler.
I was into green smoothies for a while. Vitamix offers a great way to mix it up, just choose from column A,B,C. Here is a link to te recipe: https://www.vitamix.com/Be-Inspired/Smoothie-Exploration/How-to-Create-Your-Custom-Green-Smoothie
I have broken up with a few blenders in my time. Especially when the lids melt in the dishwasher or when my kids lose the small top thingy that prevents everything from flying out. Anywho…I’d make lots of smoothies with things like carrots in them. And maybe soup.
MMM we are smoothie people… I have one of those crappy blenders to, but am blessed with a juicer… so I have to juice then blend, annoying to say the very least. I would make smoothies, soups, sauces and marinades. I am one of those overly ambitious moms who tries to cook two weeks worth of food and then freeze it… which usually translates to two nights of no sleep, but this vitamix would make life easy in soooo many ways!
Wow –thanks for sharing! I hope I win!
My favorite thing to blend: strawberry-tropical Shakeology powder, frozen blueberries, crushed ice, skim milk, plain yogurt. Yum.
I want one!!
When I was a youth leader we did a Fear Factor-esque Gross Games night where one of them involved finding the grossest edible things possible and blending them. Spam, sardines, chili cheeseburger, you name it. No one barfed!
Only a vitamix could get me to post a comment on a blog. Love your blog, though!
Ohh I would love a baby food maker! And if he’s sexy too, that’s just a plus! Would love to win!
Also:
Check out the menu for Tropical Smoothie (I had one near my college campus). They have a lot of delicious flavor profiles, which would be fairly easy to replicate in a vitamix (which is what they use to mix their smoothies)
http://tropicalsmoothie.com/menu/smoothies/
I’ve had several different tasty blends when Vitamix is doing demos at Costco. My fave is a blend of a bunch of spinach, some lime, white grapes, apple juice, a little mint and ice. It is a refreshing icy treat that does not taste spinachy at all!~
I love to make smoothies and milkshakes, but my blender is just like your old one. It took me 20 minutes to blend up 4 milkshakes the other day.
Man it is way easier to get to the bottom of all of the comments on my laptop than on my phone. I absolutely love your blog!
Ok, if this blender is really up to the test, then let’s “ginsu-knife” test this bad-boy. Remember, they would cut through a tin can and then cut a soft tomato to proove how durable the blades were. Actually, I have a toddler who loves to surreptitiously add things to places they don’t belong, so let’s toddler test this baby:
1: have it successfully shred one soft plastic block or small plastic toy tractor. (then thoroughly wash, bc who wants eau de tractor flavoring their next blended food item?)
2: then blend up one toddler-friendly smoothie. That means: berries, banana, soy milk, yogurt, maybe some frozen mango for flair. But, there have to be NO CHUNKS, otherwise the smoothie gets dumped on the floor.
If this blender can do that AND I don’t have to shake it back and forth to get it’s little rotor blades to chop up everything, then I’m sold.
Pick me! I am a working single mom of two – and could REALLY use this for healthy treats this summer!
By the way, thank you for your blog, it is always entertaining and hilarious!!!
I would blend up some ice and some pineapple and some kinda sweet coconut something and some alchohol. mmm.
Wow I just scrolled through 2000+ comments to teach the bottom!
I want a fancy blender after I watches a lady in Costco do the pee pee dance because she wouldn’t walk away from the free sample stand. I need to see what all the fuss is about.
My husband makes the BEST salsa. I would have him blend me up a whole lot of salsa and have the Vitamix warm it up for me!
I would blend up a bunch of fruits like apples, peaches, pineapples and strawberries and then I would put a little bit of spinach and a few carrots in there. If you’ve got enough fruit you can hid those veggies pretty easily.
I would make my favorite breakfast smoothie with greek yogurt, a banana and frozen berries…except I would finally be able to use frozen STRAWBERRIES which are too much for my current crappy blender to handle.
Pleeeeeeeeeeease let it be me…my blender needs a replacement in the worst way!!
I love your blog, and your book! And would totally love this blender too! (Almost as much as you blog and book!) Id be all over making squash soup and smoothies in it!
P.S. This is the most enjoyable Rafflecopter giveaway I’ve done! 🙂
I’d blend TONS of purees for baby and try to start doing that helathy green smoothie thing for me.
I just saw a comment about a chocolate-coffee shake. Forget healthy smoothies–I’m going milkshake all the way.
I am on my 4th blender in our 13 years of marriage. Registered for one for our wedding – an expensive one that looked all cool and retro. I can blend better with my egg beater. Still have not found one to make smoothies 🙁
Oh wow! We make smoothies literally every morning (an apple or two, some spinach, mangoes, pineapple, parsley, perhaps some berries if we have any, & whatever other fruit we can find, and soy milk). Our loser blender is slooooooowly dying, and a Vitamix isn’t in our budget. (crossing fingers now!)
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I’ve never had a blender that worked well, either. But I can’t afford a nice one!
My favorite is one V8 Fusion can, half a yellow champagne mango, frozen berries, a BUNCH of spinach, a little baggie’s worth of baby carrots, and maybe some greek yogurt. My Kitchenaid blender can do a lot, but sometimes the smoothies get stuck in the straws of my kids’ sippy cups.
Wishing and hoping… We’d make smoothies every day, and freeze some in popsicles. Maybe I’d get healthy and mix up breakfast juices or soups. I might even be able to sneak purreed veggies into sauces so we all get the vitamins without the ick!
I’ve been making a lot of green smoothies lately. I always use 2 cups of almond milk, 2 cups of spinach, and 3 types of whatever frozen fruit I have on hand. It takes FOREVER to blend them. Hate my blender.
I’d love to say I’ll blend all kinds of super healthy stuff for my kids (which, I will) but honestly, I want to make margaritas filled to the brim with tequila for ME!
I’d make some green smoothies with as much goodness that I could throw in and still make it taste good. Dealing with first trimester sickness and can’t currently stomach the thought of anything, so smoothies may be my answer.
We would love a vitamixer! Is this how I enter, just leave a comment? I have been in love with your blog since I saw the cosleeping post. The mad face that your cartoon face has while watching her husband snore was my face every night for 2 years! Love your work 🙂
I would make a peanut butter oat smoothie! Very filling, and I always add some frozen fruit and frozen yogurt to it as well.
I have returned and purchased three blenders in my three years of marriage! They always break … or smoke. Or smell like smoke.
I’ve been making smoothies after I go for a run – I mix Kefir with a banana and some peanut butter – sometimes when I’m feeling extravagant I’ll throw in some nutella
i’m so happy to hear that it’s not just my blender that hates me.
I would love to make my kids daily smoothies with this!
omg. what would i NOT blend. i make almond milk, hazelnut milk, green shakes, fruit smoothies, you name it.
mostly fruit (and hidden veggies) for the little one, also frozen bananas to make “ice cream”
I love green smoothies. My favorite one I’ve made lately is based on a mojito: 1 large cucumber, 2 or more apples (depending on how sweet you want it you could use 1 or 2 pitted dates as well), 1 to 2 peeled/seeded limes (or just the the juice if you prefer), a handful of mint, a handful of spinach and/or romaine, a cup or 2 of water and a cup or 2 of ice (I can only guess at these amounts since I never measure). It usually ends up being somewhere between 48 and 64 ounces. Enjoy your new blender!
I would blend anything and everything. I have been wanting a Vitamix for ages, and my husband is now into smoothies, so he wants one too. We have a loser blender.
Note: I should get an entry just for scrolling all the way to the bottom of this stinking page! You are never going to read through all these entries – no one with kids will!
Anyway. I’d put kale in a smoothie, with like celery and an armload of fruit. Mostly because I could then post “I love drinking kale smoothies!” on FB and everyone would think I’m sooooo healthy, despite what IRL peeps see me eat on a regular basis.
Oh I so need this blender. My hubby and I want to make smoothies and our blender sucks too. Especially since the little plastic topper got burned up in the dishwasher and now we have to hold our hand over the little hole in the lid so that stuff doesn’t shoot everywhere. LOL I would love to make pomegranate margaritas in my new Vitamix! 🙂
I should say that I would love to blend hip “green” healthy drinks to detox my skin, intestines, and liver. But, really, I just want to blend load of ice based drinks (Hello margarita and pina colada!) without blowing up the motor and having to deal with customer service reps from various kitchenware companies. Don’t worry, I would makes V-8s and snazzy smoothies to balance out the fun stuff 🙂
I have a crappy blender too, my kids LOVE smoothies, so I make them. My SIL got a Vitamix and then told me how wonderful it was. How I could make soup and Ice cream… and I tried to convince my husband. And he was. Until he heard how much they cost. He said “there is no such thing as a $500 dollar blender, maybe a $40 or 80 dollar one, but not a $500 dollar one. We do NOT need one of those” so… I have my crappy blender. I even killed one, and thought it was a really good in. Until my mom gave me her crappy blender. and of course husband said “see, a free blender? and it works better then your (broken) $100 one” So long comment longer… I sure hope I win. It’s the only way I’ll ever get a REAL blender.
First, your blog CRACKS ME UP!!! Always puts me in a good mood. 🙂
Now, what would I blend up? Well, my family LOVES smoothies and shakes. I’m pretty simple though on what we’ve tried so far. Usually just strawberries, bananas, chocolate… the basics. My daughter and I like orange juliuses too. My hubby loves to make salsa, so an awesome blender like that one would be great for making salsa (he uses a hand-crank thingy to make it now, because I don’t think our blender would do a very good job with salsa). If I ever had an awesome blender, I’d like to think I would make all those “healthy” smoothies with the spinach and stuff in it, to give us more veggie servings without the kids knowing it. LOL!
watermelon, ice and sugar– not healthy at all but so tasty on a hot L.A. day!
I have a Vita Mix and love it. My Mom had one before me and she loved it. I would love to wind this for my daughter. Or maybe I would keep the new one and give her the old one. Hmmm. I use mine for green smoothies, cakes, baby food (many years ago), hot soups. Anything that can be blended, the Vita Mix can do and then some. I put in nuts, and seeds, and ginger and they all come out smooth. I put in the stems of herbs and kale (for the extra fiber) and you wouldn’t know they were there.
I would blend smoothies and food for my g-tube fed baby! 🙂
Yay, I would love a blender that doesn’t suck! Pretty please?
DH blended and ate some crazy things when he had jaw surgery. Pizza was apparently pretty good, while chicken was disgusting, both dry & mushy at the same time, in his description. So I say give pizza a try smoothie-style, as long as it doesn’t have chicken on it.
Lately I am loving my chai smoothies. Blend up two bananas, 1 tbsp chai mix (ginger, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, allspice, pepper), spinach, chia seeds, coconut water, then add one bag frozen peaches or mango. Add stevia, two pitted dates or honey if you like it sweeter.
My quick guide to smoothies post: http://rememberingthemoment.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/a-quick-guide-to-smoothies/
I wonder if the Vitamix would pulverize my kids’ tiny toys? Probably…however it could be a really expensive smoothie ($600 broken blender? Not worth it). I’d probably just throw in random veggies and fruit, and hope for the best. And if it tastes like crap, OJ or some juice is sure to fix any mistake!
The thing I like to blend the most is pasta sauce. Roast a bunch of veggies and tomatoes (of course) in the oven with lots of olive oil. Once they get all nice and brown, then blend them up. I currently use an immersion blender for this, but a Vitamix one would be tidier.
We might have to go on an all liquid diet because I would be blending everything! I’d especially like to try nut butters. I tried it using my grandmothers Vitamix from 1982 and it didn’t work very well with the old spigot feature.
I would finally blend a bunch of different vegies to try. Can’t wait.
Hmmmmm icecream… and um bananas and fruit… because the fruit makes the icecream healthier! Really it does….
I love milkshakes & making my own “blizzards”
I SOOOO want this!!!! If I had a vitamix, all of our meals would be blended for the next month! Except the bread, which a vitamix can make too! Did you know you can grind your own grain and mix up dough in the vitamix??? If I win this, I will finally start buying my own grain and grinding it fresh to make our bread. Oh, please let it be me!
Also, try mixing spinach or kale into your fruit smoothies. The color is disgusting but the flavor and nutrition are amazing!
Kale, spinach, all kinds of fruit, greek yogurt, and coconut milk!
I so badly want a Vitamix!
I forgot to say what I’d blend! My favorite smoothie is spinach leaves, frozen banana chunks, a little vanilla, a glob of peanut butter, and as much almond milk as it needs to be smooth.
I’ve been wanting a blender for a long time. I’ve never heard of this brand before, but I’ll take your word for how great it is!
My family and I have been trying to eat healthier and live a healthier lifestyle, so making smoothies would be a fun way to eat right.
Love your blog and your book! My co-workers are always wondering what I am laughing about when I read your blog at work! (just don’t tell the boss!)
Maybe I could finally get my toddler to eat veggies if they were blended 🙂 The kid loves a smoothie!
Love your blog. I finally made it through all your archives and now I have to wait eagerly for each new post. You are so funny!
I might actually consider using a blender if I had one as nice as the Vitamix.
I am a smoothie-making-machine lately! I would LOVE a Vitamix!
My mom had a vitamix when we were growing up and she made EVERYTHING in it. I do mean everything. It lived to be about 100 years old (or about 15 years in blender years). Now THAT’S a blender!
Funny post & awesome giveaway!
I’d love a blender that could tackle ice!
I’ve been on a smoothie kick myself, but my poor little Magic Bullet doesn’t like ICE. Best smoothie ever (which is cheating, because it’s not ENTIRELY healthy) is frozen mixed berries, vanilla yogurt, a bit of milk, and hot chocolate mix. Yep, powdered chocolate. It’s amazing.
Thanks! You’re just lovely!
The Vita-mix is what I need in my collection of kitchen accessories. So pretty and makes it so easy to make smoothies for 3 kids and their mom. 🙂
I would blend up a STORM! I am in the same boat as you, my current blender is just ok and I mostly have to coax it along to blend anything up. I would be in complete and utter green smoothie heaven if I had a Vitamix 🙂
I have a Ninja that I bought at Wal-mart that actually blends pretty well…. but it would be cool to relegate it to fancy-drink-making (which is mostly what it does anyway) at our bar in the basement and have a really really awesome blender for my kitchen.
I had no idea terrible blenders were such an epidemic! Our was so loud, it sounded like something about to take off into orbit, and you still ended up with chunky chunks…
ooo – please. please please please. pick me. (I am the annoying kid in the class).
I would blend my signature smoothie with that baby. plain yogurt, orange juice, mangoes, peaches, banana and hemp seed. Awwww, yeah.
I wasn’t going to leave a comment, but then I worked my way through the other questions and needed to tell you that I laughed my ass off at “answer a gross question”. 🙂
I’m not much of a cook. I use the blender for juice, smoothies, cake blends & sometimes burees.
I would blend green monster smoothies! that spinach is tough to chop. Love your blog!!
I’d blend up some fruit and veggie smoothies for my kids, some soups and of course a pina colada or two for myself!
Awesome give away!
Ha! I saw your article in Ladies Home Journal this month! (I actually posted a picture to your Facebook page) So glad you didn’t have to save for something this time! I just got rid of my stupid blender too, it sucked! I so wish I could afford a vitamix! Making baby food (due In July) would be a must! And after that im gonna need a margarita!!
That’s exactly how our current blender acts, too…except it also groans terribly. I feel bad for the apartment below us!
I’m vegan, and I wish my blender could puree my favorite veggie soups (carrot and ginger soup, aztec corn soup, asparagus and cashew soup). We just bought a juicer to sneak green veggies into our kids, so we can’t afford a blender right now!
love you and love your blog and I also have a lazy piece for a blender hogging up my counter 🙂
You probably won’t believe this but I had never heard of Vitamix before I was dragged to a demonstration at Costco from my own crappy (&hungry) boys. After they sampled soup, smoothie and ice cream I could see the wheels turning in my hubbys head “how can we afford this – what can I sell?!?!). As someone who has had equally bad luck with blenders this would be AMAZING.
I want to make green smoothies for breakfast. Spinach, berries, greek yogurt. Throw it all in, man.
I would make chocolate oatmeal breakfast shakes. It sounds gross, but man oh man are they good!
Your blog is so great. How you feel about vitamix is how I feel about my Kitchen-Aid stand mixer. It’s magical.
You are so very funny – you can make anything funny!!!
We love smoothies over here too! This would be so awesome!
Would love to win a new blender!!! we love smoothies around here too! (and our old one is just about to die…)
Whatever comes in the CSA box would get blended…except the onions maybe…that seems gross
And here I thought I was the only one in a bad blender relationship. Sounds like we need a support group.
I am a smoothie addict. I learned from someone else you can freeze yogurt in little ice cube trays, then take those ice cubes and a couple pieces of fruit in a zip lock and make ready to go smoothie ingredients. All you have to do is grab a bag, maybe add a little juice and you’re good to go. Of course, you have to have an awesome blender that can handle lots of frozen shit. 😉
Need one bad! We drink smoothies every morning – any kind of frozen fruit mixed with fresh (or just about to go bad, frozen before it did) banana, yoghurt, OJ or Cranberry juice, and sometimes kale or spinach. would love to use whole oranges instead of OJ and carrots instead of carrot juice!
Sweet giveaway! Love your blog!
A very good friend of mine just bought one and can’t stop raving about it. She makes “green juice” for herself and her husband. Kale, spinach, the juice of half a lemon, and whatever fresh or frozen fruits she has on hand. The kale and spinach are pulverized. Not stringy at all. Pretty amazing.
My favorite is strawberries, mangoes, pineapples and orange juice for the liquid. It’s acidic, but it’s DELICIOUS. If you want it to be extra smooth, just add a banana. I usually don’t because the banana takes over all the flavors, but if I want a fluffy smoothy, that’s what I add.
Smoothies! I have the exact same problem as you, but we can’t afford a nicer one since I am in grad school right now. Glad to know it works so well! One day!
I really want to start making green smoothies for breakfast! I have ruined more than a couple spoons trying to get my blender to blend.
Salsa!
Thanks for the rad giveaway! I love anything with mango and my kids love anything with carrot.
I love your blog, it cracks me up every time. And I would be stoked to get a vitamix!
At this very moment, I have *half* a blender sitting in my cupboard… not sure why. Maybe hoping for another top half to magically appear that matches the bottom that didn’t work very well anyway?
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My kids love smoothies too. Of course!
I’d love to make good smoothies with that!
Ohhh!! awesome!! I used to make chocolate cherry protein shakes all the time!! I can’t wait for cherry season this year!! 😀 😛
Hilarious post! I’d love to have a vitamix!!
I would make a blended diet for my daughter who has a gtube.
I am in the middle of a 30 day green smoothie challenge – using my 6 year old magic bullet. I am super jealous but hope you enjoy it.
I would totally be blending fruits and veggies. I bought a book about how to hide veggies in pretty much anything and I desperately want to try it! Only my blender sucked… and then it died. I’m also now adding red maca powder to my diet so being able to blend it into smoothies would be amazing! <3
Bananas, milk, coconut flakes, and pineapple rings. And rum, if it’s after noon. (or before, I don’t judge).
Love your blog! The “one-night stand” comment was awesome!
I love your blog! I can relate to so much of it (I have a crappy toddler). Your illustrations are awesome! Thanks for sharing!
Omg what a lucky mama you are! Maybe that sexy blender will come sexify my very frumpy kitchen.
I have the same problem with my blender. I never want to make anything, because I spend the whole time trying to coax the large chunks down to the spinning blade that is totally unmotivated to do its job. Thanks for the opportunity!
What a great giveaway! I love your blog– it always cracks me up.
I have heard so much about these things being so worth the price. 600 for a blender? really? But I’ll take a free one! HELLO fresh made baby food!!
I am a first time poster, but have been reading your blog & can’t help but laugh. I have 3 boys & I can relate to a lot of the things you’ve posted about. But here are a couple of me & the boys favorites that I used to make, but don’t anymore cause my blender was a ‘jerk’ to lol.
Strawberry Smoothie
1 container (6 oz) Yoplait® Original 99% Fat Free strawberry, strawberry kiwi or strawberry mango yogurt
1/2 cup sliced fresh or frozen strawberries
1/2 cup orange or pineapple juice
In blender, place yogurt, strawberries and juice. Cover; blend on medium speed about 2 minutes or until smooth. Pour into serving glass. Serve immediately.
Chocolate-Peanut Butter-Banana Smoothie
2 cups light chocolate soymilk
2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
1 large banana, frozen
Cut banana into 1-inch chunks. Place banana and remaining ingredients in blender or food processor. Cover; blend on high speed about 30 seconds or until smooth. Pour into 2 glasses. Serve immediately.
I’m hoping I win so I can give it to my wife and get major brownie points…
I would make EVERYTHING with a Vitamix! I could actually blend veggies to hide in food since they can still see chunks with my current blender and refuse to eat it. Gah!
Man If i got a new blender I would be making all kinds of shakes! I keep pinning this great recipies on pinterest; pumpkin pie shake, chunky monkey shakes, pina coladas. One day i am hoping my blender will actually…you know…blend.
coincidentally, i just got some blender bottles for mother’s day. i wanna put some smoothies in there to mix with my soy protein! also, your blog is hilarious and i love it.
I would do fruit/veggie smoothies every morning for sure but think of all the different flours and and things you can blend! As a mom of a child with several food allergies I am always blending flours (and it takes forever b/ my blender always dies..). If I want to make a smooth cake I have to do everything in portions so my blender won’t die. I would LOVE a Vitamix!!!
What wouldn’t I blend?! Actually, I never blend anything because what a pain in the ass! I think your former blender and mine may have been buddies. If I had a rad blender like the Vitamix, I would blend soup. I love soup. Also, maybe a few smoothies for my kids…I’m just kidding. I would make drinks with rum. Or vodka.
I look forward to your posts because they make my days less crappy. I could use a new blender for making berry daiquiris and triple chocolate rum shakes. And I guess I could make a few smoothies for the kids too 🙂
I also have a blender that does not blend. I hate it. I won’t even do ice cream and milk and chocolate for milkshakes. I mean any type of fruit for smoothies..
I would make green smoothies with it! Love them!
Hi, I love this blog and I recommend it to everyone! I would love the Vitaminix, I know it would help my family live a healthier lifestyle.
I’d blend up everything from my garden! Mmm, green smoothies.
My latest favorite smoothie recipe is banana, almond milk, kale, frozen mango, and flax oil. It is super healthy and delicious. (Not like milkshake delicious, but more of a “Oh yes, this is clearly a healthful smoothie but I do not want to die because of how awful it tastes.”) I can even give it to my kids and they do not moan and groan and writhe in agony.
I would LOVE to win this vitamix. I have one but my sister could use on as well! Thanks for being so good to your fans 🙂
it’s a catch 22: i don’t make smoothies because I don’t have a vitamix. but I can’t justify a vitamix because i don’t make smoothies. There’s only one way out – give me a blender!
What would I not blend? Can you blend soup in there? I would blend the shit out of some veggie soup so my 2-year-old couldn’t pick out the carrots and leave the rest. Then I would make a pineapple smoothie. My downstairs neighbor has one, and every night I can hear them making smoothies after dinner. It’s just cruel.
I love blending up smoothies for my two boys, plus I can hide all sorts of things if there that are good for them that they normally wouldn’t touch with a ten foot pole!
Fingers crossed!!
anything!!! Ice, soups, gravy, sauce for mac and cheese, smoothies:)
Love your blog and I have been drooling over the Vitamix! I’d love to make strawberry protein smoothies and also unhealthy Pina Coladas and Margaritas!
We like to buy frozen fruit and just add a scoop of ice-cream or yogurt. My husband thinks the frozen berries have enough sugar so he adds a small amount ¼-½ cup or heavy cream and a little spenda if it’s not sweet enough to make ice cream.
I love reading your site! While not a mother yet, I’ve tended kids, watched siblings and watched siblings raise kids. YOU ARE HILARIOUS and so spot on! It’s great!
I’d blend up meals for my tube fed kid.
i love making strawberry and banana smoothies, but i would love to do some veggie mixes. my current blender is overheating when i make my smoothies..time for a new better one! 🙂
Baby food! so pretty much anything and everything! Itty Bitty eats so much and my ‘blender’ doesn’t do crap except cut food into chunks I could cut!
I have no idea what I would blend up. I just want to know what onyx is.
This is awesome 🙂
I make a smoothie for myself everyday for 1 meal. I use green powder, protein powder, chia seeds, almond/coconut milk, frozen fruit, baby spinach. Doesn’t sound super yummy but it is and I love it! I get lots of veggies for breakfast and don’t even taste them! I also would LOVE a Vitamix, I am using a HAND BLENDER to make my smoothies everyday!
You are so lucky to have gotten one of these blenders!!!! This company is awesome.
butt plug, ha! i would see if my favorite juice mix translates to a smoothie. celery, pineapple, ginger and kale. i guess to officially make it a smoothie i need to add yogurt? I’ll have to google that…
ps bought your book and loved it. i check your blog everyday because it is awesome. thanks for being you and sharing it with the world.
I love to throw whatever fruit is in my fridge that needs to get eaten into a blender for a smoothie. But my crappy blender broke a few weeks ago so I am now blender-less!
Blending fruits with health-boosting probiotic-filled yogurt is a great idea. So is getting probiotic powder and blending it with chocolate chips and ice cream. The probiotics make it healthy! 😉
I make green smoothies all the time–my kids LURVE them, plus then they eat kale! I don’t even want to imagine how amazing it would be to have a vitamix. I’d definitely try making more soups.
Love your blog!!
I wish I did smoothies more often. I love them. My daughter loves them. My son doesn’t trust them. And the blender is a pain in the butt to get out all the time. But with a snazzy one, I’d leave it on the counter, right next to my true love, the Kitchenaid Mixer.
Hubby got me a Vitamix for Christmas. It is definitely sexy. And makes damn good hummus!! And smoothies (that we freeze into popsicles). And soups. And…everything!
awesome! ive been eyeing this!
You can do anything on the vitamix! best product ever
Almonds, mint, blueberries, spinach, banana, a splash of almond milk and vanilla icecream
I’ve dreamed of owning a Vitamix for years, but for that price it better load itself into the dishwasher and mop the floor when it’s done! I’ve got five kiddos, and smoothie making is an all night job, as my blender can’t hack it and my bullet only makes one at a time, and that one better be small, or it just spins uselessly!
Love this blog!! I check it every day hoping for a hilarious dose of someone else’s “crappy” life! Thanks for making me laugh (the comments are always funny, too!) and thanks for donating the blender! I just started on a detox diet and need to make smoothies every day, so this blender would be AWE-SOME!! My fave so far is choconana, mmm-mmm-mmm!!
Thank god! I thought I was the only one that had issues with blenders…. I’ve bought many that never work for me! I really need a vitamin! 🙂
My blender is your old blender. So annoying. Plus every time I stick a spoon in it to get things moving I hit a pocket of air or something and the smoothie explodes in my face. Yes please to Vitamix!
I admit it. I have blender envy. I’ve given up on making smoothies because the only thing that gets pulverized is my patience. I’ve been dutifully drinking my protein shakes, but how awesome would they be blended with the strawberries I now have to eat on the side. C’mon sexy Vitamix, come to my counter. I’ll treat you right.
I would mostly blend smoothies & baby food, hiding veggies in both, cuz I need hidden veggies too :). I would also make some sauces & dips.
A Vitamix! So awesome! I have a “cast off” blender. I’m definitely the rebound girl for that thing. Sometimes it loves me, but mostly it complains that I’m not as good to it as the previous owner.
I’d love one! By the way, your blog is wonderful! 🙂
Wow I would love a super powered blender like a Vitamix, though of course our puny kitchen is so small we would have to keep the blender in the basement along with the freezer and the cookie cutters and the griddle and the platters. I would be making beet-carrot-orange smoothies and pineapple-apple smoothies and my kids love to press the buttons and I would finish their portions and I would be bursting with vitamins!
I would make a Kale, blueberry , flax smoothie 🙂 My 4 girls LOVE smoothies!! Thanks for the chance !
I don’t know what I’d blend, but this ends on my FIFTH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY. So maybe I’d blend up some wacky organic lube or something. Just cause, you know.
I used to strictly blend just baby food…now that I have this giant crush on the Vitamix, I find myself pinning endless smoothie recipes on Pinterest! I hope I get this so I can actually USE one…
Oh, green smoothies are awesome: kale, pineapple, avocado, some coconut or coconut water…. yummy healthy!!
I have a crappy blender but an awesome recipe! I tried out a bunch of green smoothie recipes and took the best of them all to make what my family calls the Boonie Smoothie: 1/2 banana, 1 large orange, 3 large spoonfuls of plain nonfat greek yogurt, splash of unsweetened vanilla almond milk, 2 large handfuls of baby spinach, 1 handful of frozen blueberries, 3 large frozen strawberries. We drink one every day. We’ve tried other recipes but always come back to the Boonie Smoothie. I hope you try it!
You should add some Kale and Carrot to your smoothie. The carrot adds sweetness and neither of them are too overpowering. BONUS, they are SO good for you.
How sweet of you to do this – for whoever wins. Kind thought and nice to see the Vitamix was willing to “just let one slide” in a way. Thanks to you and congrats to whoever wins!
I would make some awesome smoothies and ice cream!!
I wouldn’t (being non-us) but would get it sent to one of my us rellies instead.
Actual blending would probably be soup (currently pumpkin) or veggies for pasta sauce.
What won’t I blend?!?! LOL! Heck yeah!
I’ve had the same experience with blenders, disappointing. Would love to be able to blend up some frozen bananas and chocolate chips!
Creamsicles!! http://alittleinsanity.com/raw-orange-creamsicle-dairy-sugar-free/
I’ve never given much thought to blenders, but now I totally want a nice one, lol!
What would I blend up? Any dang thing I want to with one of these bad boys! But seriously, I’m in the baby food phase again, so I’d give that a go.
We’re more milkshake type people. Strawberry milkshakes. My husband would add bananas to his. 🙂
I would blend healthy stuff and get skinny again. Being skinny is awesome.
Love you crappy pictures! I too, have a crappy blender! In fact, I not only have one, I have two crappy blenders. One is supposed to be a smoothie maker, it even has a little pour spout thingy. It’s just as crappy as the other and the little pour spout thingy is a PIA to clean! I would love, love, love to have a Vitamix Blender!! I would make protein smoothies and my kids would be so happy! Also, would make purees to go with my not so awesome cooking, that would become awesome from the wonderful purees!
I really would love to experience the power of a Vitamix and get healthier. I’d make green smoothies for my family 🙂
I would make fruit and veggie smoothies the most! But I’d also use it for my homemade tomato soup and for banana ice cream in the summer!
I just had my second kiddo (and last thank God) and I really need alcohol. So any fruity blended drink with alcohol is on my agenda if I win this sucker. 🙂
Okay, here’s the deal!!
••••ginger, cucumber, carrot, kale, protein powder, OJ, H2O, frozen raspberries, frozen blueberries. GO!
I would make yummy sauces, like Thai peanut and then (after washing) – milkshakes.
Oh I would so love to win one of these!!!
I love to blend veggies into smoothies but my old blender too is lazy. I think I would like to make one of those South American smoothies that use oatmeal, berries, spinach, honey and milk (lactose-free for me). My friend has a Vitamix and I so want to keep up with the Jones’ on this one. Oh, and you can use it as a juicer too. Awesome!
I know what you mean about a crappy blender, I could put liquid in it and it would come OUT chuncky?? It’s really nice of you though to give the other away! I love your blog though and I keep checking my target for your book! I hope they get it soon 🙂
I wore out my ipad screen and my finger to get to the bottom of here to leave a comment, although the entry thingy seems to really rely on the entrants honesty. Thanks for being so cool Amber, and how awesome of vitamix! I’d make my crepe batter so much quicker and with so many less lumps. . . .
Pink Sunrise
2 bananas
2 c fz strawberries
1 c almond milk (vanilla)
2 tbsp chia seed
2 tbsp hemp
I need a sexy blender. There’s no sexy here at all.
Wow! That’s so cool you got one for free!
Everytime I go to Costco, I would see the guy doing the demo with all the different veggies and fruits…I would love to win one since they are kind of expensive and out of my budget…
right now, i’m just stuck with the low budget Magic bullet 😀
Not only does this blog crack me up, but I have wanted a new GOOD blender for months!
Very timely post… my blender died this week. I was trying to make this key-lime pie smoothie http://sonoranchic.com/2012/08/27/avocado-spinach-smoothie-key-lime-pie-shake/ and my blender usually takes a few minutes of constantly hitting the side to make it work. Did I mention this blender that I have had for ten years was previously owned… so it is ancient. Well, it died. Smells like a motor melted. I am still awaiting this delicious smoothie!
I like free things almost as much as I like crappy pictures!!
I have a cheap blender my mom got me from Sears and it does a pretty good job. But I’m never making healthy delicious fruit smoothies, I’m making peanut butter milkshakes. 🙂
Mmmm…I’d only blend milkshakes. Just kidding. I need to make more green smoothies….and I have a crap blender.
Our blender is the same as your old one! Congrats on dumping it- I would loooove to dump ours. I just found a great smoothie recipe, too, that calls for frozen grapes. No ice cubes? Perfect!
I don’t know if anyone else has said this, but I love that you went from having a crappy blender to getting a Crappy Blender 😀
I LOVE juicing and have a rad juicer…..but it would be awesome to use that juice to make some smoothies too (my hubby would LOVE it..he’s the big smoothie guy in our fam) I may or may not add alcohol to a smoothie..I can’t promise anything.
I want to make mango smoothies! My lazy bastard blender can’t blend up chunks of mango 🙁
I’d blend EVERYTHING (well, the edible stuff) from our new garden! And did you know you can make SOUP in a Vitamix? I’ve been eyeing them for a while now!
I’d make smoothies out of all the produce that I buy when I’m feeling healthy and then just rots in my fridge!
My blender has a stubborn streak so making smoothies hasn’t been much fun. I usually stick to banana, strawberry, yogurt, and honey. I’d love to try a veggie smoothie if anyone has a good combo they’d like to share?
Legos. My other blender won’t pulverize them enough to enjoy the smoothie. I spend too much time spitting out the chunks.
Best green smoothies…spinach or kale, pineapple and green apple…that’s what to blend! 🙂
I’d make pesto! lots and lots of pesto!
I have had a wonderful, reliable Vitamix for 15 years. Never done me wrong. Until yesterday…seriously. It is making a funny noise and doesn’t spin fast enough and I am very worried. For the first time in 15 years I had the thought, “Maybe I need to buy a new one?”. So, it would be awesome to win the giveaway (although my husband is convinced he can fix it, ‘Must be the belt…I’ll get my screwdriver as soon as I get home…”).
On to your question…. my favorite thing to blend: yes, smoothies. Greek yogurt, frozen cherries, banana, and fresh oranges, and maybe some almond milk and almond extract.
OMG I’d love to win this. I’ve always wanted one. I’ve sat and watched it being previewed on QVC many times. Just can’t afford one on a SAHM salary! Thanks for all you do!
I love making Kahlua shakes. Ice, Kahlua, a little chocolate syrup and milk. Half and half if you’re feeling really naughty.
I would love a new blender! Love the blog! My daughter doesn’t even know what a smoothie is at this point, but I am sure she would like anything with strawberries, bananas and blueberries!
Are you kidding?! What wouldn’t I blend with that sucker?! I want to try making almond meal & oat flour, nut butters, pie crusts, biscuits, etc.
I’ve been coveting one for years now, but when I mentioned the price to my husband he guffawed – I don’t think I’d get away with sneaking one into the kitchen (read: out of the bank account).
My boys and I would love one of these! Smoothies, soup, ice cream!
how jealous does your husband feel of your blender now?
I’ve been using a small Magic Bullet for 4 years now. While it still technically gets the job done, it’s not one-press-and-you’re-done, and certainly won’t do smoothies for my now-family-of-4. We just do spinach, yogurt, frozen berries, flax seeds, and some milk. But if I had one of those, I’d totally buy a smoothie/juicer book for many more ideas!
Mmmm….forget smoothies. I’m thinking chocolate chip and strawberry ice cream blended with bananas!
I love reading all of your blog posts, I don’t follow many blogs but this is the one that look at regularly excited for the next post! I wish I could finish the giveaway but I don’t have twitter 🙁
Any entries count, you don’t have to do all the options.
Would love a vitamix! Would make homemade ice cream nightly!!
This thread is insanely long. I make smoothies often with my worthless blender. Takes about a half hour to make a strawberry, blueberry, chia seed, yogurt, with a blend of 2 naked juice drinks for me and my 2.5 year old. I would love a new blender, but the cheapest good one is $300…. outof my price range 🙁
A vitamix!! Sexy indeed! *sighs*
I usually blend a banana, green drink powder mix, 1 cup of ice, 6 oz water, and 1/3 cup greek yogurt – this is my breakfast and although it doesn’t seem like it’ll last through to lunch it really does!
forgot to mention that i’d blend up veggies and fruit! duh. 😉
Fruit with hidden veggies and flax! The more leafy greens I can disguise in that sucker the better. I have the same issue with blenders. I can’t make a smoothie to save my life. I think my kids just tolerate them to make me feel better 🙁
I totally hate my blender too. It sucks on many levels. It gets a weird burny smell whenever I try to blend things. It’s super annoying to clean. I would make a crapload of smoothies if it were easier to do!
I am in love with fruit smoothies. I would probably just keep trying all the different fruits I have on hand to see which my favorite is (as I currently only have a jerk blender that doesn’t want to do it’s job). Right now the pineapple, bananas and strawberries I have on hand sound delicious together!
I’m glad to hear my blender isn’t the only lazy one out there. Would LOVE to win one that isn’t!
I’d try some of those whole-fruit/veggie juices I keep hearing about.
Wow, that is totally awesome! Thanks for the chance to win.
well we could use a new blender
I want to make my favorite mixed drink that I get from the Cheesecake Factory. It’s called “Flying Gorilla”
The ingredients are as follows: Fresh Banana, Chocolate, Ice Cream, Cream De Cacao, and Dekuyper Banana Liqueur topped off with some whipped cream and chocolate flakes with a cherry on top!! YUMMMM
You should really try it. It is one of those drinks that you can get into trouble with because you can barely taste the alcohol so you’ll have 4 down and suddenly be like wow I’ve got a good buzz going on right now lol
It’s rainy and cool in Seattle 9 months of the year (sometimes 10 months…) so I’d have to say soup–but then, for those other 3 (or 2) glorious months? Tropical smoothies, yeah!
I would blend up baby food for my little one and lots of yummy smoothies and milkshakes for my older two, yum!!
i just bought the book at chapters, and loving it, actually my 9 year old thought i bought it for him and he was in his room laughing until i noticed he had it and reclaimed it so i could dive into it. if i won the vitamix i would makes lots of soup ( not that any of my three boys eat soup but so i could enjoy something for myself). maybe some ice cream for them 😉
Oh oh I want a Vitamix sooooo bad! I would probably use it to be lazy with breakfast (and maybe lunch and dinner too…) just throw stuff in there and blend instead of cooking. Sounds good to me! “Here kid, have a chicken, cheese, and something green smoothie!” Maybe I could get him to eat some veggies?
I have a ‘no blend’ blender, would love a Vitamix!
I’d blend up greek yogurt, bananas, pineapple, mango, and honey with some ice. Yum! Or strawberries, ice, sugar, and rum – Daquiri!
I love this blog. It makes me feel like I’m not the only Mom out there who’s awesome kids make them crazy.
Oh, how I would love, love, love this. Just finished your book. Loved it too.
Heh heh… you said butt plug 😀
I want to order one of these for my sister so she can make her juices during her chemo. I have heard such great things about those suckers.
Buckets and buckets of leftover fruit and yogurt in an explosion of gastric joy.
I would totally blend up a pinecone. Because I live in the middle of a pine forest and those things are freaking pokey and they are always hurting my fingers when I have to pick up all 10,000 of them that fall in my yard. And don’t even get me started about when they fall from 70 feet up and hit you in the head. So I want to see one die.
For a great treat, I would love to just blend some strawberries, bananas and ice cream for a good shake.
Otherwise on the other ‘good eating’ days, I would like to blend some carrots, celery, lemon, tomatoe and whalaa! nummy!
I’ve always wanted a good blender, to of all things, crush ice for drink mixes. My kids would enjoy the smoothie aspect tho!
I feel just that way about my blender. It struggles with bananas. Children with no teeth can smush banana.
I dream of owning one of these but could never justify spending that much on a blender. I’ve used one before; however, and it was amazing. I used it to pulverize the oatmeal for these delicious cookies: http://www.food.com/recipe/neiman-marcus-250-chocolate-chip-cookies-recipe-13307
Protip: add fresh spinach to ANY fruit combo. My fave involves banana, strawberries, mango, and blueberries. The green makes it look AWESOME and the flavor is mild enough to not make kids run away in fear!
I would love this! I never make smoothies because my blender sucks! I would make fruit smoothie pops for my kids.
Our lazy blender is on it’s last leg. A Vitamix would awesome!
I love making smoothies for my kids! Frozen fruits, fresh fruits, yogurts, anything goes!
Smoothies… my blenders (yes two of them) are not good for smoothies. One is even a “smoothie maker” and has a poker for stirring in the lid.
LOVE smoothies. Do not love to make them in my Kia of a blender, so I can relate! That said, the frozen Sambazon packets combined with any fruit make the tastiest healthy smoothies and I highly recommend adding Bee Pollen on top (Whole Foods – ugh, splurge)!
I was going to put something awesome about green smoothies, avocado smoothies (I guess that is green, too) to fatten up my tiny son (size not age), but really I’d probably just make a lot of milkshakes with it.
I think you are hilarious! My blender is a total jerk hence we rarely blend anything at our house!
Got your book for my b-day from my cousin, who gift ninja’d it before my husband could get it for me. 🙂 Maybe you’ll need an appliance section in the next one.
Blend up an ice cream shake! YUM!!!
Ya my blender sucks too!!
first time poster, but love your blog! never fails to make me laugh. i’ve been coveting a vitamix for a while now, so would be awesome to get one for freeeee!
we borrow my parents’ Vitamix regularly….even though we have a perfectly good blender that DH picked out…it just isn’t a Vitamix…so he mopes and whines every once in a while and then my parents’ Vitamix sits on my counter for a month (like it’s doing right now).
That reminds me………I have to return the Vitamix.
I would make the Samoa girlscout cookie shake out of cottage cheese! Yum!
Love this blender. Thanks for thinking of your readers! 🙂
I’d blend up some smoothies for my twin toddlers since I can’t get them to eat any vegetables other than peas and green beans without hiding them in a fruit/veggie smoothie. And those bottle smoothies at the store are crazy expensive so it would be nice to be able to make them at home. However unless I get a free Vitamix it is still cheaper to buy smoothies. You can get a lot of them for $600.
Wow, you really are too nice. Sign me up! I saw a demo at Whole Foods a few months ago, and I think I might have been salivating. I’d make smoothies, of course, but I’d love to try making frozen yogurt like the demo. Real fruit, no sugar – and it was phenomenal.
My dad bought a Vitamix. He wouldn’t tell us the price…just said that it would pay for itself in Outback-like margaritas. Woohoo!
Vitamix or the mega…. Hmmm. That’s a toss up!
I feel your blender pain. I have all but given up on mine. Oh, how I miss smoothies!
Try spinach, kale, an apple and parsley. It smells like spring.
Doood. I’d blend everything. But mostly smoothies. Yep.
Um. Soup. Smoothies. Milk Shakes. Awesome things. Yes.
I have been doing green smoothies from the extra stuff that we get from our CSA. I use pineapple juice, spinach, cucumber, chia seeds, even strawberries & bananas. Adding the strawberries kind of makes it brown, but still tastes good. I also use honey to sweeten it if needed instead of sugar.
Sweet Jesus! I’ve been drooling over Vitamix blenders in Costco for the past 3 1/2 years! The dude who does the demos got a little weirded out by my expression of longing…
I have to do that spoon-pokey thing, too. You mean there’s another way??
I LOVE YOUR BLOG!!!! You are hilarious and remind me of myself when I had little ones…you say everything I used to think and didnt dare say! LOL Now I’m in the teen phase…and I now understand why some mammals eat their young! Anyway, I would whip up some frozen Mom and Dad drinks and kick the teens to the curb for the weekend! JK…I really do love them, I swear!
I would leave my butt plug intact, but those veggies are goners!
Yogurt, peanut butter, bananas, and chocolate syrup smoothies
I would make non-chunky smoothies because I am not a fan of chunks in my drinks. 🙂
Blah blah blah….I WANT.
But I know i won’t win cuz I never win stuff.
smoothies and “adult’ milkshakes 🙂
Yeah, sweet blenders! I can only imagine what this would do to ice for a frothy margarita…uh, I mean citrus smoothie.
I would blend anything. (willitblend?) I could blend an iPhone, if I had one, but I wont because they cost as much as a blender… (dang!)
I just purchased a jerk juicer for $5 at a yard sale. At least it was only 5 bucks. I need juice and smoothies.
Maybe I need a blog with a bajillion wealthy followers. (you should mention that you need a new minivan and give me the #2! Good idea!)
Yay!
Oh! Ah! I want one!
I would blend: Spinach, Beets, Frozen Bananas, Pineapple, Coconut Water and Protein Powder.
go to the blendtec or vitamix pintrest sites. Also Juicing with vegetables and green smoothie girl have tons of delicious recipes.
Frozen bananas + peanut butter + cocoa = Ice Cream for breakfast!
Nothing original…just smoothies!!
You are hilarious and awesome. I’d love to get a hardworking blender! Thanks!
Commenting to enter the contest 🙂 Scroll on by. I would LOVE one of these blenders!
I have one lazy crappy blender and one of those small one serving blenders. Neither of these work for vegetables or Oreos. I need this sexy blender.
I love the fact that you compared parts of a blender to a butt plug. to flippen funny. I truly Do love your Blog you crack me up. I have laughed so hard I have woke up my kiddo from her nap, and made my boys think that I was crying laughing so hard. Cannot wait to get your book.
I think that the apparition of a vitamix in our home might actually spark a religious conversion in our family. Just saying…
Greens Plus powder with frozen mango chunks, strawberry, blueberries and kefir is the daily jam here! So good. 🙂
I don’t live in the states. But I’ll come just to get this blender!!! And visit my in-laws I guess…
This would be awesome come summer. 100+ degree summer in Texas means lots of ice cold smoothies and “raspas” haha
my son makes smoothies all the time…..i want a Vitamix!!!! they are incredible.
Dang! Lucky! I really wanna hop on the “green smoothie” band wagon, cuz frankly, juicing is a pain in the butt.
Oh man do I relate. I NEED this blender. I’ve got to keep my toddler supplied in “milkshakes” (frozen bananas and milk)
that is sooo awesome!
i love smoothies too, but am in the same situation you guys were in. blenders can be evil.
Oh – I want one 🙂
I would be making my own flour, nut butters, smoothies, the works!
I only have a jerky blender. He almost never gets to see the light of day outside of the dark cabinet he is stored in. Thanks for all the lolz!
I have to cut up tomatoes before putting them in my blender, or it starts to smell like something is burning. ?!?!
We do a lot of smoothies at our house, so probably a lot of smoothies.
i’m a crappy parent, because instead of spinach / kale / blueberry smoothies for breakfast, we use a lot of yogurt, juice and even a bit of syrup in them. they’re practically milkshakes.
I want a Vitamix so bad ever since I read the “Kale test” in Cook’s magazine. I love the way you drew this one, same story here with my blenders…If I win one I would eat blended worms! that is how much I want it.
this contest/blog post was hysterical. I love blending smoothies and I throw in whatever I have. Mostly greens & fruit – but I do watermelon grinds as well
I would blend almond milk, strawberries, pineapple and kale.
I have been coveting my sisters vitamix for about 10 years now. And no she won’t share. Maybe I can finally get one of my own and get rid of my wimpy one.
I currently purchase those V8 Fusion and blends drinks for my kids to help get extra vegetables into their systems. With the Vitamix blender I could make them myself and it would make more for less money!!!!
Spinach, kale, parsley and an apple.
What an awesome story! I’d blend up smoothies for my preschoolers. 🙂
I would love a vitamix!!!!! How wonderful to say it in an article & have them send you one- you’re a real celebrity now!
Love your blog and would love a blender that actually works too!
Frozen bananas. I hear that’s awesome.
I love that you’re flirting with the Vitamix 😉
I’d use it to chop the veggies for my vegetable bolognaise. Delicious!
Oh my… I cannot tell you how thrilled I would be to win! Of course, I see there are already over 34,000 entries, so I’m not holding my breath. Anyway, my kids love smoothies! Here’s what I generally include: frozen banana, handful of frozen berries, nonfat plain greek yogurt, vanilla protein powder, spirulina, chia seeds, and either juice or almond milk, depending on what I have on hand. They LOVE it!
I would make some killer smoothies for my kid, and grapefruit margaritas for me and my husband! Yum! Thanks for this giveaway, you rock!
I would blend smoothies, too! Not exciting, but my kids would love it!
When I heard you dumped your blender I was picturing your kitchen covered with sticky smoothie! This is a much happier alternative:) My kids love smoothies too so I have been eyeing up the vitamix also;)
I would love this! My daughter is just getting into fruits and stuff.
Ohhh…I need this Vitamix! I make my daughter her superfood (spinach, banana, strawberries and whatever other fruit I want to throw in) for breakfast every morning. And my magic bullet is just not cutting it anymore!
I’d love to say I’d like grind my own wheat or something, but I’m pretty sure it would be making smoothies and sorbets instead. 🙂
WANT! WANT! NEED! NEED! To be fair, my husband said I should disclose that I burned up my old blender (REEEALLY OLD) doing a paper-making craft project. So much for saving money on Christmas presents by doing something cute with the kiddo 😉
Smoothies – lots of them – yummy fruit ones! 🙂 I keep hearing about this machine – must.have.one.
Love your Blog. You always make me laugh.
We have recently discovered how much my little dude loves smoothies. My blender to sucks and would love something that I could add lots of wonderful things like flax seed etc. to his smoothies to make them more healthy.
Wellllll…… if I had a fabulous Vitamix blender I would make spinach, kale, banana, pineapple, and mango smoothies. I just got one (Island Green) at Tropical Smoothie and my extremely picky Asperger’s child actually liked it. I will not be purchasing them frequently though because they are $5 each and I am a Special Ed teacher (AKA I make almost no money). Sigh.
Love your stuff! And, just to put it out there, I would love to have a copy of the book “Parenting: Illustrated with Crappy Pictures,” plus an accidental copy that I can give away to a reader. Hey, can’t hurt to put it out there, right?
Oh man. Whenever I see these blenders I can’t help but hear the words “Will. It. BLEND!?” go through my head.
because, well, the “Will It Blend?” guy uses a Vitamix blender. I think.
Congrats on the sexy new blender! I don’t know what kind of magical concoctions I’d make with a Vitamix, our blender is similar to your old one, and we have a tiny kitchen counter so the foodprep area is microscopic. Which means the blender doesn’t see much use because it’s always hiding in the back corner of the counter, along with the toaster and other appliances we use frequently enough to not want to stuff in a cabinet, but infrequently enough that they don’t get to compete with the rice cooker and the microwave.
Yogurt with blueberries, banana and strawberries. Yum!
I have a crappy lazy blender too! I know the shake & spoon poking that is required. I’ve been drooling over the vitamix for a couple yrs now, but can’t convince my husband.
Oh to have a vitamix. I’d blend coffee, almond milk, spinach, protein powder and some frozen banana with ice. I’d also love to blend up spinach, coconut water, mango and pineapple with a bit of banana and ice.
Would totally love this and would try out all these green smoothie things I keep seeing everywhere.
We have a jerk blender as well.
ICE added to smoothies seems to make them even better. Not sure why. Colder? Crunchier? My daughter will devour a smoothie with ice in it faster than one without.
BERRIES BERRIES BERRIES Yogurt Juice YUM!
What would I blend up with a fantabulous blender like that? All the things! I’d blend up all the things! Muahahaha!
(love your blog, thanks for sharing the blender happiness)
mudslide “poptails” sound good to me… 2 cups yogurt, 1 banana, 3 oz each vodka/kahlua/bailey’s, 1/4 cup chocolate chips. freeze into popsicles (or eat with a spoon!)
There is this really funny set of videos on YouTube called “will it blend?” That you should never watch with your kids if you value your blender. I had a smoothie at the Vitamix demo at Costco that was awesome, a peeled orange, a thin slice of lime with peel, about a cup of pineapple, spinach, and ice.
Lots and lots of green stuff, with just enough berries and bananas to hide the color from my kids 🙂
We have a jerk blender as well.
ICE added to smoothies seems to make them even better. Not sure why. Colder? Crunchier? My daughter will devour a smoothie with ice in it faster than one without. BERRIES Yogurt Juice YUM!
Your block cracks me up! I can totally relate to this one!
How nice of you to giveaway the second one. I’ve been wanting one of these. I hate my blender too!
favorite smoothie: 1 container greek vanilla yogurt, 1 cup apple juice, 1 banana, and fill it up with spinach. I add strawberries sometimes too. So healthy and so yummy!!
I have wanted one of these for sooooo long! How awesome that they sent you 2!!! So so so fabulous of you to share with your readers! I would love to blend up some peaches, blueberries, carrots, spinach, ginger and yogurt… yum yum yum
I like to use frozen fruit, yogurt, & whatever kind of juice. That way the fruit doesn’t go bad soon after you buy it. 🙂
I LOVE your blog – you crack me up all the time! I would make some kick-ass smoothies and pop in some veggie action on the sly.
I’d make fruit and veggies smoothies. Yum!
My favorite juice/smoothie blend is carrots, kiwi and peaches. Blend with vanilla yogurt and some whey protein…my kids love it!
I would love to win, but I feel like we’re approaching powerball odds now, considering how far down I had to scroll to leave this comment!
I’ve just started doing smoothies again… made a bunch of smoothie packs with whatever fruit was on sale or in my freezer, yogurt, handful of spinach, and flax seed. Take them out the day before and then add a little juice!
Aaah! A Vitamix! I am sooo jealous!! 🙂
My family loves smoothies too, and we are in need of a new blender. Fruit smoothies are the bomb.
It looks like a BUTT PLUG!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I just love any kind of fruit blended up. You know, with ice cream.
I would blend my own drinks, stick lil umbrellas on them and make it through that hour before DH comes home. Thank you for your comic!
My mom still has her VitaMix blender from when I was a kid! Those things are awesome. I’ll probably inherit it someday…
It would be thoroughly ironic if I won because I have never won a giveaway, including many that I wanted more although they were worth less.
I’d blend up some smoothies for my son, who eats approximately 5 things. Here’s a typical conversation:
Boy: (Opens fridge) I’m huuuuuungry!
Me: Do you want cereal? (His fave)
Boy: NO! (As if I’d just suggested poison)
Me: bagel?
Boy: NOOOOOOOOO
Me: then what would you like?
Boy: I want chocolate milk.
Me: that’s not food, it’s a drink.
Boy: oh, I want this (removing overpriced yogurt smoothie container)
Me: also a drink.
Boy: oh. I want this (removing overpriced boosted juice thingy container)
Me: whatever. I give up.
It took me a while to scroll down to the comments! I want a vitamin too! My 2 children have food sensitivities and my blender is going to burn out making the only muffin recipe I can find that they can eat, so even though I have been wanting a Vitamix it has moved even higher up on the want list! Thanks!
you are very funny
Milkshake!
I would be sneaky and blend things I can’t get my kids to eat! There favorite now is strawberries pineapple and banana with spinach and kale. They call it green slime. A vitamix means there would be no more seeds!
you rock!
2 bananas, 2 avocados, 1/2 pint of strawberries, almond milk, and a dash of maple syrup. Awesome breakfast 🙂
Keep up the good work.
I’d use it to chop up peppers and onions and carrots and put them in things like pasta sauce and meatloaf so my husband might actually eat some veggies.
Ummm….there are a whole lot of entries!
We love to make smoothies with kale, banana and almond butter
Id love a vitamix! I make smoothies for my daughter daily with frozen mix fruit and almond milk! Its super easy because I don’t really have to do anything- except completely thaw my fruit because my current blender cant cut up anything frozen
Oh Oh I want it so badly!!!
Blueberry milkshakes!
I love that you can take something as mundane as a blender and still make me laugh. Out loud. In the office!!
Buy the on-sale cranberries after Thanksgiving and throw them in the freezer. They’ll keep a long time in there and you can throw a handful into smoothies.
I’m a recent add to your facebook page. Love the crappy kids and pics. Very clever. Anyway, I don’t usually comment, but I’d really like to have a good blender. All I can afford is your crappy blender from the thrift store…if I could find it. I’m not looking…that would be pathetic–not having a blender is pathetic enough. Keep smiling.
I want one I have a blue one that looks good, but can’t stand up to applesauce.
I would blend sooo many things.
Morning smoothies for my 2 brothers – 2 bananas, 6 strawberries, almond milk, and ice.
My morning Juice- Papaya, juiced orange, juiced grape fruit, pineapple and spinach
I’d love to make green drinks since my cheap magic bullet cant blend greens AT ALL!!
I’ve been wanting a Vitamix for years now, but I’m currently living alone in Arizona working full time as a Caregiver and studying to become an Registered Nurse. I’m a new Raw Vegan and I juice for my brothers and myself but my Magic Bullet blender really has no “Magic” and I don’t know why the names it bullet. I’ll be praying I win this, I never win anything but it’s worth a try.
I’d blend EVERYTHING!
Raw date deserts, leafy greens, beet juice and so much more 🙂
You can blend anything on the vitamix! love the product
I would totally blend my daily morning smoothie with this thing. Yum, yum. Thanks for your generosity!
I feel the same way about my blender. I don’t mix much cause mine also sucks.
My oldest will rarely eat any veggies or fruit. Think it’s a texture thing. So, smoothies are one of the only ways I can get him to “eat” them. Also, it’s a great way to get a variety of veggies and fruits and nutrients. Steamed broccoli and carrots are great but I feel a lot better knowing my kids are getting the whole rainbow. We usually make “everything” smoothies. Whatever we have in the fridge, but usually: plain yogurt, honey, plain protein powder, flax, spinach leaves, orange, banana, berries, carrot, apple, grapes, water and ice. Yum!
I’d blend up my current piece-o-shit blender. I’m sick of it playing dead when I want to blend things, and I don’t want to chew my smoothies. Vitamix me, woman!
Fun story and how nice of you to share!!! 😉
P.S. I cant wait till your signing in Maryland!
I seriously dream about that blender… one time I almost bought it but then some lousy expense came up around the house/kids and sucked all my money away. Some days they do demos at the military exchange here, and I walk down, eyes diverted because I do KNOW how awesome it is obnoxiously loud seller of beauty, I just can’t afford it and drinking a sample of that delicious smooth that doesn’t even taste like spinach will cause me to make unsound decisions that means we’ll have a new blender, but no money to for food to blend. Anyway, thanks for the give away! Enjoy that beaut!
I like to make fruit smoothies that have veggies in them for the kids. My son will eat anything that has blueberries in it.
I’d blend up ice cream, and probably more sugar. And maybe some strawberries. YUM.
My mom loves her Vitamix, she makes yummy green smoothies that my husband taught my three year old to turn his nose up at. Maybe if I had one I could change both their minds!
Man, there are a lot of comments to scroll through! I will blend fruits / veggies for my kids smoothies too (they love the smoothie almost as much as they love pushing buttons and watching silently curse the blender for sucking). I also have daiquiri / margarita mix that needs to be used up…
A girlfriend just showed me a “week of healthy smoothies” website, where you can feed your kids all kinds of awesome veggies that THEY DON’T KNOW ARE THERE! Which sounds awesome. Apparently the fruits you put in make them way too delicious. So I am dying to do this. To trick my kids with the healthy. I am in Canada, and often can only get the delicious fruits through smoothies;)
Can Canadians enter if we’re willing to pay the shipping? 😉
Seriously though, thanks for the laughs – I’ve I’m having a bad day I always check out the Crappy family to lighten things up!
This is too funny. My blender is also kind of lazy and is developing an incontinence problem, leaving drops of smoothie behind when I remove him from his base.
Frozen berries from the freezer section (blueberries/strawberries), banana, vanilla yogurt, ice, and a dollup of peanut butter. Yum.
Have been wanting (and saving to get one of these) yay, thank you so much for thinking of us, not so special ones 😉
I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED the Vitamix !!!!!
My kiddo likes cucumber kiwi banana celery kale wheatgrass smoothies. They currently take 4.3 days to make. 🙂
I would blend everything I have. But mostly leafy green veggies with yummy fruits to mask them and fool myself, my husband and our two-year-old daughter. Kale, spinach, green apple and cucumber? OK!
We have had our current Vitamix for 13 years. It was a gift (I have an extravagant godmother who did not have married children or grandchildren at the time, she now has 4 married daughters and 8 grandkids, crazy gifts over). We have used it 2-3 times weekly that whole time. It is dying! We need a new one. They are like crack, we are addicted. We can’t go back to a regular blender, not after 13 years. We are way too spoiled for that!! However, $600 for a new one is not in our cards. I know our current Vitamix would be so pleased to know we are being left in good hands before she leaves this world. Thank you!!
Apple & lemon juice is the best! I am not US but would gladly Paypal you the shipping cost in advance if I won…
Ooooh! Pick me! I make a mean smoothie!
Love love love this blog – never fails to make me almost pee my pants. I have a stupid blender too! I have soups that I want to blend – weird, I know – but I don’t like chunky sauces and such. And my current blender is stuck on pulse (which makes no sense…) Anyway, you have to leave it unplugged until you are ready to turn it on because the second you plug it in it goes! And you better have double checked to make sure your 3-year-old sous chef put the lid on tight….
I love my chocolate shakeology with frozen black cherries and Almond milk. YUM.
Pick me!!!
Banana French toast! Or at least I used to, now I make baby food in my crappy blender- in the garage beacuse its so stinking loud. Sometimes I wish I had earplugs. And trying to get the lousy blades clean? Hello, toothpicks. But a $600 blender? Whoa. That’s more than we spent on the dishwasher!
I’ve never actually owned a blender, so I feel like I really NEED this. And I would totally blend everything. I definitely want some virgin margaritas. And milkshakes. With cookies and candy bars in them. Oh yes, those are totally necessary!
I need a new vitamix so bad!
I`d make baby food! and gazpacho! and lots of other yummie soups 🙂
I love your blog & your book! I’d love to win a Vitamix and would make smoothies and buy the little umbrellas to pretend that we are away on vacation. 🙂
I HATE my blender! Every morning I shove a spoon or knife in it to try to convince the damn thing to work!
love! I hate my blender for the same reason. the goofy bubble at the bottom keeps anything from blending right.
I would definitely recommend homemade popsicles.
I know it’s a long shot, but whoa, what a fun thing to win!! Honestly though, this blog is hi-larious and that’s a winner too 🙂 Thanks for the many many giggles.
My husband went and blended the little top cover thing that goes in the middle of the lid of our blender and ever since it has not been the same. So don’t blend the lid plug thing with tomatoes it wrecks things. (I’m omitting the part where I put it in the blender in the first place, because the lid still hadn’t made it through the dish washer and I didn’t want it to get lost. But he could of looked inside.) Any way enjoy your vitamix! I’ve heard you can make soup in them. So I think you should put some fresh tomatoes, fresh herbs, and some milk and make tomato soup with grilled cheese of course!
OOoh, blending up soaked nuts/grains for muffins, soups, making smoothies, nut butters, batter for white bean cake, my own coconut milk, almond milk, hazelnut milk, horchata, maybe even to make butter (did it with the pro blender when I worked at Starbucks!)
Mmmm Smoooothies! Pick me!
I would love to win the Vitamix blender. Smoothies are great but you are correct that they have always been a pain to make.
Love you and would love to win the blender!
strawberry margaritas
I’ve heard such great things about this blender…would love to know if it lives up to the hype!
I love smoothies and hummus. If I had a vitamix, I would use it like a food processor and make all the recipes that call for one.
I would blend up ice cream and milk for milkshakes. With fruit of course.
Anything with kale! I’d like to get into making smoothies for my infant daughter so we can hide healthy vegetables in her drinks (and to help me get healthier with my eating as well).
Wow! It took forever to get to the bottom to comment 🙂 I would blend some Stoneyfield Oikos Greek yogurt with some frozen blueberries, some mango, some strawberry, a splash of milk and some frozen juice cubes 🙂 mmmmm I can taste it now! Or maybe I’d pulverize some bananas with some vanilla and milk and freeze it for a healthy treat 🙂 now I want some frozen smoothies 🙂
I’ve been making smoothies to try to get some healthier foods into myself AND my 4yr old, using strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, banana, avocado, coconut oil, ground flaxseeds, honey, Butter Oil/Fermented Cod Liver Oil blend, spinach, kale and green tea… some of those items are switched out as they are/are not available… I’m using an old Magic Bullet blender bought off an infomercial a bazillion years ago… if I had a Vitamix I could also make baby food for my baby… 🙂 (and ice cream shakes for Hubs & I) 😉
My mom owned a vitamix, it’s fantastic for making soups! We used to make butternut squash soup in it when I was little. Just boil butternut squash cubes, put the squash and some of the squash water in the vitamix, add salt, pepper, and allspice and blend it. Fantastic and easy.
Yay! Love Vitamixes but your blog more!
We have an ok blender now. I was in love with it at first…. but we do have to shake it and do the spoon thing. And now the plastic screw-on piece on the bottom is splitting. 🙁 Boo.
My husband loves strawberries with coconut milk and sugar.
I, too, have a lazy blender. He is so lazy that he has gone to sleep and will barely crack an eyeball no matter what I do to him. But I am also lazy and instead of doing something about it, donating him or buying a new one, I sigh, wash him and put him back in the cabinet. We play this game at least once a week.
I would sneak veggies into my kids fruit smoothies. And I would love to learn some good protien packed breakfast smoothies for myself… AND to make baby food for baby #5 who is due in Nov.
I love your blog and I would love a REAL blender! Thanks for the laughs and the generosity!
Until reading your post I thought I was the single-best blender destroyer in the country, who knew I’d have competition? I craved smoothies with frozen fruit during my last pregnancy and went through 2 blenders. Now, pregnant again with a late summer baby I have another blender that makes so much noise with so little effect that the dog and the kids go running to the other room….is that a burning blender engine I smell?? I ogle the vitamix, and yet somehow feel it’s better to spend $600 on 6 different blenders rather than $600 on one that works. Go figure.
My boys are super picky and refuse any veggies. So I make smoothies with veggies blended in. I’d definitely make some gnarly smoothies in a Vitamix.
I just know this blender would change my life. For reals. I would make babyfood and smoothies and actually try the recipes for soups that call for blending. I currently have the model you threw out. He’s such a lazy bitch.
Thanks for the opportunity!
strawberry banana smoothies
Oh, my husband would die if we won this blender! The possibilities!
My blender is also a lazy asshole. A lazy asshole who now collects dust and mocks me when I walk by it. And my son gives me and the lazy asshole blender the stink eye when he walks by us because he loves smoothies, and I cannot provide the goods. Le- Sigh
Sign me up, mama! 🙂
Mama needs a Vita Mix stat 😉
I would blend up spinach, strawberries (frozen), a tbsp of flax seeds, banana, and a cup of almond milk. And maybe a few ice cubes for good measure 😉
Have fun with it girl! You deserve it!!
what a fantastic gift! thank you for sharing the extra and the story 🙂
I understand your pain. For years I have using one that should belonged in a museum. At least your blender could hear you, mine has gray hair and hearing aids.
I would make something called green smoothies. Its where you mix spinach,peas, kale, dandelion greens (and any other greens you can think of ) together. They are super healthy and super good. I love them.
*But if you try this don’t add blueberries (It turns brown and looks gross.) AND if you blend it with a museum relic it looks chunky, like vomit.*
I think peanut butter, chocolate and raspberries would be awesome!
The spider. Always, the spider episode does me in.
I’d blend margaritas. Duh.
LOVE this blog, and Vitamix blenders……but don’t have 600$ so I’d love to win one 😀
Hmmm…right now my favorites are:
1. 1 frozen banana, 1 avocado, large handful of spinach leaves, 1 T. maple syrup, 1 t. vanilla, almond milk to desired thickness
2. 1 frozen banana, 1 c. frozen strawberries, large handful of spinach leaves, 4 T. plain yogurt, juice of half a lime, coconut milk to desired thickness
3. 1 frozen banana, large handful spinach leaves, 1 t. PB, 1 T. cocoa powder, 1/2 c. ground up oatmeal, unsweetened chocolate almond milk to desired thickeness
So yummy!
Totally would dig the Vitamix. This would live on my countertop and never talk to the underground non-used appliances! 🙂
My blender is a jerk too! I am dreaming about a Vitamix….My favorite smoothie is with frozen raspberries, oranges, fresh spinach, a bit of honey and some ginger! I was pretty sceptical about this recipe but I gave it a try and it is super tasty!
The contest runs through May 24, and my BIRTHDAY is May 24. So, I’m IN. 🙂
I think I would go basic and blend up some frozen bananas for ice cream! I want to dump my current blender too 🙂
My blender made me bleed yesterday while making falafel. Stuck a fork in him and he threw it back at me, mangled. Jerk!!! I’d love a new one.
I have not had a blender so I don’t know what I would blend together. I love fruits so I would do dragon fruit, with pineapple, coconut, strawberry, peach, blackberries, blueberries, mango, pear, mangosteen, lemon, lime, orange, grapes, and watermelon!
I’ve heard really good things about spinach and pineapple 🙂
I covet this blender! My blender sucks much worse than my vaccuum and gives off a terrible, slightly electric-y motor smell every time we use it. We try all kinds of crazy concoctions in our blender and my husband always tries to sneak beets in – I don’t like them and think they taste like dirt. I’ve wanted to try strawberries, bananas and coconut milk for a while now! Thanks for your wonderful book – my kids want me to read it to them all the time! I have to filter and keep it far away from them since they can read now, and I had to hide it for a while so I could read and laugh in peace. Also so happy to have the bookplate label – I was stupid silly when it came in the mail and I put it in the book.
I’ll pay for the shipping to Canada… Bummers.
I am a certified blender murderer. You have no idea how many I have made cry for mercy with a puff of smoke (not to mention cuisinarts and kitchenaid mixers, ho hum)
I love your blog and your book! I would blend greens into yummy smoothies. I haven’t found recipes that the kids like for greens, so I would totally mask the super-nutritiousness of the greens with the fruit that they endlessly eat. Thank you for a fun blog and thank you for sharing your extra Vitamix.
I’d blend anything that didn’t look too gross to eat once it was mixed, especially fruit and vegetable combinations.
I would make smoothies for my family in the morning. I can’t eat anything solid in the morning and a house fire took out my blender in December. My favorite thing to make is coffee shakes! Greek yogurt, frozen coffee, milk and a little chocolate syrup. 🙂
um….yum!
I love your blog so much. This is an awesome giveaway!
Love your blog! Thanks for all of the laughs…
It was my birthday yesterday. I want this. 🙂
Your blog is great. So funny.
I would LOVE a vitamix!! My oldest child has constant contapation 🙁 this would be such a great way to sneak in some extra fruit and veggies and help him alleviate some pain
omg I laughed so hard on this my husband looked at me like I’m totally insane. Recently found your blog and am SO addicted to it. Totally love your sense of humor. You make being home with 3 children under the age of 4 so much lighter for me! Thank you! When I make a strawberry smoothie in my blender I usually have to pick it up and shake it (while its blending) for it to blend properly. So I totally can relate to this post.
I understand your blending whoas…
A blender like this might turn a non-smoothie house into a major smoothie house. I hate stupid blenders!!!
Tried to post this about 50 times….hope it doesn’t show up that many…
I just know this blender would change my life. For reals. I would make babyfood and smoothies and actually try the recipes for soups that call for blending. I currently have the model you threw out. He’s such a lazy bitch.
Thanks for the opportunity!
Love your blog! I got your book as a Mother’s Day gift, it cracks me up and is so relatable to my family haha. I have a 4 year old boy and due with our second boy this month. I’d make smoothies, soup, baby food with the Vitamix! I don’t have a blender, and the 24th is my birthday! 😉
I love this blog. It’s the only blog that I read regularly and I don’t even have kids! You are the best and funniest mom ever!
Thanks for using butt plug in a sentence!
I am using my grandma’s blender….. Yes, the blender my grandmother used….. Before smoothies even existed. 🙂 Love this blog; love a Vitamix.
I like to make smoothies for my boys & I. Using bananas instant oats, peanut butte, a little ice & milk. I currently have to make more than one because I only have a magic bullet. I’d love to make one big one for all 3 of us. And try other things.
Please pick me. My jerky blender just died and my kids love smoothies too. A Vitamix would be awesome.
I think I would start with margaritas! My blender sucks too!!
Dreamy. I’d blend up some fruit for Popsicles!
We love smoothies and protein shakes at our house!
Slammin’ Sunrise “Green” Smoothie Ingredients: 2-3 cups organic spinach 1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk 1-2 cups frozen strawberries 1 cup frozen blueberries 1/2 frozen banana 2 tablespoons flaxseeds 2 scoops of protein powder
My blender is about to die!!!! Pick me pick me!!!
OMG! I will love to have a sexy blender like that! Every time I go to Costco I stop and admire a Vitamix. So wish me luck so I can be the lucky winer, but if its not me I know that person will be completly thrill!!!
It is a sexy blender!!!
Yay for a new blender! My blender is a jerk, too…I’d love a new sexy one. =D Thanks for the chance to win! Love your blog, love your book…love the whole crappy family!
Oooh, I forgot to say. I’d blend up all my yummy fruits. Mostly bananas. With kiwis. And pineapple. Possibly some coconut. (I’m feeling a little tropical, too…)
Love this post, and the giveaway!!!
So I did a juice fast last year and I lasted 2 months. It was super tough but I felt great, as a diabetic I decided to eat an evening meal and juice the other two meals, but I want to make smoothies. I just had my first baby, he is two weeks old and a joy but its been tough, a emergency c-sec, trouble bonding, and issues with latching. But we are working together and getting there. I really want to juice again and get back to being healthy. I feel your pain with blenders they suck and I stare enviously at the vitamix’s on the shelves in stores and on my friends counter tops lol.. Share your successful smoothies please.
Berrys of your choice
oranges
apples
grapefruit
lime
piece of ginger 2″
Green smoothie
bunch kale
sticks of celery
bunch of spinach
ginger
cucumbers
apples
added oranges to mine as the green was a bit to strong for me
Dinner – ABC
Apples
carrots
half cabbage
half honeydew
pears
leaves of Chard
Breakfast – Orange sizzler
pineapple
honeydew
carrots
apples
oranges
Thanks for sharing!!!!! I love your blog!
My blender is all right, as long as you’re blending liquids.
We were just at Costco and I was ogling the Vitamix demo. They made sorbet with basil, mint, banana and spinach. My toddler loved it! My preschooler did not. I thought it was pretty good and not something I would have thought up on my own.
I’d blend copious amounts of pina coladas, daquiris, and margaritas. I’d even invite you over to help me drink them 🙂
Oh man, I would love one of these bad boys. My blender is possessed, and likes to unscrew itself while blending, dumping smoothie all over my counter.
Love your blog. Nice when perks come unexpectedly. 🙂
I don’t care if you sold out, free stuff! Yay! I want that blender, mine sucks so much that I now use my handheld immersion blender instead, it doesn’t work any better but at least it’s easier to clean.
I’d be so glad to dump my blender! I think green smoothies would be on our horizon…
Think of all the soups I could make! Gazpacho!!
i want it!
I’d blend up some fruits, spinach and other fancy veggies and complimenting fruits for my breakfast alkaline smoothies, cause I need to keep my body green.
I would blend so many things, but one thing I would definitely make is nut butters! I love being able to control everything that goes in them and try out different combinations.
Pick me random raffle picker- pretty please!!
I would blend up some healthy/yummy breakfast smoothies every day. Soy milk, banana, spinach, and peanut butter.
You are awesome! And this giveaway is awesome!
We keep it simple and use bananas, frozen berries (any kind you like) and yogurt to make breakfast smoothies. I’m sure there are a lot of fancier things we could do with a real blender, but my stick blender does fairly well with the basic smoothy.
A Vitamix is top on my kitchen wishlist!
Wow! Love your blog and this is an awesome giveaway, I never had a blender!
Ice cream! had one growing up and loved the low cal treats we made.
Mmmmmm….frozen strawberries, frozen bananas, yogurt and a bit of coconut!
My blender is actually a very nice one and hasn’t died yet, but it does require a lot of help just to make a smoothie. I would make our berry smoothies (frozen berries, orange juice & yogurt) and on summer weekends I would make adult drinks with ice and gin or tequila and herbal simple syrups and fresh-squeezed juice.
And I would make my chicken tortilla soup, which takes tomatoes, chilis and onions in the blender and turns them into an awesome broth for slow-cooking the chicken.
A good breakfast smoothie:
2 bananas
1 cup milk
2 tblsp unsweetened cocoa powder
2 tblsp honey (or more if you like it sweeter)
handfull of ice (or use frozen bananas)
*add 1/2 cup oatmeal (soak in milk for 1/2 hour before blending) for bulky goodness.
I love my protein shakes! Strawberry, banana, red seedless grapes, vanilla yogurt, almond milk and protein powder (vanilla). LOVE these on workout mornings! Please let me win one of these little gems!
I too had a blender who was such a jerk, he wouldn’t even put his “hat” on unless I got it right out of the dishwasher all warmed up for him (of course that way it was pliable enough to fit). I got tired of spoiling him. I finally broke down and got another blender, not a Vitamix, but at least a large base though I smell the motor burning at times. Oh how I would LOVE a Vitamix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙂
I Love your blog. You are always writing about my family 😉 . If I had a vitamix I would make smoothies with frozen pineapple, mango, kale, spinach, coconut water, ginger and vanilla like I usually do, but this time the kids would not disprove of the texture and I could freeze them into Popsicles! I bet I could also make some pretty cool glazes with it too.
You are so funny and what a good idea! I love making yogurt pops in the summer for my son with bananas, strawberries, any other fruit milk and vanilla yogurt.
This post hit home, I love smoothies and I hate blenders! I enjoy mixing spinach in with fruit to give my boys a good healthy smoothie and they love ’em! I buy frozen fruit, mix in bananas and fresh spinach, if I’ve got it I throw in some wheat grass. YUM!
Not super healthy, but bananas, peanut butter, and nutella 🙂
I love this blog! Soooo funny! When I make smoothies, it’s typically just strawberries and bananas. But since I’m preggo and am hating basically everything healthy these days, I trick myself and add some fresh spinach leaves, yogurt, sometimes even peanut butter. Yum. 🙂
I’ve used Oster blenders for years with no problems. I make daily smoothies, but it’s yogurt based and I either use leafy greens or cooked veggies in it, so nothing hard.
I love your blog and I really want a Vitamix so PICK ME!!!!!
Well that is definitely a win!
My kitchenaid blender doesn’t completely suck like my old one did, but this would be awesome…
I forgot to mention what I’d blend up. Well everything. Smoothies, baby food, puree for recipes,etc.
make your kids the smoothie and then freeze the rest in popsicle molds…you need to ask for those in your next blog post
My brother makes soup in his blender. I’ve always wanted to try that but my blender doesn’t like to blend anything over icecream consistency. He just gets to stay around cause he’s red a looks nice sitting on the counter. All looks…no muscle. sigh
I would love to win a Vitamix! I have just recently started making smoothies. I usually make a strawberry, banana and peach smoothie with spinach leaves, flax seed and almond meal!
I would love, Love, LOVE to take the extra off your hands. Shoot, I would gladly send you a check to cover shipping. 😀
Thanks for both the laughs and the giveaway!
I usually throw in a handfull of leafy greens (usually spinach or kale), followed by whatever fresh or frozen fruits I have on hand. Oh but if I had a Vitamix, I’d try to make soup or ice cream! Yum!
Strawberry, yogurt, spinach, avocado and a splash of orange juice and most of it goes into popsicle molds for the 3 yr old who won’t eat greens but LOVES pink. And this way I’m happy to give her a popsicle any time she wants it 😉 And I love the creamy consistency you get from the avocado.
Wow! I’ve not heard of Vitamix before, so I checked out the website. Wow!
I’m thinking that for 600 of our UK pounds, this machine is going to need to do a lot more than just look sexy and make smoothies. It’s going to need to automagically fill itself each morning with yummy stuff it’s bought, peeled and chopped, then it’s going to need to pour it out, put it on a tray with a red rose and bring it up to my bedroom, where it will gently sing me awake and look incredibly like Pierce Brosnan as it makes soothing morning noises before going to turn the shower and coffee machine on for me.
But it’s a jolly nice looking machine. Can I have it shipped to one of my US based chums, who can bring it over to me next time she’s back home?
I’ve never really made a lot of smoothies before, but my parents always used to make smoothies after dinner on Sunday nights. My favorite was watermelon/strawberry/blueberry. I would so love to start back up that tradition with my kids. I also have a lot of friends who do the green smoothie thing and I’d love to try that too. Having an awesome blender would so motivate me to give it a try!
I too hate making smoothies in my crappy blender. I need a new blender!
Holy cow, a lot of people want that Vitamix!! And I’m one of them. Hope I get it. =) Love your blog.
HAHAHAHA, the butt plug comment just made me love you all the more 😉
Yay for new blenders – and oh, the power! ; ) Good for you, seriously! I would use a Vitamix to blend up some awesome umbrella drinks…in fantasy. In reality, probably smoothies for my kids, although I might try that blueberry power smoothie recipe someone else posted in the comments…
I would blend up EVERYTHING!
my wife made me do this. but kill bill is one of my favorite movies too.
strawberries, mango, protein powder, banana & juice!
You rock!
Best giveaway EVER! I’m dying for one of these…I’d blend lime, avocado, spinach and bananas. It sounds awful but I had one at a store demo and have been obsessed ever since! Your post is too funny!!!
I would LOVE a Vitamix! I’m making my son’s baby food and dread trying to make pureed meat in my current food processor or blender…which also sucks and will blend nothing. And, I love your blog. It is the only blog I read regularly. It’s wonderful.
I’m pretty sure the first thing I’d blend is some chocolate, some ice cream, and a little mint. Yum. And then I’d re-do it and add some creme de menthe just for me. 😀
I would love to have it! My baby girl just turned 6 months old and I would love to make her food with that blender!
About some ideas, I suggest soy milk, strawberries, banana, blueberries, carrots, and a little bit of peanut butter.
Seriously can your blog get any more awesome? First you make me laugh and almost pee my pants multiple times and then come out with a funny book and now giving away a vitamix? You are awesome
I also have a lazy blender. It was a gift from my MIL and I think she wanted me to suffer.
This would be the best win ever !
This blog is like a little drink with an umbrella in it for the chaos of my life. Thanks for making me laugh on a regular basis. I only hope that someday I can dump me weak-sauce blender for such a sexy one as your Vitamix! (thanks for such a rad giveaway!)
I would love to win this, we are doing the Gaps diet and I want to make my own nut butters. I am sure there are lots of other things it could do that would make following the diet much easier.
My blender blends, unless we’re talking kale. Then it pulverizes, and I just have a mouth of chopped up kale. Which is not a smoothie.
I’d love a blender to make smoothies, baby puree, and maybe even a frozen margarita for me.
While I have no smoothie recipes to recommend (my husband is the smoothie maker in our house) I would still like to enter in this totally awesome giveaway. Who couldn’t use a new blender?? You’re right, they all suck -ours included! And since I have an amazing husband who makes smoothies, I’d like for him to have an amazing blender. 🙂
I would blend up a whole bunch of baby food for my darling baby, of course!
I so would like to be a “Vitamixmaster”. Help me out, let me win one…Love your blog by the way, with or without the blender giveaway.
My favorite smoothie to make at home is strawberry and pineapple!
1. I love your blog…it keeps me sane.
2. I love smoothies.
3. I love Vitamix
4. I love this recipe:
1/2 cup plain greek yogurt
1 cup soy milk
1/2 cup canned pumpkin
1 banana
pumpkin pie spice to taste
ice
I would blenderize for my toddler who thrives thanks to a feeding tube installed this year. I would also try some new combinations of healthy smoothies from my garden. Chard & strawberries anyone?
I make banana ice cream, ice cream free milkshakes, and breakfast smoothies with my lazy blender. I feel like I’m going to break it because I’m constantly shaking it and beating it on the counter to keep it going. I could use my food processor but that adds about 2x the clean up. Your post made me laugh, like always!
I would blend smoothies with all the frozen fruit in my freezer that I buy to blend but never have the energy to! I would also blend soups.
Kale, spinach, cucumber, zucchini. Add half of an apple b/c that makes everything tastes good.
I’d blend everything I could. I’ve never had a blender!
I want to blend fruit with veggies! OK, not original at all, but my kids won’t eat veggies. My husband won’t either. But they love smoothies so I want to try it! And all I have is a tiny knock-off bullet.
We LOVE smoothies and we are on our 5th blender trying to find one that actually makes them well. We would love the Vitamix. 🙂
I make Instant Ice Cream:
1 bag of frozen berries
1/2 can of coconut milk or whole cow’s milk
1 cup walnuts
2 tbsp honey or 1 banana
Dump everything in the blender and pulse until it’s smooth, then add coconut flakes, raisins, dried apricots or chocolate chips and mix by hand.
Enjoy right away then put in the freezer the rest, if there’s any.
To make a vegan smoothie, leave out the yogurt and milk. Just blend spinach, romaine, celery, banana, lemon juice and your favorite fruit, such as strawberries or apples. 🙂 You better believe my kids drink these!
I day-dream about a Vitamix, or more so about the yummy things I could blend with it. Lucky you!
Thank you for the giveaway! 🙂
The Cuisinart food processor I’ve been using for years makes awesome fruit/berry/yogurt/flax smoothies. My 3 year old loves to add the ingredients and turn the thing on. And off. And on. And. . . Anyhow, thanks for running this contest!! And I LOVE your site!
Do you want to know a horrible secret? I was once gifted a Vitamix. I didn’t know what I had been given. I RETURNED IT FOR SOMETHING ELSE! (Yes, I weep softly every time I have to make my daughter a smoothie with my non-working jerk of a blender)
I make fruit smoothies every afternoon, and I would love to make them a blender that says ‘hey baby.’
All of our family favorite smoothies involve 3 ingredients and super overripe bananas…
Pina Colada – frozen pineapple chunks, full fat coconut milk, brown bananas
Blueberry Pie – raw whole milk, frozen blueberries, brown bananas
…you get the idea. I do also make “Mom’s Kitchen Sink Smoothies” with whatever frozen berries, dairy substitute, fresh fruits and veggies, and greens that we have on hand. I am “that mom” that puts greens in smoothies without discussing it with the 4-year-old because she won’t eat it straight up like her big sister. I told her once that I put it in there… I consider that close enough to disclosure.
Love the blog. My fave smoothie: frozen berry mix (especially one with lots of cherries, compliments of Trader Joe’s if there’s one near you), plain yogurt, flax oil, cod liver oil, brewer’s yeast (AWESOME for milk supply when lactating), kale, and whatever random fruits I have around.
I would blend up boat loads of banana “ice cream”.
PLEASE. I’m a smoothie junkie. Just like crappy kiddos. Plus I might actually feed my kids veggies this way (Mixed with sugar and ice cream of course)
Oooh! Pick me! A
Also I have to say, your blog is the funniest thing on the internet.
Yes please!!!!
I want to try making my own butter. Apparently it’s fast as in a thermomix!
My birthday is may 20. I will be 67! The blender I have is 35 years old and hardly works. Am on social security and cannot afford a vitamix. I have seen a demo and would love to win. What a nice birthday present it would be.
Your blog is HILARIOUS!! I love reading it! And oh how I would love a Vitamix!!
I heard you can make SOUP in these bad boys so I’m thinking homemade roasted tomato soup would be first on my list!
We would start trying to do goop-y green smoothies and end up doing milkshakes and malts, because that is how we roll here.
Oh, I have always wanted one of those… why do they even make blenders that suck, anyway?
Berries, spinach, chia seeds and almond milk, yum!
I live in Brazil, but if I win I’ll give the address of a friend of mine in Maryland and then pick it up there when I visit. That’s OK, right?
Oh, and I’ll do something tasty with açaí berries.
I totally get the love/hate relationship with blenders. And, btw, I loved your book!
i’d make all kinds of fruit smoothies
whew! almost couldn’t find the bottom to comment;)
my favorite thing to blend, hands down, is homemade Orange Julius. when I’m not preggo I do love a good green smoothie, but they make me gag when I’ve got a baby on board;)
will it also tell me how sexy I am? I think I need a blender to be a smooth talker!
I’ve been wanting a fancy blender, so I can do pulverized smoothie thingies. I have a texture issue. I hate pulp. and thingies. and mushy fruit, and bruised bananas, and really anything ripe. But I like smoothies… maybe I can make up for my texture issues by forcing everything to become one…. ohm…..
I’ve always wanted a blender I could make soup in – like pumpkin soup, or pea soup, or basically anything that doesn’t involve noodles…
I SO need an awesome blender so I can make awesome blenderific smoothies and purees! My go-to breakfast smoothie involves yogurt, strawberries, bananas, avocado and just enough milk. I would love to add greens to that!
I’d give it to my daughter to make baby food.
I want to give it to my stressed out hardworking daughter with a crappy girl and crappy baby, and out of town working crappy papa, a crappy dog and crappy cat. She also is attempting to work at a crappy job. I live alone. My life is not crappy.
Iced coffee ice heavy cream coffee and sugar it’s summer I love off these also add some chocolate chips and have a frappe.
I’ve been wanting one since I discovered them!
Times like this, I have more than one reason to be happy I follow your blog!! 🙂 🙂
I’ve never had a good enough blender to be super creative… but my stand-by has always been: Ice, banana, milk, vanilla, and whatever extra bonus fruit I feel like adding in. But I’ve also always loved spinach in smoothies – makes me feel healthy and adds a nice flavor.
I love your blog! I thought it was just my blender that sucked. Thanks for all the laughs!
I would be wiling to try kale smoothies for this blender!
I wish the internet, blogging, and your book had been around when I had young children. You make me laugh on my worst days! And you bring to mind so many memories and now the knowledge that I wasn’t all that different from other moms! Thanks!
Would love a vitamix
My mom has a Vitamix. I’ve had blender envy for 2 years now. Can’t wait to have my own. Also-blended cockroaches?! I live on a sub-tropical island, my husband is Air Force, and the other night I’m brushing my teeth and feel something under my sundress. I thought it was a gecko, no such luck. A freaking cockroach was getting fresh on my leg! In my laundry room! Apparently we’re in the season. So if someone does want a blended cockroach drink-I know where to find them!
ice cream with candy in it!
How hilarious that you show yourself blushing when the blender talks to you. Hysterical!
I would make smoothies. Baby food for all my friends who have babies (mine are eating table food now). I would make soup. Milkshakes. Tropical drinks! Mmmm.
Thanks for giving it away! So awesome!
Vitamix is my dream date! I would love to blend me up some mango, pineapple, banana smoothie. I want to add spinach or kale to my smoothies at home but I end up with a “chunky” instead of a smoothie…very unappetizing.
I would blend me some love. . . actually I do a pretty mean smoothie!
OMG! I want a vitamix like nothing else!!!! Please please!!
smoothies, smoothies, smoothies! Then nut butters. Because I love me some nut butters.
Oh my dear god. A Vitamix. Wow. It’s the Lamorghini of Kitchen appliances. I am absolutely envious!
I would probably blend everything in the house! 😀
But mostly green smoothies. Get those greens in the fam.
I would love to have this to blend soups and smoothies. My current blender has some trouble with frozen fruit and those make the best smoothies!
Frozen cherries, blueberries, raspberries, coconut milk, hep powder and spinach. Perfect and nutritious. Oh I hope I win.
And by Hep I mean HEMP
Love your blog & would love a vitamix!
This would be the holy grail of homemade baby food makers!
blueberry, yogurt, peaches and some maple syrup – oh YUM! sometimes we add some nuts in there just for good measure – almonds or such – delish!
I tried to make almond flour in my blender – epic fail – I think I almost blew up the motor – it got really hot and I was afraid it would start smoking – I hate the smell of smoke so I stopped.
What would I blend? YES. I would probably have to resist blending lego, just because I would be tempted to destroy it after it assaults my feet.
I think I’d primarily be hiding vegetables in my kids food – eat some mac and cheese! *wiiiiiiiink*
Have this smoothie! *wiiiiiiink*
😀
Green smoothies are the best! My blender is no longer completely function. We inherited another crappy blender and played Dr. Frankenstein to see if we could come up with one working blender – that worked for about 3.2 seconds. 🙁
eww ahhaha butt plug! anyways i would blend up a strawberry with watermelon peach and whatever other sweet fruit i saw with Ice. Our current one we put too much ice at once and it did nothing =/
I would blend everything! Fruits, veggies. And when I’m feeling naughty, maybe some ice cream and peanut butter and chocolate. Mmmmm…..
The vitamix is the way to go! It’s the only way to make a delicious green smoothie!
Oh my goodness, I would LOOOOOOVE a Vitamix blender. My current one is just OK. I make smoothies almost every day, with some combo of frozen berries, bananas, oranges, greek yogurt, protein powder, almond milk, fruit juice, spinach, cucumbers, avocado, etc. Fantastic way to get multiple servings of fruits and veggies in.
I’d like to say green smoothies, but let’s be honest: margaritas. Thanks for the chance to win. 🙂
I love these blenders. What a fantastic giveaway!
You are so funny … and I would really love to win that blender 🙂 Keep up the good work, I love your blog!!!
I would blend strawberries and pineapple with some spinach and hemp hearts. Yum! Thanks for doing the giveaway!
I would make smoothies with VEGGIES. My boys (about the same age as yours) are encouraging each other lately to refuse to eat anything green. So, I would blend stuff they like (bananas, strawberries, apple juice, yogurt, whatever) with stuff they don’t. But not tell them, and keep my fingers crossed.
Thanks for the chance!!
Hope I get lucky!
*drool* mmm Vitamix *drool*
I usually just toss in whatever I have on hand for my kids’ smoothies. Frozen strawberries are a staple in our house. Carrots, bananas, spinach, and milk of course. Nothing fancy.
Love pineapple and banana. Thanks for doing the raffle!
I’m totally coming out of the bloggy stalker’s hole on this one, WOOT!
Big ol’ fattening chocolate milkshakes.
I’ve never commented before, but I LOVE your blog! I never miss it!
My favorite thing to blend (Ok…my non grown-up favorite thing to blend) is a green smoothie:
spinach
milk
any combination of fruits &/or berries
banana (I don’t like bananas, so I only use 1/2 for the creamy texture & make sure I have enough other fruits in there to mask the flavor)
and blend!
It turns a very nice swamp puprple/green color depending on the fruits or berries that you throw in there. 🙂
I’ve seen a lot of people put kale into their shakes. Supposedly it can go with fruit AND veggie shakes!
After attempting to make baby food with a crappy blender, I can’t take much of it anymore!
What an awesome mistake on their part!
Smoothies would be made the most often, but I bet if I had a good blender I could get real creative!!
My blender is also a jerk, and I thought I was getting a really good one! I guess just because it’s glass, and more expensive, doesn’t mean it will actually blend any better. :\
Margaritas…I bet it makes great margaritas! Yum!
I have no blender!! I need a blender!
one word: DROOL!
Love your blog! And i have the same issue with blenders !
I would LOVE one! 😀
My current blender hates me as well.
Here’s a yummy treat:
Tropical fruit frozen blend
2T orange juice concentrate
2T honey
Water to blend
1/2 cup soy milk
Tastes like a tropical Orange Julius!
How awesome! Everybody wants a VITAMIX!
I, too, have been one of those coveters of the sexy Vitamix. I hope I win!!!
Oh mylanta, it took forever to scroll to the end of the comment with my phone! I am so excited for you, and jealous is a good way!! And hopeful that rafflecopter lands on me!!!
I would use that fabulous blender to make lots of margaritas, er, ahem, I mean I would use it to make smoothies for the kids. :0)
I want to make perfectly-pureed smoothies and, oh, the margaritas!! I really want the margaritas!
I have a crappy blender too!!! And it smells like it’s burning everytime I use it….
Strawberry banana peanut butter ice cream. YUM.
OMG…While I keep telling people I dont need a vitamix, I am secretly lusting after one….
You mean I could make healthy smoothies out of the fruit I go out and pick and lovingly freeze instead of turning it into ice cream? I am so in!
you’re awesome! love your blog. i’d blend fruit smoothies.
I went to Wegmans a few weeks ago and they had something made of strawberries and other red/purple/white stuff, but then put in spinach at the end, so it looked like green sprinkles!!! Plus some of the fiber in the berries didn’t disappear, so purple smoothie with red and green sprinkles!!! Unicorn!
Yay for smoothies!!!!
I’d blend up anything that would use sweet kale from my friends at Famgro Farms. That kale is great straight outta da box and my girls would love smoothies.
I like supporting family businesses and Famgro Farms is a local, family-operated and owned hydroponic farm in San Diego. They grow a variety of leafy produce and sell to some of the specialty markets in San Diego and Los Angeles. I’ve known the owner since my early days in biotechnology and he’s super brilliant! Plus he’s a dad to a wonderful Kindergarten girl and to a boy to be born in a few short weeks.
The first thing I will make if I get that lovely sweet Vitamix is some spinach & cheese soup. I used to make it in my mom’s when I was in high school and it is DIVINE. Did you know the Vitamix actually goes so fast it gets so hot it can COOK YOUR VEGGIES as it blends them into soup?
With a Vitamix, I’d go for some soups. Butternut squash and green apple soup sounds amazing. Check it out on Allrecipes.
SO hoping I can win! I’ve been wanting to grind my own grains for flours (just call me Becky Home-ecky) and do smoothies! YAY!
I so want a Vitamix! I have a terrible blender too and can’t tell you how many wooden spoons I’ve chopped up trying to poke things down into the blender while it’s going…kinda ruins what would otherwise have been a great chocolate shake. I have to shake the thing while it’s running to get the contents to keep moving.
I’d make strawberry lemonade slushies. Lemonade, fresh strawberries, a bit of sugar dissolved in water, and ice. Great summer drink! I’d also make my way through the recipe book you get with the Vitamix!
Wow, I just had to scroll down forever! The chances of winning must be like winning the lotto at this point. But hey, isn’t a vitamix just about as good as winning the lotto?!
I’ve always wanted to try “green lemonade,” but my blender can’t handle that truth!
I’ve given up dairy and discovered that blended cashews are great for substituting heavy cream. I’ve made it for creamy pasta, maple syrup cream for pancakes and as a cheese replacement. I’d blend up some cashews for sure. I’d also use it to make baby food. My blender sucks too so I’d love one that works.
Loved your book. Love your blog, helps me know that I am not alone
I would blend up carrots, beets and spinach mixed with greek yogurt, chia seeds, trader joes cherry berry blend, bananas and pineapples. (along with the cherry veggie juice at costco). AThe kids eat it up! Also, I already have a Vitamix, but I am trying to get one for a family I know whose daughter has brain cancer. As part of her chemo they are trying to get more veggies and fiber into her. The mother has tried it in a crappy blender. No go. The Vitamix (as you know) is the only way to go. I would love nothing more than to make at least this one thing easier for this family.
Regular blenders are jerks.
I would blend up carrots, beets and spinach mixed with greek yogurt, chia seeds, trader joes cherry berry blend, bananas and pineapples. (along with the cherry veggie juice at costco). The kids eat it up! Also, I already have a Vitamix, but I am trying to get one for a family I know whose daughter has brain cancer. As part of her chemo they are trying to get more veggies and fiber into her. The mother has tried it in a crappy blender. No go. The Vitamix (as you know) is the only way to go. I would love nothing more than to make at least this one thing easier for this family.
Oh boy, do I have a love/hate (mostly hate) relationship with my blender. I make my own homemade alfredo sauce using spices, cashews and chicken stock. And it never, ever fully blends the cashews.
I’ve got a 1 year old with 4 (yes, only FOUR) tiny teeth so I’d blend just about anything so that he can have some 🙂
Kale and fruit smoothies… I am so tired of chunky smoothies!! And Peruvian food for my husband…there is a lot of recipes that require a blender!
I like to blend.
Totally have an A-hole blender too!
Vita-ritas!!!
We like to call smoothies “crabby-drink” because after you have one, you cannot be crabby anymore!
I would blend up my leftovers from dinner and add yogurt since my kids will eat anything with yogurt, call it a smoothie and be happy they “ate” well for the day!
Love your blog, love sexy blenders:)
I love making smoothies!
I like to mix yogurt, bananas, orange juice, spinach and frozen mixed berries.
I also like to use my blender when I make butternut squash soup- cook squash in chicken stock with an onion, an apple and some garlic and ginger. blend it all together in the blender with some cream cheese. salt and pepper to taste. yummmmmmmy
also, margaritas. Many margaritas.
I would make protein shakes for the Hubby’s breakfast and blender salsa for me! 🙂
Oh my gosh you are so right- blenders can suck! I’ve heard good things about these ones though!
I think I would start blending all kinds of fruit and veggie combinations. I am trying to lose that 10-20 extra pounds that have crept on after two babies. :/
Mostly I would blend food scraps to make a compost-type slush b/c I don’t have room for a compost bin. Also: I would blend veggies to hide in my picky 4-year old’s food. Also hummus of various kinds. (Artichoke, edamame, beets, etc.) I blend bases for ice cream. I’d blend frozen drinks. Like drink drinks.
Green smoothies FTW!!! Thanks for the giveaway!
I would bend vegetable and fruit smoothies for my wife and I (we are both older) which would allow us to be healthier. With that added health I would have my grandchildren over more and blend smoothies for them to teach them the art of healthy living. (am I sucking up well enough? I really want a vitamix)
That would be “blend” not ‘bend’ (see the poor health also affects my typing 🙂
I saw the demonstration for Vitamix at Costco and was instantly in love with it! I have been looking up smoothie recipes ever since! I think I am more of a fruit smoothie than a veggie smoothie person, though! I’m so happy you got one!
I’d blend up spinach, avocado, cucumbers and some citrus. and then a milkshake!
I am in love with this blog. It reflects the cadence and quality of my life. I ALSO hate my blender and have been stalking the Vitamix at Costco for months. I just can’t justify spending all my grocery money on a blender when I have three crappy blenders at home. Winning a Vitamix blender would make my life less crappy.
I was making a smoothie and other day and how weird… the smoothie is leaking all over the blender… took a sip… weird, there’s pieces of plastic in it… DAMN IT! The plastic on the blade thingy broke into little pieces and not only left me with a stupid mess to clean up but also with shards of plastic in my smoothie. That I gave to my 2 year old. Sigh. Oh, and try mango and spinach. Delish!
Kale and banana 🙂
I have hated every blender I’ve gotten too. Is it that hard to make a good blender? As for ideas of things to blend… chocolate ice cream, milk, and chocolate chips. Yum.
WOO HOO for free blenders! 🙂 I too have a love-hate relationship with my blender. It’s a fairly sturdy little Osterizer – 10 years old now – but I’ve had to replace parts twice this year. Well, that’s mostly because of me… :/ I knocked the hard plastic part of the lid inside the moving blender – not good. Then the first time, I did something to the little rubber ring, I think it was. Also not so good.
Would love to try out the fanciness of the Vitamix, though! 🙂
I’m completely drooling. I would make so many things…… Crossing my fingers!
I would blend a peanut and sweet potato soup. YUM!
I make green smoothies every day, this would be so amazing to use!
My husband and kids LOVE smoothies. I like you, hate them because they are hard to make.
I would blend alllll my veggies for the day. Ahhh to drink them down in a quick glass, and get filled up. I would also make the kids smoothies that are surprisingly full of every veggie for their little bodies. I feel healthier just typing about it! I think I would start with kale/banana/orange/carrot mix, and go from there…. maybe add some peanutbutter just for fun!
p.s. LOVE your bog and pictures. As a mom of 3 little boys, I so relate to all your pictures and they help me find joy as I laugh at our lives!!!!
I’m a newbie when it comes to making smoothies, but I think it’s a fabulous way to sneak veggies into my boys. As long as they are called “shakes” they’ll pretty much drink it. I’ve made strawberry-banana-spinach before, but I’d love to sneak some kale in there.
I’d blend until the cows come home! I’d really like to make fresh fruit Popsicles! 🙂
tomato or squash soup, smoothies, ice cream shakes. I don’t have a blender, so I will need to find some recipes! 🙂
We love to have smoothies in our house so we’d probably just experiment with different flavors. I’d probably want a lot of tropical flavors.
Greens and fruit. Gotta love hiding veggies.
Actually, I think I would probably put spinach in just about everything to sneak veggies into my kid’s diet. LOL
I’d make coffee milkshakes
I would love a Vitamix!!! 🙂
i saw a Vitamix dmo at Costco last month…drool!
Not sure I’ll be much help with blending inspiration because I (like you and your kids) just want smoothies! Tropical mango smoothies with little umbrellas in them that will transport my Pacific NW backyard to a sun drenched beach with lapping waves. And I will sit with my book on the quiet beach while drink after drink just magically appears at my elbow…….sigh.
Will it help that we have the same first name??? No? Oh well, I tried.
Oh man, I need to become hilarious so I can write a wildly popular blog and drop hints about wanting a Vitamix so they’ll send me one! Or, you know, I could just win this one.
Your blog absolutely cracks me up, I love every post about the kids because I have two amazing miracle children and I can relate!!
Also love the vitamix [someday it’ll be a birthday present for me… someday ((sigh))] my kiddo is adhd so he gets a high protein shake in the mornings (to help limit sugar and carbs so he can focus in school) … I mix him milk and protein powder mix and then whatever fruits n veggies I can get away with, he never notices the spinach heh
I have always wanted one! my kiddos lurve smoothies – even picking out spinach at the store to be included!
I’d blend a ton of fennel, because they have to taste like licorice since they smell like that. Right??
I would love a new blender….and one that works would be even better!
Id blend up carrot and apples. Carrot / Apple juice is my 3 year olds new fav drink! Id love to make some fresh for him everyday!
Dude, I totally laughed at the butt plug comment, so true! I love you, have for a long time. I bought your book too. Keep doing what your doing. I saw a demonstration for those things are Costco, pretty awesome.
I would love this! We have wanted one forever in our house as we make smoothies every day!!
I do not have a blender. I need a blender!
You are so funny!
Raspberries, peaches, banana, and apple juice! Yum!! (add spinach or cabbage to get some veggies into the kids!)
Holy Guacamole!
I’d love to win!
xo
I don’t really use the blender much, but I’d love to change that. 😉
I love your blog! And I would also love a non-crappy blender. 🙂
I would love a new blender. I use mine for making smoothies all the time, but I have to do half the work first (cutting everything into less-than-1-inch pieces). If I don’t it will only blend the liquid on the bottom and leave all the bigger chunks floating.
During the day I would make lots of smoothies for my kids. At night I would make margaritas. I know that is probably spelled wrong but I am too sick to care. You know what would help this terrible sore throat? A margarita.
I love making smoothies, but they take forever in our blender. I’d love one of these! I’d probably mix up some frozen fruit, a banana, and some spinach. And I’d totally skip the hot water because a vitamix would not need any of that.
I’ve been following your blog for about 2 years. My first child was only a few months old, and it was like you were writing from my brain! I loved it! Congrats on the new blender – I have a barely-hanging-on Bullet that I use daily for smoothies. It’s not sexy. It looks like an appliance I could buy in one of ‘those’ stores. And it’s on it’s last legs – my first one exploded (don’t ask, but it would make a great Crappy Pictures blog post). Have fun giving it away – and if it’s me, I’d be happy! 🙂 Keep up the laughter!
wow! Never thought I’d get to the end of the comments. It was like a comment marathon. We blend up strawberries, blueberries, pineapple, protein powder, yogurt, spinach, tomatoes, and baby carrots. Use any amount you want. Don’t tell the kids it is healthy and they will love it.
I would love to own a vitamix! My favorite smoothie is kale, spinach, almond milk, banana, chia seeds, flax seeds, peanut butter and mixed berries. Yum. 🙂
I like a smoothie with chia seeds, kiwi, strawberries, apples and oj.
You make me laugh, you make me cry, you make me pee my pants. Now, if I had that Vitamix….I’d stop smelling burnt rubber when I try to blend something. I’m done with baby food and now I need to make mommy drinks and soup! I hear the darn thing can boil water….have you done this yet?
I just made strawberry, mango, peach, vanilla, honey, chia seed and milk smoothies. My little bullet can hardly manage all that, so a vitamix would be grrreat!
Vitamix, what a dream! That is really awesome of you to share, but not surprising, since you are so awesome. I would be blending up lots of green smoothies and making iron rich homemade baby food for my baby who I just found out is iron deficient :-(. Oh my goodness, I want a Vitamix.
Oh please please PLEASE let me be lucky winner, Raffelcopter!!!
I love making smoothies that have kale or spinach in them, usually blended with coconut and mango or banana (or both).
There are some pretty decent (and free) smoothie and juicing recipe apps out there that let you search by what ingredients you have most of on hand, or by which health benefit or ailment you hope to conquer.
P.S. Have LOVEd your blog for a long time! You totally rock this mommy job and keep me laughing.
I saw them demonstrate one of these at Costco! They stuck raw carrots and bananas in there and made baby food with NO steaming, boiling, pots, pans, etc. But I also like the margarita idea… 🙂
Oh man, I would blend everything. Hey kale, move over the leftover apple, carrot, cucumber, cranberries, spinach, whatever I can find will be joining you. Along with some banana and frozen strawberries. Throw a banana and strawberries in there and nobody notices the other stuff!
What would I make with a new Vitamix? Well what wouldn’t I make? Right now I have a seriously dud of a blender that can’t get the job done. So with a newer, much better, blender I’d stop at nothing short of green smoothies, pizza dough, salad dressing…a whole meal all in one place!
Been making homemade popsicles, this would do the trick!
Margaritas. Because mommy needs margaritas. And maybe some healthy things, too. 😉
I am dying to have an awesome blender. I would whip up some of my raw chocolate mousse in half the time as normal. I had to leave my Vitamix on the other side of the country. 🙁
Gosh – I cannot believe how many people read this blog!! Must be the book publishing. I think it would be a full-time job to keep up on reading just the comments!
Anyway, I actually feel much better after reading your blog because I thought it was just MY blender that was a piece of junk. Bring on the Vitamix!
I would love one. For almond butter. Or sunflower seed butter. Or nutella.
I would love one!!
I’ve never made a smoothie…getting lots of great ideas reading these comments. Hope I win so I can try some of these out!
For a not-so-organic treat you can make “astronaut ice cream” w. 2cups ice + 1/2cup liquid vanilla creamer + 1cup plain greek yogurt + 1/2cup tang/ovaltine/qwik, blend til smooth & creamy, adults might sub 1/3cup instant espresso + 1/3cup dark chocolate syrup for the tang for a yummy mocha soft serve.
I have gotten into the clean eating lifestyle, and there are so many great things you can make with a good blender!!! Chocolate frosting made with avocados and cacao powder (and other stuff)? Who doesn’t want to try that? Green smoothies though, those are the big ones that I don’t even try, because my little bullet blender thing isn’t big enough!
2 cups spinach
1/2 cup pineapple
1/2 a bannana
11/2 cups coconut water.
My son’s favorite is
1 banana
as many strawberries as he can talk me into
vanilla ice cream
a little milk
sometimes chocolate sauce
I just bought molds for smoothie push ups for my 18 mo old (and me too of course!). As I was making my first round of banana peanut butter ice and yogurt, it started to smoke. Thinking smoke flavored smoothies are NOT the way to go!
You should get that hot tub AND vacation with drinks – because your blog is awwwwwesome. 🙂
I usually read all of the comments but there are WAY too many. Thanks for the chance to win the vitamix.
I’ve been blenderless for a few months now; this would make me so happy! Margaritas, all sorts of smoothies, hummus!
We blend frozen peaches, two tbsp yogurt, a tsp honey (or a carrot), and some kale or spinach. Add water and milk to taste, maybe some ice if your peaches have thawed a bit, and voila! Green smoothie good enough to have the neighbor kids saying “that looks gross”. But it tastes fantastic.
I don’t have a blender, POS or nice or anything. I’d like to think I’d use it to make healthy smoothies (maaaaybe) and fun popsicles (probably)…but I know in my heart of hearts it’d be all about the milkshakes. Mmm, milkshakes…
This is so amazing!! I need to start mentioning more things on my blog, too! 😉 I would try all sorts of things… salad dressings, nut butters, smoothies (with spinach, of course), butternut squash soup, and more!
I want this! I would blend all the things!!
Every blender I’ve ever owned, I’ve managed to blend the little rubber ring that goes in the bottom. That thing tastes terrible. I would use this mofo to make so much GD soup, it will make your head spin. I don’t even own a blender anymore, I’ve given up on any actually working 🙁
Accidently hit the send on answering my gross question. Blended worms would lead to a sequel to “How to Eat Fried Worms”. “Sippin Worms Through a Straw”
Would love this! We would blend up our own peanut butter like we saw at a demonstration!
I would blend my veggies from my garden.
My teenage daughter loves to make smoothies, too. She’s frustrated because my blender can’t handle ice and frozen fruit. I like to use the blender to puree vegetables for the baby and to “hide” in my preschoolers’ food, but my silly blender even has trouble with cooked carrots.
I would totally make Margaritas withOUT chunks of ice leftover!
you are so sweet!
If I won this blender I’d blend an avocado, kale, and every kind of fruit you can imagine. My mouth is watering just thinking of it. I’d be a health goddess.
Ooooo! That would be a lovely thing to have in my kitchen. : )
Dude! I dream of reaching the Free-Vitamix level of awesomeness! I would make my dad’s signature bleeding daquiris. It requires a blender able to handle copius amounts of ice, which the Vitamix does oh so sexily! Recipe = ice, daquiri mix, rum. Blend until thick and pour into a tall glass. Use the end of a wooden spoon to poke a hole through the center of the slush (drink has to be super thick to work) and pour a shot of cherry sloe gin into the hole. The red liquor will “bleed” through the ice shards in the drink, hence the name Bleeding Daquiris. YUM!
LOVE YOUR BLOG! I guess I’d blend strawberries, kiwis and bananas, maybe a little juice in there. Probably some sweetened yogurt ice cubes. That sounds good to me 🙂
This blender could make lots of yummy smoothies and soups and so much more! 🙂 Would love to win one because no way I will ever get one of these otherwise.
Love, love, love this blog! Would really love, love, love to have that Vitamix… 🙂
My husband worked at the big JJ making smoothies in his twenties. That man can make a mean smoothie even with our crappy blender. But, as I am now 8 months pregnant I would request heartburn deflecting shakes. Tasty, tasty, well blended shakes. But made of ice cream with chunks of cookie dough and brownies just because we can.
Oh. my. everloving. stars. I would squeal with delight so loud you’d likely hear me over state lines! I make smoothies too and have been lusting after Mr. Vitamix for a while now. Our favorite smoothie goes like this: throw in 2 peeled bananas, fill the pitcher with frozen mixed fruit, dump in a single serve container of your favorite yogurt, and pour in pineapple juice until it covers everything else you’ve added. Then blend. Super yummy!
But I’m checking into a bunch of new recipes lately to help me deal with some physical ailments and even want to try some of those scary “green” smoothies.
Ha! Love this. I would love to have one of these as well. 🙂
I have no recommendations because I have that same stupid blender you had that doesn’t blend anything!
Love your blog, love your book, would LOVE a VitaMix!
The first thing I would do is crush up some ice. Just because I could.
Good Lord, I scrolled for about an hour to get to the bottom! I guess I have a very slight chance of blending some good stuff in a VitaMix.
I use my sorry blender to make smoothies and “nice cream” for my son who is lactose intolerant. I have to chop the big stuff myself before feeding it to the “blender.” Blah, I feel your pain.
Anyway, I gonna make a kale smoothie that’s really healthy. (That’s a big fat lie, I’m totally making chocolate milkshakes)
Well, damn. I entered before I saw it was US only 🙁
I would make smoothies! I have a special smoothie maker, but it sounds about like your blender. It kind of even smells burn-ish when I hit the “surge” button…
I would probably throw everything in my fridge into that vitamix and blend, just for the thrill of seeing it actually blend!!
I would blend guava and coconut! And Mango!
So glad I found this blog and this post! This describes my relationship with my blender as well – hate it! I’ve needed/wanted a Vitamix for years to make smoothies – since that’s about all I (try to) use my blender for.
Oooh!! A Vitamix!! <3
I too have a loser blender. Is there anything it CAN blend? Jeesh!
My lovely doctor just put me on a low salt diet but I have so much trouble digesting cellulous she said I should make green smoothies to help me eat better. If she calls tell her that is what I do with my blender. But when no one is looking I am tinkering with the recipe for homemade Dole Whip. That amazing concoction of fresh pineapple and soft serve. Absolutely to die for. Best thing from our vacation. If I win I will share my masterpiece!
Oh the smoothies and milkshakes I could make! My kitchen aid died after making too many baby purées for my twins. I would so love a vitamix!
Love love love your blog!
I wanna make a strawberry margarita with fresh strawberries & lime juice and good tequila. None of that crappy mix stuff from the store.
I need this blender to pulverize healthy things to the point that they no longer look like healthy things and can be completely masked by chocolate. For my kids.
I would make green smoothies and I would use it to grind up table food for my infant to eat. Oh and I would definitely make pesto, arugula, basil and kale pesto. Yum! PS. This post is hysterical and anyone with a jerk blender completely relates!
I’ve never tried Kale, but I hear it’s all the rage these days in a smoothie (you know, hidden veggies and such) 🙂
Would love to make “healthy” smoothies that my kids would enjoy without knowing these smoothies where full of all things good for them! Ha, trickery at its best!
Greens for my oh so picky eaters!!! Love the blog!
I love you! The lady that wrote this blog post about you is neat too, but mostly I love you, Mr. Blender. Please come live at my house.
Our blender took a crap on us too. So I use the stick blender in a measuring cut when I want a smoothy. It works so much better. We usually wait until there are over rip bananas and toss them in with some froze strawberries and whatever yogurt and juice is available in the fridge. We love it 🙂
I would probably make homemade dairy free ice cream with bananas and other toppings.
Hi,
What a lovely give-away. I haven’t yet found a blender that can survive our blending needs. And we generally stick to smoothies (spinach, blueberries, yogourt, apples) and pureeing soups (carrot sweet potato is a favourite).
We live in Canada but have a US mailing address. Does that count?
i’ve wanted a vitamix for a long time, my mom used to have one and we used it for tons of stuff! my favorite things were peanut butter, and grinding grain, and smoothies…. 🙂 yum…
My fave is frozen bananas, peanut butter and vanilla yoghurt. The most delicious peanut butter ice-cream ever! Sadly, my blender always chokes at the sight of frozen food but looks like this bad boy can take it on 🙂
I’m not the only one with a deadbeat blender! I’ve gone through 3! I gave up making smoothies awhile back because it was so frustrating, but if I win this one, I’ll start with my kids fave – strawberry/banana/yogurt. Thanks for being so generous!
I work with parents for a living, so i love reading your posts. They definitely make me laugh and help me relieve a little stress!
In case you haven’t tried it, mix peaches, pineapple and strawberries with some fruit juice. It is to die for…
OMG I want one of these so bad, but we had to buy a new sump pump instead (and the vacuum cleaner just died, sob). I would make the hell out of some green smoothies!
All I have is a stinky hand blender! But I love my morning shakes – peanut butter and chocolate!! Mmmm…and fruit smooties made with strawberries and mangoes!! Thanks for the great giveaway..and for making me laugh daily!! Already read your book twice – and the hubs read it while in the bathroom! 🙂
I understand your pain of a lazy blender. Cool for you!
everything
I would never have imagined that a blog about blenders would make me laugh out loud… but it did!
I’d blend up all kinds of things! Maybe baby food for the new one due this fall!
Oooooh, I so want this! I trick my son into eating spinach and other veggies by mixing them with fruit in a smoothie, then I freeze them in popsicle molds. He loves them!
Smoothies, smoothies and more smoothies (or as my little guy says, smoodies). Recently started making homemade hummus. Yum!!
I would so blend up some smoothies with this. What awesome fortune!
A blender that actually works hard? A margarita with no old maids? A smoothie without spinach leaves that are barely torn? Yes please.
kefir smoothies, soups, sauces, puddings, batters! it would never leave my counter
I bet this is the most comments you’ve ever had on a post.
i’m local in ca so you wouldn’t even have to pay for shipping…just sayin 🙂
please i need one of these, i’m tired of smashing stuff into my blender and whacking it around to make it go. besides no one in the house will eat green stuff unless it’s liquified with yummy fruit things.
If I won you wouldn’t have to ship it we could just meet at the Eagle Rock Target and exchange in the parking lot. I would make smoothies with mine.
I would blend yummy avocado shakes among other things
Frozen banana “ice cream” because my current blender is too much of a wimp to make it.
I curse my blender every single day! I have abused the poor thing to death; the only button on it that still works is pulse… why are good blenders so hard (read: expensive) to find? Thanks for all the laughs. Your blog always brightens my day, and I just finished your book for the second time! 🙂
Cheesecake and strawberry…. Or Oreo, can it blend Oreo? Am I the only one who thinks of unhealthy ideas?
I <3 you!
I want to try making my own nut butters!
I’d probably blend up things from green smoothies to frozen banana ice cream to whatever else I find on Pinterest.
Holy slim chance in hell, this is going to be a popular giveaway!! I hate hate hate our blender too. It has been in the ask of the cabinet for years collecting dust. Thought I’d take it out again for some smoothies, why aren’t we making smoothies I asked ? Oh F that’s right!? Because the f’ing blender can’t even blend ice and fruit!!
We got some new parts for it, some miracle may improve it? No. I was just imagining a vitamix earlier this week. Who would pay that much, I cannot bring myself to do it! Still i found myself weighing pros and cons at their website though 🙂
That is so awesome! Please pick me!
My friend has a Vitamix named Victor. He is sooooo sexy. Trying to decide what to name mine if I should win? Bouncing between Vlad, Vito, and Vincentio…
I would love a blender. In my dreams I will be whipping up all kinds of slimming juices for me and delicious smoothies fro my boys but in reality it will probably be an expensive blender that just takes up space in my already cramped Brooklyn apartment : (
SMOOTHIES!!
I don’t have kids, but I hope that when I do I have a fraction of the fun you have with your kids! 🙂
As for the blender… You should mix up awesome smoothies and you can do fresh salsa.. 😀
Is this just for US citizens? Cos I’m in Australia and you just sold this blender for me, haha!
I’d love to make more smoothies… fruits and veg… yum!
We so totally know about the suck-y blender thing… we’ve gone through 3 in the past 5 years. Hope I win the Vitamix! 😉
Ooooo, I’d love a Vitamix! I had one once that my mom found at a garage sale for 30 bucks. I didn’t get it back in the divorce. 🙁
The lose baby weight smoothies really work!
I would make super yummy smoothies with avocado, kale, strawberries, blueberries, and pineapple. Freeze them in a popcicle mold and you are good to go!
Two words – pina coladas.
Oh, and I’d totally start making green drinks! My mom’s been making some in hers and I love them.
My friends and I LOVE your blog and follow you on Facebook, too. (And sometimes I read edited versions of your posts to my sons, since they’re a lot like yours.)
Thanks for choosing to giveaway your extra Vitamix! I know a few people who have one and they all rave about it. I’ve had the same blender with the cracked base for 12 years and it’s still crippling along, but I don’t know for how much longer. You asked me what I’d blend: kale, spinach, spirulina, 1/2 a banana, fresh pineapple chunks, coconut/almond milk, and ice. I try to get the kale to blend in my little Hamilton Beach blender, but I still get green flecks, which I then have to go brush off my teeth. I’ve heard the Vitamix gets it all smoothed out, so I wish you luck with yours!
I donated jerk blender #1 when my husband gave me blender #2. He is a jerk, too. He is marginally better at chopping ice for my daily breakfast shake, but he doesn’t like it and lets me know. Seriously; my blender groans and emits awful electronic smells. It hates me.
My favorite shake to make is fresh banana, 2-3TB PB2 (I love peanut butter), 1T unsweetened cocoa, and my chocolate breakfast shake packets. Mmmmmm.
I bet this is the most comments you’ve ever had on a blog post
My favorite smoothie is the following
spinach – I would love to try other greens but my blender can’t handle them
mango
pineapple
almond-coconut milk
chia seeds
sometimes I like to add aronia berries (only good in a smoothie with other stuff)
Blender envy.
Oh I would looooooove a Vitamix!! Thanks for being awesome, and for the giveaway!! 🙂
Definitely agree with the blender issue! Smoothies are mmmmm….delicious!
Odds are not in my favor, but why not try?!??
HOW have I not heard of this blender? I go through about 2 a year. Yeah, blenders can bite me.
I would make veggie juice and soups and frozen margarita drinks. I would also mix protein shakes and make almond milk. I would liquify every meal just to use the Vitamix!!!
I have a non-functioning blender too! I wish blenders were self-cleaning as well. Somebody please invent one that cleans itself. If I had a Vitamix I would try blending apples, strawberries, watermelon, and a radish, like in a certain Curious George episode that my son loves.
I had an awesome blender. Till one day it decided it wanted to be a lazy blender, just like yours. But mine collects dust in my cupboard…donation is a great idea!!
I miss enjoying my strawberry/blueberry/banana/greek yogurt smoothies with my daughters…
My kids love smoothies too, so I’d blend some of those up and maybe even make popcicles since it’s almost summertime. 🙂
I hate blenders too! No matter what I’m trying to blend, I seem to always have to stick a spoon in the bottom to mix it up.
Lol..BUTT PLUG! I’m dying!! My boss just gave me “The Look” … congrats!!!
I have a blender too. It works okay. Not as bad as your “old” one. My son loves smoothies too. Ever since he watched Fresh Beat Band and they drink Groovy Smoothies all the time. He always asks for a Groovy Smoothie. I usually just do fruit and yogurt. He loves it.
Like everyone else, I would love to win the Vitamix!
some dirty margaritas for a girls only party 🙂 yay!
I’d love to check out the instructions/recipe book for ideas, but I think mixing a few vegetables in with some fruit sounds good and healthy. I also like malts, anything with peanut butter, and margaritas!
Thanks! I’m trying to win the Vitamix for my husband!
Ooh! I would purée veggies and make a soup from scratch!
I would blend a can of thick coconut milk from Trader Joe’s, for a delicious dairy-free whipping cream. Om freakin’ nom.
My friend CLAIMS that you can blend up an avocado pit in the Vitamix…so I might do that just because…
I would mix smoothies and add veggies so my kiddos wouldn’t know. My current blender spilled the secret to my kids and now they are skeptical.
You’re crazy, but crazy good! I’d love a Vitamix!
I took an example from a previous post of yours, and now I freeze all fruit that my kids have taken one bite from 🙂
I would *really* love a Vitamix. Every time I see them set up for a demo in a public place I turn around and head in the opposite direction. I’m pretty sure I’d cave. And I’m pretty sure I can’t justify spending $600 on a blender. One day…
I’d blend up frozen bananas with soy milk, peanut butter and cocoa powder. Every day.
I’d blend frozen strawberries and blueberries, milk, and protein powder for my husband. If the Vitamix can totally pulverize celery, I’d add some of that too, since DH hates celery- it squeaks in his teeth.
BLENDER!!!
I would love to win this!
My son always wants to watch me when I make a smoothie in the blender. So I have to hold my giant baby and shake the blender, stir the stuff, and tap it on the counter. One time I did that and the bottom came off so the smoothie ended up all over the counter and floor. I would love to have one that just works 🙂
Favorite smoothie = milk (any kind), peanut butter (or almond butter), a squirt of honey, a dash of cinnamon, and 1-2 frozen bananas. So. Good.
I would love to win a non-crappy blender! My son is almost 2 and he’s addicted to those little baby food pouches. They are so expensive. I bought reusable pouches but it’s a pain in the ass to puree stuff for them in my crappy blender. I’d make awesome pouch stuffings for him. 🙂
I would blend green smoothies, soups, stuff for making popsicles…oh and I hear it can make ICE CREAM! I’d probably never eat solid food again~ haha!
I LOVE blending frozen strawberries, milk, vanilla & sugar or sweetener. It’s almost like strawberry ice cream! Or as close as my overweight self needs to get to ice cream anyway!
I want a blender that says “hey baby” to me too!!
My blender sucks as well.
I love love peach smoothies! I would blend one up in a skinny minute. Thanks!
My Jack Lalane (sp?) juicer is a beast. You put mountains of veggies in and end up with half a cup of thick sludge, and a bucket full of…….pulp. Blenders sound like the way to go. lol
I like to blend soups with a blender, I would also blend veggies in a green drink:
– one avocado
– 2 cups swiss chard
– 1 peeled lemon
– one green apple cored
– one pear
– 2 cups of water
this makes a great smoothy and is like a meal in one…
Serves 2
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I love this blog! Now, gimme a blender 😀
Ohh I don’t even have a blender I resort to using my Cuisinart. lol
I make this smoothie every morning, my blender, which I got as a bridal shower gift 26 years ago, is complaining. Here’s my recipe, and because my blender is fragile, I must blend after each addition:
2 cups water, 1-1/2″ piece of fresh ginger, grated into blender, handful of Italian (flat) Parsley, handful of Watercress, handful of Red Dandelion, handful of Arugula, 1/3 c frozen wild Maine Blueberries, 1/4 c frozen Cranberries, 8 frozen Raspberries, 1 squirt Nature’s Sunshine Products’ Liquid B-12, 1 scoop NSP Love and Peas (protein powder), 1-2 scoops NSP chocolate Nutriburn. This makes and entire blenderful. It is delicious (notice the chocolate and raspberries), healthy (notice ginger for circulation and all the greens), and because it is a smoothie, not juiced, much healthier since you use all the fiber. I think a Vitamix would make it even better.
I love green drinks:
2 cups swiss chard
2 cups water
1 lemon peeled
1 pear cored
1 green apple cored
1 ripe avocado
Blend
Serves 2 or one hungry person.
what an awesome giveaway! enjoy your smoothies 🙂
This made me depressed.Now I know not to buy a new blender.
Who DOESN’T want a buttplug that blends?
Never met a blender that actually blended. Would be nice to have that for once. I make smoothies in a food processor 🙁
Oh, I’d love a not-crappy blender! My blender is terrible!
My lazy jerk of a blender doesn’t like to make my favorite smoothie, which I call my Real Food Shamrock Shake. I combine avocado, a can of coconut milk, mint extract, dates, sometimes a few drops of stevia, ice, and a handful of spinach or some kind of greens for color. It’s awesome.
Yay! Hope I win a free Vitamix! We just started making smoothies and we’re having the same issues! This would be a great prize!
Smoothies for the kids and Pina Colodas for Mom.
We blend smoothies. Yes, we do. Plain yogurt (avoid weird stuff in flavored yogurt), a bunch of fruit (mixes vary: berries, pineapple, mango, pear, etc.) and big handful of spinach. Yum!
I feel your blender pain. I’ve been using the same blender that I bought at a thrift store 13 (THIRTEEN!!!) years ago, and it still runs, but I have to do the spoon squish thing every time, always pushing the spoon too far down into the blades and scaring the bejezus out of myself. If I had a new blender, I would blend, well, everything. Hamburger smoothies anyone?
PS: You’re the best.
I am now 11 weeks pregnant and for some reason I looked the gross question and left what looks like a smoothie in the toilet.
I don’t make smoothies, because my husband is the best at it. I’m sure he would LOVE a Vitamix to make his amazing smoothies in. =)
I’d blend up a strawberry banana smoothie!
So jealous. I’ve had several blenders and I agree. Don’t blend for anything.
Oooh. I totally have blender envy. Undoubtedly your blender is bigger than mine. And more awesome. I’ve pretty much just given up on mine. Thanks for sharing your bonus with one of us!
Sweet! My hubby blends up some awesome natural juices, but our blender is dying. And the bottom no longer comes off for some reason, so to clean it I have to risk chopping off my fingers every time.
Awesome Freebie! I would blend frozen fruits! Scandal I know! Oh to be able to watch that bad boy whip up a nice frozen smoothie ….. a girls gotta dream right
hmm- plants for natural dyes. Green smoothie nutritious drink stuff. And yummy drink stuff. you know, the kind with alcohol and tiny umbrellas!
Fancy, sexy blender. Moving on up!
this would be an amazing win 🙂
I wouldn’t mind trying to get a decent green smoothie out of it. My current blender is a jerk too and leaves stuff lumpy and stops too. At the repair shop as we speak! Haha
love it! and love your blog.
I’ve had my eye on that sexy blender for years! I should have bought it before, rather than spend at least $600 on crappy, useless blenders in the meantime. What an ha mazing give away, you should have plenty of good karma coming your way 🙂
I got a Vitamix from my first husband (before we were technically married). It was for my birthday. A day late. And I was sure he was giving me an engagement ring. So… yeah. Great, only NOT.
And now it’s been in store thousands of miles away for five years.
Kale, Spinach, Apple Juice, Strawberries
I make a smoothie almost every night with banana, strawberries, avocado, kale or spinach, frozen cherries and a handful of chocolate chips.
I’m not very exciting when it comes to blending things.
But my parents used their blender to make potato soup. They boiled the potatoes, carrots, secret green vegetables, and whatever else they had on hand. When they were really soft, they chucked them in the blender and blended them into a soup. Then they stirred some cheese in until it melted. I think this was to disguise the taste of the secret green vegetables from us kids. (It totally worked.) And saltine crackers are the best “spoons” for potato soup. 🙂
I would all sorts of green smoothies!
I would blend up green smoothies for me and make dairy-free ice cream for my lactose intolerant daughter because she loves ice cream and never gets it.
I really need one of these. I haven’t had a working blender in years. I refuse to buy one until I :)can afford a Vitamix.
We love fruit smoothies! And soup! Having a vitamix would seriously make my life easier 🙂
lettuce, tomato, cucumber, any other greens, a bit of mint, oregano or other herbs, bit of garlic, lemon juice & olive oil. drinkable salad! wait, with the vitamix, you could totally add nuts and seeds.
I love your blog. It brings up so many memories. I also would love a Vitamix. My blenders were always horrible, too. I finally stopped even trying to use them.
I would just love together in on the vitamix craze. I’ve been looking at them from a far for a long time. I’m longing for this one for long summer afternoons with adult fruity drinks. Oh I suppose I’ll make fun kid smoothies too, if I must.
Love your blog. And would love a Vitamix. I’ve been coveting them. So cool that you got one! And so great to give us a chance to win one!
I would love to have a Vitamix! Or just a blender that doesn’t die when I try to make my smoothies… I’ve already blasted through two blenders! Both were Magic Bullet knock offs…
A margarita. My husband has been out of town for 3 weeks and I soooo need one.
I would blend bananas strawberries, and maybe an orange. I would also add kale(I hear you can’t taste it) so I would get some veggies in there!
Smoothies and baby food.
Frozen blueberries, coconut, ginger, banana, kale, almond milk, pomegranate juice, matcha and raw cacao. Nom.
I would blend up coconut flour muffin recipes. YUM.
I love your posts and always read all the comments (like I know you do) but over 3,000 is a bit overwhelming! If you get to mine that shows real dedication. Thanks for the wonderful moments of funny throughout the week and yay for all your success! (And yay for free stuff! I even get excited over free small stuff, like bottle openers (which drives my husband batty as we now own 20+) so something that awesome must be super exciting.)
We love fresh fruit with orange juice and yogurt smoothies!
What an awesome mistake they made! On top of an awesome offer to begin with!
I was momentarily worried, though, that you had accidently put the Vitamix into the wrong box and taken it to Goodwill.
I really hope you get your hot tub!
Blend up something really hard. What about pomegranate? Will it pulverize the little seeds so I don’t feel like I’m drinking bird poo? Pomegranate, pineapple, blueberries and kale!
I’d make salsa or almond milk or something. Anytime I try those watery things in my food processor (which is an amazing tool itself), it leaks out the top. The food processor is apparently just for solids.
my blender just died so i need one!
I only have a tiny food processor that can barely handle one chopped up frozen banana. I can’t make my favorite ice cream anymore because of it. And isn’t that what counts? Ice cream?
I need thisss
I would love to win a Vitamix!!! I’d even pay for the shipping. 🙂
Wow, you blend all kinds of crazy shit. Now I want a Vitamix so I can try that at home too. Do you think it would make nutbutter for you, or is that more of a juicer-style situation?
strawberry and raspberry smoothies!! My son (3) is allergic to Dairy, apples, and bananas (among other things) so going out to get smoothies is so not happening. But I can make them with his Elecare formula and the fruits he CAN eat!!
I’ve had more smoothies with bits of wooden spoon (ruffage?) than I can count. Ick. Yay for Vitamix!
I’d blend up veggies to hide it in my kids’ food or make fruit-veggie smoothies, because you’d think I was trying to feed those crushed up cockroaches and worms to my 2 year old by the way she reacts to them.
UM there is like over 40000 entries at this point. So I give up. I’m stuck with my crappy blender. I never knew it was crappy still I started trying to make margaritas. And I tried to make a green smoothie for my kid, and its all chewy. Gross!
It sounds awesome! I hate doing the spoon thing every 5 seconds. On the idea side, I have found that I can get rid of red cabbage in a smoothie, combined with apples and strawberries. It’s red so the kids don’t suspect a thing…ha!
Mango, raspberries, kale and raw eggs
My kids love smoothies 😀
Holy entries. Thank you for such a superb giveaway.
I love any smoothie with raspberries. It adds an extra yummy tangy flavor to any mixture. Well, any mixture expect a spinach smoothie. That would be gross.
I’d make fruit smoothies and baby food.
I would yummy things my kids will eat with healthy things they won’t. I can’t do that with my current crappy blender. Also I would make salsa but that would just be for me.
I can’t blend a thing because my blender A.) won’t blend crap (I haven’t literally tried to blend crap, but I can promise you it would not get blended if I tried), and B.) makes the most horrifically loud, whine-whir noise you’ve ever heard. Animals run in fear! My child begs me to never blend again! My husband cranks the TV volume to 38 (and then leaves it there even after I scream “I’M ALL DONE BLENDING NOW!” ) So I’m not exactly sure what I’d blend at this point, but I’d start with smoothies and work my way from there.
A friend just liked your blog on Facebook and I popped by to see what’s up. Very entertaining!
I would blend, sheesh. It’s been a long week with not enough healthy things to eat, I guess.
My blender sucks! If I won this, strawberry daqs for me and margs for the hubby would have to happen first thing!
My wife and I registered for one of those for are wedding, and a guest totally pulled a “it’s just as good” and got us a cheep-o 🙁
I would love to blend up some soups.
Loved your book! Read in one day…cldn’t put it down. As for smoothies, I like pineapples and blueberries…add milk of course or icecream but the tangy zingy taste of the pineapples with the brain feeding yumminess of the blueberries will awaken your tastebuds and give you good energy!! <3
WANT WANT WANT
I would blend EVERYTHING. I would have to create a new Pinterest board just for blendable stuff!
Oooooooh. I hope I win.
I have the same issue! Which is why my blender has been sitting in a box since my last move. An old roommate had a magic bullet and we would blend bananas, frozen blueberries, soymilk and spinach. Including frozen fruit is the key (for me, at least!)
Oh, I’ve been eyeing that blender every time I go to Costco.
Me please! My blender sucks!
I would use it to make my former micropreemies delicious and nutricious smoothies!
Oh how exciting! I’ve wanted a Vitamix for years! YEARS! How exciting for you too 😀
My 7 year old hates everything. EVERYTHING…except for blended soup. That boy will eat anything so long as I puree it until you can’t tell what’s in there and call it soup. This week he ate kale, cabbage, and sweet potatoes. I swear he’s eat old crocs if I could blend them up.If I win the Vitamix, I’ll let you know how the croc soup turns out.
My 7 year old hates everything. EVERYTHING…except for blended soup. That boy will eat anything so long as I puree it until you can’t tell what’s in there and call it soup. This week he ate kale, cabbage, and sweet potatoes. I swear he’d eat old crocs if I could blend them up.If I win the Vitamix, I’ll let you know how the croc soup turns out.
This is why I don’t make smoothies!
NEED it! 🙂
I’d love to be able to make soup in it!
My favorite thing to blend is orange juice, vanilla ice cream, ice, and pineapple. Sadly, I don’t make them often (aka rarely…like once a year), because my blender sucks too.
Favorite smoothie for my daughter and me is vanilla greek yogurt, frozen mixed berries, banana, milk and a little bit of honey- I never measure! this is awesome for when she has a sore throat too and doesn’t want to eat real food- smooth and cool and loaded with protein, calcium and vitamins.
I’d blend up anything and everything! My blender stinks too and I can’t hand stir diddly squat. Love the idea of soup, smoothies, milkshakes, etc. etc. Dang, now I’m drooling on the computer. And if the blender was sexy it would just be an added bonus!
Family favorite smoothie: 1 cup of vanilla almond milk, 1 banana, 1/4-1/2 cup frozen blueberries. That’s a very yummy, easy smoothie. Now you can also add a tablespoon of coconut oil, a tablespoon of chia gel or ground flax seed*, and a handful of fresh spinach and it still tastes seriously yummy and has a big nutritional boost! (*grind the flax seed first in the Vitamix, then add all the other stuff). Obviously, any fruit will work! Enjoy your new Vitamix!!
I hope indont post twice. Your site was pretty busy so I had to give up. Anyway, I’d love a new blender!
I totally want to win this. My 9 year old son is the pickiest eater EVER. That means he won’t touch most fruits and veggies, but he LOVES smoothies I just don’t mention the spinach and other green stuff he’s drinking. BWAH HA HA!!!!
I WOULD BLEND EVERYTHING!!!! but mostly strawberries and bananas. and cocoa. I think I’d throw cocoa in just about anything. Just for fun.
so many tasty things. 🙂 Mostly fruit and veggies with flax seed.
GAH!! BLENDER! Smoothies! Milkshakes! And maybe even grown-up drinks for me!! I Want!!!
I love you, btw…..
Lust! Next can you convince kitchenaid to send you two standmixers and make those prizes? I REALLY want one of those 😛
People have been recommending them forever-would make my own nut butters and healthy meal smoothies!
I would absoluely make green smoothies. I like mine with berries and peaches and kale with greek yogurt. I’m gestational diabetic, so I really like making stuff with extra protein and all natural sugars. Carrots and apples go really well together, too. Of course there is the frozen bananas into ice cream thing that you can do or the soups. You can put flax in anything, too!
My daughter absolutely refuses to eat any veggies, so I would make some awesome smoothies and sneak in some spinach and kale.
A blender that actually works? Sign me up!! Though I am still waiting for a silent one so I can make stuff after my kid is in bed, lol
Pina Coladas! 😀
I love to make smoothies for my kids. We usually do tons of spinach, berries, flax, chia seeds and some protein powder
Oh I LOVE green smoothies! I think my blender is related to yours! Because it takes a month of Sundays to be able to get anything that remotely resembles a smoothie – but oh do I LOVE them!! 🙂 I start with a spinach base (usually with water too) and add bananas, oranges and strawberries. I have a book with a MILLION ideas, I just toss things I have in my freezer/fridge in there…because they are all SO good!! 🙂
I would love to win!! I need lots of pina coladas! 🙂
I’ve never had a sexy blender. I have a sexy coffee maker, but not a blender. I think my coffee maker needs a little competition in the kitchen. Let the sexy kitchen counter pageant begin!
I’ve been wanting to try a few Green Smoothies but i’d probably just end up making lots of berry smoothies cause that’s what my kids LOOOOOVE. And milkshakes, of course.
Please, I really need your help to dump my crappy blender. He is definitely using me and cheating on my fruits and vegetables. He is verbally abusive and never is in the mood when I am.
Frozen bananas, spinach, orange juice and an apple are divine.
I have wanted a vitamix for forever! I loved the comment of “so and so got a vitamix”. I have totally said that. I’m in the smoothie market as well. Chunky smoothies just don’t taste good.
I would blend for my tubie son and make myself smoothies!!
I have a friend who just recently got a vitamix and I am insanely jealous. I could pretend that I would blend up a bunch of healthy green veggies…but it would most likely be used for margaritas and daquiris. Yum:)
I drink a smoothie every day for breakfast! I love your blog and how cool that you are sharing your freebie!
Your book, by the way, rocked my socks off!
I would make the most splendid shakes on planet. Because YUM!
I am currently hooked on smoothies made with coconut water. I buy the pineapple flavored ones. So good!
I would love this for smoothies and baby food!!
If I had a vitamix, I’d start experimenting with things like apples and carrots! My current blender is lazy too, so I stick to milk and berries 😉
forgot to say what I would blend.
kale
banana
frozen mango
strawberries
milk
chia seeds
vanilla
PB2
one of my favorite breakfast blends
or
pear
avocado
kale
banana
vanilla
milk
chia seeds
I have a Kitchenaid Blender I am crazy about. It is funny because my husband is the non-cheapo appliance buyer and he purchased it for me. I couldn’t believe how much he paid, but it blends the crap out of my spinach smoothies. That said, I would love to try a Vitamix. Would my Kitchenaid get jealous?
I need to win this so I can make some. pineapple & honeydew. carrots, tomatoes, radishes. I can make soup or juice. Yum!
I totally love your blog! I’m not a mom, but I still find your posts hilarious, which proves the high quality of your comedy. My blender is a cheapy and has started to smell like it’s burning, which I think is a bad sign.
and I would just like to say, yeah right. healthy stuff. It’s going to be Margarita Monday EVERYDAY at my house if I win 🙂
I love mixed berry smoothies! Also, there are some Body By Vi combos that are good in the blender.
So awesome of you to give away the second one! Also, this is one of my new favorite posts. The sexy blender cracked me up. Especially because you were blushing, haha! I would make a berry smoothie: raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, blueberry greek yogurt, a little milk, and a little lemonade. YUM! =)
Love your blog, love your book, and would love a Vitamix! I was just alternating between beating my blender and whispering sweet words of encouragement as I tried to make a smoothie yesterday. :/
Almond butter
Banana
Carob powder
Agave nectar
Spinach
Ice
I have blender envy. I’d love to put greens stuff in my smoothies, but mine sucks.
I’d make smoothies with a vitamix, but the kind that don’t have vegetables and actually aren’t all that healthy.
I just had an amazing kale and pineapple smoothie.. that I paid big bucks for. I’d make my own and not have to chew the kale.
My daughter loves smoothies, which I found out when we went to visit my in laws. They have a vitamix, I have the crappy blender that my hubby and I bought when we moved in together (almost 11 years ago). My daughter now has very unrealistic expectations of my very crappy (but not in a good way) blender.
Have you cleaned it yet by adding a little dish soap and water and blending yet? How cool is that??
Smooooooothies!!! Yumm!!
I want a vitamix!
Cucumber, apple, kale, spinach, carrot smoothie:)
You are funny and also nice. 🙂
I would blend up some chickpeas into hummus because the ‘normal’ blender refuses to do that!
Awesome! I want one!!
I’ve just been cleaning my blender and it’s cheap and sucky. Gimme! 🙂
I’m obsessed with green smoothies and dream of owning a Vitamix!!
My hubby would love this … it would complete his vegan quest for health. And I would rock if I won it for him! Thanks Amber, I could use some good wife points.
I had a vitamix once, but I lost in my divorce. How sad, right? If I had another one, I would make smoothies, soup, salsa, more salsa, a couple more smoothies…I’d probably have to go on a diet before long. Still, I would love to win one! I wish I had a vitamix when I was making baby food.
Oh… I have been coveting one of these for forever! We have had at least three jerk blenders. I didn’t even bother replacing the last one. I now use my jerk food processor. It blends things up, at least, but it also spits things out the top and sides if it feels so inclined. I need this. NEED 🙂
I wasn’t paying enough attention, so I didn’t tell you what I would blend. The answer is everything. I will blend everything.
Yes, my 3 small kids do (secretly) want to eat more veggies. They just don’t know it yet. 🙂 Thanks for the great giveaway!
I’ve wanted one of these mixers for approximately onehundred billion years. I cannot justify buying one… PLEASE make rafflecopter choose me! 🙂
I’ve received plenty of free stuff via my work, but never anything even half that nice! I’m in the wrong business…
That said, I’d throw lots of nut butter at it and see what it can do. For that matter, I’d make my own nut butter. Yeah.
Sounds like I need to dump my blender too!
I thought it was just me. My blender is basically a movie prop. It looks lovely on the counter and accomplishes nothing. But I’m a sap and it was a wedding gift, so I keep it. And curse it periodically when I attempt a smoothie. I’d love a vitamix! Plus, this coming Monday is my birthday and I’ll be turning 41. So, since I am “on the downward slide” as my dad eloquently and sympathetically told me on the phone yesterday, I feel I deserve a yummy concoction now and again. You know, calories I can suck down with a straw since chewing will soon be too difficult for me.
I want to blend my own hummus. No can do with current contraption.
would love to see what all the buzz is about!
Woo hoo! A Vitamix! I’ve been drooling over one for a while but can’t shell out that kinda cash. I’d mix up everything from fruits to veggies to…well, pretty much anything I can shove in there!
my favorite smoothie: coconut water, protein powder, cottage cheese, granola, raspberries, and blueberries. 🙂
I’m afraid my feeble hopes of finding a cheap Vitamix on ebay have been dashed. Best. Advertisement. Ever. Glad to know they’re all they’re cracked up to be. SOOOO hoping I win. I would blend EVERYTHING. Seriously. I would never chew again.
You are amazing, and how cool that Vitamix sent you a blender!! Even if you don’t pick me, I still think it’s cool you’re doing this. I have a regular blender, and mine does the same thing. It’s super lazy. However, it’s my third (or fourth, I can’t remember) blender in ten years. Why, you ask? Because for whatever reason I keep losing parts! I have no idea how.
Smoothies! With kale! I buy it, blend it up once with my crappy blender and pour it into ice cube trays, then throw the frozen kale cubes into smoothies later.
I am all about the smoothies… though soup is also good… and, um, well. Yeah. That’s probably all I use my blender for. I might find something else if I had a Vitamix, though 😉
Love your blog!
I have had the same blender experience- bought a “fancy” new one and it was just as good at not blending as the original one. I swear I can relate to almost every one of your posts.
Would love to whip up some smoothies that are actually smooth!
Ooh, pick me! Pick me!
I’m on the smoothie wagon. I like to use a kefir base to get all sorts of digestive benefits without swallowing another darn pill or doing gross things.
Thanks for sharing! And thanks for always making me smile!
Love your blog!
I have a crappy-ass blender (and no, no butt plug). Despite that, my little blending secret? Keep skins on/fruit fully intact. Some of the most nutritious parts of a fruit lies within the skin or core. It also does double duty by making your smoothie wicked thick. I can only imagine how beautifully a Vitamix would blend those up.
That aside, I absolutely adore your blog! Keep up the amazing work!!
Bry
My best friend, who is a mother of four, introduced me to this blog. I am now addicted and laugh until I cry over some of the posts. We send them back and forth to one another.
Would love to make some nuts milks, nut butters
What can I say, I’m on opurtunist. I want to make smoothies that don’t require a spatula to mix.
Baked and cooled sweet potato with yogurt, cinnamon, nutmeg, and milk. Holy freakin’ yum!
I got a crappy blender for my wedding. I’ve used it twice in 4 years. After a day like today in my new Vitamix blender I would make margaritas. A giant, giant batch of margaritas.
My blender is a jerk too. It won’t even blend mushy bananas. So pretty much I NEED this Vitamix.
I have a killer hummous recipe that my husband’s always on me to make, but my blender is awful. $15 from Target, go figure it sucks.
BTW, I would blend up some smoothies (& these margaritas people are raving about).
My 10 and 14 year olds have been driving me nuts begging for smoothies, but I have a cupboard-clutter non-blending blender too. Oh how I would love to pulverize every piece of produce in my house!
Love Love Love your blog, it always makes me feel right at home 😉
I’m currently salivating over that blender!
I make my own greek yogurt, and use the whey that I strain off for smoothies. My preschoolers don’t mind me throwing in a few handfulls of spinach as long as I use berries, too. I freeze browning bananas to toss in occasionally as well.
So many possibilities…
Pizza! I’ve always wanted to try that one. Or you know. Actually be able to make smoothies without losing my mind as I have the SAME problem you did. OR maybe I’d try those spinach ricotta gnocchi balls again…. they were soooooo good but such a pain in the baby bullet…..
super green smoothies!!!
My fav green smoothie:
Almond milk, kale, frozen banana, vanilla protein powder, cacao powder, a couple ice cubes. Mmmmmm!
My fav summer drink:
Almond milk, instant coffee, stevia and ice cubes
Hmmm, I think I’d do something with all the strawberries I have in my freezer. If you want to blend something healthy: try spinach. Your boys would love to drink something green!
I would sooo love one of these!! I could sneak all kinds of fresh and healthy goodness into one for my family!
This is a POPULAR post! I am excited to report that I burnt off 96 calories just scrolling to the bottom!!, LOL!
Seriously, the need is great and we could never get one on our own. Thanks for sharing the love and your awesome blog!
I blend protein smoothies to help with my gestational diabetes (and help me not pass out after I lift weights, for the same reason as above) and man, if I had a Vitamix I bet I would drink them a lot more, because they would actually be BLENDED.
All of that old fruit on the counter, plus a whole orange (skin and all) any old veggies like spinach and some yogurt. Yum!
I’d blend everything ever featured on Will it Blend?
Just kidding. That’s such a waste of money. I would make lots of peanut butter chocolate smoothies (It has a banana in it. It’s a smoothie.) and the occasional healthy thing.
I would love to make soups, smoothies, sauces and all sorts of baby food!!
Love your blog!! So glad you dumped that good for nothing blender!!
I’d make strawberries and bananas sound good…. With Ice, lots of ice.
I currently have the same ‘crappy’ blender you started the post with. Not worth the effort to pull it out, and then have to clean it!
My 2 year old loves strawberry smoothies and I can hide spinach in it without her even knowing. I’d probably make extra delicious milk shakes if I had a vitamix!
I’d blend nut butters, fruit for soup and milkshakes. yum
A good blender makes life SO much easier.
We use our “jab the spoon in and shake around” blender primarily for making baby food and for my husband’s workout shakes but right now I have a hankerin’ for a delicious oreo shake… or homemade frappuccino… or smoothies… or… 🙂
I would blend green drinks, but I have no recipes since I’ve never done it. So I would Google other people’s yummy green drink recipes, then steal those!
I’m ready for the commitment to a vitamix.
Hello people!! If you are going to have a vitamix, you need to do something challenging. I’d use it for home made larabar recipes. Cashews+dates+choc chips = nom nom nom.
Everyone else’s chance of winning: 1 in however-many-entries
My chance of winning? 1 in 1,000,000,000
It’s worth a shot, though, right?
My kids love green smoothies, pretty much half a blender of spinach and the rest frozen fruit, OJ, and a banana (we have milk allergies so sadly no yogurt like I used to use).
Vitamix blenders are awesome!
I would use it for Margaritas or lemon-aritas because we have a lemon tree. I could sneak in spinach in any smoothie for the kids! Add pineapple and you can’t even tell about the spinach.
Something with lots of ice- my current expensive kitchenaid blender seems to have trouble with that
Ugh, my blender and I have the same relationship as you and your old blender. And, I LOVE making smoothies. So, I deal with this crap every day at least once! Gah! Fingers crossed that I win!!!
I could totally use this to trick my super super picky eater into eating real food. For days now all I can get into her is chocolate milk :/
The tastiest smoothies I’ve seen the Vitamix people brew up at Costco, BJs, or Wegman’s all seem to have lime in them – the peel and all. It adds a certain something to the mix.
i have a serious case of vitamix lust.
it flares up every time i see the demo guy at whole foods. how does demo guy get my kid to eat cabbage and kale? it’s amazing.
I would love your crappy blender! Thank you for an awesome giveaway!
i have a serious case of vitamix lust!
I use my mini blender to do chocolate breakfast shakes with bananas and ice. But I could do wonderful things with a vitamix!
My family would be SOOOO thrilled to win the vitamix. My 2 year old is obsessed with smoothies…and I have a similar blender as your old one.
I would blend EVERYTHING! My absolute favorite though is a coffee, protien smothie with almond milk and honey…..yum.
I would blend up berries,greens, mango,avocado, sometimes my veg/protein shake,almond milk. My space bar seems to be broken. Trying to get kids to get more veg in them.
I love blenders! I make lots of blended soups with my blender, and I love a frozen fruit smoothie in the summer. I love mixing yogurt and strawberries!
I have an immersion blender that I use ALL the time for soups and smoothies. My smoothie cup isn’t quite tall enough for me, so I tend to over-fill it before blending—and that makes a terrible mess when I try to blend. So having a real blender with a lid would be enormously helpful! I’ve heard of Vitamix, but I’ve never tried one. I look forward to winning, even if it is a long shot! Love your blog, by the way. LOVE. IT.
Love your blog!
You should consider giving the vitamix blender to someone who has a tube-fed child. Our 4 year old tube fed daugter died in January, but I always coveted a viatmix blender when she was alive. You can look for more info about g-tube kiddos on facebook, there is a papge feeding tube awareness, and there are parents who don’t want to feed their kids crappy forumula their whole lives, and vitamix blenders are truly life savers for allowing a parent to blend healthy food and feed it via the tube. Most parents in that situation have so many medical bills, and health insurances usually don’t cover the vitamix, so it would be such a generous gift for a tube fed mama.
I have yet to find a blender that actually works like it says it will – I have heard so many good things about the Vitamix though.
I would love one of these. My 2yr old loves banana milk and very soon it will be time for me to start making baby food again (5mo old)!
You never fail to make me giggle! Thank you!
I’d love a vitamix!! How exciting is it to make soup, smoothies and more with a push of a lever? I’d definitely like to try to remake my favorite Hazelnut coffee ice blended from Coffee bean…
I would blend anything and everything!
My blending situation is as bad as yours was. I just hope the lid doesn’t pop of and leave me spattered with chunks of berries. Though that wouldn’t be the worst thing I have been covered in.
Wow, how did it work? I would love one because I am really wanting to try juicing. I do find that making smoothies with the immersion blender works better than a regular one (and it’s easier to clean). That being said putting veggies in does not work and thus, the Vitamix would be awesome. I hope I win.
Love your blog! I only WISH I could draw a blender as sexy as you can…
You are such a cool chic! What to blend??? My kid would get mango/banana/yogurt/flax smoothie. Me? A margarita!! And salsa, pasta sauce, I’ve heard you can make soup in these, so butternut squash soup… endless possibilities! 🙂
I love frozen fruit, kale, and greek yogurt in the morning!
I had a “magic bullet” once. Mine came without the magic.
My latest smoothie has been 3-5 leaves kale, handful spinach, one carrot, half of a red beet, 1/5 of a lemon, lots of frozen strawberries and pineapple. Add more fruit if more sweetness is desired. SO GOOD! The lemon gives it a good kick too.
I really hope I win this! Love your blog!
Oooooo…A vitamix. I’ve seen one in real life but haven’t gotten to use one before.
Hummus is always a hit. Or pesto… yum!
My blender is horrible! It was my husband’s before we got married so it’s more like a step-blender.. Either way it sucks!
I’d blend ANYTHING with a vitamix! My kids diapers, whatever! Just kidding, I’d probably just make smoothies.
You have 47,000 entries on the raffle – that’s some power! Very cool of you to donate the 2nd one. Cause you’re cool like that. Love the blog and the book! I just got a Magic Bullet for Mother’s Day but I would still love a Vitamix, cause our regular blender sucks too.
I am currently making do with a Kitchen Aid blender. Sadly, though I paid a decent penny for it, it too spins free in a whirring air pocket if I don’t thaw my frozen fruit first. Booooo.
It does the job if I tap the air bubble out every three seconds – this is annoying. But… if I’m not chosen by your contest bot, I guess I will survive. If it’s not me, though, I am so hoping it’s the lady who lost her Vitamix to an idiot move by her husband cleaning out what he thought was the old blender. She definitely deserves a second chance. 🙂
Vitamix. (drool, drool)
My favorite add-ins (to almost any fruit combo) are agave, bee pollen & coconut milk… YUM.
DUDE, I will PAY for the shipping to Canada. Please, please, please accept my entry??!
I think you should make one of those hidden veggie smoothies with strawberries, bananas, and kale or spinach. I make those for my 2 year old and she drinks it right up because she doesn’t know yet that bananas and strawberries aren’t green!!! 🙂
Thank you!!!
Smoothies and milk shakes!
Strawberry and mango. Those frozen mango slices are perfect for this!
Anything with kale!
I’m not sure I can go the beet route, but my daughter has decided to forgo vegetables and I’m looking for new ways to sneak them in food. Anything that tastes like fruit will get past her.
Sorbets!! Make sorbets! Who knew a blender could make a sorbet, but a vitamix can do anything. It’s magical.
Thanks for raffling the second blender! I was thinking a fruit smoothie with pineapple, strawberries and yogurt, but then I saw someone else mention salsa. That sounds like fun!
I use frozen strawberries (7 or 8) a banana (or two if you like), and ice cream scoop of vanilla ice cream, an ice cream scoop of greek yogurt and enough milk to make it blend with my crappy blender. If I had a Vitamix I’d probably just make it as is. Another I make is with equal parts frozen strawberries and cherries, add a little vanilla, equal scoops ice cream and yogurt, a little milk and sometimes some chia seeds that I’ve soaked in pommegranite juice.
I would blend everything, lol. My bubbs loves smoothies too.
Wow, so many people commented! My blender just crapped out on me today :/ I am a smoothie JUNKIE haha. I’d make smoothies, milkshakes, soups (for the first time) and whatever else can be done with a Vitamix. I’ve been wanting one of those for a long time and would just be so grateful to win one 🙂
I feel the need to tell you that only for your blog (and a vitamix) would I use up 5 minutes of my time scrolling to the bottom of the comments . 🙂 What was the question?….hmmm…I love making smoothies. I used to make them all the time for my son when he was teething or simply not wanting to eat anything. Throw fruits and veggies together and you have protein and vitamin packed meal. He still gets excited over smoothies. It’s a great way to use fruit on its way out too. Don’t forget to add pureed carrot or a handful of spinach too.
My 16 month old son loves a blueberry banana and Khale smooth with yogurt and a splash of yogurt. He also loves a raseberry apple and peach smooth.
Oh I lust after these!
I stalk your blog regularly and dear lord, could I identify with this post! I would love to toss my own jerk of a blender and if I won, I would blend the ish out of some ice cream and cake and chocolate because really, I had veggies for dinner and mama needs a milkshake. Maybe with some vodka.
Awesome giveaway!
Love my kale, banana, almond milk, and whatever else I decide for the day smoothies….so may combos to choose from…..
I want a luxury blender too!! 🙂
Hahaha, I was just coaxing my blender with the wooden spoon yesterday. It’s a matter of time before I cave and get one of these…
I would blend ALL the things!!!
I would SO love to win. My blender is almost 12 years old and it is very tired. Mine wasn’t a lazy jerk though-he’s earned his retirement.
I am also big smoothie fan. Lots of recipes already posted. I guess all I can add for ideas is to experiment with almond and coconut milk. They definitely add more flavor.
I would blend So. Much. Baby Food. I have twins and I make all my own baby food. Sometimes I feel like it’s all I ever do in my “free” time! I have the baby bullet blender and it… sucks. I was so glad to read this post to know it’s not just me! Seriously, what kind of a blender can’t blend a ripe avocado?? Ugh.
If I owned a hot tub company, I would totally send you a hot tub. But remember that story about the last time you were in a hot tub and were being checked out by that spider? ::shivers:: I don’t remember much these days, but I do remember your spider stories.
I’d make my vanilla bean smoothies with frozen bananas… while jumping for joy!
I just ordered a cheap blender today but I wouldn’t mind sending it right back!
Blenders are jerks. I stopped making them too because of that!
I would blend some fruit + coconut milk, and then freeze it into popsicles. Like those Smoozes at whole foods, but cheaper. Well, except for the $600 blender.
I’d make salsa!!! And Ice cream…. But not at the same time.
REAL peanut butter!!! YUM! and then some almond butter and then some Homemade Nutella and then a smoothie with an umbrella! 🙂
We love making banana, peach, mango and kale smoothies!
I would make soups in the cold months with steamed veggies and sauteed onions, and smoothies for my 5 year old using anything sweet that grew that way naturally, then I might try sneaking in green veggies, and I would make awesome dips using leftovers veges or beans plus nutbutters or cheese, or maybe even pates with leftover cooked meat plus herbs and olive oil,and I’d definitely use coconut milk in the soups and smoothies, and of course fake ice-cream (that is, non-dairy) with frozen bananas plus rice or coconut milk ( it’s super yum but easier on our immune system) etc etc,,,i’d make awesome use of it for sure
WOO!!! I’m so excited for you for the new blender! I hope I win the second one! 😉
I love to make my kids smoothies (especially the ones with veggies in them and tofu that they have no idea are so good for them) but like you I have gone through about 6 blenders. Hated them all. I need a new one and this would be great!
REAL peanut butter!
oops! My first comment did go thru! Please disregard this one… 🙂
I would blend up anything with ice. This would be a dream come true because it is -so- beyond the ability of my current blender. AND I would add one of those paper umbrellas just for you. : )
Soup! I love blended soups!
My comment got attached to the wrong post by accident, but my favorite smoothie is milk, yougurt, avocado, mixed frozen berries, frozen peas, and spinach.
Fruit, fruit and more fruit! Strawberries, raspberries, bananas. 🙂
I would use it to make my grandma’s salsa, and then I would make peanut butter and fruit smoothies for my girlies. My husband would then use it to make tomato soup, and leave it on the counter for me to wash.
I would definitely love gazpacho for myself, but the kids would throw tantrums if they didn’t get to make smoothies — all kinds, but especially with berries. I’d have to sneak in the kale when they weren’t looking!
Love your posts! I need a Vitamix because my blender died a horrible death when I was making my last smoothie. Thanks for all the great blog posts!
luv ur posts! its like how u write about real life stuff everyone can relate to but not everyone is willing to talk about, so its like theres a crappy papa and crappy babies in all our families 🙂
we would be making smoothies everyday, my favorite are ones with spinach because my boys never eat enough veggies. with a vitamix I could hide so many more veggies in there!
Love your blog! My favorite go to breakfast smoothie is:
-plain yogurt
-handful frozen strawberries, pineapple, mango, blueberries
-1 tablespoon wheat germ
-orange juice (enough to cover all frozen fruit)
I would make breastmilk smoothies for my 10 month old! Banana, strawberry, blueberry, a little kale and carrot, and of course, breastmilk. He loves them! But I end up having to use all of the above tricks to get the damn “new and improved” blender to actually blend. My favorite is the ever popular “hit it until it works” method.
This would be amazing. We have smoothies every day almost, to use my kefir and my cuisinart is pretty good for that since it blends int eh cup. But I could puree veggies to sneak into food if I had a really good blender…. I would add fresh ginger along with fruit if I had a vitamix, since it would be able to handle it….it tastes amazing.
I’ve been wanting a Vitamix for 3 years, mostly so I can mix up veggies and disguise it as a fun smoothie for the kids, and because my son loves the color green and it would be really easy to convince him to eat the green smoothies. 🙂
My hubby would surely use it to make his protein shakes (chocolate protein powder, milk, banana, and peanut butter).
I would use it to make ice cream shakes!!!!!!!!!!! Chocolate ice cream, milk, and peanut butter!
And maybe something for my kiddo also…he likes the orange juice/blueberry/strawberry smoothies that my mom makes him.
I’ve been making chia shakes: 2 tbsp chia seeds, 1 cup frozen fruit, 1 cup greek yogurt (I usually use a flavored kind, yummier that way), 1 cup water. Blend.
Or, stare at your blender and wish it would blend and then drink down a chuncky chia shake. 🙂
Baby food, I’ve found it’s much better to just pulverize parts of our dinner instead of buying jars of food that my kids have refused to eat. Aside from that, I do make smoothies, soups, and do like to use my current blender as a food processor stand in. Cabbage is hard, you kinda have to poke it along with a spoon to get the job done.
well, I don’t think I’m this lucky, but I too need a free Vitamix and sadly Ladies Home Journal hasn’t come calling so I’ll throw myself into the mix (so to speak). My blender sucks so hard, mainly because it tricked me into thinking it was awesome and when I used it now & then it was like, “Yeah baby, we cool”. Then I asked it to commit to a daily smoothie and suddenly it was like, “Uhhhh I think my engine’s breaking…whew…I’m outta here” and not unlike many men in this world the very suggestion of day in day out work on the relationship made smoke come out of its ears. Le sigh. I need you, Vitamix.
I would give you blending ideas, but with over 3,000 comments I doubt I could come up with something that hasn’t been said before. 🙂
I have been making green smoothies in my food processor for the past month (since my blender couldn’t handle almonds?!). Would looooove to win a Vitamix! Love your blog and your posts. I live many of the same situations every day <3
i would blend up almonds to make flour and i would also make my own coconut milk!
Vitamix, yay! Green smoothies!
hide veggies in smoothies!
Ok, there’s no way I can read through all of these comments to see what has been said previously. Obviously, I would blend muchos smoothies. It’s one thing that my toddler LOVES – he will actually haul the blender over to me and demand one.
Other things I’d do with a super awesome blender – nut butters… I have heard the Vitamix can do this. And flour. How about grits? It’s like having a mill. I once mixed up some dry shampoo with my little blender… google it and try it!
I make soups, smoothies, and spinach pesto.
We have a whole recipe book dedicated to the blender that we can’t use because our blender is also a lazy Jerk. Would love to win so we can make hummus, peanut butter, dips, sauces, soups, and of course, smoothies!
What would I blend? What wouldn’t I blend? I could make milkshakes and smoothies and baby food and blend veggies to sneak into my toddler’s meals and … Oh, who am I kidding? Mama needs a daquari!!
I love smoothies, all sweet for me though so no veggies. I’d live to win!
I would do a sald smoothie (the guy made one for me at Costco at their little demo table) and it had spinach, beets, apples, bananas and carrots and celery and it was the most amazing salad I have ever had!
I would really like to try to make a soup in 5 min and ice cream for dessert 🙂 Thank you for sharing your good fortune 🙂
I would blend fruit and veggie smoothies. Our current smoothie maker has very little life left and the fresh veggies from the garden (spinach and kale) are ready to be picked!
I was just cursing out my blender this morning as it almost chopped up my spatula as I was trying to help it along. Just started an online child nutrition course and started making smoothies for my girls…mmmm kale. 😉 Thought to myself how I really wished I had a blender that would actually do what it was intended to do without having to shake it like a martini shaker.
Dude, I have wanted a Vitamix for years. Even my grandpa has one. He makes the best smoothies.
We make our smoothies with whatever fruit is around, vanilla greek yogurt and then we sneak in kale and spinach.
Ha, I got a smoothie blender which did exactly like your previous blender — AND it was a B— to clean. Loved making the strawberry/banana smoothies when I worked at TCBY in college – had it for dinner each night I worked there. As soon as I’m done nursing, plan on living off the GNC smoothies that are soy-based.
Your sexy blender cracked me up! I didn’t even know there was such a thing as a $600 blender!
I would blend smoothies and milkshakes. My husband would want to make almond butter-his new obsession 🙂
I read your blog every day (well…every entry), and I often send it to my mom friends and family members, who we all know need it! 🙂 I have dreamt of owning a vitamix for years, but alas, I am eyeballs-deep in student loans, so unless I receive one by winning, it will remain but a dream!
Hahahahahah, ahhhh. Yes! A new blender every year, that doesn’t work. Except the immersion one, that was pretty good for a while. We just got a Ninja, which is okay, but not as super fabulous as we expected. Vitamix rules 🙂
I blend every morning! Flax, protein powder, kefir, frozen strawberries and frozen banana. Sometimes I swap out the berries for powdered peanut butter (you MUST try it) delish!
soups, smoothies, juice, oh my! I would blend up anything I could in a vitamix!
I love the blog and would love a Vitamix!!
I am sure someone thru this out there already; as there are over 3k comments; but good way to get your kids and yourself and hubby to get your Iron and green veggies in is Kale. I get a bunch, wash it, cut it up, ziploc bag it and freeze it. You can smush it good and small. Mix in banana and other frozen sweeter fruit and never taste the kale. Tell the boys it’s the Incredible Hulk smoothie! They will love as will you. I also mix in some Flax oil in mine to get some Omega 3’s but truly it’s yummy.
P.S. Love your blog and your book. I bought myself one and my newly pregnant sis in law. She might as well get the highlights humorously illustrated now lmao 🙂
Dawn aka mom of 24 yr old Mass Art student
I would love to share with you! I’ve had jerk blenders too.
i love this blog. as a new mom, it makes me laugh, and makes the nights of feeding go a little faster when I read the archives 🙂
I make smoothies every day – not even sure if I could handle the awesomeness of a Vitamix! Love, love this blog.
-Fellow mom of 2 boys
This is awesome! I have been wanting to buy a VitaMix for so long and keep hesitating but this makes me want to buy one from them even more!!
Enjoy it. Add kale to your smoothies!
My favorite smoothie is frozen berries (strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries-any and/or all) with honey greek yogurt and a banana. The frozen berries make it like a shake!
Frozen mixed berries, vanilla protein powder, cranberry-raspberry juice, yougurt, flaxseed, spinach and ice.
Oh how i have lusted over the Vitamix! I eyeball it every time I go to the PX, wishing we had the disposable income to bring that beauty home and place it in a spot of honor on my kitchen counter!! You lucky gal! How kind of you to offer the extra one up for a raffle!!
I’m no non sense. I would blend milkshakes and margaritas. Separately. Well, unless they are good together. LOL.
Thanks for doing this giveaway!! Best giveaway I’ve ever seen.
We love smoothies but are almost constantly battling our crappy blender. A favorite here is frozen strawberries, frozen blueberries, banana and spinach (snuck in so that my daughter eats more than applesauce in the day)!
Apple, lemon juice, ginger, and carrot. Yummy juice but would make a great appley smoothie I think.
They do a yummy ice cream with avocado, almond milk, pistachios and I don’t know what else at the demos!
Ive wanted a vitamix ever since the guy aat costco demonstrating it made me soyicecream with it
You are totally worth two vitamix blenders. But thanks for sharing!
I recently got a Ninja blender and let me tell you, it is NOT what they say. It is not quiet and it can’t turn ice into “snow” in 10 seconds. However, while it IS better than any blender I’ve ever owned, I would ditch it in a moment for a Vitamix!
PS. I usually just do strawberry smoothies with almond milk, stevia, a dash of vanilla and whey protein powder. Sometimes I throw in a small spoonful of cocoa. Yum!
When I was going to college, they had this awesome little cafe that made smoothies, and my fav was the Laguna Peach – which was made of peaches, strawberries and a little cream! Just writing this is making me crave one! Yum!
Wow, you are so awesome for sharing. But we already knew that. 😉
I like to make “avacoladas.” The idea and name are not mine, but I love these avocado, pineapple, coconut oil and coconut water smoothies. Mine come out a little less than smooth… but I’m sure they wouldn’t if I used the Vitamix!
I think I would cook EVERYTHING in the Vitamix! Soup, ice cream, smoothies, salsa…
I like to put kale in all of my smoothies. I am going to try beets soon….
I would blend up a whole bunch of kale, then fool my taste buds by throwing in some mango. And ice cream.
None of my blenders have ever worked either…
Oh Margaritas, Smoothies, can you imagine all I can make with that blender, I really want it!!!
I would looooooove a Vitamix! And I wouldn’t even sell it on eBay.
I would LOVE a Vitamix! I get all lusty when I see them at stores.
Oh how I want a Vitamix.
Blenders are totally sexy! 🙂
I would blend vanilla ice cream and red cream soda…I’m sick of making them with a fork because my blender sucks too 🙁
I would blend my old blender.
That would show it.
Too funny. I’d love a blender to also enjoy your puree bliss! 🙂
I love my vitamix. I make smoothies every day out of soy milk, silken tofu, a combo of fruits, and carrots and spinach. But where this baby really shines is in soups and sauces. Cashew cream as smooth as dairy cream. Sunchoke soup so smooth I could use it as a mirror. Sweet potato peanut soup is amazing. Seriously, just blend everything.
I’d blend my favorite morning smoothie… Banana, frozen blueberries, frozen peaches, lots of spinach and protein powder. I could drink that 3 times a day.
Also, I have been dying for a Vitamix since it’s strong enough to turn whole veggies into juice. Right now I am not getting as many veggies in juice or smoothies as I would like simply because I am working with an immersion blender.
I want to use it to make baby food purees easily!
I love making smoothies but the frozen fruit makes my current blender sad. So, I would totally use it for making delicious smoothies.
Maybe I’d make smoothies? Maybe Ted would drink them? He’s a very strange 4 yr old. Hates Mac and cheese, pizza, hamburgers (except the school’s magical food) and likes his broccoli steamed with nothing on it, thankyouverymuch.
Holy crow, I’ve wanted a Vitamix for soooo long! Back in the early ’70s, before the intertubes, before DVDs, before household VCRs even, they used to show us short films (actual films, on reels, using projectors!) in our classrooms during recess on rainy days. One of the ones they showed the older kids (grades 5 and 6) was about a house of the future and how it did so much of the work for you, very cool I’m sure, but there was one device that was so amazing that it was the only thing I remember from that film aside from the premise: the Vitamix. Push a button on the kitchen counter, and the Vitamix rises for use; pop in your veggies and turn it on, and it makes your soup for you!
It was so incredible that for years – decades, actually – I thought I’d imagined it, and then I ran across a Vitamix demonstration at a home show – I stood there through 3 demos, and haven’t stopped campaigning for one yet!
I want to win this so badly, I’m going to go sign up on twitter now…
Aaaand I forgot to say what I would -do- with a magical future machine!
If I had a Vitamix I would make hummus, really lemony the way I like it, then I’d make my daughter give it back to me so I could make some not-too-spicy tortilla soup, then I’d make her give it back to me again so that I could make chocolate-amaretto milkshakes. Then I’d let her have it long enough to make a smoothie, but I’d need it soon because you can’t have only 1 chocolate-amaretto milkshake, now can you?!
P.S. if you’ve never tried a chocolate-amaretto milkshake, you really ought to! Don’t use any milk, and you don’t need very much amaretto because it sort-of melts the ice cream. And you certainly don’t need a Vitamix to enjoy one, but just imagine the amazing texture… I’d throw in some chocolate-covered almonds, too, if I did have a Vitamix 😀
Smoothies! Bread and baked goods, since I think there’s a special attachment for that. And other homemade goodies! Like powdered sugar! And flours!
My go-to favorite for the family is plain greek yogurt, frozen too-ripe banana, couple handfuls of baby kale or spinach, some frozen berries, flax seed, probiotics, and whatever else I have around. love them!
I’m pretty sure my jerk blender is somehow related to your old jerk blender. Right down to shaking it and poking spoons in it and it not working like the jerk it is. I may cry sparkly glitter filled tears of pure, unadulterated joy if I win a not jerk blender.
Also, I would totally blend up a cantaloupe, strawberry, banana and peach smoothie. Because I like that mixture of fruit more than could ever possibly be natural.
This… This is so perfect. I know the pain of a lazy blender.
I would LOVE one of these blenders! My brother just got one and says it is amazing! I have a 4 month old and would like to start eating healthier and this would so help me! I will be a stay at home mommy in 1 month so I need something to help me not snack when i’m home all day!
Now I really want an orange julius… I love that you said the plunger looks like a butt plug 🙂
I would LOVE to win the blender, ours is just terrible! I would make smoothies and baby food…
Hi Amber!
My teen daughter and I are really enjoying your crappy book!
I have suffered with lazy blenders for years. The last time I killed mine I swore I would find a better one and then I forgot what brand it was and bought the same kind…just in a different color..sigh. Would dearly love to win a new one, but as I’m not on twitter, I’ll just hope I get really lucky 🙂
And by the way, I LOVE your drawing of the vitamix blender; soooo funny!
Icecream and candy… home made blizzards with your uber powerful blender.
I would blend banana “ice cream” for my son. With vegan chocolate chips. Or strawberries. Or both. And a “healthy” smoothie for myself. Heck, I’d actually look into blender recipes, if I had a blender that worked.
OOO. I make smoothies all the time and totally just killed my blender’s motor…(It’s lasted for almost 6 years and 3 babies of baby food puree worth…) and if I got the Vitamix I would probably blend up many more smoothies and more baby food. And I would also make some carrot sorbet that they were demoing at Costco last week; because that was really good. And my three year old liked vegetable ice cream.
put lots and lots of kale and spinach with a banana, carrots and other yummy fruits. MMMmmmmm!
I would make my kids smoothies until the cows came home. Or until I had blended every last piece of fruit in my refrigerator. Which ever comes first. Thanks!
I sooooo need a new blender. My husband makes protein smoothies almost everyday and ours is almost done for!
1. When I heard blender… I was hoping to see a picture of you in your purple dress with blender splatter all over you. 😉 I think that’d be pretty funny. 😉
2. Make Orange Julius. Your kids will LOVE IT and… well… no one else can make orange julius like a mama can.
Congrats on your 2 blenders!
I want a Vitamix!!!! To make the most boring strawberry banana smoothies, because those are basically the only fruits my kids eat. And if they don’t eat them, i could always blend up the kids. (Kidding, kidding…)
I would love to win and would love to make some smoothies!
Oh, to have a Vitamix…
chocolate protein powder, peanut butter, banana, splash of some sort of milk… Nom!
I love your blog!
and btw, I’m dreading the day my son will start a booger mural… lol
I would blend the shit out of everything in my house!
Also, if your vitamix ever goes bad on you, an immersion blender is still much better than a regular one!
Oh a vitamix!!! I drool over the display at costco all the time. Kitchen equipment can be sooo sexy
Hmmmm raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, some orange juice.
Frozen bananas a constant must. Then add any abundance of leafy greens, dates, frozen berries and/or mango, avocado, milk or other substitues. Delish. Add hemp seeds or oatmeal into the mix as well.
If I had this blender, I could blend absolutely everything I eat! I’d never have to chew again!
, not much here. My ideas consist of smoothies and sales.sorry
I would totally blend a run-of-the-mill-but-now-it’s-awesome-because-I-made-it-at-home-in-a-VITAMIX raspberry peach smoothie. YUM!
What makes really good protein shakes is chocolate protein powder, milk, yogurt and frozen cherries. Mmmmmmmm!!
Love your blog, bought your book too! Does that give me bonus points? LOL I’d blend every fruit I could get my hands on, with ice, and maybe something with some kick. *Wink wink.
I would make purple monsters, which are green smoothies with berries. I’d also make milkshakes. Then I would come up with something loud to blend to drown out the noise of my 3 little boys, and I’d take it in the bathroom and lock the door…..instant 3 minute vacation!
So want to read all the responses but might not get to them all. Will scan for recipes I can use when or if I ever get lucky.
I want to be a “Vitamix Master”. I need to get back on Weight Watchers, and having a brandy new super sonic blender would make some bodaciously good smoothies. Please, please help me eat my fruit and veggies… heehee. I love your blog so much, wish it would have been available when I was raising my kiddos, I might not have wondered if I was the “only one” who did this or that… Thanks for the blog and the contest.
I live in Canada, but have several U.S. addresses I could have this sent to. Can I enter? What if one of them is a P.O. Box? Will you send to that?
I have a blender my dad and brother gave me for my 21st birthday! That was in 1981 . . . I so need a new one.
Pick me.
I’ve been dying for one of these!
I forgot to say what I use a blender for. I roast vegetables to make my own pasta sauce and pizza sauce. The motor on my old blender makes an awful burny kind of smell . . . not appetizing at all.
Almonds. (Almond butter.) (Also almond milk (more work).)
thanks for sharing the vitamix love! I wish I had one. I settled for a Ninja one, and it’s alright, but it’s just not perfect. Fingers crossed that somehow, out of 50,000+ entries, my number gets picked!
Cherries and Cranberries, a winning blend. Love this site, hope it lasts until crappy baby goes to his prom.
I don’t really blend, because like you used to, I have a crappy blender that can’t even make a good smoothie without eating one of my plastic spoons used in an effort to make it work again. I hate my blender and would LOVE LOVE LOVE a new one.
I’d blend any and everything, just because I could. Since it’s starting to get hot though, my first would be a mango pineapple orange slushie. Then, I’d use that to make Popsicles.
fingers crossed!
I have a decent blender. But I still want a Vitamix!
First of all — I love your blog. I usually skulk in the shadows, usually lacking enough brain cells to bandaid sentences together in the comments section, but your posts have never ceased to make me giggle and have kept me company through a lot of sleepless Mom-hood nights.
Secondly, My blender totally sucks. It probably would have been your old blender’s BFF. Still, I plow ahead and I make smoothies on my lame blender for my eighteen-month old and my pregnant belly (baby needs a lot of smoothies). I don’t think I have any earth shattering recipes for you, sadly, but I like to get crazy with a little yogurt, milk, banana, strawberry, orange, pineapple, coconut and then I sneak in a little spinach and carrot action (sometimes even some peas if I’m feeling daring) to make me feel like a better Mom. :o)
Thanks for doing the giveaway!
I would make nut butter and coconut butter with a vitamix. And super thick smoothies and frozen banana ice cream.
I made some vegan cheese a while back and blending the raw cashews involved was a fracking nightmare. The whole time I was cursing my crappy blender and wishing I had a Vitamix. I would blend the shit out of some cashews. Also, I would make the smooooothest hummus ever.
I love spinach and berries!
I am from Canada, but I will totally split the shipping! IT would still be cheaper than buying the Porsche of blenders! I have dreamed of owning a Vitamix since I was 12 and tried their “nacho soup” at a trade show. How exciting they gave you not one but two!
I have never had a vitamix, but my hubby suggested peanuts, chocolate and milk sounds amazing! 🙂 I would LOVE it if we won! 🙂
We destroyed the motor of our blender about a year ago and the sucker is barely hanging on. Have to unplug the darn thing to reset it, manually stir, then listen to its loud annoying motor while it sounds like I blend rocks. Fun!! Since then, I have been really wanting a Vitamix!! You are so awesome to give one away!
I make 2 kinds of smoothies. Green drinks for moi. The kids won’t touch it, but I swear they are yummy. I mix various greens, like spinach, kale, zucchini, green beans, parsley and garlic. I actually drink this warm so its like a soup!
For the whole family I do fruit smoothies with whatever fruit is stashed in the freezer (usually a berry blend) and add some yogurt and whatever liquid we have on hand – OJ, milk, or coconut water. Any time we cut melons we save the rhine that nobody enjoys eating and freeze them for added vitamins in our smoothies. No sense wasting when the heart of the vitamins are in the rhine! We also freeze fruit when it looks over ripened. We have SO much fruit in our freezer!!
Yes! love your posts. I would love to have a blender that actually works!!
Comment button needs to be at the top, it took me 10 mins to just scroll to the bottom of this page, some people really like vitamix!!
I would blend spinach, lime, raspberry and tequila. Perfectly balanced meal for a crappy mom. (not insulting you just referring to my parenting skills ;))
I will blend all the things.
I’d blend up everything in my fridge! Into a frozen treat! (Oh yes, I watched the Vitamix demo at Costco!)
Mmmm, pina coladas, icy margaritas & I guess some real smoothies for the wee one. Maybe with peas mixed in to trick her into eating green things.
Love your blog! Would really love frozen blueberry smoothies in the morning! ThAnks for the laughs.
Although it is most awesome to share what if they gave you two just to make sure you could blend to your hearts content? Or maybe it was one for each “crappy” child? But if you feel that you must give it away I won’t hesitate to accept. I’m dealing with a lazy blender as well. I would love to make salsa just once without loosing a spatula.
wooohoooo awesome!
I would try adding raw carrots to everything if I had a vitamix!
I would start juicing!
I love reading you blogs. And I was super excited when I saw your book in Barnes & Nobles last time I was in. If is wasn’t for the pesky fire, it would be on my shelf. Next time I’m in, that baby is mine.
Two things: (1) You MUST watch the “does it blend” videos! But don’t actually try any of that with your beautiful blender. (2) I hear it makes soup – like cooks it and everything. WANT!!!! An end to splattering ouchy hot soup all over myself with my stick mixer, yes please!
I wish I could give you an amazing recipe that’d knock your socks off, but unfortunately I’ve suffered the same dilema you have. I have had my heart broken by all my ex-blenders and wish I could have one that could make a proper milkshake or smoothie, or even blend my butternut squash soup properly.
The first thing I’d do if I had a Vitamix is throw some Bailey’s Irish Cream, Kahlua, and chocolate ice cream in it. Oh, and buy some tiny umbrellas. 🙂
Also, I don’t know if you want inspiration for smoothies from me, my ideas start out healthy sounding, like strawberries and bananas, but end up with nutella or marshmellow.
One of my favorite smoothies is made with 1 small container Greek Yogurt (Vanilla is good, or a fruity one), a small nanner, a few strawberries, and a dollop of nutella, with a few ice cubes of course. Blend until everything is nice and unified.
You are one lucky duck, Amber!! I’ve been wanting a vitamix for AGES!! I recently heard about making you’re own coconut butter so I’ve been wanting to try that out.
I could definitely use more kitchen gadgets.
Oh em geeee! One of your funniest non-kid posts ever. Your blender personification was killer! You forgot to mention the part where the lid inadvertently comes off and rainbow liquids spew forth upon the ceiling, cabinets, and clothing. I’d pay big money for a sexy blender, and I’d blend my own Crappy Hubby just to get it. LOL!
Forget blender! I’m trying to make smoothies with a second hand Magic Bullet. My amazing kale, banana, pineapple, ginger smoothies overheat the motor every morning. I would give a VitaMix so much good good loving.
New favorite smoothie combines bananas, almond milk, peanut butter, ice, and (this is the genius part) espresso powder. A caffeinated breakfast smoothie- mornings are much happier for Momma. Oh, but don’t let the kids get their paws on them. Remember what happened when you fed a Mogwai after midnight? Yeah, it’s like that.
I’d blend Margaritas! But also yummy breakfast smoothie with almond milk (unsweetened), peanut butter, banana and protein powder. Maybe a squeeze of honey for sweetness.
I would first make a green smoothie
I hope you get your hot tub. I hope you get two of them!!
Frozen yogurt, berry, banana and orange juice smoothies.
Although I have a pretty good blender right now, I do have to occasionally shake it or stir it to get it moving. Lame. I am jealous of your studly blender.
I would make smoothies out of anything and everything, make nut butters, hot soup in 6 minutes, juices, ice cream, grind coffee, and then wash it by turning it on high with a drop of dish soap. My 3 year old son would finally be able to say that he has a Vitamix instead of making it up and saying he has 4 and he would finally be able to stop pointing to other blenders/objects saying, “Mom, a Vitamix! I’ll buy it for you.”
My go-to smoothie recipe is: frozen strawberries, frozen blueberries, greek yogurt, orange/grape juice, frozen chopped spinach, and honey/splenda.
I don’t have a blender… so I’d love to start making smoothies!
Fresh basil to make pesto!!!! My current blender doesn’t like greens…
I’m really digging the idea of using a blender to make super-smooth soups/bisques – I’ve just never had one powerful enough to make it happen!
Green Monster smoothies! Yum!
nut butter. I would love to make some nut butter
oh, this would be a great win! i also have one of those *lazy* blenders.
I always laugh out loud while reading your blog and my hubby asks, ‘Crappy Parenting?’
Congratulations to a lucky winner! I never win anything, so I will just envy whoever wins the blender. 😉
Does and FPO address count? It’s still a US address but you have to fill out a customs form. Anyway, I would blend up cherries, probably with ice cream. We’re stationed in Italy (not as glamorous as it sounds) and it’s cherry season here. They. Are. Amazing.
I’d blend this amazing recipe I have for coconut custard…it forms it’s own crust while baking in the oven. 🙂
I need one of these. My blender is older than my marriage, and we’ve been together since 1973!
I had a blender that I LOVED. My husband “accidentally” broke it but bought me a new blender……that doesn’t blend! And I have to constantly babysit the silly thing but still can’t get it to work properly. I’ve been *this close* so many times to “accidentally” breaking the thing myself instead of waiting for it to give up the ghost on its own. Now maybe I won’t have to. :). And congrats on getting a new blender as a gift! I totally hope you also get a hot tub AND a vacay with little umbrella drinks.
My blender sucks too. I would love to upgrade.
My favorite smoothie is pineapple, baby spinach, a splash of any juice I have laying around, a little lime juice, and some fresh mint leaves!
I just found your blog this morning, and I love it!
I’d want to make some soup. And something with lots of veggies that my 3 year old would eat.
I have been lusting after one of these! I like to make fruit smoothies for the kid and tell him it’s a kind of ice cream. Only way I can get him to eat fruit.
Peanut butter, bananas, chocolate. Three best flavors ever. Oh and I guess something healthy for the little guy b
Fruit plus spinach, adds extra vitamins and you can’t taste it!
I don’t have a blender so I don’t have any recipes to share, but I’ve always wanted one…a sexy one only of course.
Vitamix love over here (maybe they will send me a free one for mentioning it in the comments)! 🙂
Gadz!! Took me 5 min to scroll down on my kindle, LOL
I would make milkshakes…and pina coladas…and fruit smoothies…and I’m sure I would think of a bazillion other things once I had it! Tee hee!
…and I LOVE your blot!
I love your blog! I bought your book! I laughed ’till I cried and then gave it to my daughter. She has given us a grandson who is three, and will soon (June 8th?) be giving us a grandaughter! I would love to win the fabulous blender because I would give it to her to make healthy smoothies for her little family. Hugs to you!
I would blend up some of those green smoothies so maybe the kids are only sick with colds every other month. 😉
This sounds amazing!!!
This is awesome! Very generous of you to do a giveaway instead of hoarding sexy blenders.
I love pb, banana, and chocolate smoothies. It totally counts as a protein.
i love mixing in green stuff into the smoothies so the kids don’t know they’re drinking spinach, cucumbers, zucchini, etc. just put a bunch of berries in it and it totally masks the flavors. also if you accidentally add too many things making the smoothie a nasty brown color, add some blackberries to make it purplish again.
I laughed out loud at the butt plug comment, I don’t think I’ll ever look at a blender the same again 😛
Sweet! A 600 blender, I can’t even. I would totally make strawberry/raspberry/blueberry-banana smoothies with it and my husband would make this wierdo super hot sauce (with 6 jalepenos) with it.
Since my husband and I recently got put on a super strict elimination diet, smoothies are a life saver! My dinky blender can’t hold up to the overuse. I’d love a Vitamix! I hear good things about it and would love to try it and see if it holds up to the hype, but can’t afford one.
When I was about 8, I was really into making banana smoothies with raw (!) egg and milk. I also really, really liked ants on a log (celery with peanut butter and raisins, but I think most people know that). One evening, I had a brilliant, misguided idea to combine the two: create an ants on a log smoothie. Result: yicky. I wonder if a Vitamix would make that crap taste better.
Hubby and I have been doing the green smoothing thing for about 6 months now and a Vitamix would sure make it a hell of a lot easier. We, too, have a PITA blender that refuses to work most of the time.
Blend up oreos to put in an oreo milkshake!!!!!!! Or can you make the milkshake in that fancy thing??? Or just stick to the smoothies, I like to use mango juice as the base. 🙂
My whole family has been a fan of Vita-Mix for forever. When I was 21, I made my family sit through their demo at the county fair–twice. When they tried to leave, I would grab them and say, “Shh, next comes the soup!” My kids and I still stop and watch the demos at Costco.
I would blend all the fresh fruits and veggies that I will be buying at the farmer’s market this summer. Don’t have any recipes,but I would betraying all sorts of combos!
Oh the possibilities! I’d be blending everything!!! My kids would be getting vegies blended and then hidden in EVERYTHING. I wonder what blended carrots in porridge is like…
Ooh, ooh, I want one! I want one!!!!
I would blend frozen banana slices with a little milk or yogurt to make “icecream”.
I myself have been through several bad blender breakups… this new Vitamix business would have to be seriously amazing to erase all the negativity I feel towards the machine in general! 🙂 But I would try to ease my way into it, starting with a virtuous morning smoothie that I’d sneak veggies into.
homemade tomato sauce and potato soup. mm mm mmm
I have a crappy blender that I’m always using for green smoothies. With a fancy-dandy Vitamix I could add more veggies that my current blender can’t handle, like celery!
Oreo Cookie Ice Cream Shake. Probably other things, too… but mostly, ice cream shakes.
I would make smoothies with veggies in them and actually be able to enjoy them because I wouldn’t have to choke down unblended chunks like I do now.
My boys love smoothies too so I would definitely make those but I would also like to try some things like soup and I’ve even heard of people making bread and stuff in it.
Love the blog and thought I’d leave a comment for an entry. I love your sense of humor and read all the time!
I want this! I’d love to use it to make shakes and smoothies! Yum! 🙂
Yum – smoothies, sauces, soups, salad dressings — those are good, but the one recipe that would make the most difference in my life: dog food. Yup. Well, first hear me out (then you can say yuck): My dog is 17 years old, and blind, and she tips over. She’s missing teeth, and can’t bend down very easily to reach her food, so I hand feed her. But she is precious. She saved my life in 2004, right before I had an all-day-long brain surgery. So she rocks. The least I can do is make her dog food that she can swallow. So I put organic kibble into a blender to make a powder, which I freeze to keep fresh. Then I blend the kibble powder with water and fresh meat to make a yummy-for-dogs meatloaf. She can eat it, which means she can keep living. Which means I can keep being with my best dog friend ever.
You made up some fun entry questions, but I wonder how many of us are not on Facebook or Twitter… is there an alternative set for us? Like canvassing our neighborhood, giving away home-made cookies with your website address on them to office workers, or mentioning you in a letter to the editor of a small-town paper?
Green leaves and then more green leaves. Any leaves! Lettuce, parsley, kale etc. And occasionally small pieces of Lego that I accidentally stepped on.
I too, have a worthless, fairly new blender. And I *love* shakes made with tropical frozen fruit, a banana and some butter lettuce – yum! 🙂
Love that you are giving away your extra. I would finally put more than a token amount of greens in the family breakfast smoothie. I do all sorts of blender contortions with my current mediocre blades, and still only manage a quarter cup without the kids noticing.
Aww, I entered before I read that it was US addresses only. 🙁 In the unlikely event that I won, I would be more than happy to pay the shipping for that sexy beast.
I’ve been reading your awesome blog forever, but I rarely comment.
I just have to say I’m in the same boat with the jerk blenders. We have at least 3 in our house, none of them are even competent enough to make a simple banana/yogurt smoothie. Sadness.
I would make almond butter! Big, hard almonds that would just blend right into butter, without conking out on me after 3 spins. I would make hummus. I would make smoothies. Gosh, the possibilities are endless!
My son loves smoothies too and gets impatient waiting.
Oh I was just planning on buying a Vitamix… If I don’t win your giveaway then I sure hope they have a model that’s less than $600! I’d be giving up a Coach purse or two at the non-outlet store for that price! Then again, a swanky handbag can’t help me be all healthy and stuff 🙂
Blend a whole beet, root and greens! Frozen or fresh raspberries and coconut milk (because I put coconut milk in everything). Bit of lime juice. Optional banana for more of a smoothie texture. Dollop of agave nectar if you’ve a hankering for the sweetness! Enjoy!
I would try blending spinach in with green apple, a can of coconut milk, and maybe some honey. Thanks for the giveaway!
I typically do fruit smoothies for the spawn.With a Vitamix the combos are endless. The husband and I could actually even do the juice fast we were thinking of doing.
I’ve been dreaming of a Vitamix blender for years… and now anytime I see one all I will see is a butt plug! LOL!
Is it just me, or do you think your Vitamix looks like Kevin Federline?
I would make nut butters, and almond milk, and smoothies galore!
I’d make green smoothies with lots of kale – my crappy blender won’t get the job done.
I’m a big fan of the Rustle Smoothie; open fridge, rustle around until you find any okayish looking produce; dump it in the blender, with enough ginger that you can’t taste the produce. Hey presto! Smoothie!
As long as the kids don’t mind a green smoothie, you can blend spinach or kale and sneak in vegetables that way.
I think blenders can definately be sexy. Here’s hoping you get TWO hottubs and love us enough to share those too. 😉
Butt plug…wow… Hahaha! We have a juicer that has a part that looks similar. Many jokes were made about that juicer while the hubs was deployed. Many jokes. 🙂
When I was a teen, I worked in a smoothie shop. In the 20 years since, I have refused to make smoothies at home. That could all change!
This is awesome! I have started a 30 day “Love Your Greens!” challenge hosted by Unconventional Kitchen. I have a poor little Oster blender that is getting its workout every day. A new blender would be awesome! I have never thought of a blender as being ‘sexy’. I want that experience!
Love you and your blog. I’d love to try to blend up some green concoctions.
I used a vegetable juicer for our fruit juices and it is very impresive. I make “moster juie” with all the greens and then sweeten it up with apples and my 2.5 yo drinks it up. I tell her its what Sulley drinks on monsters inc.
Does crappy boy know his name is “crappy” ?
I entered a 30 Day Love Your Greens Challenge at the beginning of May – a green smoothie a day for the month. I killed one blender already … think it was a relative of yours. I’m branching out and finding new greens – bok choy, swiss chard, etc. and blending that with different variations of fruit.
I wanna blender. . . Amber has one. . . it’s not fair. . . I never get anything!! (insert kid-like whine with comment)
I blend frozen strawberries, banana, chopped spinach, almond milk, pb2, and Slimfast every morning.
Yay! A vitamix! I would blend pretty much anything with mangoes. 🙂
I would make a ton of smoothies! My blender works fairly well, but the bottom part is cracked so it leaks. Makes me so mad every time! I would love a new blender, especially a top-of-the-line one! 🙂
MMMM…. a good blend is a banana, pb, and strawberry mix of real fruit and yogurt & real PB.
Ermegerrrrd….. I have always wanted a Vitamix!!!!
I’m doing a green smoothie challenge, and my blender hates me, too. That said, I really like soup and hate when there are chunks where there shouldn’t be. Go away, chunks! (I would blend the chunks into oblivion.)
I would just make a banana smoothie, but I like to hide an egg in it, which the kids don’t notice, to keep their protein up.
Ooooh Vitamix! I’ve loved them from afar for a long time now. I could make almond butter!
You just told my life story- I can only hope that mine ends with a VitaMix blender too!
My blender crapped out in the middle of making a smoothie this past week so I’m all too familiar with shaking and using a spoon to get it to work! I covet the Vitamix and am currently pricing slightly cheaper options incase I’m not the lucky winner. 🙂
I’d do a big fruit smoothie, with some spinach in there, too. Yum.
Love your blog!
I too have a jerk of a blender! The bottom just recently cracked so I’m blenderless at the moment. From what I’ve heard about Vitamix I could probably blend up a pair of shoes in it but I think I would refrain. Many many smoothies would be made in that little puppy!!
My mom has a vitamix and I love it. So wish I had one!!!
I have always been fascinated by blenders/ juicers that will actually work. But I rather thought they were a myth, or urban fantasy. Like unicorns, but with health benefits.
I adore Crappy Pictures, both your blog and book. Thank you for sharing your life!
Unicorns with health benefits. Hahaha!!
Sweet! We make baby food, drinks, shakes, and much more in our blender. Our sucky blender. We would LOVE a Vitamix!!!
Wow! What an awesome giveaway! Thanks so much for sharing your good fortune!
Holy crap! My husband is a smoothie junky, and our blender is seriously ready to die from exhaustion! We could SO use this.
My favorite blending is milk, banana, and chocolate syrup. I too have a lazy bender, been thinking if getting an immersion blender. Also, even though I don’t have kids, I love your blog! I can suffer, er, I mean, enjoy parenthood, vicariously through you. 🙂
My blender is a deadbeat too, and my 2 year old is none too patient :/
I can pretty much relate to most of your hilarious posts, but I am telling you on this one we are soul sisters! I can’t wait until I can break up with my useless blender! If I received a new sexy blender I would make smoothies. With sherbet instead of healthy yogurt, because that’s the way I roll! 🙂
I’d blend soups, dressings, ice pops for my kid, all kinds of things!
New to your blog. Loving it.
If I had a good blender, we would eat tons of hummus and smoothies and baby food sure would be easier. My blender sounds like your old one. I expect it to start coughing when I push the pulse button!
You are so awesome Amber. If I win the blender, I will blend up fruit and sneak veggies into the smoothie for me and my son (and I guess my husband as well ;-).
I switch between my blender and food processor. Each has its own strengths and weaknesses. But for smoothies I do use a crappy blender. It must have liquid in it or it will not blend! So annoying.
My family has a Vitamix and it is awesome! My favorite is berry-banana. My sister likes orange dreamsicle.
Good luck on your new Vitamix!!
This blender is amazing. So jealous! I would love one. And it is TOTALLY annoying when your crappy blender freezes up!
I’ve been trying to get more greens in so I would use it to make green smoothies regularly, but I wouldn’t stop there!! My favorite green smoothie so far is a blend of spinach, kale, banana, orange, pineapple, and coconut milk and ice.
Oh I would blend everything! But I have to be honest, the first thing I would make would be pina coladas with the ice crushed up perfectly. My crappy blender leaves them with giant chunks of ice to choke on.
Awesome for you!
I would make mountains of baby food and of course, peanut butter cup smoothies for my big kid.
Do margaritas count because that might be the first thing I’d do.
My crappy blender does the same thing! I have to stop it every 5 seconds because it gets a pocket of air under the not-yet-smooth fruits & veggies and smells like burning rubber. Totally safe to stick a spoon in there, I’m sure.
you mean I could make smooties? How exciting! Sign me up
I have one of those old crappy blenders and would love a new “sexy” model! Ha ha! Thanks for all the laughs!
I would LOVE a vitamix! My blender is a jerk too! I would make green smoothies for breakfast and make fruit smoothies for my three year old who lives on chicken nuggets and cheese sticks. 🙂
If I had a Vitamix, I could finally use those smoothie recipes that call for apples! I make smoothies every morning, and not once have I been able to blend up an apple. It’s very sad.
Love your blog!! I was in a hurry this morning and didn’t have any left over smoothie from yesterday so I had to hurry and make more because I cannot imagine not having a smoothie for breakfast. I threw in some coconut water, mixed greens, an orange, some pineapple mixed with a little mango and a little extra water because I am blending with an oldie. I am trying to be content with what I got but I sure would like to be the winner of that Vitamix!!! Oh the fun we would have!!
I would blend whatever fruits and veggies I could find in my kitchen! My SIL made me an awesome smoothie with frozen strawberries, blueberries, banana, carrots, spinach, and oranges. Mmm!
I hate blenders! I made my own baby food, and it was a pain to make it work! I would blend all types of veggies together, and all types of fruits together. Freeze them, then put a few cubes into foods I make. Sneak in extra veggies and fruits without the kids even knowing it!!
YUM. Gotta love smoothies.
Smoothies
Oh the things I would blend….
I’d probably use it a lot for my canned items and smoothies, soups. Really, what can’t it do?
I would so rock making all the normal fruit smoothie stuff for the kids (and who am I kidding, me too), I *might* try making veggie juices, but I would DEFINATELY make homemade frozen margaritas and daiquiris!
I need to replace my lazy blender as well. I’ve heard so much ravings about it. Yummy!
You know what I’d blend in that amazingly powerful new blender?– My old *&%$# blender! That thing is a total piece. It has been giving me grief since the day I got married. . . so has my husband, but that is another “comment” for another day (kidding!). Nothing would be more gratifying than hearing the crunching and grinding of glass and metal and plastic coming from my *sexy* new blender. But seriously, thanks for the post and the laugh this morning. It was a great way to start the day!
I would blend some peaches, strawberries and a banana with spinach and unsweetened vanilla almond milk. Thanks for doing this giveaway!
I’d love a working blender…I don’t think mine has ever made it out of the box since moving 2 years ago…
Frozen peach daquaris are the first thing I would blend up…I would even make virgin ones for the kiddos.
I would love to win!
I would love a Vitamix and I love your blog!
Hilarious! Our blender unhinges itself at the bottom, EVERY time we use it, and leaks our smoothie all over the counter!! What we’re trying to make is a kale, coconut milk and banana smoothie 🙂
::snort:: Ha, you said butt plug.
Seriously, love love love your blog! Strawberry, pineapple, banana smoothies rock – especially if you freeze everything first and use honey flavored Greek yogurt.
What about pesto? I do love a good, fresh pesto. We have one of those hand-held guys that works about 60% of the time, but gets freaked out when we put too much basil in the blender cup.
I LOVE protein shakes but all the good recipes I find are too much for my (i believe) $25 mini-blender, so I’d make LOTS of those & stop spending money for them at my gym!
I need this so I can stop fighting with my blender too!
Holy crap would I love one of these. I would totally blend up smoothies, of course, and I really, really want to try some of the juicing diets I have read about. Most of all, right now, I want to try these incredible plantain “pancakes” I just read about. No flour or grain. Just 1 cup mashed plantain, 4 eggs, and cinnamon. Blend until smooth then use like pancake batter. Sounds about a thousand times healthier than normal.
Yay for your new blender. I have a space on my counter (and lots of yummy veggies) just waiting for a pretty vitamix. 🙂
I think this would be great for making soups as well. Or adult beverages that call for crushed ice. Because even on our blender where there is CRUSHED ICE button option…it only crushes the ice on the bottom and you have to wiggle it around to even get half of it done.
I love blending fruit smoothies and salsa, but with a Vitamix I’d probably have more green smoothies…and peanut butter! I’ve heard it makes awesome peanut butter and I’d love to find out for myself! =)
You never fail to make me laugh! Love your blog and would love to win an awesome blender!
Costco was giving out a sample of a frappucino-type drink that was made with carrots. I’m sure it had tons of creamer, but I can convince myself it is calorie free because there are carrots in it. 😉
Oh my, a Vitamix giveaway. Does it get any better than this? I would blend up: almonds, spirulina, frozen berries, coconut water & maple syrup. yum!
I freaking love you. And also I want a vitamix pretty desperately, so this works out well. Especially if I win. 🙂
I’m an old-fashioned blueberry,strawberry, Greek yogurt kinda girl!! Sorry nothing fancy here!! 🙂
I have a Cuisinart and I don’t hate it.
I want something that successfully blends ice
I recently dropped and broke my lazy, crappy blender and have been trying to find one I can afford that works. Why is this so difficult?!
ahhhh i’d make smoothies galore!!!!!
Making butter is the first thing on the to do list. LOVE fresh butter, it tastes so much better than store bought. Then sorbet with frozen fruit, so good and my little guy just loves it (teething or not).
AWESOME!!! I have been dreaming of a Vitamix because my blender is leaking out the bottom! We make smoothies every morning with chia, yogurt, kale, fresh fruit, and frozen fruit – best way to load the kids with the good stuff.
I’d blend up margaritas, of course.
I love cottage cheese and frozen strawberries. It’s filling, helps you loose weight and tastes like ice cream. (If you add a little sugar:). Then it doesn’t really help you loose weight. It just tastes awesome.)
Chocolate, Banana, Peanut Butter Protein Shake! 🙂
cashew cream
It’s the only way I’ll eat yogurt!
Amazing giveaway!
Try: frozen bananas, almond milk, coconut flakes, dates, and cardamom. My whole family is OBSESSED with this smoothie. My kids fight over who gets to push the button on the blender and then they watch with fascination as it jumps around on the countertop.
this has to be the most comments ever. seriously though, I would love this darn thing. I hate my blender with a passion. tempting to take it out and smash it office space style. i did that with a computer once and i have to say it was really satisfying.
Great giveaway! I want to really get into the veggie smoothies, where my kids won’t know they’re getting something healthy! Like you, my crappy blender just doesn’t cut it, so a new one would be fantastic!
What an amazing blessing that would be. I have been making green smoothies daily for the last month and a half (sometimes twice a day) for my family and me. It is a great way for me to get greens into my husband and daughter (both of which aren’t fans of greens by themselves). It also helps me to get my full servings of greens in each day while I am nursing our youngest daughter. Our blender is ok, but it is starting to slow down. I don’t think it will hold up much longer. 🙁 I would love to get a Vitamix for our green smoothies and also to make my daughter’s baby food!
After I wrote this, I made our breakfast smoothie. In the middle of it, my blender broke! 🙁 I could really use that Vitamix now. LOL!
I actually make my own dog food for the pooch … I’d LOVE to see if Vitamix could handle pureeing that!!
What an amazing blessing that would be. I would love to get a Vitamix for our green smoothies and also to make my daughter’s baby food!
I usually blend pre-cut frozen banana slices with 2 ice cubes of frozen puréed spinach, some vanilla Greek yogourt, almond milk, a vegan protein powder, and the extra fruit that I want. I love the raspberry/chocolate powder combo, but kiwi/mango/tropical fruit powder is great too. I also have a bag of frozen cherries/blackberries/blueberries that is great. Normally I add raspberries though because they’re my favourite.
We actually blend EVERY SINGLE DAY and found true love with a Waring “50 Years of Quality” sounded like a marriage quality blender and although there is some spoon-poking now and again (but what relationship doesn’t need some of that occasionally?), we’re pretty solid unless solid ice cubes are involved.
Hahahaha almost four thousand comments. Go Amber ! I’d love a vitamix, just because its free. I’d blend some shit probably.
I am getting hungry just thinking about blending all the fresh fruit, yogurt, and baby spinach because I like to sneak a little veggies in where they won’t be tasted!
Hey baby! Put your yummy fruits and veggies in me! Hilarious!! I LOVE making strawberry banana “ice cream” with my boys (all I add is half and half and sugar). They actually ask for it on the regular and all (3) say that they like it better than real ice cream , so I’m down for that. We use our Magic Bullet for it, which takes forever and I have to shake the fuck out of it just to get it to blend, and poke it with spoons about 10000 times…argh! But it’s for the children 🙂 What can I say, I love those little terds!
My kids love smoothies too!
I want this blender.
We blend up stuff with ice cream to make shakes, but would like to make smoothies too 🙂
Our favorite smoothie:
1 cup peach or apricot nectar
1 banana
A spoonful of peanut butter
Honey to sweeten it.
A handful of spinach.
I recently found your blog… I laugh often, because it seems like you are living in my house. 😉 Keep up the good work!
Probably margaritas.
you are so great for doing this! I would love a blender that actually works! 🙂
I drool over this blender
Sexy beast of a blender wanted for soup, home-made peanut butter, bread, sorbet, and much-much MORE!!
I would like to make pesto with herbs from my little garden.
I’m not entirely sure where I’d PUT a Vitamix, but hey, I can figure that out later, right? Homemade Nutella here I come!
I would love this!
The blender fairies have been very good to you!
I would make smoothies and soups – and ideally food my baby can eat!
I was just thinking the other day that I could use a really good blender.
Smoothies with carrots. I love my immersion blender, but it cannot handle carrots. Even with frozen berries the blender starts to smell like burning rubber.
We are big fans of smoothies and milkshakes!
Wow! First your blog is awesome, and now your give-aways are awesome too! It’s a win-win!! ;o))
Ha! I have several friends who speak longingly of Vitamix blenders, “maybe one day…” or “if I only had a Vitamix…” One of my friends has one and extols its virtues on a regular basis (you can blend a whole carrot, stem, leaves, and veggie, ALL OF IT!). My husband and I recently got married, but a Vitamix was just a bit too pricey for our registry list. We settled for a stick blender, but a Vitamix, well, I just wouldn’t know what to do with myself… Eat all my veggies in liquid form just for fun?? Hmmm… ; )
I love to blend banana, oats, flax, chai, coconut milk, a dash of maple syrup, spinach and avocado. Kids love it.
I am doing the 30 day green smoothie and I am on crappy blender #3, don’t bother to get a Krups, magic bullet or hamilton beach!
Thanks!
This is a nice giveaway. I hope I win!
oooh, i’d blend whatever veggies and fruits were in season. then i’d add some almond butter or whey to it, maybe a bit of honey. and then i’d toss that in the garbage and make a boozy milkshake instead 😉
I would blend up lots of green stuff like kale and spinach.
Nothing beats a peanut butter and jelly smoothie…1 banana, 4 frozen strawberries, 1 Tbsp peanut butter, 1C plain yogurt or kefir, and a splash of organge juice…yum! Except maybe a pina colada 🙂
Thank you! I would love to blend up energy drinks, smoothies, salsa, spaghetti sauce and probably many more things that I’m not even in my realm of possibilities yet!
I would blend up frozen fruit for smoothies. We are too lazy to ever use up all our fresh fruit before it goes bad…but those big frozen fruit chunks are hell on our crappo blender.
Green Monster smoothie: fresh spinach, peanut butter, frozen banana, vanilla Greek yogurt, vanilla soymilk. Mmmm…. 🙂
You said “butt hurt.” Tee hee! 🙂
I would love to say that I would blend something healthy, but I would most likely start with an awesome pina colada. After a couple of those, then I would probably make a green monsther smoothie. 🙂
Fruit, fruit, and more fruit!!
My stepkids never eat fruits and veggies and it drives me crazy. I’ve taken to throwing every veggie in my fridge into my itsy-bitsy one-person food processor from my single days (it’s actually so small it’s adorable), and then mixing that shit into sauces, meatloaf, or meatballs. This food processor might be cute and petite, but it sucks. It never gets the food chucks small enough. The kids can always identify and remove the bits of healthy from their meal. “Is this… BROCCOLI??” Sigh. I’ll never win with these guys.
This is…a lot of comments. It took me a really long time to scroll down to the bottom! I magically finally find the control-down button which put me down here.
I would blend my favorite fruit combo: frozen berries + banana + frozen pineapple + OJ + yogurt + a little flaxseed. It’s amaaaaazing!
I would love to make soup in the Vitamix! This fall, butternut squash soup would be fantastic.
Frozen blueberries, frozen peaches, spinach, plain yogurt and a banana with some juice or water to thin it out!
Love this post. I have the same feeling towards my blender. I got a new one. Not any better. I feel terrible that I spent the money and it’s not any better. A Vitamix would make me feel that much better.
I am drooling over this blender!
I’d make chocolate/banana smoothies and tons of salsa 😉
You’re much braver than I am! I never do vegetable combinations. I usually just do really bad for you combos. But they have fruit!! Like strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and bananas, with a little milk or ice cream.
milkshakes and chocolate malts!!!
Lots of smoothies!
I’d totally blend up ALL THE STRAWBERRIES and put them in different things. Like milkshakes. And… uhm… milkshakes! And a smoothie, just to even things out. Then another milkshake.
I don’t usually post comments either, but I love love love this blog, it is the only one I read because I don’t have time, but I make time for this! I recently bought the book too. LMAO
This is a great idea! 🙂 I’ve recently begun a love affair with Naked juices, but it would be way, way cheaper to blend my own! xD
I am going to make ice cream! Sugar free, dairy free ice cream! With nuts, ice and dates!
I also want to juice veggies with cilantro ( for detoxifying)
And make fruit smoothies
And breads
And soups
It is so much easier than cutting up veggies, I want to use it for everything!
You are awesome! I like freeze kale and/or spinach and blend it with whatever fruits I have on-hand – banana, mango, strawberry, blueberries, etc. I also like to add yogurt, makes it seem even more healthy and good for your tummy.
I’d blend up some serious blueberries, and carrots! And maybe a printer that I hate.
Pinch me! Is this true?
I make smoothies for lunch every day. It’s just a basic strawberry banana smoothie: about five frozen strawberries, one banana, a few spoonfuls of vanilla yogurt, and orange juice. My Waring commercial grade is a great blender, but I would LOVE a Vitamix.
Best kid friendly green smoothie I’ve discovered so far: frozen mango chunks, coconut milk, handful of spinach, lemon juice. Delicioso!
Oh man! I’d blend my whole life!! Green drinks are my fav, but I’d make dressings and hummus and almond milk! mmmmmm
I would love a VItaMix. I’ve been asking for one since 2006 and haven’t received one. Must be that I don’t have a popular blog with cool pictures. I want to make nut butters, and soups, and better smoothies (not one at at time, either) with beets and greens disguised by all the frozen berries and bananas.
I would use it to make soups. Lots and lots of soups.
I would be lost without my daily smoothie, and I think a Vitamix would make that process a lot better for me. I’m already a beast in the morning, so to not have to curse out my crappy blender everyday would make my life a more peaceful place.
I haven’t done green smoothies cuz son won’t drink it unless it’s all strawberries. I can sneak a peach half, a banana, some other berries (like only 2-3 blueberries max, because my blender doesn’t do a good job making the blueberries disappear).
What I’m always making is frozen strawberries, scoop of lemonade powder, a bit of water… Yummers. I make a full pitcherful, or two, just for the 3 of us, so it can go into Popsicle molds. (You do not want the kind with a metal lid, trust me! Stick with those individual Popsicle molds. My absolute favorite is Tupperware that I found at a yard sale. Anyway.).
What I’d do witha Vitamix is 1) stop drooling because I finally have one! 2) start drooling over all the different things I CAN now make, besides smoothies. My two out of state sisters have one and my 3rd one has friends with vitamixes… I hear they make wonderful ground-wheat or oatmeal pancake batter, starting with the actual wheat kernels that the Vitamix grinds for you.
One makes the best green smoothies with kale, apples, etc, but if I try and do the same thing after she leaves (with her Vitamix, it comes with her when she’s on vacation!) Bleech, I cannot drink it!
Pumpkin pies, nut flour, wheat bread dough, all that. But of course, I’d still always make my sons favorite slushie & Popsicles.
I got your book as mothers day gifts for my friends – keep ’em coming!
How awesome!
I’d do pineapple chocolate and throw in some spinach. You can’t taste the spinach and I don’t think my current blender could do pineapple. Tropical yummm!
I was JUST telling my boyfriend yesterday how much I want a Vitamix, as I attempted to coerce his pathetic little blender into pulverizing some bananas and blueberries. It protested and balked, and it took about 15 minutes to blend a simple smoothie. Ugh. My parents’m Vitamix is amazing. My favorite sweet smoothie is banana, soymilk, peanut butter, vanilla, and cocoa powder, or Carob powder and Roma (coffee substitute), and honey.
Amber, I just love your blog! I bought the book and immediately after I finished reading it, I passed it around to all of my mommy friends. They loved it! Thanks!!
Thanks for the giveaway. What are you holding in the frame with the “I will so pulverize”?
My blender sucks too. In fact every time I use it I think it might explode. I’d be blending up any berries I could get my hands on for smoothies for my kids and I. Also anything else I could make into baby food for the littlest kiddo.
Crap, I messed up my e-mail. Here’s the real one incase I’m the winner winner chicken dinner.
Would love to make some smoothies for my twins.
Pick me, pick me! I would blend the shit out of everything I own.
This reminds me of the time my bestie got a brand new refrigerator and called to tell me it was the sexiest thing she’d ever beheld. Her husband was… less than pleased to be within earshot of her proclamation.
Bad pun: This would make my mornings go so much more smoothie-ly. 😉
Smoothies are almost the only thing my 12-year-old is willing to have for breakfast, so I try to make them super nutritious. I usually use soy milk, yogurt, orange juice (preferably calcium-fortified since she doesn’t like milk), bananas, and frozen mango and pineapple. She loves it! Thanks for this giveaway. I so want this blender!
I have had only hate relationships with blenders and have dreamed of a vitamix!
My sister has one. It is heroic!
I totally need to win this. I have a blender that is a lazy jerk too. I have just started to drink green smoothies every day and am loving the tropical variations you can make but would rather not have them chunky. It is supposed to be a “smooth”ie after all!!
I have been coveting these for years. We make smoothies all the time- and I can occasionally hide a few veggies in as well. The leftovers make great popsicles, and my kids will often reject the smoothie if they see something too healthy in it, yet be completely satisfied with it in popsicle form!
I would blend everything and then some. Make smoothies, sauces, baby food, world peace, you know the staples…
Your rafflecoptor is really fun, by the way.
Our little Kitchen Ninja Master just cracked, and we are back to our smoky old blender that doesn’t work well. DH had appendicitis this year, we had an urgent care bill from when my daughter stuck a piece of popcorn in her ear, and our printer just died and so the money we were going to spend on a new blender just went to the printer and we have to use our smoky blender (or just not blend for awhile…)
Thanks for the chance! Enjoy your smoothies!
I would blend up some daquiris and margaritas. Moms need their comfort drinks. 🙂
Why wasn’t this my first thought???
I don’t NEED a Vitamix. My blender is adequate. But who doesn’t WANT a Vitamix?? Maybe I would blend things multiple times a week if I had one, instead of pulling mine out once a month!
I’d blend smoothies! Strawberries, banana, blueberries and mango with some hemp seeds, kale and some almond milk. Delish!
Will it blend?
Man, you’re funny.Love your blog!
My husband would loooove one of these!
My combinations are usually pretty simple…strawberries and bananas and sometimes some yogurt!
I so want one of these. I have a been longing for a non-sucky blender that would actually blend smoothies for me!
Oh so true! I hate my blender because it does the same thing! My friend and I had a discussion about “time-sharing” a VitaMix! Then she sold out on me and used her bday money to buy her own! LOL!
Any combination of fruit, some milk, ice, and fill to the top with spinach. Looks green and gross-ish, but tastes awesome!
I hate blenders. All the ones that I have had suck. They have a million buttons that all do the same thing. Nothing! But I would love a vitamix. I just don’t think that I can afford to sell one of my kidneys for it.
How about some way cool drinks that need umbrellas in them? 😉 Truthfully, I’d likely make smoothies, too…. and maybe some salsa. 🙂 Thanks for making it possible for the rest of us to have such a cool blender, too!
This is awesome! I heard Vitamix are awesome machines! I’d make smoothies for the kids and I also heard that Vitamix are good for making soup so I would try that for a quick & easy dinner during the cold months.
I have had frozen strawberries in my freezer for 6+ months…if only I had a great blender to blend them up with some other fruits….mmmmmmmmm. Thanks for doing this giveaway!
If I had a Vitamix I would make smooth popsicles from mint, cucumber, pineapple and either almond milk or yogurt. Those would be yummy.
The breakfast favorite at my house, the Elvis Smoothie, in a few easy steps. First go to the store and buy the cheap bannanas. The ones with spots. Take them home and peel the whole bunch and cut them into one inch chunks and put them in a baggie in the freezer. Wait a day. In the morning, take a bannanas worth of chunks, a tablespoon (give or take) of peanut butter, a scoop of the protein powder of your choice and mix it with either dairy, or crushed ice a a tiny bit of water, if you’re not into dairy. If you want to get adventurous, add chocolate. Blend and enjoy.
Oh my gosh, Vitamixes are the best! My mother makes an amazing smoothie with an orange, a few green grapes, a dash of coconut water and tons of kale and chard. It tastes like Jamba Juice!
Vitamix is quite a powerful blender. Would love to try it and get rid of my other one.
My kids love smoothies (what kid doesn’t) so that would be number one on this list. Then probably soup, and then anything/everything that I didn’t feel like chewing.
I love your blog, by the way. I’ve shared it with everyone I know.
Your own fairy-blender-mother! Cool! I would blend green smoothies for my family every day. And I want to try a million other things too. 🙂
I so want to dump my blender too, but after 14 years it’s just easier to live with him. Then my Mom got a Vitamix. She makes comments about how she wishes she had one when her kids were young. It’s almost a shame that she has one now when it is just her. Every Mom of kids should have one, maybe the boys would eat better if I had one. I keep hoping she’ll let me “borrow” it, lol. Sigh…until then I have to live with the jerk. (I’m talking about the blender)
I’ve wanted a Vitamix ever since I heard of them. I never blend anything, because all blenders really do suck. If I won a Vitamix, what would I blend? What wouldn’t I blend?!? I’d be on an all liquid diet!! But first things first, I’d have to christen the maiden blend with a nice, cold fancy drink with an umbrella!
I would love to win one for my husband. He makes great smoothies for our 3 girls.
I’ve heard the Vitamix is awesome! I have a friend that makes his own peanut butter in it. Just peanuts!
I would use it for the standard smoothies, but also to make coconut butter and to make nut butters as my daughter is allergic to peanuts. I have a not so good blender and a not so good food processor which makes doing either one a headache.
Hummus. Loads and loads of hummus.
Vitamix is awesome! I’d make some green smoothies. Not so green if you add beets but still amazing : )
If I won the vitamix blender… oh I would rejoice! I would promptly get rid of the worthless piece of junk on my own counter and whip up spinach, frozen blueberries, frozen banana, strawberries, yogurt, and a splash of apple juice smoothies WITHOUT having to jam my wooden spoon into it the whole time!
I stood at the Vitamix demo table in Costco for 20 minutes one time. That hardworking demonstrator was just SURE I was going to walk away with one. Nope. I was just hungry and enjoying an hour of child-free shopping.
You should totally blog about needing a new fancy schmancy coffee maker next!
Nothing too exciting, just smoothies like you. 🙂
Smoothies, pesto, veggies for soups! We had a blender that is used for my girls smoothies as well but the gasket isn’t working and it now leaks liquid everywhere. The part to replace is more than the blender itself! Why can’t companies support reusing by making affordable replacement parts?
Free blender! Man, if I had this thing, I’d blend my ass off. My kids love smoothies, and my current blender is…non-existent. I’d been reduced to just buying smoothies at the store. *shame* I bet you can bland up veggies into soups on that thing, right? The possibilities!
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your blog! Whenever you post something new, I read it out loud to the kids (with minor modifications) and they love it. They can so identify with your kids.
I am sooo jealous!! My mixer needs to be dumped 🙁
This is probably the most fun entry to a contest ever. And this is why Amber is so awesome. Everytime I made myself and my kids a fresh veggie smoothie I would think of Crappy Pictures with reverence and gratitude!
Thanks for allowing us the opportunity to benefit!
I’d be a smoothie making fool if I won this! I’ve wanted a vitamix for a long time!
We love to make “green drinks.” Celery, collard greens, spinach, and any other green veggies you can think of, mixed with pineapple juice!
I would blend up some strawberries, kiwis, with a splash of lemon juice. NOM
peanut butter and banana is the smoothie I am craving right now.
Yes – totally doing the Love Your Greens challenge with Unconventional Kitchen (as someone mentioned above) and these puppies are the best of the best. Yay for awesome blenders!
I love making green smoothies! Or add Kale into any smoothie! AWESOME!!
What a great giveaway!
My wife told me to do this. If we win, I will make the smoothies. And they will have bananas in them.
I LOOOVE smoothies, and they are by far the best way to get an extra serving of veggies into my son. I made one yesterday with spinach, frozen strawberries, blueberries, frozen banana, almond milk, flax seeds, and agave that was delish. 🙂
Holy COW. I want! Thanks for sharing with us!
O. M. G!!!!! I want that blender!!!!! SO FREAKIN’ BAD!
I had a “one night stand” with a Breville juicer. Tasted great but a pain to clean!
Try peanut butter in your smoothies! Yum 🙂
Frozen coffee drinks!!
We like to make green salsa with tomatillos, jalapenos, garlic, onion and a little bit of avocado. It’s so nice when it’s all blended smooth.
Also, I make a poblano cream sauce that’s amazing.
Hahaha. Your animations killed me! LOVE IT!
Thanks for the opportunity! Try raw kale, pineapple and green apple; you can’t taste the kale but it’s very healthy.
Thanks so much for sharing you rock!
I’d sooooo love to win this. Vitamix is the best!
I would blend up dates, avocados and cocoa to make chocolate mousse!
I’d make smoothies for my toddler who is THEPICKIESTEATEREVER! 🙂
This is awesome! I’d be blending up green smoothies galore!
Ugh…I just decided to donate my blender and go without one because it was so crappy I never used it. Congrats on the shiny new one! 🙂
I’d blend up watermelon and freeze it in ice cube trays. Then I’d blend the frozen cubes with vodka. Then I would proceed with abandon!
My computer SO hates rafflecopter – please excuse any typos.
I would blend up yummy milkshakes. Or even try one of those spinach smoothies for something healthy.
I would love a new blender. My current blender is so crappy it isn’t even a name brand. In fact it doesn’t have a name. Just that it was made in China. My stick blender does a better job of creating green smoothies than my “real” blender.
smoothies!
My own Crappy Boy would LOVE a smoothie maker! And Mama would love a margarita maker. Just sayin’.
I love blending either protein powder or greek yogurt with spinach and kale then watever fruit you have on hand. Always add a banana as it makes the smoothies creamy!
Hummus! Falafel! Tahini! Peanut butter! 🙂
Hummus, almond butter, smoothies, soooo many things I’d blend up! I’ve been eyeing a vitamix for years!
We are on Crappy Blender #3 and they all suck. My kids will only eat greens if I blend them up in a smoothie, so you can save my children from dreaded modern-day diseases like Rickets and Scurvy!
Add FROZEN MANGO CHUNKS to any smoothie and you’re golden!
There are already over 5,000 entries, I guess we love ourselves some blenders. Frozen margaritas, hands down, the most popular use for my blender. I add fruit, so it’s healthy, right?
I already have one. Which means I now want to buy one for everyone I know!
My favoritest smoothie in the whole universe is frozen cherries, coconut milk, and cacao nibs. And honey! I never share it, unless my kids and husband ask VERY nicely.
Chocolate icecream, milk, yogurt, rassberries, and strawberries. 😀
It took me a year to scroll for the comment box on my phone… I better win!;))
Thanks for the.giveaway! Love your blog!
Avocado and green tea smoothie! Love your blog. You’re awesome for doing this giveaway!
This made me lol for sure — I totally want a vitamix!!
You are my favorite mommy blog!
If I had a Vitamix I would totally make smoothies! I saw this recipe this week and totally want to try it.
Peanut Butter and Banana High-Protein Breakfast Smoothie
Fill your blender with the following ingredients:
½ cup milk (4 g protein)
½ cup Greek yogurt (12 g protein)
1 tablespoon peanut butter or any nut butter (3.5 g protein)
1 tablespoon ground flax meal (1.5 g protein)
1-2 bananas (1.5 g protein)
Blend it up really well
Banana, date and yogurt smoothie is soooooo good!
lime juice, mango, pineapple, banana, coconut milk, papaya – so very yummy!
Blend all the things!!! Fruits, veggies, yogurt, juice!
I read your blog every day. We legit have not a thing in common but you are the funniest chick out there! (And I shouldn’t have to, but I hope no one gets all feminist on me for saying chick… I could have used broad, lol). You’re family sounds fun and you are doing a great job raising your boys! Thanks for the laughs everyday 🙂
You are too funny!! I love your blog!! Have fun blending!!
I make a smoothie with my crappy blender…it’s frozen diced pineapple, mango, and berries, a little bit of vanilla protein powder, milk, and a handful of spinach. I would LOVE a Vitamix!! I would also love a juicer if you ever want to give one of those away 🙂
My 6 month old just started solids and this would be great!
I would love a Vitamix! More power, more power!
My kids get extra jicama blended into their breakfast smoothies every morning. they love it, it adds undetectable yet awesome veggies and I feel better about how we start the day!
All the veggies in the world!
I’d like to say I’d blend up healthy smoothies… but I love strawberry smoothies with ice cream and milk and sugar, so that’s what I’d probably make 🙂
Our blender sucks too! Hubby and I have green smoothies every day for lunch, and make the kids coconut milk in it. I would loooove to have a Vitamix instead of the one we have now!
Salsa! I’ve never met a blender that wants to bump and grind the wondrous concoction of peppers, tomatoes, cilantro, garlic, onion and other not so secret ingredients into something consistent and delicious. But enough about me. I LOVE your illustrated life on your lovely blog! No one else makes me laugh as much as your honest assessment of motherhood, wifehood, and lifehood!
I’d like my green smoothies to actually be smooth instead of the chunky drink that my blender makes.
DD loves smoothies and I would love a sexy vitamix! Right now our blender drinks consist of banana, frozen strawberries, maybe some frozen mango, OJ, and milk or almond milk. But with a vitamix I could probably sneak something green in there. Maybe spinach.
I LOVE EVERYTHING YOU WRITE!
That thing is a hoss. We’ve had one for years and put all kinds of crazy shit and it blends it all up like a boss. We use it every single day. Protein shakes for the kids, lassis for me, coffee drinks, margaritas, whatever. My Dad says that the motor is so amazing that you can ride it to work.
Amber, I don’t know how you are going to read all of these comments, really it is almost 4,000 now! Good luck lady.
And the butt plug comment cracked me up.
I can totally relate with the crappy blender situation! I hate making smoothies because our blender always over heats! then turns off… blahh. Definitely in the market for a new and improved ;P
I love this blog…lol
I love love LOVE CrappyPictures!! I had never heard about this blender before, but now I’m desperate for one. =-D xo
Id make smoothies of course, but also http://www.chocolatecoveredkatie.com has a toonn of cool looking desserts that need a good blender- a vitamix would be more than perfect.
You are hilarious! Thanks for all you do to make us laugh! And for this great giveaway.
I would make Margaritas, like the old days in college. Except this blender would actually make it possible to drink through a straw rather than chew!
Margaritas. Daquiris. Pina Coladas. That’s what I’d blend. Pick me!
My blender and your blender must have been spawned by the same absentee momma and dad blenders. Apparently it hates trying to blend frozen berries and made a terrible sound last time I used it that made one of my 2 yo twins cry. Not cool, lazy punk blender!
You are soooo lucky! I want to make smoothies with green apples, but I don’t think my blender could handle it!
My mom has a Vitamix and says it can make a jillion kinds of things, so SO MANY THINGS! But I would make my own hummus and peanut butter. And delicious smoothies.
My daughter goes CRAZY for smoothies and the kinds that she likes have been discontinued. We’ve tried creating something new for her, but like yours our blender won’t keep up. 🙁 Baby needs smoothies!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Definitely make some “ice cream” – frozen bananas, and ANYTHING else! Tastes like ice cream, but much healthier 🙂
Yummy stuff.
Mmmm. My girls and I love smoothies for breakfast.
I’d LOVE a Vitamix!
yay mistakes!
What the heck! Maybe I’ll win one. Thanks for the opportunity.
I have a smoothie almost every day for breakfast. Usually it consists of a banana, strawberries and/or blueberries, a bit of orange juice, greek yogurt (plain or vanilla), a scoop of protein powder, and about 1/2 a cup of oatmeal. yummy and keeps me full! also, i love your blog.
I love the green smoothies, one apple, one pear, half a banana, a little OJ and as much spinach and parsley as will fit crammed into the blender.
I would make smoothies. Healthy smoothies with spinach for me and fun smoothies with fruit and sugar for my husband.
Woo Hoo!!
Oh, I’ve had much blender angst! Mine was very uncooperative, so much so that I have not used it in years. No smoothies here either! However, I’ve heard about the VItamix, it’s like the holy grail of blenders! I’d be thrilled to win this giveaway 🙂
-Dana
I have heard wonderful things about the Vitamix blenders! I, too, struggle with sub-par blender blues.
Best giveaway ever! I would LOVE to win!
Smoothies are the best!
i use a magic bullet… but it’s not great for the whole family – not when you want to make smoothies for everyone.. my actual blender cracked… so the magic bullet is all i have. i would LOVE LOVE LOVE a vitamix, but like you, can’t shell out the funds for it… it’s a dream though… i will hold out!
So cool. This along with a dyson is my dream machine. Is it sad that we salivate about this kind of stuff. Maybe you should write about wishing for a dyson? 😉
Congrats on your new, sexy blender. I WANT ONE!!! 🙂
I had a pineapple, collard, tahini smoothie once. It sounds gross but it was good.
I would make veggies smoothies, fruit smoothies with all kinds of berries, bananas and protein shakes.
I would LOVE to win that Vitamix® . I hate my stupid blender too. Hubby wont let me buy an awesome one because I got a Cuisinart food processor… I look longingly at them when I walk past the display at Costco. If I can’t win the Powerball, then man a Vitamix® would be the next best thing! Thank you for being so awesome to share something as COOL as this!
What great luck! Thanks for spreading the love.
I’d blend up so many smoothies for the kiddies! They love them, and our blender must be related to your first blender – HORRIBLE!!!
Thank you so much for the chance to win the Cadillac of all food blenders.
I would first tell my old blender: “In your face!” and it would be all “What?!” And I would remind my old blender that it told me “I hate you” when I put frozen blueberries in it to make smoothies. Even though it had an ice chop setting. And then I would remind it that it’s not-blending in a drunken fashion is really hampering my kids’ ability to eat vegetables because that’s WHERE I HIDE THE VEGETABLES!
Then I would start making smoothies in the shiny new blender: green ones, and purple ones, and my kids would cheer because they don’t know I’m being all sneaky chef on them. I’d probably throw in stuff like Kale and Broccoli and Carrots, maybe some peanut butter, and definitely some Probiotics. And peace would reign over my queendom.
Margaritas. DUH!
Pick me! Pick me! (*shouting and waving from back of room*)
I have a ninja, and he’s pretty good on my counter. But no vitamix. Jealous!
When I make smoothies I like to use strawberries, blueberries and homemade yogurt plus some honey to sweeten it up. But my lazy blender doesn’t crush ice so well so I usually use frozen berries.
We love to make blender batter pancakes http://www.suegregg.com/recipes/breakfasts/blenderbatterwaffles/blenderbatterwafflesA.htm
Yogurt, banana, some other fruit, almond butter, flaxseed, milk, ice. Yum.
Oh. my. goodness. I love you a little bit, with a non creepy, non internet stalker type of love. The only kitchen gadget I *might* want more than a Vitamix is a Kitchenaid mixer. Thanks for the awesome giveaway!
My blender is okay but I am totally jealous of my mom’s vitamix! I would blend lots of things, but right now, I’m feeling some milkshakes…
I would loooove a Vitamix. I’d make smoothies out of mostly fruits (mango/pineapple, strawberry/banana) or add protein powders/peanut butter and sometimes veggies (carrot/strawberry). I’d also make smooth soups though! (brocolli cheddar, butternut squash). So many options! 🙂 Enjoy your vitamix!
We make strawberry smoothies. I buy a huge bag of frozen strawberries and a huge thing of vanilla ice cream to be used when the urge strikes.
After purchasing a Vitamix over the winter, my dad became obsessed with its ability to make hot, yes, HOT soup and proceeded to churn out batches of cream of broccoli-jalapeno like a mad man. Any obsessions yet?
Ohhhh so many options. Fruit smoothies, popsicle makings, sauces, salsa….
ooohhhh… smoothies! I can almost get my 3 year old to eat veggies if they come in smoothie form!
2 bananas (with brown peels), 3 cups of ice, 1 cup of vanilla yogurt, 1/2 a squeezed lemon, and one tbsp. of honey. Blend and enjoy! Healthy too! (http://chiquitabananas.com/Banana-Recipes/BananAde-Smoothie-recipe.aspx)
I would be blending all my vegan ingredients. I always have chunks of silken tofu in my vegan desserts.
these blenders rock i would use it to blend up soups for the wifey she always wants to try different homemade soups but our blender stinks. for me it would be fruit sorbet’s and body by vi shakes
My very favorite (simple) smoothie recipe is this:
1 cup water
1 banana
1 cup strawberries
2 cups spinach
Blend, blend, blend!
Loved the ” go sit on someone else’s counter and ‘not blend’ ” comment! I am in the same boat with my current blender. Would love, love, LOVE a vitamix!
Amazing give-away! Don’t know what I would blend, I hate smoothies….but I use my unsexy blender for milkshakes! Chocolate, vanilla, banana, the possibilities are endless for milkshakes!! 😀
Wellll… I’ve got all kinds of things I’d love to mix up. The good ol’ green smoothie, the ‘not so healthy’ type also which includes ice cream and fruit and probably more ice cream. Ice cream and oreos. Cafe Rio salad dressing… Mmmm. Soup, never tried it but I hear it can be done with a Vitamix! I hope I win!!
I’ve been wanting to try blending up meat into a broth so I can actually get my son to eat some.
I’ve been really getting into smoothies lately! Especially green smoothies. I made one with kale, spinach, cucumber, strawberry and banana recently. This morning I made one with strawberry, mango, almond milk, avocado, and chia seeds. Scrump-diddly-umptious!
so awesome – I know this feeling too well – I need this blender! Also, reminded me of the YouTube series from BlendTech “Will it Blend?” – the glowstick episode is a must see, along with many others….
I love making green smoothies! My blender is just like your old one! Can’t even handle a simple smoothie. Lots of shaking and poking over here too!
I’d so try to blend up some of that green crap that you are supposed to feed your kids. And feed some of it to myself. My crappy blender won’t blend them small enough so I end up with chunky green smoothies. Green chunkies?
I would blend up some chocolate chip mint ice cream with that baby. A normal blender has no chance at that…
I keep trying new blenders and for the price that i have paid to keep trying new ones, I coulda just bought a vitamax ;(
A free blender just for mentioning it in a blog. Very cool for you!
I have no idea what I would blend. We had a juicer once. I hated to clean it so I stopped using it. I think blending would be a lot less of a pain in the but. I would most likely blend something fruity … maybe with ice cream.
What wouldn’t I make?! I would make hummus, green pepper sauce, smoothies, and margaritas to name just a few 🙂
we freeze watermelon chunks and blend them with strawberries and other fruit and hide carrots in it. MMMM!!!
I like to blend spinach, frozen berries, a banana and an orange. Delicious!
Love the blog! I went through and read for hours!
I’d blend up super smoothies for my kid – bananas, kale, spinach, apples, cucumbers, peanut butter, if it’s frozen and in my freezer – put it in!
um…ice and limes and tequila!! (and triplesec too)
Awesome giveaway!
If you have a Vitamix, it is like the whole kitchen in one appliance. You can make soup, smoothies, frozen cocktails (who needs a margaritaville when you got this? no one), sauces, mock ice cream with frozen bananas, mousse, whipped confections, even mayonnaise or vegan mayo. You can make nut flours, date paste, tomato paste, You can chop foods by pulsing them in it. If you don’t have money for a lot of appliances, this can be used in place of a food processor at least for chopping, and in place of a mixer or drink making appliance. Vitamix can even be used to make juice by liquifying fruits or veggies then straining them in a mesh strainer, cheese cloth or nut milk bag. It is THAT freaking amazing!
My friend loves your blog and always send me post. Now, I am in love with it.
Check out 100daysofrealfood.com She’s got a recipe for a peanut butter and jelly smoothie. You could always add chocolate. Although I guess technically that would defeat that whole “healthy” thing.
I always throw a handful of baby spinach into the smoothies for my veggie hating son. We can them swamp juice and he drinks them up!
What I would do with my Vitamix? Throw my old blender into it and make a make a blender smoothie.
I make basically the same healthy protein shake every morning. Blueberries, bananas, almond milk and vanilla protein powder…but you know a good breakfast smoothie is orange juice bananas and strawberries. Mmmm
My blender also only slightly blends my smoothie for me leaving me with a lumpy smoothie that gets stuck in my straw 🙁 If I had a really good blender I would blend carrots, spinach and avocado.
I would make delicious healthy smoothies every morning and then pour the leftovers into popsicle molds for the littles to have again later.
Please be mine, sexy blender man!
Wow – this post is so popular, my computer froze for a looong time trying to process all the comments! Can you make soup in them too? I’d love to make lots of soups and smoothies! I would quite possibly go on an all liquid diet!
I would blend up all the frozen fruit and veggies in my freezer and see what happens.
Some of my favorite smoothies.
Peanut butter, frozen banana, chocolate syrup, ice and a little soft tofu, yogurt, or ice cream!
Frozen strawberries and blueberries with soft tofu or yogurt, plus a little karo syrup if you want it sweeter.
Orange juice and frozen strawberries.
Coconut cream or milk with chocolate ice cream – yeah super healthy.
I’m terrified of my blender! I always get the feeling the top is never on properly so he’ll spooge everwhere. 🙁
I have a blender that I think I just killed. At one time I think I called the blender pointless before I joined the Love Your Greens 30 Day Challenge. Smoothies everyday have really boosted my health.
I heart the Vitamix. OMG – I’m drooling…
I love you. That is all. Carry on.
You need to get a stick blender – blends in seconds, washes in no time 😉 Love the blog.
I’d blend smoothies for this cleanse I’m doing. I don’t know why I’m doing it anymore. It’s hard to think straight.
I’d blend up some strawberry/blueberry smoothies. Yum!
We do smoothies every day! Would LOVE a Vitamix!
I get the irrational hatred for a kitchen appliance. My blender has an “ice crush” button. . . which is clearly just a tease: it can’t blend liquidy things together! In what universe could it have the capacity to crush ice? It exists solely tease me with the potential for a delicious frosty beverage 🙁
Would. Love. This.
I would love a Vitamix to blend all those berries we pick during the summer for smoothies!
The way you drew the new blender reminded me just a little of “Magic Mike” (any scene with Channing Tatum in a bball hat dancing on stage). That blender *is* sexy.
How awesome that they sent you not one, but two super blenders! And how awesome of you to share the extra one. Love your blog and enjoyed your book.
I’d blend whatever I have in my fridge. I’m more of a fruit person than a veggie person but I would think some yogurt, carrots, apple and kale would make a good smoothie.
as a stay at home dad i usually make a smoothie for myself before the kids get up, and the another when they get up.
My favorites are
frozen bananas
water
protein powder
kale
frozen three berry mix
avocado
kale
almond milk
bananas
protein powder
I never use ours because I hate cleaning it, along with feeling the motor will blow up anytime.
In another, non preggo or bf’ing life, I’d make margaritas or some other fun adult drink. In my current life, I think I’d make salsa.
The Weelicious berry green smoothie is good
I’d make fruit smoothies and would be willing to try anything else you can possibly make with a blender!
I would so love this…favourite ingredients for smoothies are pretty lame, like berries, bananas, veggies…sorry I don’t have better ideas for you!
I NEEEEEEED a Vitamix. My blender claims to be a ninja. My blender is a freaking liar.
Smoothies are awesome. My no-fail combo is baby spinach, banana, dates (1 or 2), almond milk and cocoa powder. Mine usually ends up a bit chunky because I don’t have the Vitamixer, but my sister does and it is smooth and chocolatey. Great way to sneak in some greens into the wee folk (I mean kids, not short people).
I’d blend kale, cashews, whey protein power, mangos, raspberries, lime juice, and green tea leaves.
I’d blend some green stuff to make it healthy like spinach, & then a bunch of yummy fruit to make it tasty…green apples, strawberries, pineapples, grapes…YUM!!
wow I had to scroll reeeeeally low to post a comment 😉 Ok pick me pick me pick me! I need one of these babies 🙂 Great post BTW
My aunt has a vitamix. They are so nice, would love to have one of my own!
Wow! I love that you are getting sent things like cool blenders just for being really freakin’ funny. I dream of having a vitamix and an awesome juicer. We ditched our blender and just use a food processor, but that can’t do everything.
Mango Smoothies Baby!!! I would blend:
Mango
Yogurt
Banana
Ice
Vanilla
and chia seeds (hey why not?)
Sit back, relax, and sip in happiness.
Pretty sure that blender’s whispering sweet nothings in my ear…naughty blender.
I’d blend a peanut butter banana smoothie!
Blueberries, strawberries, coconut, spinach, yogurt, pineapples = not crappy.
I don’t know what I would blend . . . my kids don’t like smoothies. But I like them, so maybe a chocolate PB smoothie for myself!
Mmm….smoothies. Sometimes when I feel particularly healthy, I make a kale, almond milk, and blueberry smoothie. It’s ok tasting, not delicious. But the self-righteousness afterwards is totally worth it.
My blender is totally a punk. It crapped out on us while we were trying to make a mass amount of smoothies for a breakfast gathering we hosted. So… we had to borrow our neighbor’s blender. Which then crapped out on us. Stupid blenders.
I might actually make more smoothies if I had a blender that works. The kids and I love them, they are so awesome for on the go but so hard to make with a craptastic blender. Here’s to luck!
I would blend fruit smoothies for me, I’m gettin’ a little puffy. For the kid, protein shakes. She has eating issues so I have to get protein in her somehow.
wow. Are you reading all of these comments too?
Avocado pie filling
2 avocados, some lime juice, and a can of sweetened condensed milk. Blend and pour into a graham cracker pie crust and refrigerate… don’t forget cut-up strawberries to go on top when you serve it!
I add a couple of handfuls of spinach to every smoothie.
I would blend smoothies for my son and me. Banana’s strawberries, yogurt, and sneak in some healthy stuff! 😉 Also want to make baby food.
Whole fruit margaritas. No mix needed, and they must be healthy since I use fruit, right!
I want to finally blend my kids crap and say the blender ate it! your annoying drum sticks and maracas jumped in the blender and I didn’t mean to hit the button oops.
Have been wanting to try a green smoothie (like… with kale, or something green) but I’m too chicken. Plus, my blender is also a jerk. And a pain to clean.
I love pumpkin smoothies in the fall! Cinnamon, pumpkin, and milk or yogurt…yum!
I’ve always wondered if these are worth it!
WOOHOO! Love the blog, I would make a spinach banana and raspberry smoothie first!
I would trash my 5th crappy blender and pulverize veggies
Ohhhhh! I’d love to try one out. Honestly I want to see if it’s really better than my Oster.
that so rawks~ you are awesome to share such amazing gifty goodness with us. I’m sure smoothies rule with this blender!~
I would blend my green smoothies with kale, spinach, pineapple, green tea, bananas, apples, and vanilla protein powder YUM!
I would just love to make a shake or a smoothie and not have to shake my blender or stick a spoon it it. I think your old blender must have been related to my current one. SAVE ME!
Saw your book at the book store and thought, “this book is about me!” So I bought it for my husband.
I would blend yogurt, peaches and strawberries, yummy!!
I would blend up yummy smoothies for my boys. I have to be sneaky sneaky with the veggies with my oldest, so this would be the perfect cover. Oh, and chocolate milkshakes!
What a nice thing to do. I’d blend up cranberries, blueberries, apples and ice. Anything with cranberries is a win for me.
I almost bought one today at Costco. Despite not havin the money for one. I want to get more veggies into my diet so I’m looking to put a handful of spinach into just about everything. Baby kale too. Love the idea of ice cream with veggies in it for my kids too.
I want to love Smoothies, but I, too, have a jerk of a blender! Would love a Vitamix!
Peaches and vanilla yogurt!
This is AMAZING!!!! You should try Food Babe’s Hari Shake (google it); it’s amazing!!
Hahahahaha! What WOULDN’T I blend?
Actually, I think I would make monster batches of super nutritious sandwich spreads/dips to take to work since I have almost no time to actually cook “real” lunches with a four-hour commute (two each way!) and an infant in my life.
I can’t lie; I have no idea what I would blend in a blender of this magnitude. I would stand in awe of it in my kitchen. I would buy cookbooks that only use blenders so it would know I was serious. I would look to buy a new house because my old townhouse is not good enough for the likes of a Vitamix. I’d invite my friends over, and we’d all stand around staring at it. And when it’s all said and done, I might be too terrified of breaking it to use it.
Ohhh, how cool! I love that they gave you a free one…and that they’re cool with you giving away their mistake! I would love to have it…I would blend smoothies for us all the time!!!!!!
…specifically fruit smoothies, and I’d throw in the occasional ice cream fruit smoothie for a dessert.
I love, love, love this blog! And winning this blender would be so amazing! I’m trying to make things homemade and healthier for my family and having this little gem would make smoothies and soups a breeze! Congrats on your book, too!
We blend EVERYTHING! Kale, spinach, fruit, carrots, placenta! MMMMMMMM!
I would totally blend milk, banana, blueberry and honey. With vanilla ice cream.
My favorite green smoothie to make in a fancy blender is to combine a couple handfuls of spinach, 1 cup frozen blueberries, a sprinkling of cinnamon and for liquid I like to add almond milk. It sounds nasty, but it is surprisingly delicious!
Vitamix! I want one tooooooooo!
I don’t blend, but I will if you give me the blender. Maybe I’ll start a Vitamix blog!
I love making smoothies.
Oh, I’ve been making smoothies for my son and so wanted to smash my blender this morning because it wouldn’t blend the kale enough (I’ve heard many a friend swear their kids wouldn’t notice). So my son saw a few large flecks of something green and leafy and refused to drink his smoothie (to be fair, it wasn’t the best smoothie, but still…). Sigh.
I should have commented earlier because I had to scroll a LOT.
But PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE dear random internet lottery Gods pick me. I would blend beverages. Alcoholic ones. And I would share.
I usually make a simple smoothie. Bananas & Frozen berries with some yogurt. I love a simple mango smoothie as well. Thanks for the laughs Amber.
I would LOVE to get this blender! I, too, have the “rebel” blender that doesn’t like to blend much of anything unless it’s already mush. Therefore, I never use it. I would like to do more with a blender!
I hate my blender. It broke a wooden spoon today.
I WANT VITAMIX, BRAH!
I lust for you, Vitamix! Green smoothies for my little boys with nary a chunk of unblended spinach! Extra-puffy dutch baby pancake batter! Crossing fingers here.
The last blender I got made one smoothie then died all together.., and it was after i put all the ingredients in the blender to make a health (sort of) coffee smoothie.
I love my vitamix. My mother-in-law gave me her old one once she got a new one. I use it mostly for smoothies and just sort of… toss stuff in. My default is banana, apple, oatmeal (rolled oats, or instant packets), milk, peanut butter, protein powder, honey, and cinnamon. I’ve tried making broccoli soup in it but it turned out to be… green foam. That was entertaining. 🙂
2 things come to mind … fruit smoothies and fresh homemade salsa! Yes, please! :0)
We love making shakes!! I’d love to continue my obsession!!!
I have an Omega Juicer and LOVE it, but a Vitamix would be the perfect complement. I’m thinking of starting a juice fast soon to detox my system of all the crap I’ve been eating. 🙂
I have this chocolate hemp protein powder that I mix with frozen berries and spinach, but my bender never blends up the spinach well enough and it leaves chunks of frozen berries. So, that’s what I would use it for first.
I’ve ruined so many spoons sticking them down there trying to get the thing to blend! I need a sexy blender!
My favorite smoothie….avocado, milk, ice and agave!
Roasted tomato soup and THIS time, with the magic blender, it won’t taste like pasta sauce…
Wait until you see a Thermomix. Think vitamix, but better motor, and it can cook, steam and clean itself. Unfortunately you would have to get one from Canada, Australia or Europe – but if you do get one – let me know and i will send you a copy of some of the best cookbooks around.
http://corporate.vorwerk.com/en/divisions/thermomix-kitchen-appliance/
I would LOVE a Vitamix!!!!!! With it I would make lotd of soups and smoothies for my 3 little divas, plus margaritas and daquiris for mama! Lol
My blender fell into the sink and brroke. I am now using a mason jar and cant decide if it is trashy or hipster . Would love a vitamix for my green smoothies!
smoothies and drinks with umbrellas. 😉
Smoothies for my daughter so I can sneak in veggies!
I love your blog first off. Never fails to make me laugh. That being said this is an awesome give away and I would love to be the talk of the town! Hubby and I drink a lot of smoothies and it would be great to have a blender that I don’t feel like tossing across the room when I don’t have enough liquid to solid ratio in it!
Almost forgot.. its super awesome of you to pay for the shipping yourself!
holy
holy smokes, that’s a lot of comments… i’d like a fancy blender 🙂
What an awesome giveaway! I have heard such great things about Vitamix blenders.
Love the butt plug comment 🙂
My family loves chocolate ice cream with bananas 🙂
I would see if I could get the smoothest hummus of my life!
My boys live on blueberry, strawberry and yogurt smoothies.
Hot soups!!
I love your blog, and it’s insanely rad of you to give away your extra Vitamix. I’ve never had the pleasure of a real smoothie…I live out in the sticks and have a jerk blender. I’m pretty sure his name is Steve. My first concoction would be blueberries, bananas, and strawberries. Yogurt for healthy protein, ice cream for a treat. 🙂 Thanks!
Such a great giveaway! Hurray for Vitamix!
Would love a Vitamix. I bought the Ninja from Costco last year for smoothies & it does all right, but what you can do w/ a Vitamix completely blows the Ninja out of the water!!
Oh what I would make with that sexy beast. I’m currently pregnant so I would definitely have to make my favorite strawberry, peach, pineapple and orange combination smoothie. It’s amazing and then is the most incredible frozen desert ever. Yum.
You can blend anything in a Vitamix – at work we’d grind spices and (no kidding) rose petals in it.
The first thing I’d make would be a vanilla date smoothie – in my old (now broken) blender, the dates just congealed at the bottom and didn’t actually blend. Then I’d probably make some kind of bourbon slushie.
I’d probably do my standard banana, spinach, berries, yogurt. But then I’d have to experiment with some other combos and add things I never would have thought of before like carrots and other veggies.
Thanks for the post! How exciting, I have been COVETING this blender for far too long. I would make smoothies for my kids everyday, and use them to hide all the little veggies that I cannot EVER get them to actually look at without running off
Love it that you made us read all the way to the end and didn’t tip your hand with “Giveaway” in the title of the post. But there are still over 4000 people competing, so I don’t hold out much hope!
I would blend everything in our garden and make popsicles. YUM.
I have a hand-held blender that I absolutely love, but I wouldn’t complain if someone were to give me a Vitamix for free. 🙂 I would definitely make lots of smoothies–I love including plain yogurt, honey, cinnamon, and vanilla with anything I blend.
what wouldn’t I blend up?? I think we’d do a lot of smoothies to begin with, but I’m open to new ideas! 🙂
Wife and I are big Kitchen Ninja fans. Our pitcher just cracked after two or three years of using it nearly every day so we’re in the market for a new one. A free vitamix would be better though! Try frozen passion fruit pulp (usually found in the freezer section of grocery stores that have good mexican stuff and Goya brand products) mixed with sweetened condensed milk and some canned milk too. It makes a delicious mousse.
I’d actually make the green smoothies I’ve been wanting to make for a long time now!
I got nothing to say I just want a vitamix! kale, strtawberries, mango, strawberry, coupla cranberries, a scoop of supergreen, maybe some oj or yogurt. Whatever, I’m easy.
oh my gosh!!! i would so love to have a vitamix. we make smoothies on a nearly daily basis! i have an american address to ship to too 😉 you are very sweet for doing this!!
I love making smoothies using Carnation Breakfast Essentials (chocolate), milk, bananas, and raspberries. It’s yummy and filling!
I have like a billion about to be bad bananas in the freezer begging to be made into smoothies. 🙂
I would blend everything if I had a Vitamix. Just to blend stuff. Our household would be on a liquid diet for a while, just so we could use the Vitamix. The dog & cat would have to eat powdered food because I would blend their kibble.
Phew…that was a lot of scrolling. I would make hot and cold soups…and I might try a smoothie for the kiddo. Never actually tried one yet.
Green Smoothies!
My blender makes a bubble and spins like crazy, doing nothing. When I open it to look in and fix it, the bubble pops and splashes me in the face. Love your blog and your book!
I love reading your blog! It’s so nice to know that others are experiencing similar things as moms but that you are brave enough to blog about it with a dose of laughter!
We love smoothies and vegetable juices in my house and that’s exactly what we would be blending up!
I could only dream of owning one of these! My daughter and I are smoothie addicts but this would make life so much easier!
I’d blend strawberries and vodka.
Thanks for the giveaway offer!
I would love the chance to win a Vitamix! Thanks for the chance. I have a smoothie every morning for breakfast and my children are now begging for one of their own. I can sneak lots of veggies in with a Vitamix!
I forgot to mention what is in my smoothie….almond milk, chocolate protein powder, chia seeds, frozen strawberries and spinach. So good!
I would blend up my own Bloody Mary mix!
I make a fruit smoothie every day with apple juice yogurt blueberries strawberries and a banana for the whole fam. Last iChat we had to break out two blenders to try to get through it. Oh how I’d love to get this Vitamix. Right now I juice the veggies prior to adding to smoothie in the blender. I love to add cucumber, spinach and carrot by juicing first.
Love reading your blog. Makes me smile when I am having a crappy day 🙂 I have been eyeing this blender for some time now, would be really cool if I can win one.
Oh by the way, I would blend spinach(power food), apples, some of my favourite berries, banana, some PBJ, with some low fat greek yogurt or vanilla flavoured almond milk.
We have a crappy little hand blender and I have managed to make a huge mess all over our kitchen multiple times with the thing!
You’re so right, everyone wants one! so-oranges, banana, little ice, little stevia, honey, or agave. YUM!
I’d have my husband make his killer smoothies and no longer have to go to Jamba!
Winning this would be AMAZING! I would blend yogurt and fruit and maybe some veggies. Or ice and coffee. Or make my old almond butter.
My dad makes this wonderful liver cleanse smoothie with ice, bananas, ginger, lemon and parsley. So I’d make one of those. And then drink it while I blended more tasty things.
I would blend:
ginger + anything
OR
fresh fruit + tequila for a summer afternoon treat
(have you ever been a CSA member? you’d probably end up with some fruit/veggie ideas for blending from the produce in your box, especially when you get overloaded with a certain fruit/veggie)
Anything from my garden (spinach, kale, berries, cucumbers)
I’d do smoothies with berries/juice/spinach (really you don’t taste it, I promise)/yogurt and some powered sugar. Its not the healthiest (like honey) but it makes it tasted good! 🙂 My husband likes to make milk shakes.
I actually have a pretty decent blender, but I would LOVE to have a Vitamix!!!
Oooh, a Vitamix! Awesome. I love to make smoothies but I hate my blender because it does a lousy job with the frozen strawberries.
I would love to have a Vitamix for my family of five!
Mmm, some chocolate banana milkshakes or strawberry banana smoothies sound amazing right now!
We joined a CSA this summer, so a vitamix will help us enjoy all of the delicious veggies!
I have a sad, mostly non-working blender, too. It’s better than the one it replaced, though.
I first read your blog when a friend shared your post about trying on Spanx. I have your book and even the bookplate sticker. My kids were super jealous of the sticker. I commented for the first time on your post about motherhood that made me (and a lot of other moms) cry and laugh.
A Vitamix has been on my wishlist since I got married. My blender is also a jerk. It also leaks all over, which freaks me out, so I don’t use it much. My kids love smoothies and shakes, so I’d just start tossing in random things to try out.
mixed berries, coconut oil, coconut milk, banana, and spinach.
I would so love a vitamix. I love smoothies but hate to go through the exact process you describe every morning when I go to make one…thus I never make one for my kids! Too much work!
Wow, thanks for the opportunity!
I would make smoothies every morning 🙂
Yes, please!
I am experiencing a similar situation with our juicer. I am cheap. And $60 vs. $600… well of course I went with the cheap ass juicer. It takes FOREVER to make the “green” drink that everyone says will change your life. Kale, cucumber, spinach, romaine lettuce, celery, green apple, and lemon. Well, if making me crazy because the damn juicer doesn’t work counts as life changing… then they’re right. But I’d rather just get a Vitamix 🙂
We love smoothies in our house but I also love making salsa in the blender
I’d definitely make margs, soups, smoothies, anything I can get my hands on. Oh and I’m local in the OC-I’d even come pick it up so you have $ to buy more fruits and veggies 🙂
Easier to say what I wouldn’t blend. Which would really be neither answer o your gross question, thanks for the chuckle.
But to start green smoothies, nut butters, hummus, soup, and home made ice cream sounds great.
I just found out you were at the Gaithersburg book festival today. And i missed it. 🙁
I’ve been wanting a vitamix for a long time, but haven’t been able to cough up the cash. I like making green smoothies, but it’s a real chore with a regular blender.
My husband broke the blender while replacing the gasket – he dropped the glass part on the floor and it broke. So we have been blenderless for months and I’m dying for some good smoothies.
Oh how I would loooove this! Our family has had crappy blender syndrome for the longest time! And it would be a great way to get my toddler to try new things…!! Oh I hope I win!
This is hilarious. For years I have heard nothing but love about the Vitamix.Instead, I just use our old blender until everything smells smokey. I’d mix up a mean strawberry banana peanut butter smoothie. More like milk shake.
I’d branch into green smoothies! Our crappy blender just bunches the greens together and they whirl around in a clump. Oh, I covet a Vitamix!
I gave up on regular blenders a long time ago. We have a stick blender, but now it makes this horrible metal on metal/squealing dying animal noise. It’s awful. I would try green smoothies, blend soups, and in a few months, blend up veggies for baby food.
I just made a batch of green monster smoothies! Which my oldest won’t eat because “smoothies aren’t supposed to be green”.
I love blending smoothies – strawberries, yogurt, OJ, blueberries. I have heard a blender is great for crepe batter, but I haven’t tried it yet.
I make the same smoothie *all the time*. Strawberries, bananas, and orange juice. I try to change it up once in a while but always get outvoted by the little people in the house. Smoothies for one, anyone?
I’ve had 3 blenders die on me since Thanksgiving. My poor food processor is trying to keep up, but it’s just not working out. I like to puree veggies like kale and spinach and freeze in ice cube trays for use in cooking and smoothies. I also want to make my own coconut milk and flour from fresh coconuts. This Vitamix would be perfect for that.
I’d make baby food for my little monster.
My blender stinks!
I love making green smoothies with my crappy inefficient blender. Kale, apple, banana, frozen strawberries, OJ, sometimes kefir, or kombucha and some raw honey. DELICIOUS. You should make it. Or, whatever. No pressure.
What about if we have a Canadian address… and are willing to pay our own shipping/duty? I would love to have one of these! 🙂
Green smoothies are awesome! A secret way to sneak in vitamins and minerals, and your kids will still love ’em!
I have been meaning to start making smoothies again now that the weather is warm… have all the ingredients in my freezer but am also afflicted with a crappy blender! I’m looking forward to making my first kale smoothie. I’ve been told that kale + cherries is a delish combo!
my blender was a wedding present. marraige still going strong. blender on its last blade. I hope I win!
Yay! I love your blog! And your book!
My husband makes really good breakfast smoothies:
A cup of chopped strawberries, one cup chopped mango, one peeled/chopped apple, one banana, 1/2 a cup of yogurt of your favorite flavor, one tablespoon flax seed, and sometimes a little chocolate syrup!
I love mango pineapple smoothies. But we get a ton of kale from our CSA, and there’s no way our weak blender could handle it, though I’d love to try them!!
My blender and I have been separated for a while. I’ve been waiting for a vitamix so I can finally just end all attachment to it!
I would make peanut butter, and milkshakes, and soup and salsa and everything delicious!
I’m actually using our seven-year-old, on-its-last-legs Smartstick to make me home induction not suck quite so much (equal parts favorite juice and castor oil, about 1/3 cup vanilla ice cream, and a dropperfull each of blue cohosh, black cohosh, and cotton bark tinctures). Please, please, please baby, COME OUT. You are 18 days late (not that anybody’s counting) and I am DESPERATE!
Can I toss a whole chicken in there just to see what happens?
I have a tree full of avocados right now so you should try those – they make yummy, less fruity, more filling smoothie with bananas and honey.
Greek yogurt and frozen fruit (blueberries, mangoes and peaches). Bananas tend to overwhelm the other flavors, so use them sparingly.
Oh the stuff I’d blend! Smoothies daily but also soups and sauces and well, more stuff!
I used to work at this crazy awesome restaurant and when we got our first vitamix all the guys [and it was all guys except for me] got totally giddy. Family meals were liquid for a while. I’ve wanted my own ever since.
I have no website, no two-way promotional bribes, no great powers of the mind to hypnotise you, no computer hacking skills to rig the random winner generator and NO VITAMIX. I do have desperation. That is what I am entering this competition with 🙂 Amen.
I have never seen or heard of this blender before, but I assume that it’s awesome-sauce.
I have been drooling over the idea of owning a Vitamix for a looong time. I would make smoothies, soups, nut milks, almond butter, and probably a fair amount of ice-cream. This is the best giveaway ever!
Gazpaaaacho. A Vitamix calls for a large amount of gazpacho. 🙂
Oh the delicious, nutricious things I would blend for my toddler… and when he goes to bed, mama is making cocktails! win/win!
I’d make a “super shake” in the hopes of getting “super powers” – you know, all the stuff that’s supposed to be REALLY good for you, but isn’t always so easy to work in to your day. It would be something like this: Kale, avocado, carrots, apples, mango, blueberries, strawberries, and orange juice. Mmmm…kale… (I’m REALLY TRYING to like kale…)
frozen berry, ripe banana, and yogurt (and hidden spinach) smoothies!
I love your blog (especially the cloth diaper related stuff)!
I would blend oreos, icecream, and Bailey’s. Mmmm oreo mudslide 😀
I don’t want to want this thing but I want it. Sigh.
I also want to be one for planning but no matter how hard I try what I bought for X is never still in the fridge when I go to get it. So I suspect I’d blend up whatever I found in the fridge. Or freezer. Or both.
My grandmother has one of these and won’t shut up about how great it is and all the great soups she makes in the winter time and all the great fruit smoothies she makes in the summer. She then had a brilliant idea to buy one for me and each of my siblings for Christmas last year, I was psyched! Christmas came and went and we got movie tickets and homemade scarves instead. She totally forgot, but not wanting to be ungrateful and a total d bag, I thanked her for the gifts and put the blender on my “saving for” list.
Not sure what the reason she didn’t get you and your siblings the promised Vitamixs, but cost may have been a factor, not her forgetting about it, just saying. Movie tickets and homemade scarves, however lovely, don’t cost a whole lot.
If cost isn’t a problem for her, then you could always mention this awesome giveaway, and that might be enough to jog her memory, in a nice non-judgemental way.
Not to sound too greedy but if anyone even half mentioned the possibility of a Vitamix coming my way, I know that I’d do everything – politely, that is – to ensure that it happened. You are definately a better person than I am!
Thanks for this offer; love your blog! From, a non-parent 🙂
My blender is a jerk too. I would love a sexy new blender!
That’s pretty awesome to get a vitamix in the mail! Hope I get one, too!
I’d made a smoothie with veggies hidden in it for my kids!
Wow that is awesome that they sent you two!!! I would love to win this it sounds amazing.
Would love to win your extra blender!
LOVE this blog!!!! Have wanted a Vitamix since forever. Will blend juices, veggies, soup….you name it!
Love you Amber, and your crappy children!
I owned a little coffee shop inside of a little book store once upon a time and I had a Vitamix blender for the smoothies we made. I was foolish. OH SO FOOLISH. I sold my Vitamix with the rest of my equipment when I decided that the Mom gig trumped the struggling coffee shop gig. I have lamented that decision these past 6+ years… Favorite combo in the coffee shop was pineapple juice with peaches, mango, and banana. We also added a dairy base to make it creamy. At home in my pathetic Target Special blender I use yogurt in place of that powdered dairy base, and the peaches and mango are frozen so you don’t have to dilute the yumminess with ice. I miss you, Vitamix…
I would make margaritas! And Chile Sauce. And almond milk. And a zillion wonderful things!
I’ve always seen these at Costco and wished I could justify buying one! It’d be perfect not to have to 🙂
I would love for my kids to ask me for juice and to say “no problem!” and head to the kitchen to whip up some delicious veggie/ fruit blend – apple/carrot/orange juice? strawberry banana smoothies? *fingers crossed*
Today is the day for blenders. I used my (loser) blender 3 times today. Which is unusual. I made banana blender pancakes, blender zucchini bread, and a smoothie. If I had a Vitamix I would make something cooler like a margarita.
Juice of three oranges, 2 cups buttermilk, handful of ice, splash of vanilla. Refreshing, delicious!
That sounds really good! Like a healthier version of the Orange Julius at the mall. Do they still have those? I never go to the mall!
Hmmm, I know I should try to make a healthy green drink with lots of spinach and kale, but I would probably make chocolate milkshakes and margaritas! Yum!
We are trying to do less carbs, and more fruit and veggies in our household, so this would be wonderful! We’d try some sort of protein/spinach/fruit smoothie!
BLEND ALL THE THINGS!!!!!!!!
We make a smoothie everyday for breakfast in our own crappy blender! Banana, spinach, flax seed and pineapple. SOOOOO GOOOD. <3
Oh yeah, I know this issue, blenders that don’t blend. Just, please don’t use it as Will it blend? 😀
I’d blend juices/smoothies with hidden veggies so I can snick in more veggies in my hubbies and lil man’s diets. Haha…so evil of me.
I love to make pesto with the basil from my garden olive oil and walnuts, but if I try to make a whole batch, my blender chokes just before the pesto get thick enough. I end up doing it in many tiny little batches.
I would blend lots of veggies. I can’t eat them, so blending them would be the best way to get them!
i would blend berries, icecream and ice- the berries make it healthy right?
Try blending strawberries, blueberries, banana, and wheat germ. You can add milk if it seems to acidy. Yum!
I’ve been dreaming of a Vitamix for years. I would blend all my delicious Paleo smoothies!
Blend ALL the things!!
mmm, green smoothies…
I would love it if you set me up with a hot, new sexy blender! My current blender is a loser. I have been fantasizing about dumping him for a Vitamix for so long!
I make kefir smoothies for my family everyday and dreeeeaaaaammmm of a Vitamix 🙂
This. Blend this: http://thisholistichouse.com/?p=153 Cherry mint lime smoothie. It will rock your world in a really, REALLY good way.
love your blog! loved your book! would love a vitamix. make my own FLOUR?? i gotta know. this is a great idea, btw. thank you for your generosity!!
Lemon tarts.
Would love one of these beasts! Soup, pesto, dressings, it would all be on.
OMG I know what you mean about sexy…I want one so bad!
Frozen bananas, nutella…..BEST ICE CREAM EVER!
Thanks for the opportunity.
I’d make green smoothies! I have a blender, but like yours it is crappy and refuses to blend ice. 🙂
I have all kinds of blender stories – like they’re out to get me. Anything from the plastic getting shredded into my smoothie and not noticing until I drink it, to my first job out of college answer customer complaint calls about the bobby flay blender…Glad to hear I’m not the only one! Vitamix does sound sexy 😉
After all the scrolling, I’m going to need to blend something more fortifying than a soothie! Perhaps a tequila smoothie.
I’m in the same boat as you were before you got your fancy blender. My blender sucks and I don’t even try to use it anymore.
I would love a Vitamix. Actually, my husband would love a Vitamix. He makes smoothies for our girls because I refuse to use our crappy blender.
I love your blog and love your book! It is so generous of you to give away your extra Vitamix! I’m going to give it to my sister if I win!
That blender is so sexy~
You are awesome!!! My kids love smoothies as well and we make them pretty much every day, even during the winter. I have never tried to blend whole carrots or veggies though. My guess is that my blender would simply explode. 🙂
Smoothies, obvs. But also soups and nut butters. I hate natural peanut butter, but I think I could get into it if I made it myself. And almond butter…drooling at the thought.
Fantastic idea about the vitamix! What we abuse our crappy blender with is, grinding coffee beans. We have 4 kids under 5 and cannot justify buying a separate thingy to grind coffee. Don’t judge. LOL ! We often “covet” the vitamix and fantasize that someday we will win the lottery or something and get one so our crappy blender can be called the “coffee grinder”.
See? THEN we’d be hip like that…
With a vitamix, I imagine going to farmer’s markets and buying stuff our kids would NEVER eat, grind them up into something sweet and smoothie-like. They would become the smartest kids EVER !!
Thanks for being generous and giving folks a chance at the sweet life of fabulously blended everythings !! You rock – as usual !!
I’d blend up lots of smoothies! Spinach is great to add because it’s so healthy, but you can’t taste it!
Vitamixes rule!
I wish I could say I would make super-healthy fruit and veggie smoothies all day long. I would probably make yummy milkshakes and pina coladas. Lots of pina coladas.
OMG. my jerk blender hates me, too. fingers crossed for the big guns.
That bad boy would sure look great on my counters…and I’d have a much better time getting my kiddo to drink his daily gingko/ginseng/valerian drink. Sigh… Crossing fingers!!!
I make smoothies with frozen strawberries, banana, yogurt, spinach, ground flax and water.
I have a good 10lbs of frozen fruit in my freezer. Blender died on me, a better question would be what wouldn’t I blend
I see lots and lots of delicious vegetable soup in my future 🙂
Just found your site because a friend like your Facebook page and I’ve been having lot’s of fun reading your recipes and posts. Hey it says I can answer questions to earn more chances to win. How do I do that? Where are the questions?
I’d make everything. Ice cream, soup, smoothies. I make a lot of smoothies and they’re totally cheweable b/c my current blender can’t handle celery, kale, etc. It can’t handle much beyond yogurt and juice, in fact. I think it is friends with your old one.
I have been coveting a Vitamix for years! We just got back from a cruise, so for sure I would blend up a fruity rum drink like we had last week.
Now I want a smoothie… and my blender sucks!!! :*(
I would blend up some cheesecake batter. Or vanilla bean ice cream.
I love blending spinach with bananas or strawberries.. freeze them and serve as ice cream.
Berries…of EVERY sort…with a little oj and yogurt thrown in for good measure 🙂
My family saw a guy demonstrating this blender in Whole Foods one day. We immediately fell in love. The next time we have some extra funds, we plan to buy one. Make sure you try the ice cream recipes and the soups.
Sophia
I love blending spinach and fruit because you cannot taste it, and fruit is delicious!
I really like green smoothies (kale, OJ, carrots, spinach, apple) It is good for you and tastes yummy because the OJ hides the healthy.
I hate my blender. My food processor isn’t much better either. I make these really yummy burgers out of chickpeas (think, healthier falaffal) that takes FOREVER in what I have now. I would LOVE to win this so I could make them more often. I also have a great recipe for a sundried tomato bean dip.
I would blend up nuts to make nut butters. My crappy blender won’t even consider such atrocity.
Fun! I would blend smoothies for the kids & iced coffee for myself. I’m pretty sure my current blender can’t even blend liquid . . .
I would blend up spinach and frozen fruit with some maca powder for an afternoon pick me up 😛
I’m glad I’m not the only one with blender issues!
Oh yeah–the seductive glance of that fine piece of metal is getting to me. I will throw my hat in with 62,000 hopeful others! My 10-year-old wedding gift blender just emulsified its last, with one final puff of smoke and a hint of burning rubber. Blending is about the only way I can get anything green in to either of my Peanuts. This would be fortuitous indeed!
I would make homemade almond milk!
I would make gazpacho (maybe even a white gazpacho!), smoothies, I don’t even know all of the possibilities!
Margaritas for starters!
I’d make amazing hummus in mine!! 😀
Try bananas, strawberries, and pineapple with some coconut milk. It’s tropical heaven. (Add some rum and it’s even better)
Love your site and wish I had a Vitamix blender!
OOOH! My dream blender. I have a similar blender situation and would love to take it to the donation bin! My one year old and I could enjoy lovely frozen smoothies all summer long! Pick me! Pick me!!!
First time commenter, long time reader… I’m not a mom but most of my friends are. I think your blog is hilarious! And, I’d blend an awesome margarita.
I too have a jerk of a blender. How I would love to dance a jig at its sad sad face as I say goodbye to it and hello to sexy. You’ve perfectly captured the feeling!
We love smoothies at my house. I always sneak some spinach in, and the kids never notice!
My husband gave me your book as a birthday present and I loved it so much I stayed up reading it longer than I needed to while I had to get up to pump/feed our daughter in the middle of the night! It rings so true. And I would mix up yogurt, mango and berries in my first-time-vitamix use! thanks.
Wanted one for years myself!
Wow, it took me about 5 minutes to scroll down to the end so that I could leave a comment!! Love your crappy pictures, and that Vitamax looks sooo sexy!
i’m not creative and can only think of smoothies and milk shakes! lol
I love making yogurt and kale smoothies. My blender now works, but it’s on its last legs.
wow.
I used to have a Vitamix but lost it in the divorce. I loved it so. Made amazingly smooth green smoothies with avocado, whole citrus (peeled!), nuts, flax, etc. Made great bean purees and hummus. Those were the days!
My favorite smoothie is one banana, handful of spinach, frozen blueberries, a spoonful of peanut butter and milk. Yum!
Oh, I would so love to own a Vitamix, honest! I could make really fine (yeah, pun intended!) agua frescas with all sorts of fruits. Healthy and yummy! (and when no one’s looking, a splash of white wine and it’s party time!)
Not sure what the reason she didn’t get you and your siblings the promised Vitamixs, but cost may have been a factor, not her forgetting about it, just saying. Movie tickets and homemade scarves, however lovely, don’t cost a whole lot.
If cost isn’t a problem for her, then you could always mention this awesome giveaway, and that might be enough to jog her memory, in a nice non-judgemental way.
Not to sound too greedy but if anyone even half mentioned the possibility of a Vitamix coming my way, I know that I’d do everything – politely, that is – to ensure that it happened. You are definately a better person than I am!
I don’t even have a blender but I’ve been dying to give my son veggie/fruit smoothies. Also, I just got your book as a present for Mother’s Day and it’s awesome!
Green smoothies!!!
Wow, so awesome. I’d love one!
Do frozen alcoholic drinks count? 🙂
Wow that’s a lot of comments but it’s worth a try, right?
Yes! I will be just as happy as you to receive a free blender! Awesome!
i would do what you did… blend up anything i had especially if it was getting questionable. i think ripe bananas would almost work with anything you wanted to sweeten up.
What would I blend? I’d add bigger fruits and veggies that my current blender couldn’t dream of pulverizing. My favorite green smoothie recipe, however, is as follows:
1 cup chocolate almond milk
1/2 cup vanilla greek yogurt
1-2 T peanut butter
2 handfuls spinach or kale
1 frozen ripe banana
Add to the blender in the order listed. Enjoy immensely.
Woot! You got good karma going on. Our staple smoothie here at home includes cramming our crappy blender full of fresh baby spinach, then pouring in some aloe vera, green plant juice from Trader Joes, a pear, sometimes some pineapple. The trick is to keep greens and reds from combining in the same smoothie because the color they make when blended is, well, swamp. Lately, I throw in some breastmilk and probiotics and freeze it into popcicles for my toddler. Poor fool thinks it’s his birthday every day.
love your blog!
I bought a blender and returned it the very next week. I know the feeling!
I love your blog and would love a Vitamix!
I’d make soup like all the time with a vitamix
Eeeee, this sounds like the king of blenders. I mean, I think a blender should be in every house. If only to shredder Gremlins in an emergency situation. 😉
I usually make mango lassi – mango (real fruit or, if not available, mango nectar from the asian supermarket), yoghurt, optionally milk. Sweeten as needed (or not). Delicious!!
oh I might be willing to give up a kidney for a Vitamix. Wait, a kidney should be worth more than that, right? I guess it certainly would be if I was making myself yummy, healthy smoothies with a Vitamix 😉
Oh wow, what a generous giveaway. You are *so* two blenders awesome!
Also, Pumpkin soup. Cut a hokkaido pumpkin in half, spoon out the seeds, rub cut and inner side with olive oil and put two (pierced, not peeled) cloves of garlic into the halves (one each). Put into the oven for 1,5 hours around 180 degrees or until soft. Spoon out the flesh, add 1/2 cups of veggie or chicken stock, add 200mg of sour cream or creme freche and blend the hell out of it. Good against stomach aches and general feelings of hunger. 😛
I would LOVE this blender. I’d make everything in it. Fruit smoothies, veggie smoothies, dinner smoothies, frosting, face soap puree… Okay, I’m kind of joking. I’d make pina colada’s and definitely smoothies of all kinds. I LOVE them, plus they’re filling when I don’t have time for a healthy snack. I’m a first time mom of a highly attentive 4 month old and would also use it to make his baby food. He’s breastfed so I’m trying to make sure to keep as much just out of his system as possible at this age. 😉 I actually stumbled on this site by accident at one bleary-eyed night feeding, and I love it.
I would desperately love a Vitamix, because my son and I have food allergies, and need to be able to make safe nut butters and flours at home, but as you say, normal blenders suck ass at that.
I would totally use it for fruit smoothies. I know I’m SO original. But I gotta lose my baby weight and what better way to do it than go on a healthy diet with fruit smoothies?
I use my blender (and experience the same frustrations you mentioned) frequently for pureeing steamed cauliflower to sneak into things like my 3-year-old’s scrambled eggs and homemade mac n’ cheese (idea from the book “Deceptively Delicious” by Jessica Seinfeld).
Also, use it to make smoothies out of frozen banana, berries, plain yogurt, orange juice and honey (sometimes fresh spinach snuck in there, too). Some of the smoothie mix I freeze in popsicle molds for the 3-year-old. She loves them, and I love that they are relatively healthy.
I’m pregnant with our 2nd, and this time around I think I’ll also be trying to blend up some homemade baby food – something I wasn’t brave enough to do last time.
Sounds like a vitamix would make all that way easier!
An interesting smoothie combination that I found is half a cantaloupe, 1/2 C. of plain yogurt, 1 c. raspberries, and 3 T. sugar.
Love mangoes, strawberries, peaches, blueberries with a little honey and milk. Delicious!
Thanks for sharing your sweet blender with us!
OH, and I recommend coconut milk, pineapple and cinnamon. It’s makes a delicious dessert smoothie!
I haven’t had a blender of my own since…..ever! I have to say hand blenders and even mixers are the worst idea ever. I gave up trying to make smoothies since disasters of the 2 ideas! So, I would make all the Pinterest drink recipes I haven’t been able to yet! Though a homemade orange julius might just be first in line! Then a chocolate peanut butter banana greek yogurt smoothie second 😀
Having a vitamix would complete me. Not really, but I’d love to win! Please please please…
I’ve heard great things about those blenders! I’m a big fan of carrot, mango, & spirulina with a little vanilla yogurt. Yum!
When my mom cracked some vertebrae we blended beat juice and kiwi- beats are great for bone health and the kiwi made it no so beet-y!
I’d blend fruits, veggies and add sprinkles of wheatgerm and flaxseed.
My husband and I were just talking about crappy blenders today and then I saw this post! I would love to win one that truly works!
You are awesome!
Oops, I didn’t write what I would blend- fruit smoothies with spinach!
I’d be willing to try the whole green smoothie thing if I had a super-fancy blender. This is one kind of peer pressure I think I’d be ok giving in to.
Whoo-hoo! Yea for Vitamix! Yea for Amber! That’s thoughtful of you both!
Is it bad that I might make a crap-load of Pina Coladas instead of healthy smoothies?
I swear it is like reading about my life and you make me laugh my tush off! Thank you!
Hummus and soups. And smoothies all the time.
I would probably blend up anything and everything I could think of…including any vegetable or fruit that had a pit….I live on the wild side!
Hi!! I am so excited about the prospect of a new blender!! You are so awesome for doing this. Thank you.
I forgot to post what I’d blend!! I’d likely be lazy and blend up fruit smoothies. But how awesome does a milkshake sound?
I would make green smoothies!
I would make smoothies and banana muffins and anything that involves chocolate… or ice cream… because the baby in my belly likes ice cream… it’s not me. I swear.
smoothies, soups, baby food! ice cream sounds good too. 🙂
I would totally make a pina colada!
I would make milkshakes, summer is here and who doesnt love milkshakes?
I have always wanted a vitamix!!!!!!!
My kid loves smoothies too and I hate making them too. My blender died a slow death years ago and I’ve been using my food processor. It’s just not getting the smoothie job done.
I’d definitely be blending up fruit smoothies… My blender is dying right now too and I can’t do anything even partially firm in it (like no frozen strawberries) or it just stops spinning. Booo!
Mint Chocolate Chip “ice cream”
Handful of spinach,
1/2 avocado
1/4 cup agave nectar or honey
3 drops of peppermint essential oil or peppermint extract
blend up real good then add about 2-3 cups of ice cubes. blend to ice cream consistency then stir in about a cup of chocolate chips.
if you don’t eat it all at once I find it is best to spoon the leftovers into popsicle molds and freeze so it is easier to serve.
LOVE your blog! Stumbled on it via several other “click here” links…so glad I did! I find myself endlessly giggling as I have flashbacks to my kids’ exploits when they were younger. Everyone in my office has been chatting and “drooling” over getting a Vitamix…seems the latest juicing diet has hit home. I would totally use it to make smoothies and juice all sorts of stuff in an attempt to get my kids to “eat” their veggies under the guise of drinking juice…moms have to stick together! Thanks!!!!!!!
I would actually make the smoothies my kids keep asking me for. Maybe I could sneak some veggies in to the 2yo who will only eat bread and fruit. Ugh, kids are buttholes sometimes.
Some mistakes are way better than others! Thanks for sharing with us!
I am happy for your blending! I thought it was just the way of blenders, that they all suck. It’s good to hear that there are some good ones out there…maybe I’ll get lucky!
P.S. I like to blend frozen fruit with vanilla almond milk with some sweetener of some kind and usually a protein powder to round it out as a meal replacement. 🙂
I love your blog! I don’t even have kids yet and I read every post and look forward to your updates.
We also had an asshole blender. I just got rid of him.
Now I have no way to make a milkshake, which is what I want. No need.
anything, but no bugs or worms please.
I hope they know you’re doing this give away 🙂
I’d blend fruit, yogurt, spinach and juice. The interesting part would be my toddler would actually drink it this time because the Vitamix wouldn’t leave the flecks of fruit skin that freak him out when he tries to drink a smoothie made in our current blender.
Apple and blueberry. Mostly at this point, though, I just kinda want to see what a butt plug looks like.
I would blend all the things! 😉
I would definitely use it for baby food! Baby food and my favorite smothie, banana, peanut butter, chocolate and yogurt, mmm!
Love your site. No one makes me hide in the bathroom to read some hilarious stuff like you do. My blender sucks big time. I love to make smoothies using frozen fruit and sugar free orange drink mix. Using the frozen fruits saves you from watering them down with ice.
Love the blog and could really use the blender for my smoothie loving family!
i want to try something with spinach and chia seeds!
hummus!
What an awesome mistake! And do kind if you to share the love. :-). We don’t do anything too weird here… All kinds of smoothie though!
I would love a Vitamix blender! I would make fun drinks with ice (my current blender is of the old and crappy variety, and I’m scared to put ice into it). Alcoholic drinks, non-alcoholic drinks, all would be good!
I’d blend pineapple juice & yogurt and make popsicles 🙂 And make lots of smoothies for my kids! I think it’s awesome you’re giving away a vitamix!
I would make the green smoothies my kids love. And I want to try making soup in it!! Have fun!
Lots of fruit and lots of ice cream concoctions would be blended. I would weep with joy if this blender appeared on my front porch!
Bacon. AND EVERYTHING.
Green smoothies, margaritas, and Popsicles 🙂
My good friend works at our local brewery, and we’ve been experimenting with spent grain from the brewing process. We’ve tried coffee grinders and food processors, but a sexy butt plug blender might do just the trick!
I don’t have facebook or twitter. Would be willing to join both for a Vitamix as my current blender sucks. And the lid is missing. So stuff goes everywhere unless I put something over it. Like my hand if I’m being lazy.
our blender is evil, too! and my kids love smoothies so to blend them up i have to run it like forever and they wear sound canceling headphones (the kind my husband uses to mow the lawn) while i blend! we love avocado, banana, coconut milk smoothies (sounds gross but is really good) if we had a better working one, i’d add a bit of greens (leaf of kale, etc.) we call them green smoothies that make them strong and run faster, climb higher, swing faster, etc. they drink them up!
I want to make ice cream!
*sigh* non-crappy blender envy
I would LOVE a Vitamix. I would do smoothies, sauces, soups, etc.
omg omg wishing on a crappy star. dreaming of pureed baby food <3__<3
Ooh, I would blend so many things! Cheeseburger smoothie? You bet! Caesar Salad milkshake? Sounds delicious!
I like to make healthy yummy smoothies with strawberries, pears and mangoes.
Oooo…such a beautiful blender. I would use mine for making blended drinks to put little umbrellas in. And possibly for other things too.
Holy tons of comments Batman! I want to blend kale, berries, and melon for my summer smoothie!
I absolutely LOVE smoothies, and have had the same relationship with every blender I’ve ever owned…sigh…If I have spinach, it goes in, no matter what I’m making. Kids think it’s funny now when their smoothies are nasty colors, like brown and green. Then we get smoothies and poop and vomit jokes…the joy of boys…but you wouldn’t understand 😉
My goodness! Took me forever to scroll to the bottom! lol I would make homemade fruit leathers and smoothies without “chunks” in them.
Blend up some beets so that you can make (naturally) red velvet cake!
Kids’ favorite-sneak-the-greens-in-smoothie: OJ, Almond Milk, frozen mixed berries, and (wait for it)……..KALE. If you had my kids, you’d know getting them to eat kale is a big deal!
Love it! I was just talking about how I needed a new blender, too!
As much as I love smoothies, I think what I’d be most interested to try is some homemade soups! Cream of broccoli is my favorite but right now it takes a billion years to make.
I agree. Blenders are just lazy! I usually use an attachment with my stick blender in order to make a smoothie. But it’s not the same.
I have good blender lust as well. I got a medium nice blender for my birthday last year, but its not nearly as cool.
Snowcones made with Rainbow Sherbet vodka for me….banana smoothies for my husband.
I want to blend up ice and veggies! Not just fruit with a poke and a prayer like I have to do not with my craptastic 20-year old blender.
I want to blend up ice and veggies! Not just fruit with a poke and a prayer like I have to do now with my craptastic 20-year old blender.
I’d blend up an alcoholic creamsicle.
holy jebsus that’s a lot of comments. people really like blenders, i like blenders, good blenders, powerful blenders, YOUR blenders….
I love your posts, Amber! They’re all so memorable. If I had a Rainbow Unicorn badge for blogs that make me feel happy, I’d send it your way. We would do fruit/ veggie combos with either oranges or avocado and or yogurt as a base. Raspberry orange beet juice would def. be on the to do list. As well as something savory/ tangy with kale. OH! and cashew “cheesecake.”
I dream of a vitamix for all of my smoothie-making needs! My favorite smoothies are made with all sorts of frozen berries and fruits and some orange juice for tang. I’d also use it to make pestos and sauces, since I no longer have a food processor!
I have a pretty good blender, but I have to agree that a Vitamix would be a dream.
The first thing I’d blend up would be a nice frozen strawberry margarita. There’s nothing better than a blender that will actually crush the ice.
I would blend chickpeas to make hummus. And then, maybe I’d blend my favorite fruit combo: strawberry and lime margarita mix. 🙂
I would love this blender – I would blend ALL THE THING. (well, not worms)
omigosh. Well first I would make milkshakes. Then yogurt and fruit smoothies. Then I’d start experimenting with veggies – green smoothies!
I dream of a vitamix. I hate my blender. Exact same story as yours. Useless.
Would adore having one of these so I can fool my children into eating more smoothified veggies
I’d make smoothies for my children.
OMG A REAL VITAMIX! I would have to give it to my mom or Im pretty sure she would disown me but DUDE. Flippin Awesome
I have one of those jerk blenders right now. My kid loves smoothies but the darn thing can barely blend a banana, seriously a banana. I end up having to turn it off, turn it back on, shake it from side to side while it blends, push stuff down with a spook etc. etc. I’d kill for a Vitamix especially since my kid refuses anything green so the only way to get some green veggies into her is to hide it in a smoothie.
Wow, awesome mistake! We never make smoothies because of the whole blender-doesn’t-blend thing, but I would start if I had a vitamix.
My daughter loves kale smoothies! I have the same issue with my current blender – would love a vitamix!
Ohh I so know the joys of crappy blender. You should put sugar in it and make powdered sugar just because I heard the Vitamix could do that.
I’d blend up a margarita with lots of ice!
I’d make soup, smoothies, and real fruit popsicles for my kids to help survive our God-forsaken Louisiana summers.
Thanks for the giveaway. I would love to win it as I have started making smoothies.
Woot woot!! What awesome luck for you. 🙂 I sure hope I win; I could use a blender that REALLY blends!
I wouldn’t blend anything. My 15 yr old daughter who is always asking me to buy her expensive smoothies will be blending. Probably Greek yogurt and blueberries. And making one for me, too, because I do all the hard work of reading your blog and she just sits there and listens to me laugh. (Ok, it isn’t really work to read your blog, just don’t tell my daughter.)
I would blend everything. All the things. I would make smoothies and vichyssoise and homemade baby food and marinades and vinaigrettes. I have had such an obsession with finding an affordable Vitamix… A unicorn, if you will.
Well, it would definitely help to make nut milks!
My husband would probably start making smoothies again. He went on a smoothie kick for a while, and then I think he decided he hates our blender too. I’d like to make cold coffee drinks. Yum!
I love pineapple and orange together so I would blend that. I would also come back to this post for all of the amazing ideas!
What would I blend, honestly, I wouldn’t be doing the blending, my wife loves to play with smoothie recipes and comes up with some rather delicious things…even the ones she sneaks spinach into are good.
I’d love to try to make green smoothies that are actually smooth. I don’t think I’ve ever had one that didn’t have big chunks of kale and spinach.
Our blender is awful as well. I’ve tried making smoothies, but, well, they just don’t get smooth. I also haven’t hit upon a smoothie recipe my kids will actually enjoy either. But maybe an amazing blender can lead to other amazing things as well!
I love to make these awesome chocolate/peanut butter/banana soy milk shakes! They are so yummy – and my boys don’t even realize how healthy they are for them!
I make breakfast smoothies with kale, mango, yogurt, and mint. Very yummy.
I would also use it to make pesto.
I have the jerky blender’s twin at my house… And 3 kids that love Smoothies.
Good luck to everyone and thanks for sharing your good fortune!
I have a terrible, no good, very bad blender as well. Vitamix…won’t you come live at my house and do my bidding? Won’t you, please?
I don’t even have kids but I love reading your blog because it cracks me up! Tips for smoothies – I buy the frozen bags of mixed fruit at the grocery store and throw it in the blender still frozen (or just partially thawed) with some juice – instant fruit slurpee!
My blender is a big fat leaky jerk too. My kids were into smoothies all summer but I had to start lieing to them about making them because I was sick of the clean up. “Smoothie shop is closed today, come back tomorrow!” I’d tweet how much I love your stuff, but I don’t have twitter. I suppose I should get it for no other reason than to increase my odds. Summer is upon us, farmer’s market and bathing suit season; and my blender is on strike. Go figure. Fingers crossed for the give away!
Keep up the good crappy writing.
I would blend up soups (I make butternut squash, apple potato soup regularly, and a potato-leek soup, too), and LOTS AND LOTS of smoothies! I used to make matcha green tea smoothies and mango smoothies ALL the time. But that was using my mom’s Vitamix… then I moved… and I didn’t have her Vitamix :(. My father-in-law bought me a Black & Decker one for Christmas, but that thing can’t even blend ice! It’s pathetic! So I gave it away… and now I’m smoothie-less!
I did have one of those crappy blenders, which worked ok for butternut squash soup if I blended it in like 5 batches and then reheated the soup which was then cold. But the last time I made squash soup, I managed to crack the plastic base of the blender badly enough that half-blended soup went everywhere on the counter. Which was awesome because I had company comming over in 10 minutes. I have not purchased a new blender yet, because everyone even slightly foodie knows that the vitamix is the only blender which crushes ice, and I really want to just be able to make a smoothie I can take to work, dangit! But I am a grad student, and that blender costs more than half my rent, so that’s not happening any time soon. Perhaps when it is soup season I will break down and buy another mediocre blender that is in my budget.
As many berries as I could cram in + a banana + peanut butter (or nutella) = yum!
Catherine Denton
My 2.5 year old son has learned the joys of smoothies over at my in-law’s house. He absolutely loves helping use the blender and has on a few too many occasions pushed the button on the blender a bit too soon lol. At this point I don’t even have a blender in my house but would love to have one 😀
I love smoothies, but my blender doesn’t! My favorite is chocolate soy milk, a banana, and a bit of peanut butter. OMG, so delicious!
Oh…Vitamix…my kitchen would be sooooo cool!
Love your book, Amber! It almost made me pee my pants and my pelvic floor is pretty awesome.
I would blend my crappy blender in my new, sexy blender
This blender would totally allow me to keep up with the kitchen Joneses.
Definitely some kind of soup. …Like the ones they make during their demonstrations. Maybe chicken tortilla soup, or some kind of tomato soup. I mean how awesome is it that a blender can make soup.
OOOO the chance of me winning is tiny but I want too real bad… Tomorrow is my birthday, does that help?
I’ve been reading your blog for a few months and just finished the archives in my not really mine spare time, I bet you and I would be fun in real life.
My kid will drink anything that I blend into a smoothie! And that’s saying a lot, since she is a light eater. So, I’m always trying to get more calories into her – but, unfortunately, then I end up drinking all that deliciousness as well, and I forget about the calories, whoops. My big favorites to add to any smoothie are almonds (or cashews), coconut oil (pina colada THIS, you know?) and frozen bananas, which make any weird combination taste like ice cream.
I’d love one!
Spinach and fruit and yogurt!
Holy Balls! That’s one hell of a give-away. For that, you can say anything you want on your blog. Well, you know, you can anyway – it’s your blog. But still.
Love your book!!!
Ooh, that’s so exciting! I’ve always wanted one of these. Saying I really want a blender makes me feel olllld.
All kinds of fresh fruit with some yogurt!
I am a first-time poster and LOVE your blog; I read it even though I don’t have any kids! 😀
They gave you 2? That is so cool!
I love this blog, I just discovered it! I would love to win a blender!
Fruit and veggie smoothies for the kiddo!
Awesome giveaway! Also just want to say thanks for soooo many laughs!
Anything with mixed berries and some vanilla yogurt is great blended together! I add some vanilla protein powder if I’m eating one for myself post-working out. Not that I’ve worked out in awhile, being 7 months pregnant and having been out of shape due to ankle injury when I got knocked up…. but hey! Advice still stands. Would love to win the Vitamix, but know that I likely won’t. I have horrible luck! HORRIBLE! The fact that I am even pregnant is a miracle (we tried for a year and a half)! Good luck to everyone else. And to Amber, LOVE your blog and I bought your book immediately after reading a post a friend had linked to on facebook. It even has my family laughing, including my 16 y/o brother who has no idea what he’s facing in the future…. 😉
I don’t have an actual blender, but I have a magic bullet and its great for small stuff! The infomercial totally sold me! I wore my first one out and had to get another one! But I would love to have a REAL blender!
I’m dying to try one of these blenders! Awesome giveaway!
Vitamix for the win! Actually, I’m hoping to win it and give it to a friend who has been saving pennies and nickels and everything to buy one for herself. So pick me b/c I’m giving it away too! 🙂
wow…thanks for the giveaway!
I would love a vitamix! awesome! Thanks, Crappy Mama!
I could only dream of having the cadillac of blenders in my kitchen…..
make some hummus!!
i love your blog. .. can’t wait for a littl extra $$ to pick up your book.
Go Blender Vitamix, GO!
I would totally blend all of those cool smoothie shakes that use ice! Ice always gets stuck in my blender!
I’d make soup – the vitamix even heats it up for you!
I LOVE (and so does my Husband):
2 Carrots
1 Apple
1 Orange
Handful of Kale
Half a zucchini
and a few strawberries or blueberries.
Delicious
I want one! I want one!
Our traditional smoothie is frozen mixed berries, greek yogurt, agave syrup, chia seeds, almond milk and a banana. BUT, if I had a not-sucky blender, I would get every smoothie cookbook I could find out of the library and start on page one . . . .
And then I’d start on the soups 🙂
We love green smoothies of any variety in this household.However, I did have to bribe my 8 year old to even try the green smoothie.I’m not proud but I let him watch five minute Popeye cartoons(from way back in the day and TOTALLY not politically correct).Popeye=spinach=green smoothie consumption.Now we don’t need Popeye, and I’m hoping that it’s purged from his memory banks soon.
Love your blog and your book!
Bummed I missed you at the Gaithersburg Book Festival – crappy kids wouldn’t cooperate.
Peanut Butter, Chocolate, Espresso & Banana Smoothies. For those days when a bunch of smooshed up fruit just isn’t going to cut it.
I have started having a smoothie every morning a couple of months ago, I find I can get the nutrients and antioxidants I need so much easier! I just recently (today) switched to using coconut milk in them, it makes them sooooo tasty!! I highly recommend this milk substitute!
I totes NEED this blender….. that has to be good enough!
Frozen bananas (make sure you freeze the banana without the skin) always make things frothy, so it’s a base ingredient. add peanut butter!
I’d blend any vegetable I can convince myself I might like. I don’t like vegetables as a general rule. But I am pretty sure I could do blended ones.
I seriously dream of Vitamix blenders. My own blender is worthless. It can stir two different liquids together a tiny bit faster than a wire whisk can. And that’s all. Please, for crying out loud, pick me.
Ohhh I would blend anything I could get my hands on. I love, skim milk, vanilla soy protein, frozen strawberries, blueberries, half a banana.
My tomato plant is bursting so I would make a soup with them!
Oooh…I would make smoothies everyday! I would love to try to make some ice cream in one of those things too…yum!
This would be so great to make gazpacho! My tiny chopper takes forever!
I love my Vitamix that I’ve had for almost 13 years! THe new ones look fabulous and have all the fancy gadgets!
Favorite thing to make is Kale, with Pear, water, and LOTS of ice. Doesn’t taste like dirt, I promise!
1. I would be extremely impressed if you managed to read all of these comments.
2. Blend up all the fruit combinations you can think of containing pineapple because pineapples are DELICIOUS!
I would LOVE one of these!! I would start using it initially for green shakes and move on from there!
I would blend my famous margaritas…and milkshakes…yeah, milkshakes!
Oh, my daughter loves smoothies too, and I rarely make one for the same reasons! It’s just about the only reliable way to get her to eat fruits and veggies. Her favorite is berry-banana, made with greek yogurt (for protein) and OJ (for the necessary blending liquid). You can even throw in some powdered kale (for veggie and vitamins!) and they never know :D.
My favorite: Peanut Butter Banana Smoothie…. Mmmmmmmm…
I love a peanut butter & banana smoothie, and I add ricotta cheese, flax seed, and milk.
So, you should totally blend strawberry Kool-Aid with peach schnapps. Summer in a glass, I’m tellin’ ya! Add some ice and you’re good to go. BAM!
What would I make? My husband cooks (it’s in everyone’s best interest for me not to cook), so maybe he would make something yummy and delicious, but my talents are not SO limited that I wouldn’t be able to make a milkshake. Yes, I would use a $600 blender to make amazing milkshakes, and I’ll leave the fancy dishes for my husband to make.
I make a green smoothie for breakfast every morning and my kids actually get some sneaky vegetables in that way (well, ok, I’ll be honest, my daughter loves my green smoothies, but my son isn’t fooled). Anyway, you are the best to raffle of your second blender!!
It told me to say what I’d blend.
I think ‘food’ is likely what I’d blend, but as toddlers, it could really be anything…
And I love your blog so much because of your art.
Need! Smoothies!
Our baby is just getting the hang of straws and *always* wants to be drinking something. She’s on her second cup with dinner tonight! It’s getting to where she’s eating less because her tummy is filling up with drinks: I would love to blend her up something nutritious. We also eat *tons* of guacamole and I bet this thing makes a mean batch.
I go through smoothie phases, but I’m sure I’d make them more with a blender that actually works all the time! My favorite is a fruit smoothie with Greek-strained yogurt and sometimes protein powder.
I’m sure it’d make a great salsa, too!
Mmmmm. Lately my blender has been making baby food. But we love fruit smoothies too!
How YOU doing? —- says the new blender to win me over.
The day after I stop breastfeeding I’d make myself loads of happy umbrella drinks. Until then…. I’ll start making baby food.
We typically have “clean out the fridge” smoothies once or twice a week. They could be made from literally anything as long as we have either juice, yogurt or a banana (which my freezer is full of) this was standards until I dropped the glass pitcher in the sink and broke it 🙁 would so love a new one!!
Mom with 2 boys close in age to yours. Love reading the blog.
We love spinach smoothies and my blender SUCKS!! I would love a Vitamix!!!
Love it! And smoothies. both fun.
WHAT wouldn’t you blend?! Pancake mixes, popsicles recipes, you can make your own fruit jelly things (http://www.anorganicwife.com/2013/01/recipe-homemade-fruit-snacks.html)
Soups, sauces, dressings, you name it! I <3 to have a Vitamix. My little blender can only take so much!
I’d like to say I’d be mixing up good for me stuff but I’m afraid that just wouldn’t be true. I’m thinking of things like, candy bars and ice cream; coffee, brownies, and ice cream; cookies, coffee, candy bars, brownies, ice cream, and maybe some nuts; let’s stop there, but that would not be the end for real 😀
I love ginger carrot and orange
Ha! It’s fate. I JUST finished blending up the crappiest smoothie right before I sat down to read crappy pictures. It was crappy, I tell you! If only I had a Vitamix, I could blend up all kinds of non-crappy creations like the strawberry orange smoothie I just botched.
I don’t even have a blender but would absolutely love one (especially one of this quality). I’d start with blending strawberries and bananas because that’s my favorite combo, but soon enough, I would get braver and start blending all sorts of things.
4,000 comments? my odds are about as good with the lottery, but it’s worth a shot!
i’d blend up beats, carrots, spinach, and apples. and then i’d make some soup. and then i’d make some of that banana ice cream everybody’s crazy about. oh please please please!
Green smoothies
Banana, orange,strawberry, pineapple smoothies! Add an umbrella to the glass and everything would be complete
I used to work at a smoothie shop and we used vitamix’s. I miss them 🙁
My fav smoothie now is just pineapple mango with yogurt, no to exciting. But I have been wanting to play around with veggies smoothies so bad!!!
I’d blend up some thin mint girl scout cookies and coffee ice cream..best milkshake ever!
A friend of mine made the most awesome smoothies with her Vitamix at our last moms’ night. I’d love to be able to do that too!
I should add that my favorite combo to blend is frozen strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries, with banana and a little bit of orange juice. I also love raspberry/banana/coconut milk – I was hooked on that during my last pregnancy!
I’m not sure I can believe all the hype about the Vitamix. I need first hand proof and need to experiment myself. I promise to review and let you know all the crappy snacks, soups and nut butters I make.
My favorite that I have every night is kefir, bananas, cocoa powder and a squirt of sugar free vanilla starbucks syrup. I would love to have a blender that did not require me to defrost my frozen fruit in the microwave first.
I would blend smoothies…my favorite is PB2, honey, and banana. Yum!
Thanks so much for sharing! I’d make smoothies every day with the vitamix. My favorite is a strawberry, pineapple, and coconut with vanilla almond milk. And I have always wanted to try making my own pumpkin soup. I would put nutmeg, cinnamon, vanilla, and brown sugar in it. Ooh! I’d love to whip up my own almond and coconut butters too!
I would love to own a Vitamix!
I have a Vitamix- best blender in the world. Did you know you can make soup in it too?
I love your page, and I would love to win!
Soup and smoothies!
OMG I would be the envy of my family with a Vitamix. I’d make those green smoothies my sister in law crows about 😉
I’d use it as a food processor. I like to puree butternut squash and add it to quesadillas and it’s so hard to find a food processor or blender that’ll do it. I like you, don’t want to invest $600! LOL
I use my food processor to make smoothies. But it’s getting too small for my growing family. Vitamix baby!
My kids love milk, cocoa, pb & bananas. Sometimes I blend dry oats 1st thing & they never know the difference.
I think it might be easier to name the things I WOULDN’T blend. Rocks. Wood chips. Animals and minerals. Pretty much I would blend all the things. My friend made lemonade in hers and left the peels on–I guess they’re good for you. Smoothies, popsicles, soups, and so much more!
I would blend nutella and bananas and milk! Oh man, that would be sinfully delicious.
Thanks Moms who Drink and Swear for randomly pointing me this way!!!
Would love to make some smoothies. Summers commin!!
Oh my! I want one of these so much! I would even refer to it as my “butt plug blender” just in honor of you. 😀
my husband and son suffer from migraines, and we have recently started a new diet in hopes that it will help prevent the migraines. because of the switch i have been doing a ridiculous amount of cooking, and have been dreaming about a Vitamix! i think the first thing i would whip up is either a batch of coconut butter, or a batch of chocolate avocado pudding!
I blend regularly. Kale, banana, soymilk, piece of chocolate, drop of vanilla, and whatever else I feel like / have on hand.
I have been obssesed with the 30 days of green smoothies website. They have some awesome smoothies with spinach in them and you can’t even taste the spinach!
Popsicle season is coming!! I so desperately want to be able to use my VItamix to make them. Or smoothies for my kids.
Ooh my aunt would love that. C’monnnnnn awesome Christmas gift!
Green smoothies are amazing. So are berry citrus. X3
I would let my husband make smoothies. I love him, and he makes great smoothies…but he is not a good cleaner and our current juicer/blender is a MESS to clean.
I know that isn’t an idea of what to blend…but it is why I would like it.
I’d experiment with carrots. And other veggie/fruit/healthy combos. But I’d also make lots of frappes and milkshakes and frappuccinos and smoothies and all other kinds of yummies!
Awesome giveaway! Loved your saga. 🙂
I love fruity smoothies. Our blended loves *not blending* too.
The last time I tried to use it, it was to make homemade Larabars for our Paleo/Primal eating adventure. I ended up chopping 2lbs of dates, almonds, chocolate, coconut flakes…by hand.
Stupid blender.
I wanna wiiin! So here is a link to awesome larabar recipes 😉 http://chocolatecoveredkatie.com/chocolate-covered-recipes/fudge-baby-mania/
I would blend green smoothies to sneak spinach into my kids bellies.
I’m not sure I have space on the counter for a blender, but I bet I could make some. I’d probably make agua fresca or icy strawberry lemonade
I am trying to take care of myself better and am looking to hop aboard the green smoothie train. I am horrible with cooking unless things are super easy and the Vitamix would make this process oh-so-simple! I found this post which eliminates the guesswork but allows you to customize each smoothie! I can’t wait to try a bunch of different combinations!
http://www.lifelessbullshit.com/green-smoothie/
I love your website and even my husband loves it too! 🙂 Our two year old loves smoothies – we use plain yogurt, almond milk, strawberries & bananas 🙂
I’d make peanutbutter milkshakes! Super delicious! lol
I don’t have any cool blender recipes to share, but I would blend steak for my baby so he could know the meaty goodness. And then maybe a spinach and fruit smoothie for me. Apparently, spinach tastes awesome in everything.
My girlfriends and I love this blog! We’re all recently new mothers (the age range of our kids is 1 and under – there are 6+ of them), your advice, jokes, illustrations, et al, helps us through this crazy journey! Thanks!
My favorite thing to blend: watermelon, apple, celery, kiwi!
Love this idea! We are fans of smoothies. Try adding some flax seed to anything, especially if you have family history of cholesterol.
Everything! Blend all the things!
Vanilla ice cream and canned pineapple. My blender cannot handle this delicious combination.
This is great! 🙂
here’s a quick recipe for baba ganoush:
1 large grilled/baked (soft) eggplant
a couple spoonfulls of tahini
1 lemons juice
salt parsley and garlic to taste
all you have to do is throw it all in your amazing new blender!
Well, my goodness, what a fun giveaway! Thanks for the chance to win one of these miraculous blenders! My kids also love smoothies, and I truly hate making them. I think my old ratty blender is related to yours. They seem similarly lazy. Here’s hoping I win and we can trade smoothie recipes! By the way, are you giving away a housekeeper to make the smoothies for us too? 😉
My sister told me over the weekend that a childhood friend blends entire bananas in her Vitamix. I’d love to try that, but what I really want to try is a curried kale & coconut pureed soup, all rich and creamy.
I would love a new blender! I love smoothies and might actually make them if it didn’t entail fighting with my current blender every time I make them! Do your kids have a favorite smoothie? I keep thinking about making them for my son…
I just discovered your blog the other day and have been telling all my mommy friends about it. I keep getting texts and calls from friends asking if I’d seen such and such post by you and we just die laughing.
I would try juicing up some kale, blueberries, yogurt, and chia seeds. It’s soooo yum.
first time poster but i also have serious vitamix envy. my neighbor has one and foolishly entrusted me with her house key. 🙂
The wife would love this for her upcoming cakeday!
Oh, man, I don’t even have a blender, so going straight for the Vitamix would be awesome. And maybe I’d make smoothies with lots of berries, and definitely I’d be makin’ myself some gazpacho!!!!!
I would blend everything! Ice cream. Fruit. Veggies. Lawn Clippings. Farm fresh eggs (when our chickens finally start laying). Gravel. OK, so maybe not gravel. But pretty much anything I could fit in the magic blender of joy.
I would love this
My favorite cafe in town has a smoothie called The Spanking that is so incredibly delicious – but kind of embarrassing to order if, say, you’re with your mom. I would make so many Spankings with the Vitamix.
I hear great stuff about Vitamix – we just bought one for our office!
My blender is also a lazy jerk. I dream of Vitamix.
I never heard of Vitamix before but I HATE my blender. I tried making those green monster smoothies and even my 3 year old liked them! It was awesome, for like a week, until my blender decided it was going to retire >:(
Wow! You are awesome for passing on the blessing! Yes, I’m in the same stage – about to dump my blender. I was just waiting for a vitamix or blendtec sale at my local Costco, but I’ve been waiting too long! Ready for some real blender action!
This post ROCKED! I feel the same way about mine that actually starts to smell like it is going to catch on fire when I put a frozen blueberry in it. 🙂
Ha! Just found you – would love to win!
Oooo, I love Vitamix. I had a Vitamix, technically “have” one… that no longer works 🙁 Its 17 years old… oh my gosh… I didn’t say that out loud. Yeah… it is. I would SO love to win a new one!
banana and oreo biscuits!
Great blog! I hate making smoothies too but I sure do love drinking them
I’d blend up some frozen strawberries, bananas, protein powder and greek yogurt. Yumm, yumm!
OMG, so exciting…I just saw a Vitamix demo at wholefoods yesterday and swooned! My first order of business if I had such a blender would be popsicles of too many flavors!
Lots of asian drink places do Avocado 🙂
Glad you confirmed I’m not crazy…thought it was just me and my blender(s)?! HA! gonna tell my hubby 😛
I’d make milkshakes and smoothies and soups and… Wow!
I want to blend up some veggies and make veggie smoothies!!
I love using orange yogurt, frozen strawberries, and frozen melon, add a little ice and maybe some cinnamon and vanilla!
…was telling hubby I need a new one so making baby food the third time around would not require 6+ times of on/off/shaking/spooning/repeat for just 8-10 oz – ARGHHH!! 😛
I want a vitamix! My 2 year old looooves smoothies and I would make them so much more if I had one.
My favourite smoothie: Yogurt, banana, peanut butter, and a bit of vanilla. Mmmm.
I’m doing all veggies this month, but I look forward to going back to some fruit smoothies. The Vitamix would certainly help!
What a fantastic giveaway! I have wanted a Vitamix ever since I discovered their existence, but I am too cheap/poor to buy one! I am a nut butter fanatic, so I could probably save a lot by making my own if I won! Help a sister out 🙂
OMG! Would love a blender! Love your blog too 🙂
Would Love a vitamix!
I need a non-crappy blender too!! Pick me pick me! 🙂
A Vitamix?! On my kitchen counter??!! The mere thought sends my heart aflutter!
You’re right- it truly is the luxury car of the kitchen! Oh the healthiness my family could enjoy with one of those. And chocolate shakes, of course.
I like making soups and smoothies. I just have a normal blender and I don’t use it quite enough.
Smoothies!
I have a friend who made chocolate pudding and with her vitamix, was able to sneak spinach into it. AND her kids gobbled it up. That’s definitely what I would make!
I would blend some frozen banana, frozen raspberries and fresh plain yogurt to make my own frozen yogurt!
I have two lazy blenders in case one decides he doesn’t want to work that day. Love that your sharing your good fortune. Crossing my fingers!
I hide my crappy blender so my daughter doesn’t ask for smoothies because it causes my blood pressure the rise. Then I have to clean the darn none working leaves me with lumpy smoothie machine…..
I was pretty sure I commented already, but since the “I Commented” Box wasn’t checked yet I figured I’d better comment again just in case. How do I know it wasn’t checked? Because I WANT this blender SO much I had to re-stalk your blog to see if there were any other chances to win. I’m getting tired of chewing. I really want to blend things. I will never buy peanut butter again. Or ice cream. And I think I’ll start making butter. It can do that, right? Of course it can!
I loooooove our Vitamix so if I win it, I will give it to our newlywed best friends (and the wife is in culinary school so I know she would DIE if I was able to give it to her).
I make soups, hummus, smoothies, sauces, etc. with it. It’s fabulous.
I can totally relate to your hatred toward your blender. For years I have dreaded using ours and would love to have a vitamix. My mother in law does and I’m in love with it. I’d make all kinds of smoothies but I think I’d also put together soups and other such yummies!
Oh, I’d try to make one of those green smoothies with kale and spinach. My current blender would just curl up and die.
I would make smoothies, since I never do as I have the same non-working blender problem.
I love to make my own Iced Capps. I just pulverize the ice first, then add some instant coffee and hot chocolate powder then add some milk. I don’t have an exact recipe that I follow, I just go with the flow 🙂
I saw your article in LHJ (that’s how I found you and super glad I did) and chuckled when I saw that you were saving for a Vitamix. I’ve been dreaming of coveting one of these wonderful pieces of machinery for years now. I would make bunches and bunches of smoothies with it – and try to be healthier by blending up a green smoothie or two.
Thanks for sharing the wealth! Would be perfect for toddler smoothies 🙂
Peanut butter, almond butter…. regular butter? You can make anything in a vita mix!
smoothies!
anything with an ice cream or lemonade base!
Anything in a smoothie is healthy, right? 🙂
what WOULDN’T I blend up? Mango-raspberry smoothies all summer long, yeehaw! Maybe I’d even try some kale in it. Probably not.
I would love a new Vitamix!
We make our smoothies with a stick blender that has seen better days. It’s not quite bad-boyfriend level like your old blender, but more of a creaky, wheezy old grump that just wants to go lie down for awhile.
Awesome give away!
can’t wait to blend smoothies for the babies and me in this new awesome blender that is better than the one my husband broke in our move!
Blueberry Smoothies are my favorite…!
Kale, Broccoli, cucumber, mint and apple. Yum.
Smoothies. Dips. Ice cream. Greens to sneak into tomato sauce. Heck, I’d blend stuff just to hear it purrrrr…
blenderrrrrrrrr
I love your blog! But I’ve learned not to drink coffee while reading it!!! Coffee out the nose is painful. But a Vitamix would help me to forgive you. 🙂 Oh, and daily green smoothies! YUM!
Have you ever had a strawberry basil smoothie? They’re actually quite good. And a Vitamix might actually pulverize the basil so you don’t get long strings of it stuck in your straw. I have your old blender’s brother.
Green smoothies three meals a day. Yum.
Fingers crossed. I have a new baby and I REALLY want a vitamix to make baby food and healthy foods for my toddlers too. Love the site btw 😉
I’d make smoothies, soups, salad dressings and ice creams! Thanks- keeping my fingers crossed.
Smoothies for LIFE! Just a random thought – i think the name Vitamix is such a weird one for a blender. It sounds like an energy drink or protein shake. I think they need to come up with a new name. The Power Puree-er. The Ice Crusher. The Blades of Steel.
I would love to win!! I gave up on my blender a long time ago. I use a food processer now and it doesn’t always like me.
Milkshakes, baby food, smoothies…
I have no idea what I would blend…but I would figure something out! 🙂
My blender is also terrible, would love to be able to blend veggies smoothly!
This post cracked me up! I have to stick spoons in my blender too! I would blend fruits and veggies and make a lot of smoothies if I had this amazing blender!
Vitamixes can be used to make an AMAZING tortilla soup. They had a demo at Costco and I’ve been dying to have it since.
Thanks for being so awesome!
I would make lots of yummy mommy cocktails 😉
My blender sucks so much! I have had a (virgin) frozen drink craving since I’ve been pregnant, but our blender hates ice. It makes me very sad.
You have the best blog! I relate to so much and now this. We have gone through so many blenders it’s ridiculous. I love smoothies but my blender sucks so I never get to make them.
I love this blog. it is a great representation of my life with my two boys. Crappy pictures and all. thanks!
I love your blog and have been wanting a vitamix for awhile… i drool every costco trip, my magic bullet has lost its magic aka little knobs on the cups that turn it on hahaha
anyways i want to mix all the things- whipped cream, mixed drinks, almond flour/butter, smoothies!!
WANT THIS BAD BOY!!
I would let my husband resume homemade hummus. Right now the blender SUCKS so besides taking forever, it’s also deafening. Yay … or not. I have currently banned the making of hummus unless he is home alone. So loud it scares our 3-year-old daughter.
Also the generic answer of smoothies. Who doesn’t love them?!
What wouldn’t I bend? A yummy pina colada sounds great right now.
Smoothies, shakes, anything my kids demand…
I would make lots of smoothies without cutting up my fruit and veggies first.
I would love to win this fancy blender. I’ll never be able to afford one! Plus my old blender dumped me when I put hot soup in him. He delivered the news of our split by cracking in half. 🙁
we’d be making even more green smoothies then we already do.
I would finally be able to grind up greens to add to our pancakes (gotta get those in the toddler somehow!) without cursing and shoving chopsticks in my loser blender trying to line up the veggies just right to get it to chop already!
I have always wanted one of these too!!
Thank you for sharing!!
Strawberries, kiwis, and some veggies! Maybe something chocolate-y too.
This. Exactly. I finally got a Blendtec (similar to Vitamix) last year and totally love it. I know some folks think I’m crazy for spending $350 on a blender but I hated my blender!!
I would love a Vitamix! I would make smoothies, soup, sauces, hummus, banana ice cream, etc. I have been lusting after one for a long time 🙂
I love vitamix smoothies! Sooo smooth…
I’ve only used my blender for when I make Strawberry Scones and the only part that calls for a blender is pulverizing the Strawberries into mush mixed with half & half. Maybe I’d make some smoothies with a fancy blender! 😀
I’d blend something tasty…with chocolate…chocolate, banana and vanilla ice cream! There you go all you healthies!!!
and chocolate! Don’t forget the chocolate! And coconut. And chocolate ice cream. And drizzle the top of that awesome shit with some Magic Shell before serving. Excuse me, I have to go to the store now…
I’ve got to be honest. I’m 9 months pregnant. I live in Tucson and it’s already like 100 degrees outside. If I get this blender, I’m pushing this kid out and making margaritas.
I’ve heard you can grind grain and make nut butter with these. I’m excited for you to have a new blender and its cool that you can give one to someone else too.
Mix away, 1 apple, i orange, 1 bunch spinach, 1 bunch parsley. 1 avocado & 1 banana little bit of coconut water….breakfast.
I’d like a blender! Sounds like you guys are loving yours! 🙂
I would make food and smoothies for my 10 month old
How generous of you and Vitamix! If I win I’ll eat smoothies for every meal! 😉
It’s mango season here; I’ll blend some sort of custard with tropical flavored ingredients.
I would blend up all the other entries because I have four kids and had to make a midnight run to the vet last night when our cat got bit in the face by a rattlesnake, so I’m operating on very little sleep and feeling cranky and self-serving today… 🙂
I would make a greenie!!
Yay a blender! I need one that can survive a marriage, my normal blender not so much.
Wow, so cool of you!
Exciting! Hope this is my lucky raffle!
I’m a bad influence… I’d blend up a milkshake. =) Or crush some ice to bits and pieces, mix it with… eh hem, non-kid-friendly alternatives. 😉
What would I blend? I make green smoothies for breakfast a lot — so that’s what I’d blend. I vary the fruits (almost always a banana plus something else, like berries, cantaloupe, pear), and I vary the greens (kale, spinach, collards, sometimes other stuff but those 3 are the best). I like to add a cup each of coconut milk and almond milk.
Oh, but I also use my blender to make margaritas.
And I also puree soups (I hear those “hand blenders” are good for that, but I don’t have one).
I would try to blend up a batch of soup. Does the Vitamix have heat settings? I’ve never dared google its majesty.
My family has been stuck with one of those little Bullets for the last six years. On one hand, yay! The stupid Bullet has lasted six years! On the other hand, it only blends like 10oz at one time, it doesn’t blend them all the way unless you take about 5oz out, and then it still doesn’t blend things all the way because it’s a jerk. Every affordable blender we’ve gotten has made my husband about three margaritas and made me maybe two smoothies before gasping in despair at its purpose in life and frying a circuit. On purpose, I believe.
But the bullet makes a passable mini smoothie with Dark Chocolate Almond milk, 2/3 of a banana, 5 almonds, tsp chia seeds, and half an orange with the very life squeezed out of it. Ten ice cubes and two or three attempts to blend it in the tiny Bullet and voila! Super noms! (another way to “cheat” at smoothies, grab those Buddy Fruit pouches and their cousin concept foods and add complimentary flavors. Easy way to make a great pumpkin smoothie this way! <3)
I would blend up my Shakeology
I blend up the awful tasting veggies with great tasting fruit, in hopes of getting the vitamins without the awful taste.
Oh I so want the vitamix! I am challenging myself to work through the family recipes I inherited when my mother died (all 400 recipes!) this summer. The blender would be a huge help! My current blender doesn’t actually blend anything either!
i hate my blender too its the number one reason i never make smoothies no matter how badly i want one
Thank you for this great contest! My fave recipe is one that my toddler and husband both love and it is so healthy! 1 cup of water, ice, frozen strawberries, 1 banana and 2 packed cups of fresh spinach. Mmmm. Enjoy!
🙂 I’d mix up frozen strawberries, frozen bananas, orange juice and milk!!
Oooh! First I would blend up a steak marinade (best steak marindate in existence, it’s on pinterest, you’re welcome ;-)).
Then I would attempt to blend my own NAKED Juice Green Machine Smoothie (because it’s delicious, addictive, and far too expensive.)
Then I would use it to blend puree’s for pumpkin soup, butternut squash soup (my favorite, mmmm), all the soup! Blend all the soups!!
Also, my blender sucks too ….and we lost the lid in our recent move, fairies took it, they have yet to return my favorite black shirt.
I am pretty boring in smoothie land. My daughter loves, loves, loves bananas. So I keep a baggie of extra bits of bananas in the freezer. I like blueberries and strawberries. Pop into blender and I enjoy smoothie goodness.
(I often add a lil vanilla protein powder for good measure.)
i’d blend the heck out of anything i can get my hands on! my boys love strawberry milk or banana milk, so we do that for brecky a lot. i know, the Vitamix can do SO much more, but it’s where i’d start 😉
strawberry milk:
2 cups fresh strawberries, washed & hulled, halved if desired
2 cups whole milk
1 scoop protein powder (if desired)
put ingredients in blender/Vitamix and blend until smooth. easy & delicious!
and, if you like chocolate (my boys do, i don’t) you can add whatever chocolate powder/syrup/melted chocolate you like for a sweet afternoon treat 😀
This would be so great, especially on my journey to eat natural, whole foods 🙂
Everything!!!! Blend all the things!!! (Your pics remind me alot of Allie over at hyperbole and a half. Love your pictures!
Spinach smoothies! And pretty much anything not nailed down. My current blender claims to be powerful enough to make cookie dough. It lies.
I love the Vitamix! I’d use it to make secret spinach smoothies. Fruit with spinach secretly blended in to trick my kids into “eating” veggies. Ha.
I would blend everything! My blender is pretty much on its last legs. My one year old and I love smoothies, and our poor blender has been used and abused since I had jaw surgery in February.
I seriously lost all composure when I read the dampener was like a butt plug. Died. Laughing.
Thank you for being real! X-D
Oh my gosh, you have a vitamix – the possibilities are endless!
You should try kale, water chestnuts, mango and coconut water. I’ve never had this, but if you try it and its awesome, you’re welcome. If not, I do apologize.
I would make baby food for my grandson & frozen drinks for me.
I love this post because that’s how I feel about the Vitamix blender too! 🙂 It was love at first sight with all it’s functions. I would make so many tasty smoothies and soups if I had one. I would make the Chicken Tortilla one they have done on demo, so good!
milkshakes
So, I totally can NOT afford a vitamix. Jealous much, yes.
I have the poor man’s Vitamix…the Nutribullet. It’s the Magicbullet on steroids. But really, it’s not too bad…http://www.nutribullet.com/index.php?r=site/index&gclid=CIGdl4LAqLcCFegWMgodUXcAyQ
We love green smoothies and have them almost everyday 🙂
Here’s my personal recipe:
Large handful of spinach
1T chia seeds
1T ground flax seeds
1 scoop Muscle Milk Cake batter protein powder
1/2 banana
3 frozen strawberries
Water
It’s a pretty pale green, tastes great and of course, it’s fantastic for you 🙂
Anyways, love the blog, even got my silly hubby reading it.
xoxo
I would blend kiwi, strawberries and watermelon. Maybe add some vodka. 🙂
we keep it simple here — my FAVE smoothie is 2 tbsp of powdered oatmeal (blend it up first), 1 tbsp of peanut butter, 1 frozen banana and some milk (I really can’t remember how much) — it’s SO good and super filling! My daughter has one every morning that has a frozen banana, a kids yogurt and milk and sometimes OJ if we have it… enjoy!
I’d blend up strawberry, banana, strawberry yogurt, orange juice, soy milk. that was my breakfast for about 6 months until I got pregnant… then it made me nauseous lol.
I’d blend all the things!
Check out the Oatmeal Banana Smoothie
2 whole bananas (best with brown flecks on peel)
2 cups Ice
1/3 cup Yogurt (I recommend Greek yogurt flavored with honey, or use vanilla and add a bit of honey)
1/2 cup Cooked oatmeal
1/3 cup Almonds
Almond milk, kale, watermelon, and pineapple
I’d make frozen margaritas. That is all. 😉
I really hope I win this. I am using a hand blender for smoothies right now! And it’s getting to be summery, which means I am actually sweating whilst making smoothies. Unacceptable!
Even though I know the odds are against me, I want to win this so much!
So, do you have any favorite smoothie recipes to share with us? Now that they’re actually blended, uh, smoothly?
I always sneak in some spinach, I just tell them it is Hulk food and my Super Hero loving boys except it!
The woman I work with keeps trying to get me to drink banana, blueberries and kale. Its the texture that throws me off. So if this blender really worked, I may give that a go.
I’d be blending everything in sight if I had a Vitamix!!!! Nothing would be safe! Blend *ALL* the things!!!!
I like making “milkshakes” with Ice, peanut butter, hot chocolate mix , and milk. Nice cool lower calorie treat. I’m thinking of trying to add a bit of kale or something, hopefully it would just blend down and kind of dissapear, gotta love painless superveggies.
I want a Vitamix… I want a Vitamix… I want a Vitamix…
(PS – I bought 7 copies of your book and shared with by besties, that deserves a blender, right?) 🙂 Thanks for all the laughes, especially the part about your husband trying to pee in a diaper on a roadtrip so you wouldn’t have to stop! I was laughing so hard I peed a little.
I can so use this blender! I haven’t had one that’s useable in about 4 years. Yes, YEARS. We lost the top and still haven’t replaced the blender.
Smoothies. Or Orange Juliuses. Or adult beverages. Or applesauce and pumpkin puree!
I’m boring…but the best thing my grandmother blends in the blender is ham. She uses her to slice it up teeny so then she can make a ham ball, which is like cream cheese mixed with garlic salt, celery salt, Worcestershire sauce and other stuff, and then rolled in the ham. And then you spread it on crackers. It’s amazing.
I would blend up smarga-oothies all day long. That’s a margarita for the partying adult in me blended with fruits for the health-conscious responsible parent part of me.
Two handfuls of grapes (red or green), a bunch of spinach, pineapple spears, half a lemon (rind, seeds and all), and ice. Blend. DELISH.
I’m totally boring…typical smoothie is banana, strawberries, blueberries, spinach and protein powder. We also use the blender for sundried tomatoes in oil and basil pesto. Pour that over penne pasta and dinner is done!
We’re big smootie fans, too. But, my blender currently smells ummmm burnt when I make them. “Mommy! What smells so bad???”
Frozen organic sweet dark cherries (from Costco) in a smoothie. That would be divine. I want to own this blender!!!
I’ve heard you can grind your own flour in a Vitamix! Awesomeness! I also have a baby who I make baby food for. Well, bananas and strawberries so far. When I tried to make sweet potatoes, my blender wanna-be choked and they were so chunky that my baby refused to eat them. So my still-mostly-chunks-of-fruit-and-veggie purees would actually be purees!!
Your Target post is one of my fav. I feel like your speaking my language ALL THE TIME. I have two boys and shoooweee are they hi-larry-ous. The other day we were at Dairy Queen and my Lo asked “what’s that?” pointing to a blizzard I say ” a kinda milkshake you can add candy bars to, or brownies or even cookies.” He says “what’s a candy bar?” oi not sure if I have won the game or lost. Hum.
I have a blender that seriously needs dumped as well. This would be awesome!
I would absolutely love a Vitamix blender! Smoothies, soup, sauces and baby food purees would be a breeze!!
I would blend the bananas that my toddler begged and begged for and then decided not to eat with the yogurt she begged and begged and begged for and decided not to eat. And I would put it all in a coffee cup so she would actually drink it once it was all blended. And then I would wash it out of her hair. With a special blend of kid-friendly organic plants, soap, and water.
I would make smoothies and baby food! Not particularly inspiring… but it would make my life so much easier. I have a blender that doesn’t blend. It makes me angry. Often. So I say, “The heck with this healthy smoothie! Where’s the fried ice cream??”
Yumm – all kinds of smooooothieeeees
mango yummies in sexy vitamix blender.
With my not blending very well blender I do smoothies withbanana, straberries, almond butter and milk. Reaqlly good. mmmm
kale and bananas. yes.
And everything else with it.
I’m partial to a bit of cavolo nero, celery, ginger, beet and broccoli sprouts. It tastes awful but it’s certainly healthy. Then in the other jug I made apple, carrot, cucumber, raspberry and pineapple sage. That’s the tasty one.
Everything my kids won’t eat. It’s all going in one big milkshake. I will add a couple scoops of ice cream, call it a milkshake, and as long as they didn’t actually see what I put in it, they will love it.
We love green smoothies here. Spinach, peanut butter, chocolate almond milk, a banana, and flax seed. 🙂
Love your blog! You are so funny 😉 And real! Thanks for the chance to will a not crappy blender. Mine sucks, I feel your pain!
Ice cream!
Gazpacho! The ultimate summer/farmer’s market/blender dinner.
We’ve been wanting to start juicing…this would be perfect!!
Fruit smoothies – with secret healthy stuff blended in, like spinach and kale – its the only way i can get my kid to eat them!
I’d probably do some watermelon/strawberry mix. They’re both in season right now for us.
I like banana, watermelon, cantaloupe blends. Weird I know.
I love smoothies! I love this blog! I WANT TO MAKE A SMOOTHIE WHILE READING THIS BLOG!
I would blend ALL THE FOODS!!!
If I win I’d prefer to have the sexy blender please!
I’d blend up a fruit and veggie smoothie! Great way to sneak in the veggies, like cucumber, pepper etc. I’d mix them with berries, bananas, and/or summer fruits.
I’d blend veggies and fruit to sneak more veggies in my day!
Wowza! Vitamix? The ones at Costco that I walk by because I can barely even pay for the Costco membership let alone the hard working blender? hahahaa… I’d whip up some mad yogurt/peanut butter/banana/chocolate protein smoothie!
I would love this blender! It would make my life so much easier! We regularly make smoothies for breakfast and I use my blender for making soups and sauces.
I dream of making my own green juice and protein shakes! For protein…egg whites, vanilla extract, frozen strawberries. Mmm!
first thing I would blend up with a fancy new blender (I have two suckola blenders right now, btw) is some strawberry soup! summertime, baby!!
My daughters (3 yrs and 5 yrs) and I really like simple smoothies. Our favorite is raspberries, blueberries and apple juice. I make thick smoothies so they are more like the consistency of homemade ice cream. Our blender does okay….but I have wanted a Vitamix for a few years now. They are epic! I can just imagine the simplicity…
Just like Melissa my husband killed the blender making butternut squash soup. So we haven’t had a blender for almost 3 years. I love when the Vitamix guy is at Costco and he makes the yummy green apple smoothie, it’s so good.
I would love this – not just for smoothies, but for some “after the kids are sleeping” drinks!
BTW, I asked for your book for mother’s Day. Instead I got an iPad – with your book preloaded on it! Love it!!!
Margaritas – my husband works a lot and my three kids are insane! 🙂
Or most likely some smoothies for the insane kids. They like bananas, strawberries, raspberries and oranges.
Thanks for the chance to win!
I’d blend bananas for my little bananaboy x
I would make breakfast smoothies!
Will you please be one of my b.f.f.’s? You definitely keep me laughing! I’d also really like a Vitamix, because it’d help my family be more healthy! 🙂 PLEASE, PLEASE, PICK ME… as the winner and your bff! 😉
Love you blog! We co-sleep too and it’s amazing how I can relate to your posts. Don’t get me started on how crappy blenders are. We got a new one as a wedding gift and I was SO excited-until it couldn’t blend oreo cookies either. WTF it’s an OREO that has been soaking in milk. Really? REALLY!?!?!?! WORTHLESS!!!
So needless to say-I’d love to win 🙂
Hands down favorite smoothie? Bananas and chocolate soy milk. I have no problem with regular milk, but perhaps using soy milk makes me feel like it’s a more legitimate breakfast smoothie?
so true, no blender but the vitamix works!
My girlhood crush on my Ninja blender is nothing compared to the full-grown adult love I hold for a Vitamix. From afar of course. I make simple smoothies right now with yogurt and frozen fruit but even the Ninja gunks that up sometimes. I want to put raw carrots in! And ice cubes!
I love blending bananas, raspberries, and mango. And yes, I am often seen sticking blunt objects into my non-plussed blender to urge it along as it leisurely spins the fruit instead of doing the job hidden in its name: blending.
I would make one of those smoothies that’s supposed to be delicious even though you put spinach in it!
I also have a crappy blender. Mine doesn’t talk, though. It can’t be bothered.
I’ve been creepy-stalking the Vitamix blenders at Costco. They’re all shiny and futuristic. I dream of making veggie smoothies that my well-groomed children would drink while sitting quietly in their Sunday best, but then I wake up….
Thanks for the opportunity to enter! 🙂
I like simple smoothies best. Not original, but you puree the banana or two up first (depending on how strong you like the banana taste) then you mix it with a cup to 2 cups of strawberries, then add some yogurt or ice and blend until mixed. Done and refreshing!
Your awesome to do this for your fan. A Vitmax® would be well loved in my home! Thanks for the opportunity!
I would blend smoothies which I then freeze into popsicles for the kids. I know they are getting better stuff then the store bought kind then.
I also have a crappy blender that doesn’t make smoothies. So I need this!!!
I’d puree fruit and freeze it for making popsicles.
Seriously, blenders suck. Even splurged on a margaritaville back in the day. Now my baby bullet is doing to the job… kind of.
I would love this hunk of a blender <3
I REALLY REALLY would eat more veggies if I had a vitamix!
mmmm wild blackberry smoothies with spinach!
I made penne a la vodka last night and the food processor made a total mess. I wonder if I could use this for the liquid tomato goodness. If not, I am SURE I would use it to make some of those green smoothies that were all the rage starting a year ago. we can’t keep up with all the kale growing in our garden, AND our son LOVES kale chips!
Fruit and veggie smoothies for my whole family!
There is an edible thing on this planet that I would not put in this thing! My friend has one (thus create envy in our relationship!) and she can pulverize the planet Mars with it!
Totally supposed to be looking for a job right now.
Favorite smoothie combos, mango,strawberry and spinach , with greek yoghurt. Hate the taste on it’s own but do enjoy in a smoothie.
Enjoy your new love.
Blenders hate me too. From the $20 to the $150 one. I’ve been drooling over a vitamix.
pina colada’s!!!!! smoothies are for chumps.
Pin Colada’s!!!!! smoothies are for chumps.
I’d blend water. Blended water is so much better than regular water. I might add some ice.
I’d blend all sorts of yummy fruits to make fro yo in our soft serve ice cream maker!
Vitamix?!?!? Yes please!!!!! I am drooling over here!!!!
looking forward to drinking this during the last trimester of a hot summer pregnancy: Pina Colada Smoothie: Combine 6 ounces frozen coconut yogurt, 1/2 a frozen banana, 1/2 of a 20-ounce can of crushed pineapple, and 1 cup milk; blend until smooth. from Parents.com
I am pretty sure I am going to make placenta smoothies with my blender. I mean, who doesn’t love a good post delivery fruity shake with a little placenta sprinkled in?
Would LOVE this blender!
I would make fruit smoothies every day instead of the coffee – I’ve been wanting to do this forever, but like yours, my blender sucks.
Strawberries, bananas, blueberries, and raspberries all mixed up with either ice cream or milk are my favorite.
Oooh, I have always wanted a vitamix. The blender I currently have is actually really good (rated in the top three blenders out there, along with vitamix, on consumer reports) but it has recently developed a problem and despite the companies awesome support in trying to fix it, it has become quite a pain in the rear. Some ideas: I love peanut butter banana smoothies (which is pretty tame, even a lame blender can handle that), but for something a little more challenging I like blending up frozen pineapple chunks, ice, and lemonade into a slushy. Add a splash of tequila and you’re really on to something! 🙂
What would I blend? Everything. Every. Single. Thing. But I could really go for a smoothie right now that has blueberries, raspberries, banana, almond milk, and pomegranate juice.
Oh god, I’ve wanted one of these forever and planned to finally make the purchase sometime in fall, but this would save me the trouble! (And the cayush.) Here’s hoping!
I would make fruit and spinach smoothies for breakfast and blend up soups for lunch and dinner! Want a Vitamix SO BAD! And congrats on the free non-sucky blender! 🙂
My MIL makes an awesome soup in hers — it’s basically cilantro and leftover veggies in her fridge. You must like cilantro, but it is awesome.
That is pure awesome. I’d totally blend everything. I’d try everything. Nothing would hold me back. My 3 year old twins would be terrified I’d try to blend them. Actually, I’d probably just make them smoothies. Fruit and yogurt, can’t go wrong.
It would be so awesome if I had a blender that didn’t suck. I’d blend everything I could.
My smoothies are pretty basic; fruit, yogurt, and a little milk to thin them to drinking consistency. But my trick is to always use frozen fruit. This makes the smoothie nice and thick and cold without having water it down with ice (and have to worry about the ice not breaking up in the blender).
I have a crappy blender too, my mom’s old one she gave me when I moved out, and I’ve been using an immersion blender in a pitcher to make smoothies lately instead. It leaves some chunks of fruit, but never jams up like the blender does.
wow! 72,000 entries! Im so happy for you crappy mama! I don’t remember how I even found you, but I’ve been following for about 2 years! You got me to cloth diaper which has influenced so many other decisions in my parenting! Much love to those two awesome boys!
Hi! I bought your book and I loved it as much as your blog!
My mom and I love making tomato basil soup in the blender!
I’ve never tried a vitamix, it would be cool to see what it does. I use a basic Oster blender. I make smoothies where I put:
1/4c greek yogurt (fat free)
blender full of raw spinach
1/2 c water
1/2 c fresh orange juice
1 peeled banana
1 pear (seeds removed, skin on)
5-6 ice cubes
I will blend All The Things!
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I love your blog – next to the husband, I think you’re most responsible for my current sanity as I deal with first-time-mommihood.
Thanks so much for the chance to win that awesome blender! I’d make tons of smoothies, homemade “larabars” and salsa – probably lots of other things that I can’t think of at the moment 😀
Love your blog! Your stories and pics are essentially my life illustrated.
Very excited for your success (and blenders)!
I’ve had every crappy blender on the market, pretty much…
I bought my dad a ninja for father’s day, and he loves that sucker!
I’m pretty sure I’d make margaritas as a top priority!!
That sounds like the best mistake I’ve heard in a while! Thanks for thinking of us, and I hope I win!
i’d make smoothies and soup and probably baby food someday!
i would blend veggies! i’m sick and need to get better!
My favorite is smoothies, but not the healthy ones. The super yummy ones with ice cream and sugar and all that bad crap. I even bought a “smoothie maker” blender. I think it was even crappier than my regular blender.
My magic bullet doesn’t stand a chance against the Viatmix. I hope I win to give it a try!
smoothies. I’d blend lots and lots and lots of smoothies. and maybe some other things if I’m feeling adventurous…
My blender has a ton of different options for blending, but only one works. The others make weird noises, but don’t actually do anything. It functions and I’m broke, so I haven’t thrown it away, but having something that actually worked would be great! I love Kale, apple juice, and spinach (“green goo”) with a small amount of water. It is yummy and healthy.
Baby food, smoothies, milk shakes and blue margaritas after hours!
A chocolate milkshake! I have a wimpy blender, too. This pregnant lady needs some milkshakes!
I totally want to make a green smoothie in a fantastic blender. Spinach, grapes, cucumber, kiwi, green apple, ginger…maybe some mint. Magic! I have the old blender issue. It just doesn’t like to blend. Anything.
My wife would love to have this Vitamix, though she would have to come up with something to make in it…though everything she makes is pretty delicious anyways.
I love your blog. It makes me so happy. I started reading it even BEFORE I had a little dude.
I think that you should make a smoothie with taro and put big tapioca balls in it. Like a boba smoothie.
I am a fan of farkles. Mostly because my first favorite color is rainbow and my second favorite is sparkles.
xo
oh and I would also like to add that I no longer have a blender seeing as how I threw my impotent blender away in a fit of rage. i would love this blender with my whole heart.
Vitamix is the best! I would make dairy free chocolate chip mint blender ice cream with frozen baby spinach in it for the green color!
I would blend yummy fruit and veggie smoothies and make baby food with it! Love your blog!!!
I would have used the Vitamix to pulverize the old blender.
tzatziki-sauce
Oh, how I want a Vitamix! I’d be starting every morning with a green smoothie!
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I would love to win one of these to give to my hard-working mom…:) Plus strawberry-banana-coconut milk smoothies are pretty rad…
I’d be willing to pay for my own shipping if I won such a great gift!
Oh man, this would be so much better than our junky food processor for making almond milk!!
Your blog is hilarious. Thanks for doing an amazing giveaway and sharing rather than selling! 🙂 I cannot wait to make smoothies. I don’t make them now, either, because of my blender.
I also pinned this contest!
I love blending. I would make margaritas.
Thank you for the giveaway!! You totally rock and I love love love your blog!!
No additional recipes, but a smoothie was the first thing I requested after the delivery of both of my sons. My oldest son called them “moosies” for a long time and I’m sad that he doesn’t anymore.
I’d blend up a Mommy Smoothie http://www.circleoffood.com/blog/2008/12/11/ying-yang-martini-recipe-2009-drink-of-the-year/
Love it!
I would blend up my old blender.
I would use it to turn cashews into paste. Because my husband doesn’t eat wheat, and I have a bread recipe that uses cashews instead. Only it turned out to be too much work for my KitchenAid and the little part that keeps the motor from burning out when you overwork it now needs to be replaced. The End.
I think I have wanted one of these for like ever! As I am sure most people do. Having my hubby be a wellness doctor and really into healthy eating and nutrition has left me searching for a better blender for all of our green smoothies. Surprisingly all 3 kids love them too! But most blenders that are worth anything are just to darn expensive! One day perhaps!
I’d love a new blender, the hubs will laugh cause he says I’d own every cool gadget if we could afford it! I would blend veggies for the toddler, banana-Nutella-peanut butter smoothies for the hubby and margaritas and hummus for me! I really want hummus…
Frozen yogurt smoothies.
Milkshakes!
I have been dying to make those green smoothies with spinach that are all over the place. Unfortunately, my blender also sucks. So, no smoothies for us. 🙁
Your credit cards? Kidding, just challenging Dave Ramsey or whatever his name is.
Frozen fruit (whatever you have), soymilk or silken tofu, and some juice. Mark Bittman also recently had his recipe for his favorite breakfast smoothie in his (first?) Flexitarian column (we are total flexitarians — especially since the first kid who apparently loves meat).
Enjoyed your session (and book signing) at the Gaithersburg book festival, though I had to go for a walk at the end since the baby was getting antsy.
I would blend up veggies with fruits to mask the veggies! My toddler is in a I hate veggies stage. *face palm*
A Vitamix would be great for sneaking veggies and other “healthy contraband” into the kids’ favorite recipes.
OMG, I am so not good at ideas. Smoothies, juices, and salsa is where my imagination takes me.
Margaritaville, here I come!
Cherries and yogurt.
thats soo cool I want one!
I would make smoothies – sneaking veggies into the kids and all. Lots and lots of sneaky smoothies. My current blender sounds like your ex-blender.
I too have two lazy blenders. They both suck, but my husband who makes a smoothie everyday, insists on keeping both for when the other really starts to act like a jerk. I’ve been lusting after a Vitamix and all the really cool things I could blend in one for at least six months now. lol
I would blend up some green smoothies with kale because there are two types of people: those who eat kale & those who should eat kale. I’d also love to have the ability to make almond milk without all the yucky ingredients in the store-bought stuff.
I would love to make stawberry/banana smoothies every day!
I would make Pina Coladas all day every day. Mmmm rum.
Mmm. I would blend kale and celery and beets and oranges. Then I would wonder why I did that and blend up a good old soy milkshake. No animals will be harmed if I win this vitamix!
MMMM. Peaches & vodka,
strawberries & peaches.. & vodka..
I have a theme…
i’d blend up a smoothie. my kids are smoothie fanatics. and my dumb old blender is just like your old one-requires spoons & other tools to do anything like i want it to. a vitamix would make my day!
You rock! And I’m not just saying that because I’m a small appliance slut (which I am, but let’s not go there; we barely know each other).
Good luck, BTW, getting through all of these comments. If you make it to the end, you deserve a small appliance of your own. 🙂
I’d become a super juicer! Oh and a super hero smoothie maker!
I wanna win… You rock!!!!!! and I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE you and your blog… does that give me brownie points (I will settle for just brownies and your blender too) 🙂 YAY
oooh, i would so back over our crappy blender with my minivan- really i would. and i’d even send pictures and outline it’s smashed pieces with chalk!
I love yogurt spinach flax seed strawberries and banana with a little milk. 🙂
I seriously sat and read your entire blog when I found it the other day. Lol. I use my cheapo blender all the time and its a pain. I would put a Vitamix to work!
I have two boys, PM will be four in July and DR is just three months old. PM, like many three year olds, barely eats let alone anything that could potentially help him grow. BUT he will drink a shake/smoothie/juice like nobody’s business. DR will be starting “solids” in just a matter of weeks. Help me be a good Mom by letting me dump my Craptastic blender for the Vitamix!
I am all about smoothies. I am a huge fun of just your plan ole strawberry banana with some yogurt and frozen blueberries! Yum. It would be awesome to blend your own baby food. Love your blog!
Try blending leftovers. Maybe, that way, the kids’ll actually eat them.
I’m mostly eating Paleo, so when by some miracle I have all the ingredients, I do: Coconut water, OJ, frozen blueberries and banana, and a dollop of almond butter. All that healthy crap adds up to a seriously delicious breakfast smoothie. And it kind of satisfies my PB&J cravings.
guess who broke my blender?
HA, I love how the VitaMix is all sexy! I inherited a VitaMix from my grandpa (a version from the 1950s) and that thing still worked amazingly well. Until I *ahem* got a spoon caught in the moving blade one too many times and stripped the drive socket. So now the blade doesn’t move. And guess what? They don’t make parts for those blenders anymore. Shocking, right? So I’ve been coveting a new one since last fall.
My blender is also a lazy jerk. I would so love to break up with it and make beautiful smoothies together with a new VitaMix. 🙂
With the warm weather, I would use it as a juicer and then make popsicles for me and my baby to snack on!!
OOHHH I would looove this!!! My blender cant even do a protein shake….what a jerk
I LOVE your blog! And although I should know better by now, I usually read it at work, which leaves me near tears from fighting laughing too loudly!
I love this blog, always has me laughing! Id probably make smoothies in the blender.. and baby food!
You do not KNOW how much I’d like to dump my blender! It actually deters me from making delicious smoothies. I would definitely do a strawberry kiwi or strawberry banana (throw in some spinach leaves to trick your body into eating them, because you cant taste them! it just makes your smoothie look all brown and not appetizing, but thats ok! put it in a pretty glass that you cant see through!). I’m all about the strawberries. 🙂
Kale, banana, coconut oil, almond butter, and homemade kefir. Yes!
I would blend frozen drinks that I could put fancy umrellas in. Then maybe I would make something for the kids too….
I have a just-turned-2yr old and love reading your posts/pictures.
It would be awesome to try a not-so-crappy blender for once.
(I once hosted a bachlorette party for my sister, and had forgotten the old roommate who moved out months ago owned the blender. It was the only time I ever knocked on the neighbor’s door to borrow something. And it was a blender.)
thiswas sof funny, hey baby!
We blend lots of ice and fruit here in New Mexico. It helps us survive the summer.
oh…to win is divine.
OMG! I want a Vitamix so bad – pick me! pick me! I will dutifully mix green smoothies and not-green smoothies. make juice and jam. Blended soups and perfect hummus.
Fave smoothie: peaches and mangoes, almond milk, blueberries, spinach.
Pick meeeee!
I loved your book, so it would be awesome to read it again while drinking a smoothie I blended up in the awesome vitamix…perhaps something with pineapple, kiwi and some berries…oh and maybe some booze, too.
Barefoot contessa has a great roasted butternut squash soup recipe. That’s for sure one thing I’d make in it.
If I had a vitamix, I’d make really healthy smoothies, and vegetable soups, and stuff with flax and chia and whatnot.
j/k margaritas and blendy boozy drinks would have higher priority.
Vitamix mixtures are the bomb! As are you!
Pineapple juice, malibu, grenadine, 7up and ice. It. Is. So. Good.
I covet a Vitamix blender!
also i read a pinterest thing for frozen sangria – just blend frozen fruit and wine. i could dig that recipe for years.
Oatmeal into oatmeal flour for chocolate chip cookies. Good stuff! Awesome giveaway 🙂
i want a free blender too!
Blend everything!
i would make tortilla soup. i love tortilla soup & i’ve heard vitamix can make soup!
i would blend whatever my wife wanted to eat!
I just read the “helping” post, and literally laughed out loud. In my office! Luckily, no one else was around at the moment. My 18mo and I LOVE smoothies, and I too own a “jerk” blender. Fingers crossed!
Forgot to mention, my go-to smoothie recipe is frozen blueberries, vanilla almond milk, spinach, flax seed, frozen mango, and sometimes a little honey!
I totally suck at making smoothies. Maybe it’s my lazy blender’s fault (the texture is always a problem). I usually end up messing it up even more by attempting to smooth it out in the food processor. Word of the wise: food processors weren’t made for smoothies. Long story short… I need this bad boy!
I clicked on the entries before I read it was US only. *epic sad face* Grats to whoever wins, I am sure Canadians would be willing to pay for shipping for something this awesome! 😉
I love your blog! Very relatable and hilarious to boot. 🙂 And now a give-away? Sweet niblets, I’m in! LOL
Just under the wire! You’re posts have not been showing up for me. I would love a noncrappy blender! Because my kids love smoothies as well. And my blender hates them.
I would make soups, glorious soups with kale snuck into every single one of them.
WOULD LOVE to win this….and ditch the crappy blender I have now. I HATE IT WITH THE PASSION OF 10,000 FIREY SUNS! But I love your blog…
Summer time smoothies!
Smoothies, soup, and I heard it can even make ice cream, maybe?
I am a very loyal reader, been since the beginning. (you can check, this isn’t my first comment.) LOL I find it funny that whenever there is a giveaway more people tend to be more open to making comments than when they don’t get anything from it. Just an observation. Anywho, I love you. I have forever. I also love my Vitamix…so why did I enter since I have one?? My step mom has made three honest attempts at stealing mine. Every time she comes to our home for any reason, I have to take it out of their trunk. I wish I were kidding. I’m trying to win one for her. I actually had mine given to me also, but I wrote a review and everything and they let me keep it. Best investment someone can make, IMO… (next to lasik surgery).
My daughter is a very healthy eater, we are very lucky. But it wasn’t easy. I started training her young. I only let her eat healthy, no…I’m not a freak about it, believe me I love my ice cream, cake, brownies, junk (I’m a baker for a family restaurant).
When she was very little, only a few months old, I had to have an emergency hysterectomy. Therefore, I was unable to breastfeed anymore so I started making baby food in my Vitamix. It’s been a blessing to us. Those first few months after surgery were mentally and emotionally draining to me and the only thing other than my daughter that kept me going was knowing she was still getting the nutrients I couldn’t give her from the fruits and veggies I was able to blend together. She is a healthy little girl. Super smart and amazes me every day. She will be 5 next Friday, never been sick a day in her life. A true miracle and my entire life. She would be very happy to give her Nana a new Vitamix blender!! (So ours stays safe)
Our blender does the same thing; I thought it would be different if I invested in one that maybe hadn’t also been a ten-year-old wedding present. 🙂 I thought I’d give the giveaway a try because now my blender has some strange cracks in the bottom…
I’d blend salad dressings
I love this blog! And I would make some mean cocktails in this kick @$$ blender, I mean healthy smoothies for my kids!
Gotta love a VitaMix!!
i would definitely make pina coladas.
butternut squash
I love smoothies, and I like kale in mine — no, really! Kale in a pineapple, orange juice, raw carrot, mango smoothie is just fine. But I have lately been committing crimes against toddlerhood by giving my child prune/chia seed smoothies disguised by more appealing fruit, because, you know, he’s two and he has decided he doesn’t need to poop ever. So now you know.
Funny, I have never heard of Vitamix until today and this is the second thing online I have ready about them today. All good and saying the best of the best. Added bonus, if I win, probably no need to ship as I’m pretty sure we live with in a very very short driving distance. 🙂
I love juicing (I still have my kids fooled into thinking that “juice” is always green), and I’d love to expand to smoothies! I like anything with lots of greens (kale, chard, spinach, etc.) and a ton of fresh ginger and lemon to cover up the taste of greens.
Oh, and my husband says, “Margaritas. We need it to make margaritas.”
Well, I see I am the 4000 & something-ith poster, but I’m going to throw mine in anyway and see if it sticks. I recently saw someone suggest on FB that you could freeze the ingredients of your morning smoothie into one- or two-serving packages so that all you’d have to do would be pull the package out of the freezer, dump it in the blender with your filler stuff (plain kefir, some milk, and ice) and blend. So I would make little packages that would include a handful of kale (washed and de-stemmed), a sliced banana, and a couple of strawberries. All in one baggie! Vitamix hooray!
I love smoothies!!!!!!! I have two defunct blenders sitting in my pantry right now and have resorted to using my Cuisinart Food Processer. My fav is simple – banana, blueberries, strawberries, yogurt and pineapple juice. (1 frozen banana (sliced), 1 cup of frozen strawberries (sliced), a handful of frozen blueberries, 1/2 cup of vanilla yogurt and 1/2 cup of pineapple juice) SO YUMMY!
I’ve been debating over a Blendtec/Vitamix for some time. I’d say this is a good reason to pick the Vitamix.
You are living the dream! 2 Vitamixes. Vitamices?
Vitamixes rock! I love to blend up faux orange julius’–oranges, vanilla, ice, milk (or greek yogurt,) and sugar. YUM!
I love your blog. so hilarious. Vitamix would prbably do some real smooth drinks, don’t you think?
I would buy the fresh cookbooks to go with a Vitamix. http://www.freshrestaurants.ca/cookbooks
My mother-in-law has one and loves it.
I would blend up whatever we’re having for dinner to make baby food. And then clean it out and make myself an ice cream shake.
At this point I would blend anything other than babyfood. So nothing boiled or peeled. Probably crush ice and make a nice icy pisco sour. Yum! Oooo icecream shake (just saw the comment above mine)!
Love your blog and the book! What a sweet new blender!
Avocado and banana smoothies are my new favorite! You can add in whatever other fruit you want to it.
smoothies!
butt plug. ha
I would blend up… whatever random crap I have that’s like 2 days post expiration date. Veggies, fruit… maybe some steak? dinner in a glass, friend.
AHHH. That’s awesome. You’re awesome. I have ALWAYS wanted a Vitamix. Too bad I didn’t have one of that there things when my kid was a baby. It would have been much better than the stick blender I was using to make his food. I would blend just about everything. Hummus! Soup! My daily protein shake! Rice! Snakes! Lasagna! jk. Anyway… if you’re looking for a novel idea, try Aligot. It’s basically thick, cheesy, French mashed potatoes. Don’t try regular mashed potatoes in there, though! They’ll suck. Cooks Illustrated has a good recipe.
I think I would blend… like, anything. I have a blender, and it’s pretty sucky-average, but I can’t use it anymore because my husband keeps using it for his non-food “projects.” He swears there is nothing toxic about what he blended, but I can’t get all the crap out of the crevices, so…. I hear a Vitamix is a life-changing experience, so I’d blend the things that change your life!
I’d mix beets, carrots, apple, and ginger! 🙂
Not going to lie, this Vitamix offer has me outing myself and no longer being a LURKER! So we (my wife and I) have followed you since we lived in Guam on a boat. Now, we follow you as we live in an RV in NJ. crazy us. A blender would SOOOO take the place of the foodprocessor we just stored for the season. ends up, we need it badly too because there is way too much organic produce laying around! Please help me help blend these veggies the f up! And thank you for every crappy episode you bring, helps us a lot.
I love to blend up some veggies and hide them in pasta sauce and brownie batter!!!
Oooh vitamix! I would use it to make a million versions of that fake banana “ice cream” (frozen banana + milk + whatever flavor). Mostly chocolate but also other things. And in a few months when I am not breastfeeding every five seconds I would add bourbon.
OHMYGOSH! I would LOVE LOVE LOVE a vitamix! I think I have your jerk blender’s brother or sister because it’s seriously un-blendy. I actually destroyed a measuring cup once (and a spoon, and a spatula – think I’d learn huh?!) and wanted the smoothie so bad I picked out (most of) the minuscule pieces of black plastic. And ended up eating some of them. I know this isn’t real fancy but Kroger has a bag of frozen fruit that has mango, pineapple, and strawberry. I throw that in with a banana and a few splashes of almond milk and it’s fantastic! Never was a mango fan before this and it’s just perfect!
Smoothies. I would blend up smoothies and lots of ’em.
My mother in law has been dying to get me to try the Vitamix – she is fascinated that it also makes soups and WARMS them!
Oooh! I want a sexy blender. It would go with my hawt toaster and my steamy electric kettle.
I was offered either a Vitamix or the retail value in cash as a wedding gift. As my hubby and I were both poor college students, we did the responsible thing and opted for the cash to pay our rent. I’ve been regretting the decision ever since.
The very first thing I would make with one is two-ingredient banana and peanut butter ice cream. Because…well, it’s obvious why. Banana and peanut butter ice cream. Nuff said.
See here: http://www.twopeasandtheirpod.com/two-ingredient-banana-peanut-butter-ice-cream/
We love nut milk!
I’d blend up my cake mixes from now on. I hate my hand mixer for that. Just toss in egg, milk, flour, etc, WHIIIIIIIIRRRRR cake mix. Drink. Yum.
I’d blend up some delicious adult beverages,haha:-)
My hubbs has killed 3 blenders so far in trying to make frozen banana ice cream. Sigh, this pregnant mama would be content with a (virgin, for now) margarita please!
I’m in Canada, so maybe if I win I can help you ship it? 😀
I was born in South America and, when I have a chance, I go to the Latin market and get the following frozen fruit pulp: chirimoya, guanabana and lucuma. Each of them with just ice and water tastes AWESOME. Mix them up with any tropical fruits (bananas, papaya, mango, pineapple, cocounut) and you have heaven on earth. In the markets where I was born at the smoothie stands they add carrots and beets, milk, even a raw egg, and carob syrup. That’s a meal already. And amazingly good.
Just found you – and I do love smoothies, but they can definitely be a pain!
I would LOVE to win!
Ohhhh, a Vitamix! How I have longed for one as well! I love to make smoothies with spinach, flax, vanilla yogurt or coconut yogurt, coconut milk and all kinds of fruit combinations. I have also put in carrots, kale, and beets before.
We are loving coconut milk smoothies with frozen strawberries, frozen blueberries, and frozen kale.
I nearly killed my blender tonight trying to make mayonnaise.
If I had a vitamix I would definatly make a green smoothie similar to the one that a Vitamix representative made for me in the grocery store, with spinich, apple juice, carrots, strawberries, banana, cucumber, and mint. 😀
Hi – it says this runs through May 24, but is not accepting my entry. 🙂
Did I win? Did I win?
ooh, ooh! pick me!!! i am blender-less (in fact i have never owned a blender), so winning a super fancy one would rule. thanks!
Thank you, Amber! We love you for your delightful humor, and warm mama heart. And I’m sure we will really like the Vitamix, too.
Congratulations LilyT !! what a lovely surprise you’ll get !
That is awesome! I wish I entered this raffle in time. Our blender blows.
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