Smoothie Operator (I stole that from Max)

Sally and I thought we should have a little contest involving blenders while she was here, and it turned into a great, big smoothie contest with 5 teams vying for the coveted dollar store trophy.

The basic idea of the contest was to have 2 people per blender come up with a smoothie drink using whatever ingredients they wanted to bring, steal or borrow, followed by a tasting by all teams and an anonymous voting process to determine the smoothiest winner.


The criteria for judging were:
Nutritional Value (ranked 1 to 5)
ColorAppeal/Presentation (scale of 1 to 10)
Taste (scale of 1 to 10)
Texture (scale of 1 to 10)
Most points wins.

Here is a picture of most of the ingredients that were up for grabs. I say 'most' because some people insisted on keeping their key ingredients in a brown paper bag (Mom and Cooper).

Brian and Amy creating the Aloha Sunset.

Max and Amanda even brought team jerseys for their Raspberry Truffle entry.

Cooper and Grandma whipping up a Mello Banana Peanut Butter Frapp. Mello as in marshMello. Not much of a nutrional score on that one, I'm afraid.

Sam and the Shanna Cabana.

And Mia guarding her and Sally's Summertime Creamsicle.

Time for the tasting!!! Cooper can barely sit still he's so excited about 'THOSE TROPHIES' and Mia 'just wants to win'.

As you can see from the scorecard, Max and Amanda ran away with the prize by scoring a perfect 40 on Taste. It really actually did taste like Raspberry Truffle, even though Max swears that this was the first smoothie he ever made.... Note the '2' that Mia gave Mom and Coop for Color Appeal because 'it's brown-yuck!!' that really sunk their battleship.

All the smoothies were great - I'd gladly pay $$ for any one of them. Couldn't have been a more fun group of people to blend with either, if you know what I mean.