It's a double edged sword; having a wife who stays at home in the day with access to all sorts of home shopping outlets. The bad point is that all the money gets spent, but the good point is that occasionally I come home from work and cool stuff has been delivered!

The latest delivery is a Kenwood Smoothie Maker. I didn't realise I even had an interest in making (or drinking) smoothies but, excuse my lack of modesty here, I'm a chuffing expert!
Firstly, we've never had a machine of this sort before nor have we had any food processors or anything like that, there is I suppose a novelty value of a machine with big spinning blades inside.
Secondly, it's a really well designed machine, I've said it before but I really do like stuff that does what it should with no fuss or unnecessary complexity.

The idea is that you get a load of your favourite fruit or vegetables, chuck 'em in the machine with some liquid (like yoghurt or juice) and whizz them up in to a nice drink. The results have been quite spectacular! In the last two days we have made smoothies with:

• Strawberry
• Kiwi
  
• Orange Juice
• Ice
  

• Grapes
• Kiwi
• Apples
• Oranges
• Orange Juice
• Ice
  

• Yoghurt
• Apple
  
• Grapes
• Kiwi

• Apple
• Orange
• Banana
• Carrot
• Ice
  

• Frozen Coffee
• Yoghurt
• Banana
• Chocolate

All of these were really nice, the second was the best and the coffee one was the most interesting.
The good thing about these drinks is that they are pretty much just fresh fruit and I vary rarely eat fruit normally, I must have had my five-a-day today and yesterday which is a very good thing.