Story by Jackie Cohen
Homemade Lemonade
Ingredients
- 1 lemon
- 1/4 cup of sugar
- 4 cups of water
Instructions
- Squeeze lemon into a cup
- Add the water and sugar into the cup and mix it
- Enjoy it under the sun with a relaxing book
Orange Banana Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 cup cold milk
- 2 peeled oranges
- 1 banana
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 8 ounces fat free vanilla yogurt
- 4 ice cubes
Instructions
- Place the milk, oranges, banana, sugar, salt and yogurt in the blender and blend for a minute
- Insert ice cubes and blend again
- Pour into a glass
- Optional: add cute little umbrella
Hibiscus Water
Ingredients
- 10 cups water
- 2 cups dried hibiscus petals
- 3/4 cup of sugar
Instructions
- Place dried hibiscus petals and water in a pot and leave the stove on until it boils
- Lower the amount of heat and leave the pot on the stove for 10 more minutes
- Let the combination cool
- Put the pot’s contents in a strainer
- Sweeten with the sugar
- Drink once it is cool
Homemade Ice Pops
Ingredients
- 2 cups fresh blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and bananas mixed
- 2 cups plain or vanilla yogurt
- 1/4 cup white sugar
- 8 small paper cups
- 8 popsicle sticks
Instructions
- Blend mixed blueberries, raspberries, strawberries, sliced bananas, yogurt, and sugar
- Fill paper cups 3/4 of the way with the blender’s contents
- Cover the top of each cup with aluminum foil
- Poke a popsicle stick through the center of the aluminum foil
- Place in freezer for at least 5 hours
- Peel paper cup, remove foil, and enjoy
