Making Fruit Drinks.

When hot weather rolls around, nothing quite quenches your thirst like a cold fruit drink. All you need is the fruit of your choice and a blender. Although you can use ginger ale or carbonated water to make fruit drinks, to get the full effect of healthy goodness, you should just use fruit juices. This is a simple and delicious treat that you and your family can make and enjoy on any day of the year.

1 Cut the watermelon in half and then into small cubes, enough to fill 8 cups. Next, peel and cut 2 of the bananas into small chunks. You can use any kind of watermelon you want, but you'll have to take out the seeds first.

2 Put the watermelon cubes and the banana chunks in the blender and puree. Pour the watermelon and banana juice into a gallon pitcher, along with the pineapple juice and orange juice.

3 Wash the strawberries in cold water. Take off the tops, and slice the strawberries into small pieces. Peel and cut up the last banana into small pieces.

4 Open the can of pineapple chunks, and drain the juice. Fresh pineapple can be used instead of canned.

5 Add the cut up strawberries and bananas and the pineapple chunks to the pitcher of juice. You can add the juice to the pitcher if more of a pineapple taste is wanted. Just remember that the juice from the can of pineapple chunks may be sweetened with sugar.

6 Stir gently to mix all of the juices and fruits in the pitcher together. Put a lid on the pitcher, and let it sit in the fridge for 2 hours. This will allow the juice to get cold and the fruit chunks to become somewhat soft.

7 Pour the fruit drink into glasses and drink from a straw. Remember to keep a spoon handy for the fruit pieces. If you'd rather have a smooth fruit drink, just blend all of the fruit before adding the juices.

Source: Net