OK....I'll admit it publicly: I am one of those people who easily gets sucked into grocery store demos, infomercials, home shopping network sales pitches, etc. There should be a support group for us! Oh, yeah, I openly make fun of them in front of friends and laugh at the crazy over-the-top spokespersons, but secretly, I get excited when I think about how I, too can look like one of those sweaty hot-looking model types doing Zumba, or how I could cut through a tin can with a knife, and still be able to slice a tomato with it afterward!
The in-person demos are even MORE inviting to me! Case in point: the lady at the local Costco demonstrating the VitaMix super blender. Every time I go to Costco, I am secretly hoping she's there again, already whipping up some incredible-tasting combination of wonderfulness like green smoothies, fresh applesauce, or healthy taco soup! I have wanted one of those blenders since the first time I tasted one of her healthy smoothies! Oh, the things I could do with one of those, I would think!! Then, like a sharp slap in the face, I again look at the price tag and drop back into my reality....the one where I'd have to sell a vital organ or one of my kids to buy one of these blenders! Again and again, I walk away from that nice lady, head hung low, sad and empty-handed, knowing that I have way too many priorities on my list above the VitaMix.
True to form, while flipping through channels late one weekend night, I caught sight of an infomercial for the HealthMaster blender, and was sucked in faster than a tern into a turbine! There was this nice guy, Montel Williams, telling me all about how great this blender worked, as well as all the wonderful benefits of eating/drinking the endless concoctions that could be made with it! He and his infomercial assistant would create these amazing-looking fruit and vegetable mixtures, and pass them around to eagerly waiting audience members, who in turn would turn them up quickly, and of course return their perfect looks of yummy satisfaction for Montel and the cameras. Wow, I thought....this is just like the VitaMix lady at the store! Same stupefied yummy-satisfaction looks on the participants' faces, same good looking combinations of healthy foods...and at a MUCH MUCH CHEAPER PRICE! (Cheaper always calls out to me loudly!) I was hooked! I quickly began to do some web-research on customer satisfaction ratings of these HealthMasters, as opposed to VitaMix and other brands, and I ordered my HealthMaster before the infomercial was over!
When my blender came, it was the evening before we had to go out of town for the weekend, so I nearly drove myself crazy thinking about what I was going to do with it when I got home. But once my HealthMaster and I were reunited, I set off on yet another journey, one that I have decided to share with you here. "Smoothie Diaries" will hopefully be my sharing with readers my own experiences, not only with recipes for healthy super-blended foods, but with taste evaluations, healthful benefits, and related lifestyle-changing topics.
I do hope you'll subscribe here and join me on this journey! Write back and share your own experiences and recipes and ideas! We can obviously help each other by communicating what works, as well as what may not work so well! Thanks for stopping by!
