Portable Blender Review

When you're a busy Mama, or really, just a busy grown up, you'll take whatever shortcuts you can get. And, if your mornings are anything like ours, anything that helps get y'all out the door in the morning is a gamechanger. So, I was excited to try this portable blender. 

If you want a little personal size blender, this one is pretty good. It's not perfect, and it probably won't last forever, but it was a good way to experiment with the personal size blender trend. Plus, I've started subbing and volunteering at the school again, so I don't have time to eat breakfast at home. Frozen pancakes and burritos get tiring after awhile. 

With some apple juice and apples, we basically made runny apple sauce. Meh... it was okay, but good enough. The kids liked it. It was sort of like those applesauce pouches at the store, but a little runnier. I think we put too much juice in it. 

With an orange, a TINY pinch of sugar, and a little bit of water, we made chunky orange juice. I can't STAND pulpy orange juice, so I wouldn't go near it, but the kids were excited to drink it. I wonder if I could strain it or something to get the pulpy bits out... Grapes were pretty much the same thing... little chunks of skin, etc. 

The blender is easy enough to use. Just put the fruit and liquid in the top, tilt it, and push the button. It will count down, shut off, and then you can drink it from the included cup. (LOVE THIS) 

One thing I would have loved to be included is a recipe book. There's tons of stuff online, of course, but otherwise, we were just experimenting. The kids and I love to experiment, especially in the kitchen, but it still would have been nice to have some recipes.

The top turns into a mug, which is perfect and adorable, and SUPER convenient. It also comes with a lid. It is light weight so it will not be an inconvenience to carry it around.

This blender great for making smoothies on the go. I love that you can charge it and keep it moving. It does a great job of blending spinach and water, and other "thin" things. When I added some frozen fruits, it took a few tries to get it to work right. The blades stop if they meet too much resistance, so make sure to only blend small batches and that the fruit isn't too hard or too frozen, etc. We found that it needs a lot of liquid to blend properly and sometimes we had to shake the blender up and down while it was blending so the blades didn't get stuck and stop. Soft fruits and small chunks of food blended just fine. 

It blends in 20 second intervals and it completes about 10-20 blends before you have to recharge it. It usually takes about 3 or 4 blends to make one full smoothie with softer fruits, and several more blends for harder/frozen/bigger fruits. Cleaning is really easy: just use hot soapy water. Be careful so you don't get the little charger port at the bottom wet. It's covered by a little silicone door but if it does get wet, it'll probably stop working.

I could see great uses for travelling and vacations too. It's small, and no one wants to bring a full sized blender with them on vacation, but this is small enough to fit in a suitcase or a carry on. 

We have found that the blender works much better if we put the liquids in it first and THEN put in the fruit. We've also found that it blends better if you chop up the fruit into smaller pieces rather than putting in the fruit in as a whole. (I mean, obviously... you're doing part of the work for the blender!) 

We have also tried putting oatmeal in our smoothies because it makes it thicker and heartier, and keeps us fuller for longer. When putting in some oatmeal, it seems to works best to blend the fruit & liquid first, and then put in the cooked oatmeal in and blend it again.

Once you're done and have consumed your smoothie, wash and rinse the blender as soon as possible, and don't forget to plug it back in so that it can fully recharge.

So far, this has worked well for days where I'm subbing or otherwise at school in the morning. Next time we travel, I plan on bringing it with us. We like to bring our food with us to save on food costs. 

What do you usually eat for breakfast?