I am the proud mother of a very picky one-year-old. Fruit, in particular, is one of our regular battles. She hates the texture of it, but will slurp it down in baby food form. When I saw her trying to get after my husband’s lemonberry slush, a thought hit me: if I can’t get her to eat the fruit, I bet I can get her to drink it. And because every store-made smoothie out there is loaded down with sugar and food dye, I struck out on my own to make one I felt comfortable with her slurping down.

Good news: my experiment worked, especially when paired with a straw so that her drink looks like daddy’s drink.

Here’s how you do it:

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