I've been making batches of smoothies lately. Or batches of the ingredients, anyway.
The last batch was twelve servings. I took twelve ziploc freezer bags, like the sandwich size, and divided the following ingredients into twelve equal portions, one for each bag:
6 bananas
6 smallish (Gala) apples
4 large beets
6 mini cucumbers
10 medium carrots
24 (pitted) dates
12 small handfuls of mixed nuts
4 ounces ginger
16 ounces frozen blueberries
16 ounces frozen strawberries
16 ounces frozen pineapple chunks
16 ounces frozen cherries
16 ounces frozen kale
16 ounces frozen broccoli
12 ounces frozen cauliflower
So each bag gets half a banana, a third of a beet, two dates, etc.
I put the twelve bags in the freezer, and whenever I want to make a smoothie, I've got a bag full of smoothie ingredients ready to go.
I just put a small serving of yogurt in the blender with two tablespoons of rolled oats, the contents of a bag full of frozen produce, and however much water looks right ... then blend. Doing twelve servings at once makes it a lot easier. Also, it's pretty convenient to buy a lot of the produce already frozen.
The main reason I'm posting this is to spread the word that
you don't have to peel ginger. Seriously,
you don't have to. You don't have to peel beets, either. In both cases, just wash them. It makes smoothie-making so much easier because peeling beets and (especially) ginger is absolutely the worst part of the whole ordeal. (You do still have to peel bananas, though.)