Easy Triple Berry Smoothie

Smoothies are a great way to get healthy nutrients. Usually, I love to go to a juice bar to get a smoothie to drink while I work or relax. My favorite type of smoothie is one with berries, especially one with strawberries.

Though, since the pandemic began and I started working from home every day, I decided it was time to try to learn how to make my own version of my favorite berry smoothie. Especially since I had just gotten a new and better blender in the beginning of 2020. The smoothie would be a version where I can control all the berries and juices going into it. This way I can tailor the smoothie to only include the fruit that I like.

You can read my recipe and full article at Delishably – Easy Triple Berry Smoothie.

Hope you enjoy this smoothie!

Fruit Santa Hats: Easy and Quick Christmas Dessert

These Santa hats made out of fruit are a super cute Christmas dessert!
Source: ©AlyssaScheidemann

No-Bake Christmas Dessert

The winter holiday season is a time for holiday parties and get-togethers. It is also a time for holiday-themed food, especially desserts. With Christmas finally upon us, and having felt like it was a long year, there are many holiday and Christmas themed desserts to eat this time of year, ones that are fun and delicious to make and eat.

Some desserts can get complicated and take a long time. For those of us who are busy and don't have much time to bake or to make something complex, it can be a challenge finding desserts that are quick and easy to make, whether this year you are celebrating with your small bubble group or just with your immediate family.

This Santa hat fruit dessert is a fun solution. Using fruit means you don't have to worry about serving and eating unhealthy desserts during the holiday time. Even better, there is absolutely no baking or cooking required!

Cook Time

Prep time: 25 min

Ready in: 25 min

Yields: 22 Santa hats

Ingredients

• 22 mini marshmallows
• 22 strawberries
• 2 bananas

Instructions

1. Begin by gathering the strawberries and washing them. Then cut the stem off of every one of them. Put them aside.


2. Take your bananas and slice them into medium-sized slices. Make sure you don't make them too thick. Set them aside.


3. Take out the toothpicks and the 22 mini marshmallows. Put the marshmallows in their own dish.


4. Pick up a toothpick, and put a marshmallow on it.


5. Follow with a strawberry by putting the toothpick through, starting with the pointed end (non-cut side) and pushing it through.


6. Follow with a slice of banana and push that through also.


7. Place the finished Santa hat on a tray or serving dish. Then repeat the process until you are out of strawberries and toothpicks.


8. You are ready to serve a beautiful platter of adorable Santa hats!

Enjoy!

Wasn't that easy and quick? Hope you and everyone enjoy the festive dessert! Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!

© 2015 Alyssa Scheidemann

Originally published December 5, 2015 on Hubpages / Delishably. Last updated on Whimsical Thoughts on December 15, 2025.

New Booktube Video: November 2019 - Young Adult Unplugged Box Unboxing

The last recent booktube video I posted is an unboxing video for the November 2019 Young Adult Unplugged Box, in which I unbox the November 2019 Young Adult Unplugged Box and share/review what was in the box. Check it out from my Youtube channel or here:

Poetry Taste #16: "Embracing 30"

30th birthday cupcake | © Africa Studio - Adobe Stock

Below is a nonet poem "poetry taste" I have recently written about how I was feeling one year ago before I turned 30 last December.

At first I was not looking forward
To turning thirty - but soon I
Realized it is not so bad.
As thirty drew closer, I looked to embrace
it. A chapter
To newly
Start for
me.

[Alyssa Scheidemann - 2019]

I also wrote an acrostic poem version of this poem subject. The acrostic poem is published on Hubpages. Please visit the Hubpages "My Hubs" section below in this blog for the link to read the acrostic poem titled "Thirty."

New Booktube Video: October 2019 Book and Bookish Haul

Yet another Booktube video has been posted!

The recent booktube video I posted is an October 2019 Books and Bookish Haul video, in which I show the books and bookish items I have recently acquired - either by purchasing or being given - within the past month or so. Check it out from my Youtube channel or here:

Poetry Taste #15: "Reclined Twist Practice"

The mountain of stress
Had formed intricate knots in my back.
I know exactly what needs to be done
To make me relaxed - it is not a stranger to me.

Moments later I am lying on my mat,
Arms outstretched to the letter T;
Legs bent in and folded to my torso -
Ready to twist about in a reclined twist.

Twisting and turning one way,
Then the other.
Wringing out built up of stress,
Stretching and untwisting the intricate knots.

Bending but not braking;
Loving to love myself.
I breathe in and breathe out,
Keeping rhythm with my stretching self.

Finally, I am relaxed and stress-free;
And one of my favorites in yoga
Has melted away the mountain successfully -
The reclined twist pose.

[Alyssa Scheidemann - 2019]

Poetry Taste #14: "Fish Jumping for Joy"

Mullet fish leap high
Out of the backwater in
June in Florida.

[Alyssa Scheidemann - 2019]