For an easy yet still healthy summer snack try this uber-healthy blueberry lemonade popsicle recipe. Your kids will love it and you will be happy its do darn good for them too!
My kids love popsicles and who can blame them the cold treat the hot summer, it’s a match made in heaven right?
Well except if you are talking about store bought popsicles that is. There is the artificial colors, high fructose corn syrup, the trash…
Ugh.
It’s like my “mom brain” takes over and I no longer like those frozen treats that symbolized the hot summer days of my childhood.
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My solution to all that garbage thats in typical store bought popsicles is to make my own.
For this lady over here, it’s a total win I know what’s in them, I can make sure its organic if I want to. They cost a fraction of healthier ones at the store, and I don’t have to worry about producing all that excess garbage going to a landfill somewhere.
Healthy Popsicle Recipe
See I see “healthy food” a little different than most. Labeling something sugar free only to have sucralose or aspartame or some other chemical concoction of a sweetener in it, doesn’t make it to a healthy food category for me.
So I mentioned this blueberry lemonade popsicle recipe is healthy right? It is, and here is why.
- First of all, they are sugar-free but not made with “non-sugar junk” these are sweetened with nature’s goodness, pure simple honey.
- These sweet treats are made with the whole lemon. That’s right not just the lemon juice. The whole lemon is edible and the peel is absolutely packed with healthy nutrients. Also, try this whole-lemon lemonade recipe!
- Blueberries are a superfood, and they add plenty of natural color to these sweet lemony treats.
Blueberry Lemonade Popsicle Recipe
Looking for a healthy snack to cool off with this summer? How about these 10-minute to make (sugar-free) blueberry lemonade popsicles. This recipe is packed full of real fruit goodness, skips none of the flavor and all of the sugar!
Ingredients
- 1. whole (organic) Lemon
- 1/4 C. (organic) Blueberries
- 3 C. Water
- 1/3- 1/2 C. Honey
Instructions
- Wash & scrub lemon. Cut ends off and discard. Quarter lemon.
- Combine the lemon, blueberries, water and honey into a blender and blend on puree setting for a minute.
- Pour contents of blender through a fine mesh strainer, discard contents of strainer. Saving all the liquid.
- Fill popsicle molds with all the liquid. Should fill about 12 standard popsicle molds (depending on the size).
- Freeze popsicles for 3 hours or until throughly frozen.
- Make often and enjoy.
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 14Total Fat: 0gSaturated Fat: 0gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 0gCholesterol: 0mgSodium: 3mgCarbohydrates: 4gFiber: 0gSugar: 4gProtein: 0g
Easy Popsicles to Make
So I know talked about how healthy they are but the real game-changer here is how fast and easy they are to make.
Let me be real… I have nearly half-a-dozen kids. I don’t have the time to make these intricate desserts and treats for them.
Spoiled these kids are not, alive, and healthy they are.
So needless to say making things healthy and fast, now that works for me.
For this fast popsicle all you need is to toss all the ingredients in the blender, puree for about a minute. Then pour through a fine mess strainer. Pop into some popsicle molds and bam, done.
The hardest part is getting your kids to wait while they freeze.
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Looking for cool summer treats that don’t have things like yellow 5 or red 40? This quick and easy to make blueberry lemonade popsicle recipe is sure to be a winner with kids and adults alike. Full of real fruit and sweetened with honey. You can feel safe knowing whats in your popsicles and that they are both good for your body and still delicious to eat ♡♡♡
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Beth is a mother of 6 living on a handful of acres in an old farmhouse in central Kansas. Beth has a background in the military and health and fitness however her passions come from her homestead life. Beth is an enthusiastic homeschooling mom, avid organic gardener, chicken & goat wrangler, who is obsessed with herbs and natural remedies and maintaining an all-around Do-It-Yourself lifestyle. Beth loves to share all she has learned about and sustainable living. While striving for a healthy, natural life, family-centered life.