Summer Watermelon Slushies, Oh Yeah!

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade!
Well what if life gives you 3 watermelons? Yes 3!

Our family loves watermelon so when I saw them on sale this week I didn’t hesitate despite already having one sitting on the kitchen counter. That evening when Shad got home from work he walked in the door with a melon crooked under his elbow too. That’s a lot of watermelon my friends!

I searched the web for a creative solution for our dilemma and was inspired by the Food Network. So what do you do? You make slushies!

Check out the original recipe and then consider these additional tips:

• Go with whatever amount of watermelon you’ve got on hand. I used around 2 cups tops and it made a fairly decent amount.
• We added a dash of honey to make it a bit sweeter!
• I used an immersion blender to puree the watermelon. If you don’t have a blender I think you could get away with putting the melon in a large Ziploc bag and mashing it!
• Instead of using a container I simply poured the liquid melon into a large Ziploc bag and popped it in freezer.
• Once the juice is frozen solid pull it out and smash it into bits with the flat side of a meat tenderizer. Perfect! YUM.
• The texture of the slushie was very smooth & I instantly thought I might need to use this for margaritas instead of rocky ice. {winks}
• We adorned our slushies with frozen raspberries.  Next time we might blend them right in!

I absolutely love this idea:

Bring the frozen watermelon on your picnic (it’ll double as an extra ice pack) and let thaw slightly, then mash with a fork and spoon into cups.

Do you have a favorite, healthy, summertime snack? Let’s chat in the comments.

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