The gelatinous porcupine staved off the charitable martinet, or Smoothie taste test.

For our taste test the boys and I made four smoothies: oatmeal cookie; apple, avocado, mint; apple, peach, thyme; and Zachary's St. Clement's Smoothie.

We labeled cups with the letters A, B, C and D and added numbers 1 through 4 to three pieces of paper:



We judged:





The winning smoothie was the St. Clement's, Zachary's own creation:

• juice of 1 orange
• juice of 1/2 lemon
• 1 banana
• handful of spinach
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 tablespoons flax seed
• 1/2 cup yogurt
• handful of almonds
• 5 ice cubes

Carrot, Peach and Thyme Smoothie (the runner-up)

• shredded carrots
  
• 1 cup frozen peaches
• juice of 1 orange
  
• 1/2 cup cold water
• 2 sprigs fresh thyme, leaves only

The oatmeal cookie smoothie was okay, but after drinking the apple avocado one, Zachary said, "Mom, if you ever make another smoothie with mint in it, I will die," followed by Corey's "Mom, if you ever make another smoothie, I will die."

Oh, and in case anyone wants to try out Corey's recipe (unfortunately, we were out of lava), here it is:

• banana
• yogurt
• peanut butter
• jelly
• bread
• sugar
• Zachary
• pig
• lava
• pie
• guitar
  

For more kid-friendly ideas, check out I Blame My Mother.