Now is a great time to buy strawberries fresh from the store and freeze them yourself. They are priced pretty low in the stores. I take the stems off and slice them and put them in gallon sized bags. It makes for even more accurate portion control, so you don’t get these monster-sized strawberries for one bite, like you sometimes get in the bags of frozen fruit.

I recently started making parfaits a few hours before I’m going to enjoy them. I use Walmart’s Low Fat Vanilla yogurt along with either my frozen strawberries that I’ve cut up or Walmart has a nice tropical mix of frozen fruit (strawberries, mangoes, pineapple, peaches…yum!) that go really well. I work 2nd shift, so I make my parfait in the late morning in a small thermos and the frozen fruit defrosts but also keeps the yogurt cool in the fridge. I enjoy it around 8pm for my dinner break. Yumm-o!

I buy frozen strawberries, raspberries, and blueberries from Trader Joe’s (organic, because berries have thin skins and lots of pesticides otherwise, and the organic blueberries are smaller) and I stick them in a tupperware dish in my fridge and let them thaw and bleed together and then mix them up. And when I’m done spooning them out, I sneak a spoonfull of the juice. And then whatever I don’t use when it starts getting low or not so pretty, I blend in the Magic Bullet and put in popsicle molds. SO yummy!