Dairy-free, soy-free smoothie

Not mine, but similar.

One of the things I've missed on my now largely milk-free diet is milkshakes and smoothies. My diet in summer used to consist largely of ice-cream and fruit (a bit of an exaggeration, but not much!). One of my favourite meals is an enormous smoothie with some kind of fruit (banana, mango, strawberries, blueberries, whatever) plus the works- ice-cream, milk and yoghurt.

Seeing that I've pretty much entirely given up milk, and cut back greatly on ice-cream and yoghurt, I thought smoothies were out of the question. I still can't stomach soy milk by itself, despite the excellent foam obtainable with Vitasoy. It's just too gross.

Yesterday, however, faced with a rockmelon of reasonable quality that wasn't quite good enough to enjoy on its own, and a container of super-rich coconut cream that needed using, I decided to give a non-dairy smoothie a go. 1/8th of a rockmelon, plus a couple of tablespoons coconut cream with the addition of some pineapple and orange juice, it worked perfectly- even I could scarcely have determined that it contained no dairy products!

Today I tried the same thing again, this time with the addition of a ladyfinger banana to the mix, and slightly more pineapple-orange juice. Even better.

It's not quite a substitute for a proper milkshake or smoothie, but it's still extremely tasty and doesn't involve the use of gross soy milk!