Product Reviews

Vita-Mix
www.vitamix.com
Review by Erin Pavlina

Vitamix Super 5000

About 10 years ago Steve bought a Vita-Mix. I thought to myself, "Oh no, another kitchen appliance that's going to go to waste." I was shocked and disbelieving when he told me it could make ice cream or soup. I thought, "No way. How could it do both?" Well he showed me. You put a bunch of veggies in it, turn it on, and in a few minutes you have hot vegetable soup.

making ice cream

But I told him he could keep his soup, I wanted to try the ice cream. So we threw in some frozen strawberries, sugar and milk (now we use fructose and soymilk) and in just a few seconds we had the best, freshest, soft serve strawberry ice cream I've ever tasted. It was fabulous!

I got really into the Vita-Mix after that. I made fresh, homemade hummus all the time. I loved making cole slaw because the Vitamix could shred cabbage in literally 3 seconds. It even washes the cabbage for you. And the Vita-Mix is easy to clean. A big bonus in my book since we used it so much.

There's one thing we use our Vita-Mix for almost every day. Fruit smoothies! It's easy... you just put in some fresh fruit, frozen strawberries, a little juice and in seconds you have a nutritious, healthy fruit smoothie that still contains all the vitamins and minerals the fruit started with. I lived on fruit smoothies when I was pregnant. I also recently discovered I can make one hellava chocolate shake (Rice Dream Ice Cream, rice milk, and Ah-Laska chocolate syrup and voila.)

We recently passed our Vitamix on to my parents so we could get the new Vita-Mix Super 5000. It's still the only appliance we use virtually every day and the only one that has an honored place on our counter. I'll never part with it. I highly recommend the Vita-Mix Super 5000 to all of you. It's an incredible investment in your own health.

Now the Vita-Mix 5200 is the latest blender. it boasts an Eastman Tritan container, a 2 Peak HP Motor, and soft grip handles and soft touch dials and switches. It just gets better and better!

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Erin Pavlina is the author of Raising Vegan Children in a Non-Vegan World, and a new cookbook, Vegan Family Favorites. She lives in Las Vegas with her vegan husband and children, Emily and Kyle.

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