vita-mix

I love, love, love my Vita-Mix. We bought ours at Cost-co about 2 1/2 years ago. Perry wanted to stop at the demo to try the samples, and we watched the whole thing and then kept talking to the demonstrators afterwards. I was very reluctant, Perry really wanted it. I finally was sold by the fact that it cleans itself (it really does!) So we took home our new $400 appliance- can't you buy a fridge for less?
We didn't use it for anything other than fruit smoothies for a while. Then we stopped using it, then we'd use it for a while and stop again. Sometime last year, we started using it very regularly. We now use it for:
-smoothies (fruit and green smoothies)
-soup
-grinding flax seed
-mashing strawberries for jam
-fruit syrups
-raw truffles
-salad dressings
-chopping vegetables
-pancake batter
-cheese sauce (mixing and cooking)
-ice cream
-rice milk
-almond milk
-grinding rice flour
-peanut and almond butter
-spaghetti sauce
-and probably more that I can't think of right now!

In the future, I plan to use it for grinding wheat berries (when we buy a dry container) and making baby food. There are so many possibilities! Check out theVita-Mix site for info and awesome videos.