Easy Make Ahead Frozen Fruit Parfait

Starting off by saying I know how dirty my “counter” looks, that’s part of my kitchen counter hack to save energy and contain messes.

When you have limited energy and strength, getting calories and nutrition in your diet can be difficult. At least that’s what I discovered when I started tracking my nutrients and calories with the Cronometer app. These easy gluten free fruit parfaits are a way I make sure I get healthy calories in most days.

I was making smoothies like this lactose and gluten free smoothie. Then I decided to start making parfaits and then realized that they are slightly cheaper to make than my smoothies are. Then I got quickly got sick of cutting strawberries and having them and blueberries go bad and trying to wash all the crap. I wondered if frozen fruit could be used and the answer was/is yes!

I make mine 4-6 at a time because I eat 1-2 a day and I saw they last 3 days in the fridge. I haven’t had any last longer than that, so as of this post, I can’t speak to if longer is still good. I use this 36 count container set (affiliate link) to store mine in. 

Wondering what’s on top? They are Better Body Foods chia seeds (affiliate link), which I use in smoothies because they are jammed packed full of healthy goodness. Since I’m rarely having smoothies I still want them in my diet, so I put them in these. 

If you add them I suggest not putting them in first or dumping them in. Rather sprinkle them to cover more area and even better do that after the fruit layer so it has a little more area to spread out over and is easier to get spread around when stir it. A spoonful of chia seeds is far from the worst thing I’ve had and still it’s not preferable for me.

So alas here’s how to make an easy gluten free frozen fruit parfait. Plop all of the ingredients, except the granola in a container. Mix or don’t mix, it doesn’t matter. When you are ready to eat it add the granola. If you want to use a measuring cup instead of a spoon, do half of a quarter cup for the same amount. Again, stir or not, it’s up to you. I personally like to stir because I like the color it turns into it and I like the granola spread over more bites. The following amounts are per container

• 1/4 c frozen blueberries
• 1/4 c frozen strawberry slices
• 3/4 c vanilla yogurt, I use the light kind from Walmart
• 2 tbsp Udi’s Gluten Free Au Naturel Granola (affiliate link)
• 1/2 a scoop of Better Body Foods chia seeds (affiliate link) - optional and I think worthwhile because they aren’t a bad price for what you get from them.

First I measure out the fruit and then I add the yogurt. The yogurt gets a little color to it and I would rather have that than yogurt on my strawberries freezing and getting on other berries. When it’s time to eat one I add the granola and stir.

Nutrition Facts:

200 calories, 8.1 g protein, 26 net carbs, 5.2 g fat, 80 mg sodium. Idk what nutrients are normally put up. So please let me know if you want to know numbers for something else.

I wanted one within an hour of making them the day made this post. Had them in fridge and the fruit was barely frozen at that point.

If you try this and like it or have any suggestions on how to make it better I would love to hear them!

If you want other ideas on other things to eat, check out the other easy recipes I’ve shared. Now it’s time to check on the recipe I just made and accidentally let naturally release for over 15 minutes because I was writing this post. Oops! Hopefully it’s not ruined! Edit - it was not ruined & was quite tasty. Not sure when I’ll post that gluten free recipe, will at some point. How’s that for not committal?