Normally, I wait until the end of the review before I state whether I would buy the gadget in question. Normally I'd wait until the end of the review to let you in on the value of a gadget. Not this time. This is one gadget that I have been so impressed with; shared with so many friends that they themselves have gone out and bought it too (even my Web Designer and the Managing Director of our PR company!)

Welcome to the Kenwood Smoothie 2Go - the best, the simplest and the cleverest smoothie maker I have yet encountered (and across the years I've slurped my way through a few... )
Picture this. You sleep through the alarm after a great night before [read between the lines to get the state of mind... the furry tongue, the aching feet, the throbbing head - with me?] You race through ironing a blouse and glare at the ibuprofen - your mothers voice is ringing in your ears about never taking tablets on an empty stomach.
Worse still, you're about to walk into a tedious hour long board meeting and you just know your stomach is going to rumble like Pompeii. This is not the way the day is meant to go, not to mention the commute that is going to be doubly packed because you're late like everyone else. Argh! So change the picture.

Grab a handful of strawberries and a banana, a dollop of yoghurt and half a pint of milk and chuck the lot into a plastic mug. Screw a lid on and give it a shake. Turn it upside down and attach it to the base of the smoothie maker. Throw the switch and voila! One healthy fibre packed breakfast is ready.
It gets better.
There's no need to decant it. Change lids and you've a smoothie to go as Kenwood supply spill proof lids! (Wonder if this is where they dreamt up the name, you think?)
With a self-righteous smug slurp, throw on your blouse, chuck back the ibuprofen and stomp your way up to the station, ready to give the Chairman hell.

Oh hang-on!
Don't forget your flatmate - the lightweight who had two more Tequilas than you last night. Kenwood provide two travel mugs (and lids, clever people). Now you can not only tell the hangover to rack off, be healthy but be kind all in 30 seconds - whiz her up one too (and speak quietly when you hand it to her)

This gadget rocks! Better still it's about half the price of most of the smoothie makers on the market - those fidgety things where you splash your blouse trying to clean out the nozzle and you half choke yourself to death because you can't stomp with your Habitat glass up to the Tube so you have to suck the lot up before you leave the house. Pah!

Clear, precise instructions, great little recipe book, enough power to crush ice easily, two speeds plus pulse, safety override (for your ditzy flatmate), mugs that fit into a dishwasher easily - hakuna matata!

Bottom line... get it!

RRP: £24.99
Stockists include Lakeland, for further information please contact: 02392 392 333 or visit www.kenwood.co.uk