3 smoothies

My first experience with a spinach smoothie wasn't too splendid or horrific. I'm not a fan of frozen blueberries or bananas (other than eating the fruit straight up, or in bread, muffins, cake), and spinach is just a little out of place.

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Ingredients

• 1/2 c. frozen spinach
• 1 c. whole milk
• 1/2 c. frozen strawberries
• 1/4 c. frozen blueberries
• 1/4 fresh banana
• 1/2 tbs flax seed

Combine in blender and blend!

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Scaled down and varied a little from: here. Her Vitamix must be more powerful than my blender, because I had to add so much more milk so that it would blend properly.


I can totally tolerate blueberries when they're mixed with my favorite raspberries though! I bet I could have even put spinach and flax seeds in this one because the flavor would have been hidden!


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Ingredients

• 1/2 c. frozen blueberries
• 1/2 c. frozen raspberries
• 2 large, heaping spoonfuls plain low-fat yogurt
• 2 medium spoonfuls canned coconut milk (consistency was thicker than whip cream)
• 1-2 small spoonfuls frozen orange juice concentrate

Combine in blender and blend!

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I'm sorry that "spoonfuls" is vague, so here are my spoons. Left to right: large, medium, small, 1/2 tbs, 1/2 tsp. (The last two are for comparison.)

The yogurt amount could have been around 1/2 cup total...a heaping large spoon could have been 1/4 cup.

Inspired by: Wholeliving.com



Orange juice smoothies are my simple go-to. So this just has 2 additions.

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Ingredients

• 2 big spoonfuls plain, low-fat yogurt
• 2 medium spoonfuls canned coconut milk (consistency was thicker than whip cream)
• 2 peach halves (canned)
• 1 small-medium spoonful frozen orange juice concentrate
• 2 ice cubes

Combine in blender, blend, and enjoy!


Do you have favorite smoothie recipes??