We’re all about ease with this green smoothie. You can throw your ingredients in your blender on Sunday night and make 2-3 days worth of breakfast smoothies. Just keep them in a tumbler or covered glass in the fridge and grab & go each morning.
This recipe will make ~3 12 ounce smoothies
Ingredients:
- 2-3 cups Pre-chopped & triple washed Spinach or Kale
- We like Taylor Farms Power Greens packs – they even make one half kale half spinach! Just open the bag and throw in.
- 2 bananas
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2 scoops of Unflavored Protein
- We used About Time brand for this one. It packs 25 grams of protein and only 1 carb per scoop – perfect for matching with fruit
- ½ – 1 ½ cups Almond Milk depending on the consistency you like
- Optional Adders: ground flax seed or chia seeds for some nutritional punch
- Optional Flavor Adders: cinnamon, organic coconut flakes (not too many as coconut has a higher fat content)
- Other Fruit: if you’d like you can throw in a few fresh or frozen strawberries, raspberries, mango chunks, blueberries – whatever you’d like – just watch how much you add. We recommend no more than a ¾ cup to keep your carbs & sugars in check
Directions:
Add the almond milk first, then protein powder, banana or other fruit, and the spinach/kale mix on top. We’ve found this to be the best order to get everything blended smoothly.
If you use a Vitamix, just put on smoothie mode. Otherwise, put your blender on high for about 45 seconds.
Play with ingredient quantities to get your smoothie to a consistency you like. The bananas, as long as they’re ripe, tend to mask the flavor of the greens and you’ll have a really great tasting morning start!