Smoothie lovers

Hi Jasmine, there are a lot of different smoothie recipes on the boards and on the internet. Be careful with smoothies as the ingredient list can pack a whollop of calories (I avoid anything that adds juice, yogurt, and sweetners). Using a base like coconut water or Almond milk reduces calories. Often, I find it best to make the recipe in MFP to check the calorie count.

If you go the green smoothie route, remember to change up your greens (don't just do one type, like spinach for a week straight) to avoid alkaloid buildup. Adding things like ground flax, chia seeds, hemp seeds, will help increase nutritional benefits.

Smoothies can be a great way to begin any nutrional change in ones overall diet as it gives a quick blast of veggies and fruits, but it has to be done with other solids too. It looks like you're just looking for breakfast and a snack so you should be good there. The first few days I would recommend finding other low calorie but fiberous/filling foods to help ease your hunger.

Finally, I did a lot of smoothies to start and ended up wasting a lot of decent fruits and veggies because I couldn't go through them fast enough. I use Daily Harvest now - not cheap, but compared to what I was throwing out? it evens out. Good luck!

My smoothies are:

Heavy cream (30g)
1 Scoop of Protein Powder
2 tbsp of unsweetened cocoa
4 oz of almond milk

Hey! I have been having the same smoothie breakfast for a few years now. I love it! And it's easy to change up depending on what the rest of your day looks like. This is my go to:

1 cup frozen mixed berries
3 handfuls of greens (kale, lettuce, spring mix, spinach -- whatever I have on hand)
1.25 cups unsweetened original almond milk
2 scoops pea protein powder (whey upsets my stomach)
1.5 tbsp of ground flax seed
1 tbsp of MCT oil

Depending on my day, i.e. yoga in the morning, I will add a banana.

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Here my current fav smoothie:

1. 1 large banana (about 140-150g), frozen
2. 90g spinach, frozen
3. 1tsp cinnamon
4. 1tsp cocoa powder
5. 1cup unsweetened almond milk

Put into a blender and blend. Important that both the banana and spinach be frozen, otherwise it's pretty thin. I normally buy fresh and then freeze so I can use some of the spinach fresh for other things, but you could experiment with buy pre-frozen spinach. Under 200 calories - fits a large cup, so probably about 15-16oz.

Another one that's on my to try list is Carrot cake smoothie. That's right I said carrot cake, don't you judge me!

1 medium banana, peeled, diced and frozen
1 cup diced carrots* (about 2 medium-sized carrots), peeled if you’d like
2/3 cup almond milk
1/2 cup plain or vanilla Greek yogurt
2 teaspoons maple syrup (or your desired sweetener)
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
pinch of ground ginger
pinch of ground nutmeg
optional toppings: extra grated carrots, toasted coconut, toasted walnuts
DIRECTIONS:
Add all ingredients to a blender and pulse for 30-60 seconds until smooth. If the smoothie is too thick, add an extra 1/4 cup of almond milk to thin it out.

DWBalboa wrote: »

Another one that's on my to try list is Carrot cake smoothie. That's right I said carrot cake, don't you judge me!

1 medium banana, peeled, diced and frozen
1 cup diced carrots* (about 2 medium-sized carrots), peeled if you’d like
2/3 cup almond milk
1/2 cup plain or vanilla Greek yogurt
2 teaspoons maple syrup (or your desired sweetener)
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
pinch of ground ginger
pinch of ground nutmeg
optional toppings: extra grated carrots, toasted coconut, toasted walnuts
DIRECTIONS:
Add all ingredients to a blender and pulse for 30-60 seconds until smooth. If the smoothie is too thick, add an extra 1/4 cup of almond milk to thin it out.

Whaaaa I love this. I've made something similar that uses pumpkin puree in place of the carrots for a "pumpkin pie" smoothie. So good.

aokoye wrote: »

DWBalboa wrote: »

Oh my bad I thought that the topic was "Smooth Lovers".

Well since I'm here anyway.

1 cup fresh peach slices You can use frozen as well.
1 cup packed kale
1/2 banana
3/4 cup coconut water
1/2 teaspoon freshly grated ginger
1 teaspoon honey


Combine all ingredients in a blender.
Blend on high until very smooth. Pour into 2 glasses; serve with straws.

Hmm...I might omit the kale and the coconut water (unless I happen to have some on hand) but otherwise that sounds amazing! I love peaches in smoothies and I bet adding some cherries would also be good in that.

Peaches are simply my Fav. Especially fresh grown, nothing better.

Frozen mixed berries and maybe some frozen banana if I have it, a lot of spinach, protein power (I use vanilla or chocolate), unsweetened almond (or some other) milk, a bit of cocoa and cinnamon, powdered peanut butter, maybe some dates..

Sooooo good. Chocolatey, refreshing, peanut buttery...