Whats your favorite smoothie recipe?

Do you replace meals with them or just have them as a snack?

I recently discovered the Monster Green Spinach Smootie (http://iowagirleats.com/2012/01/04/my-top-secret-diet-weapon/), which sounded awful to me - banana, peanut butter, greek yogurt, almond milk and SPINACH?? But the claim was that you couldn't taste the spinach at all, so I gave it a shot - and LOVED it! The second time around I changed the recipe a bit and had it for lunch:

1 banana
Trader Joe's Greek Honey Yogurt (half or full container, whatever you want)
Vanilla protein powder
Juice (I used Dole Orange Peach Mango last time)
3 - 4 cups of fresh spinach
ice

When summer rolls around I will try it with different fruits and juices. Coconut milk might be good too. I've read that if you use strawberries or blueberries, it turns the smoothie more of a brown color as it mixes with the spinach, but still tastes good!

Edited to add:

This one is pretty good too, but wasn't creamy enough for my taste. I didn't use Almond Milk, just regular skim, but might like it better with some vanilla greek yogurt and less protein powder. It was still tasty though, and a nice switch from the fruity smoothies.


Mocha Almond Smoothie

Ingredients:
1 Cup Vanilla Almond Milk
1/2 Cup Espresso or Strong Coffee (regular or decaf)
1 Scoop Vanilla Protein
1 Tbsp Chocolate Powder
Sprinkle of Cinnamon
Ice


Directions:
Mix all ingredients in the blender until smooth. Enjoy!

Nutrition Facts:
Calories: 200
Fat: 3g
Protein: 19g

I make one every morning for breakfast I put the following in:

1 banana (raw)
1 cup strawberries
1/2 cup blueberries
1 cup Almond Milk (vanilla, unsweetened)
1/2 scoop Juice Plus complete protein powder (vanilla)

I replace this for my breakfast, but I usually have an apple or clementines inbetween breakfast and lunch.

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We got a blender set for our wedding in August...and I haven't used it yet...very excited to see some of these drinks on here...since I've never made a smoothie or anythign I will have to try somet of these

This is my new favorite:

Mango Colada Protein Smoothie:

- Frozen Mango Chunks (unsweetened)
- Frozen Pineapple chunks (unsweetened - I get the cut fresh chunks and portion them, toss in the freezer and then dump in the blender when I want them)
- Organic coconut water
- 1 scoop Bluebonnet French Vanilla Whey Protein powder

Blend for about 5 minutes to get it really frothy

I have this and a mixed berry smoothie - made the same way, just with the Dole unsweetened mixed berries instead first thing in the morning before I work out! YUM. If I'm lucky I have enough for one right after I work out, and that counts for breakfast and a snack!

Green Smoothie (I usually have this for breakfast)

1/2 cup water
1 or 2 bananas
1/2 cup strawberries
1 whole peeled orange
2 Cups of baby spinach

So yummy! Even my 6 year old loves them!

My "I'm craving chocolate" smoothie

1/2 cup water or coconut water
1 tsp. cocoa powder
1 TBSP of raw almond butter (peanut butter works too)
2 banana's (I like to peel my bananas and freeze them in quarters for an hour before using them in smoothies)

I blend the water cocoa powder and almond butter (peanut butter) together first and then slowly add the frozen banana's. I pour it in a cup and garnish with a bit of cinnamon. It is so good...it feels like it should be bad.

(please note: I eat only whole foods and don't really worry about my calories because it's difficult for me to eat more than 1500 eating whole foods like veggies and fruit). So the calories in these often end up being a meal for me.

None they are spectacular and have no added fillers :-)

oh, also anything with coconut!!!

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