ARTFOODHOME.com | Barbara Stroud
Smoothies are an amazing way to get blasts of nutrition with great taste, and in this heat, they really help you cool down! They’re so quick to throw together, and you really can’t go wrong!
For those of you who don’t like “green”… I read where if you keep the ratio at 60% fruit to 40% greens you cannot taste them. I can attest to that… my husband said he would make a smoothie… I was rushing around to get ready and I was thinking… ahhhh, he won’t add spinach! But I didn’t say anything… he handed it to me, and I guzzled it down without even really seeing it (we were in the midst of talking about something else), I was almost done when I noticed his glass was GREEN! What?! I swear I thought it was his regular banana smoothie (which is awesome in itself)! No evidence of anything “green” as my sister would say :)
Here are a few to get you started:
Fred’s Spinach Banana Smoothie
2 BIG handfuls baby spinach
2 cups unsweetened vanilla flavored almond milk
2 frozen bananas
Ice to the consistency you like
Start out by blending the spinach and almond milk until the spinach is liquified. Then add the frozen bananas and a few ice cubes to get it to the consistency that you like.
Uh huh! I KNEW you would like it! You don’t even taste the spinach do you?? Amazing!
Another good recipe from Simple Green Smoothie’s, I bought the large container of organic baby spinach, and large bags of frozen fruit (make sure it’s unsweetened!) from Costco:
Simple Green Smoothie
2 cups spinach
2 cups water, coconut water (we use almond milk sometimes), etc.
1 cup frozen pineapple chunks (unsweet!)
1 cup mango chunks
Same process as above, first blend water/spinach until smooth, then add frozen fruit (or fresh + ice cubes).
Catch you back here tomorrow!
