Chocolate PB Green Smoothie
We travel a bit of a distance to church on Sunday's and by the time we get home it's nearly 2 or 3:00. I really don' usually feel like drumming up a meal at that point since we've typically been gone since 8 or 9:00 AM.....so we have created "Smoothie Sunday's".
Lunch time is a plate of fresh fruit, veggies, hummus, crackers, and cheeses from the local farmer's market the day before and smoothies!
No better way to get green goodness into some kiddos who don't eat greens, much -- specially the two younger ones.
This chocolate peanut butter version was a big hit the first time with everyone except Markie, who simply refuses to drink anything green...but that's another story.
Ingredients:
12 oz milk, almond milk, or rice milk -- your preference
2 generous handfuls organic spinach, rinsed and chopped
OR
1 generous handful of spinach and 2 organic kale leaves, de-veined, rinsed, and chopped
2 T all natural, organic peanut butter
2-3 organic bananas, frozen and chopped
1 T gd flax seed (optional -- provides 1200mg Omega 3)
2 T agave or raw honey
few dark chocolate chips (I actually use a small piece of Paul Newman's dark organic chocolate bar chopped)
Place ingredients in blender or Vita-mix if you are blessed to have one in the following order:
milk, greens, PB, sweetener of choice, bananas.........Blend together til well blended. Then turn off, add chips and blend a bit longer til the chips are distributed well.
Enjoy!!!!
Lunch time is a plate of fresh fruit, veggies, hummus, crackers, and cheeses from the local farmer's market the day before and smoothies!
No better way to get green goodness into some kiddos who don't eat greens, much -- specially the two younger ones.
This chocolate peanut butter version was a big hit the first time with everyone except Markie, who simply refuses to drink anything green...but that's another story.
Ingredients:
12 oz milk, almond milk, or rice milk -- your preference
2 generous handfuls organic spinach, rinsed and chopped
OR
1 generous handful of spinach and 2 organic kale leaves, de-veined, rinsed, and chopped
2 T all natural, organic peanut butter
2-3 organic bananas, frozen and chopped
1 T gd flax seed (optional -- provides 1200mg Omega 3)
2 T agave or raw honey
few dark chocolate chips (I actually use a small piece of Paul Newman's dark organic chocolate bar chopped)
Place ingredients in blender or Vita-mix if you are blessed to have one in the following order:
milk, greens, PB, sweetener of choice, bananas.........Blend together til well blended. Then turn off, add chips and blend a bit longer til the chips are distributed well.
Enjoy!!!!
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