Green Smoothies

I am a creature of habit when it comes to my weekday breakfasts. I always have my travel mug of hot tea. Husband makes sure that my tea is piping hot before I walk out the door each morning, one of the many reasons l love him. I typically go back and forth between English muffins and smoothies. Both are nice and portable and neither are so filling that I get sluggish before lunch.

I recently stumbled upon a new smoothie recipe. I was skeptical about it at first. I’ve heard from several friends that they have been putting greens in their smoothies for years, but I have been too nervous to try it myself. But I finally gave in once I found this recipe and each morning this week I have been making green smoothies.

Lots of green on my messy desk!

The beauty of this recipe is that I’m using a strong flavored fruit, banana, and a mild tasting green, spinach, so all I can taste is banana! My usual smoothie has yogurt in it so I do need to find a way to get an extra serving of dairy in my day but that is something I am more than willing to do now that I have an extra serving of veggies in my diet.

If the idea of drinking something so very green just does not sit right with you, I’m sure that throwing in a few blueberries or blackberries would change the color. I’m using peaches because they were in the freezer. I have a huge bag of frozen strawberries that I will trying in the future. I’m interested to try this recipe with other greens but I think I will wait for the first crop to come in from our CSA.

Enjoy!

½ cup apple juice

½ cup water
1 cup baby spinach
½ banana
Frozen fruit
 
Pour juice, water and spinach in a blender and blend until the spinach is fully broken down. Add the banana and frozen fruit and blend until smooth.

Adapted from http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/2011/02/kristens-green-smoothies.html