Smoothie recipes anyone?

Herbalus

I’ve started making smoothies as a mid-morning snack, but I’m a bit short of decent recipes. Search engine results seem to throw up so many unrealistic recipes (who has lemongrass sitting around? Or cherry juice?) that it’s such a faff to sort through and find good ones with mainstream ingredients.

So far I’ve got
*milk, banana and peanut butter
*orange juice, frozen berries and natural yoghurt

Sometimes I throw a few extra things in, like hot chocolate powder or oats, but I’m still looking for a bit more variety.

Any ideas?

1stBusiness

Everything is better if you add Nutella

Although, if you're trying to be healthy by making smoothies, I'd try and avoid loads of peanut butter/choc spread etc. Maybe just a teaspoon? I remember watching an episode of Secret Eaters where their 'healthy smoothies' were full of sugar and calories! :shocked:

Try Greek yoghurt, fruit and honey if you want it sweeter. Pintrest usually has lots of good smoothie recipes.

nicoc

We've been making smoothies recently and I can report kiwis fir well (12p at lidl this weekend), mango is delicious and you don't need as much banana to thicken it if you use that. Grapes are good but the skin can be tough, fresh squeezed orange juice perks up any smoothie too.

DUTR

Herbalus wrote: »

I’ve started making smoothies as a mid-morning snack, but I’m a bit short of decent recipes. Search engine results seem to throw up so many unrealistic recipes (who has lemongrass sitting around? Or cherry juice?) that it’s such a faff to sort through and find good ones with mainstream ingredients.

So far I’ve got
*milk, banana and peanut butter
*orange juice, frozen berries and natural yoghurt

Sometimes I throw a few extra things in, like hot chocolate powder or oats, but I’m still looking for a bit more variety.

Any ideas?

I've been making smoothies now since December, you can vary the recipies to suit yourself, (I don't like berries with milk), but I will say do cranberry juice, celery with apples and or pears, or banana milk apples pears spinach kiwi, grapes work well I tried adding mango the other day and water melon.
There are various sources for recipies, what I try and do is not go too much veg or too much fruit.

jfdi

Our morning one is usually pineapple, Apple, banana and a few frozen berries.
I use over 5 days (for 2 adults) - 1 pineapple, 5 apples, 5 bananas and 2 takeaway tubs of frozen strawberries / raspberries or red currants.
Add ice and chilled filtered water.
Yum.

welfayre

I think half the fun is experimenting with what you've got lying around. I got a Nutribullet for xmas and have been trying a few things out with the fruit I usually buuy. So far I've found the following to be pretty tasty;

Banana, Strawberry, Ice and water/milk

Kiwi, lime juice, strawberry, ice, water

Mango, Strawberry, ice, water

Banana, Blueberry, ice, water/milk

I chuck in some goji berries and flax seeds too just cause I've got them kicking about.

Gonna get some apples, pears, apples, oranges and pineapples on the next food shop and experiment some more. One day I might be brave enough to try the broccoli one in the recipe book!

Herbalus

1stBusiness wrote: »

Although, if you're trying to be healthy by making smoothies, I'd try and avoid loads of peanut butter/choc spread etc. Maybe just a teaspoon?

I'm afraid I'm one of those unfortunate people who look like they'll waste away into thin air if they stop eating, so I prefer the more substantial type of smoothie. Plus if I don't feel like eating first thing in the morning, I'll take a smoothie to work, and I get hungry

VestanPance

If you're trying to be healthy you shouldn't be eating smoothies at all. You're basically just creating a big sugar drink.

purpleshoes_2

That's like saying if you want to be healthy don't eat fruit.

rainbowfairydust

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/smoothie
http://www.prevention.com/food/healthy-recipes/20-super-healthy-smoothie-recipes

http://simplegreensmoothies.com/recipes

suggestions on these sites ^

pmartin86

I found the same as you, some of these recipies are rediculous! Who wants to stock 91 varieties of fruit for a smoothie! :P

I personaly go for

- 1/2 a large apple
- 1 Small/medium banana
- 1 Kiwi
- 2/3 Ice Cubes
- Half pint of skimmed milk
- Cinamon to taste

As far as im aware its reasonably healthy, quite cheap to make and usualy keeps me going from first thing in the morning (This is my Breakfast) untill about 1pm when I have lunch.