Happy Monday!
After spending the weekend at my father’s home–cooking, care-giving and working around
around the house, I realized that I would have to make a nutritious “smoothie meal” out
out of whatever I could scrounge up in my kitchen.
Lucky for me, I found the necessary fruit, greens, healthy fats and superfoods to create
enough protein-packed smoothie for two substantial meals!
Hemp hearts, chia seeds and peanut butter boost the plant-based protein power.
Adding avocado, hemp, chia seeds and flaxseed provides Omega-3 fatty acids and other
important nutrients.
The inclusion of healthy fats from avocado and peanut butter also helps to make this smoothie
even tastier and creamier!
Kale and organic green powder provides lots of vitamins and antioxidants.
This recipe made a blender full of goodness so I poured the finished smoothie into two mason jars.
I drank one jar for lunch and refrigerated the other one for a mid-afternoon snack.
Banana Mango Peanut Butter Berry Protein Smoothie
Ingredients
1 cup unsweetened almond milk
1 cup filtered water
1 organic banana – peeled
1 cup organic frozen blueberries
1 orange – peeled
1 cup frozen organic mango
1 tablespoon organic peanut butter
1/4 avocado – peeled
2 tablespoons hemp hearts
2 tablespoons flaxseed powder
2 tablespoons chia seeds
2 tablespoons organic greens powder
2 cups organic baby kale
Directions
Add ingredients to your high-speed blender. ( I used my Vita-Mix).
Blend until smooth.
Taste and add more liquid or sweet fruit, if desired.
Blend again if necessary.
Pour your smoothie into two mason jars.
Drink one immediately.
Refrigerate the other smoothie for later.
Enoy!
What’s in your smoothie today?
How do you add protein and essential nutrients to your smoothies?
Share your thoughts and comments with us.
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Good one! I love that it packs so much green goodness! Maybe I could sneak that greens powder into my hubby’s smoothies. He is against spinach in it. Arg! Thanks for the inspiration!
What a wonderful combination of flavors! I have a green smoothie everyday (sometimes 2) so I’m always on the lookout for fun recipes to try.
Have an awesome weekend and thanks for linking up with Fitness Friday!
Wow – this smoothie is jam packed with awesomeness! I will definitely be making this sometime this week for breakfast =)
ps. Thanks for sharing this at HVF! I have pinned this to the Pinterest Board. I truly appreciate all of your awesome contributions Deborah!
Thanks for adding this recipe to The Healthy Eating Habit link party. We appreciate it and hope you will party with us again.