43. Fruit Smoothie

Ingredients

1 cup of fresh or frozen fruit
1/3 cup of frozen yogurt or ice cream
1 tsp of flax seed
1 splash of citrus (lemon/lime/orange/grapefruit)
1 cup of greens
1/2 cup of liquid (water/juice/milk)

Method

Mix all greens and liquid in blender until smooth. Add all other ingredients, pulsing at first and blending until smooth.

Bon Appetit!!

Additional Notes/Comments

I absolutely LOVE to start or end a day with this fresh, healthy treat that you can customize to your liking. If you have frozen fruit, it works perfectly for a cold smoothie. If you have a great deal on fresh fruit at the store and stock up, you can always freeze some for future smoothie use. If you want to freeze bananas for smoothies (or homemade ice cream), peel and chop into thirds or quarters. Put on top of a cookie sheet and leave in the freezer until frozen (roughly an hour). Then you can put the banana pieces together in a zip top bag without them freezing together solid as a block.

I love using ground flax seed, but there are other good options you could use here as well.

I typically skip the frozen yogurt or ice cream, but tonight we enjoyed the extra sweetness from the little touch of left over ice cream from a birthday event. Most other times we just use a splash of juice or some type of milk (coconut, almond, cow's, etc.).

The splash of citrus helps all of the flavors come awake and shine without overpowering anything.

Usually we have a LOT more greens - maybe 3 cups worth, but tonight we just used a little bit of leftovers.

This is all customized to your liking - I find I enjoy QUITE a bit of variety in making smoothies and sometimes top it off with a dash of cayenne pepper to enjoy a little bit of heat or cinnamon to enjoy a little bit of sweet. The fun is definitely in the experimentation. Once again, Bon Appetite!!!