Make Healthy Fruit and Green Breakfast Smoothies

Fruit smoothies are a really healthy drink that's easy to make. When you add greens to the fruit smoothie you are making it even more healthy. It's possible to make a fruit and green breakfast smoothie that fulfills several fruit and vegetable servings. Spinach is one of the healthiest ingredients to add to your smoothie. Fruit and green breakfast smoothies can be made for any time of the day. They are an excellent addition to eating a healthy diet.

Green Breakfast Smoothies

Freeze two bananas.

Remove frozen fruit from the freezer. Use fresh fruit and freeze it the night before or use frozen fruit. Green smoothies use spinach, another ingredient that can be purchased frozen. Fresh fruit is obviously the best tasting option (usually), but it can lose a lot of nutrients because it's packaged, shipped, and stored at the grocery store. Frozen fruit and spinach is frozen immediately which keeps the nutrients more intact. Use whatever fruit you like in addition to the recommended ingredients in this healthy fruit and green breakfast smoothie recipe.

Cut one banana and put the pieces in a blender or smoothie maker. Add three tablespoons of strawberries and blueberries. Add one cup of spinach. Smoothies made out of spinach don't taste like spinach so don't worry.

Use this breakfast smoothie recipe to make a healthy meal replacement or snack.

Green Smoothie Recipe

Add peanut butter to your fruit and green breakfast smoothie. Adding peanut butter to your smoothie provides healthy fat and makes it a high protein smoothie, which is good for you. Use a butter knife to scoop the peanut butter and make sure not to get it on the side of the blender or smoothie maker because it sticks. Use the spinach to wipe the peanut butter into the fruit smoothie mix.

Add one cup of yogurt. If you are watching sugar intake use Mountain High Yoghurt. Mountain High Yoghurt uses fructose, a fruit sugar, instead of regular table sugar. If you want to change the smoothie recipe around a bit make a low fat fruit smoothie by using fat free plain yogurt. If the fruit and green smoothie is a little too bitter using plain yogurt then add a tablespoon of vanilla yogurt. Adding one or two tablespoons of the vanilla yogurt adds the right amount of sweetness to the smoothie. Add one tablespoon of ground flax seeds for fiber. Fruit smoothies with spinach and greens are a great way to get vitamins, minerals, and fiber is a healthy way. The body cannot digest the fiber from whole flax seeds so make sure that they are ground up when adding them to the smoothie. Flax oil can replace the ground flax seeds.

To top off your fruit and green breakfast smoothie pour about one half cup of chocolate soy milk in the blender/smoothie maker. This will cover the taste of the spinach and just add great taste. Mix all of the ingredients until everything is chopped up and blended. This recipe makes enough for two people or one big glass.

Drink and enjoy your fruit and green breakfast smoothie. If you are trying to lose weight or know someone who is then give them the gift of a smoothie blender. There are single serving smoothie blenders as you see below as well as regular sized blenders. Smoothie blenders are great gifts for any time of year, especially if you know that someone likes smoothies or is trying new ways to improve their health.

Fruit smoothies are also good nutrition for kids. Fruit smoothies make a healthy snack or breakfast. A tip for making fruit and green smoothies for kids is to add an apple to the recipe. Smoothies can take any shape and flavor you want. Experiment with new ingredients. For another great healthy breakfast idea try organic Nature's Path pumpkin flax granola. Kids love this cereal and it is one of Nature's Path best granola cereals.