I’ve made this green smoothie almost every day for the past year. I guess I am kinda like my dad— when you find something that works, why change it up? It only has five ingredients (and one being water), doesn’t take much food prep, and tastes very yummy (seriously). My kids even ask for it! It’s such a proud moment as a parent when kids are craving fruits and veggies over processed foods. It doesn’t happen every day, but it does happen a LOT! Hope you enjoy my tried and true green smoothie recipe!
Jen’s Favorite Green Smoothie Recipe
This five ingredient smoothie is a full of iron, potassium, vitamin C, and antioxidants.
Ingredients
1 banana
2 cups strawberries (either fresh or defrosted)
1 cup blueberries (either fresh or defrosted))
2 cups fresh spinach
1 cup water (We started with half water and half orange juice and slowly tapered out the OJ)
Directions
Throw it all in the blender at once. Serve immediately for best consistency.
** FYI: This green smoothie is more like a purple smoothie… thanks to the blueberries.
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Made this today- YUMMMY! Yes, I spelled it with 3 letter Ms because it was MMM good! With this recipe my teenage stepson and I were able to enjoy the yummmy goodness and have a portion saved for my toddler to enjoy after nap. Sorry gulped it down and forgot to take a picture.
Toddler-approved. Will be serving this often to get that spinach in him!
Today we added more fruit frozen mango and green grapes. My toddler and I talked about having a fruit for each color of the rainbow with th exception of a fruit for purple but everything mixed together makes the purple.
Red = frozen strawberries (defrosted)
Orange = frozen mango
Yellow = banana
Green = spinach (at first I didn’t say it was part of it or the original green smoothie recipe but decided it is best that he knows since he likes the smoothie) and also for green, green grapes
Blue = frozen blueberries (defrosted)
Filtered water but next time we will try it with coconut water
I love that idea Sandy— kinda like the book “Eating the Rainbow.”
The first few times I made green smoothies for the kids I didn’t mention the spinach either! But soon after they started asking for smoothies and I let them help me make them and they had no problem adding the spinach themselves.
Thanks for sharing your journey with green smoothies!