Apple Pie Smoothie

I love pie. There, I said it. Punkin pie, cherry pie, blueberry pie…apple pie. Hot out of the oven. Oh yeah, it’s awesome. Extra has dessert flavor gum and the apple pie is my favorite. But, and there is a but…I do not like crust. It’s yucky. So make this smoothie instead, it’s yummy 🙂

1 banana, frozen
2 apples (mine were pretty small, adjust quantity according to size) peeled and cored
1/2 cup coconut milk or 1/4-1/2 cup water OR yogurt
3 teaspoons of xylitol or sugar
1 heaping teaspoon of cinnamon

Put all ingredients in the blender and blend till smooth

This was super yummy fresh out of the blender but I froze it instead. It was awesome, one of my new favorite smoothie flavors. Definitely a keeper!

Enjoy!

Strawberry Orange smoothie

So, yesterday I didn’t make any smoothie pops. Despicable, I know. But I wasn’t home most of the day and we’re running out of fruit anyway. We did have some strawberries left and a few oranges that desperately needed to be used. Oranges are summer fruit. Period. It looks nice outside today so oranges are acceptable. And strawberries are just always good. So here we go.

(This makes a lot cause I doubled what I originally wanted to do. Half this for 1 serving)

2 oranges, peeled
2 cups strawberries (mine were frozen and I microwaved them for 1 min per cup)
1 cup vanilla coconut milk or 1/4-1/2 cup water OR yogurt
1 spoonful of honey

Put everything in the blender and mix to your hearts content.
Enjoy:)

Banana Blueberry smoothie

I love banana. Like really love it. Every time I make a smoothie I usually end up adding more banana. But I also love it when smoothies are nice colors. So I made this! It’s actually not too banana-y (is that a word? I don’t care, it is now) it actually has a really nice blueberry flavor with just a hint if banana. And honey. Please don’t skimp on the honey.

1 frozen banana
1 cup of frozen or fresh blueberries
2 heaping spoonfuls of honey
1 cup of coconut milk, or 1/4-1/2 cup of water OR yogurt

Simply put everything in the blender and use the “crush ice” setting to break it up. Add more liquid as needed to get it going. Blend until nice and smooth.

Serve as is or freeze.
Enjoy!

Chocolate Raspberry Banana

This recipe is my daughter’s (Kaela) recipe as she is the smoothie connoisseur! I have pretty much tasted all of her smoothies and they are awesome!

I never thought that fruit and chocolate went together until I tried chocolate covered strawberries. Let me tell ya, they go together 😉

1 frozen banana
1 cup of frozen, or fresh raspberries
1 cup of vanilla coconut milk, or 1/4-1/2 cup of water OR yogurt

1 scoop of chocolate protein powder

Put everything in the blender and use the “crush ice” setting to break it up. Then just blend until smooth!

This is really good and it’s freezing into pops at this very moment 🙂

Raspberry Banana smoothie

This recipe is my daughter’s (Kaela) recipe as she is the smoothie connoisseur! I have pretty much tasted all of her smoothies and they are awesome!

This is really just a variation on the strawberry banana smoothie but it’s just as good. I know some people don’t like raspberries because of the seeds in them but I actually really love them. This smoothie has a lot of seeds but I like to crunch on them 😉

1 frozen banana

a handful of frozen or fresh raspberries

1-2 spoonfuls of honey

1/4-1/2 cup of water, or yogurt

Put everything in the blender and use the “crush ice” setting to break it all up. You can add more water to get things going if you need too. Blend untill it has a thick consistency.

Enjoy!

Tropical smoothie

This recipe is my daughter’s (Kaela) recipe as she is the smoothie connoisseur! I have pretty much tasted all of her smoothies and they are awesome!

So this was the first smoothie I made using the protein powder and it was fantastic. It tasted just like that fluffy fruit salad with the Cool Whip and mini marshmallows. I was very happy. We had bought mangos from Costco and of course they came in a six-pack, and I couldn’t just get one (I tried). I ended up having to freeze four of them so looks like I can make this one again soon 🙂 too bad mangoes are such a pain in the butt to chop due to the large seed right in the middle. Worth it in my opinion though, and probably yours once you try this:)

1 mango, peeled and chopped

1 orange, peeled and sectioned

a handful of frozen pineapple

a splash of orange juice

1-2 spoonfuls of honey

(optional) scoop of protein powder

Peel and slice the mango and orange and put into the blender with everything else. Use “crush ice” setting to break up the pineapple and then blend until smooth. You can add more orange juice if it’s too thick.

I froze this into smoothie pops but next time I think I’ll just drink it. It’s too hard to wait 😉

Grapple smoothie

This recipe is my daughter’s (Kaela) recipe as she is the smoothie connoisseur! I have pretty much tasted all of her smoothies and they are awesome!

So a few weeks ago my mom got a membership to Costco and I went with her one time to do the grocery shopping. We were near the fruit and I saw these red grapes that were about the size of a golf ball, dead serious. So we got them and I tried one as soon as we got to the car. Turns out they were seeded not seedless. So there’s about four big seeds in them that make it annoying and unenjoyable to eat them. So I figured I’d be the only one to eat them, because they had competition (huge, black seedless grapes that were so much better). So I put the unwanted seeded grapes in the freezer to use for smoothies. But when I took the out to use I still had to cut the seeds out, crunchy smoothies are a no-no. So I put them in a bowl of hot water to make it a little easier to cut them and went to work de-seeding them. I don’t know how many I really had but it was a sandwich baggie full. I still have a quart size baggie of them in the freezer too so I’ll probably make this one again soon, cause it’s delicious.

1 large apple, peeled and chopped (you can color coordinate with the grapes if you’d like)

about a sandwich baggie full of frozen, or fresh grapes.

2-3 spoonfuls of honey, or to taste

1/4-1/2 cup of water, or yogurt

(optional) protein powder

If using frozen grapes, chop them in half first to make it a little easier on your blender. Put all ingredients into the blender and use the “crush ice” setting to break up the grapes, if using frozen. Blend it all together until smooth.

You can drink this straight or freeze them into yummy smoothie pops like I did.

Cantaloupe and Honey smoothie

This recipe is my daughter’s (Kaela) recipe as she is the smoothie connoisseur! I have pretty much tasted all of her smoothies and they are awesome!

So a few certain people (mother and boyfriend) have decided that I don’t get enough protein in my diet because I’m a vegetarian. So to please them, I started adding protein powder to my smoothies, and then freezing them to make smoothie pops. They are awesome. You don’t have to add the protein powder or freeze them, but I’ve been having to make them everyday because they’re just so good. We have a popsicle mold that makes four, and these recipes usually fill it and then I pour the rest into little Dixie Cups and freeze them too. I made this one yesterday because we had cantaloupe that was starting to get a little lot ripe, and ate all of them, not all at once of course 😉

1 cantaloupe, cubed and frozen, or fresh

2-3 spoonfuls of honey, or to taste

1/4-1/2 cup of water, or yogurt

(optional) 1 scoop of protein power (I use the Jillian Michael’s Natural Whey Protein, vanilla cream shake flavor. It tastes like cake batter to me, soooo yum)

Put everything in the blender and use the “crush ice” setting to break up the cantaloupe (if using frozen). Add more water as necessary and blend to get the consistency you want.

As I said, you can either drink this straight up (it’s delicious) or you can freeze it and make smoothie pops, which rock too 🙂

Strawberry Banana Smoothie

This recipe is my daughter’s (Kaela) recipe as she is the smoothie connoisseur! I have pretty much tasted all of her smoothies and they are awesome!

Okay, so I love smoothies. There are so many flavor combinations that you could try every one and probably not get bored with it. I know I couldn’t. I used to make them with fruit and yogurt but I found out you don’t even need the yogurt, but you can add it if you want. The secret for creamy, yogurt free smoothies? Frozen banana. Yep, it’s that easy. Because banana always seem to go bad around here and each of us like them at different stages of ripeness, there usually is a point where none of us will eat them. Then I found out you can just freeze them. Just peel and slice them up and put them in a baggie and pop them in the freeze to use later. It just makes everything a lot easier. So, here’s my first (and probably my favorite) smoothie

1 Banana, frozen

A handful or two of frozen or fresh strawberries

1/4-1/2 water (or you could use yogurt, vanilla tastes great in this)

1-3 tbsp of honey (or to taste, I love honey so maybe I go a little overboard)

Put the banana, strawberries and honey in the blender. Use the “crush ice” setting until it’s mostly broken up.  Add the water (or yogurt) a little at a time until it’s at a nice thick consistency. Turn up the blender and blend until smooth.

Should make 1 serving or you can add more of everything to share, but that’s no fun 😉