Berry Green Smoothie
Make-ahead freezer friendly smoothies that are healthy, nutritious and so refreshing for your mornings!
Ever since I started to work from home, I need every excuse to get out of the house into the real world. That’s when I started to walk down the street to Starbucks and the donut store for a morning treat before I start my work day. But obviously the donut calories are not doing me any kind of justice. So with bikini season right around the corner, I decided to change up my morning routine with a healthy green smoothie.
But instead of having a green-green smoothie, I decided to throw in some frozen berries that I had on hand. Now I love all kinds of berries but I’ve found that blueberries and raspberries make a great flavor combo. Plus, you’ll get that extra antioxidant boost! From there, I also added in a banana for some natural sweetness and old fashioned oats to keep you nice and full until lunch time.
You can also freeze individual smoothie packs in a Ziploc bag using your favorite combination of fruits. You can have a different smoothie every day, and it doesn’t get easier than throwing everything straight from the Ziploc bag to the blender! There’s absolutely no thawing needed. All you need to is add your milk and oats when you’re ready to blend. Super easy, right?
Berry Green Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 cup spinach leaves
- ½ cup frozen blueberries
- ½ cup frozen raspberries
- 1 ripe banana
- ½ cup milk
- 2 tablespoons old fashioned oats
- 1 tablespoon sugar, or more, to taste
Instructions
- Combine spinach, blueberries, raspberries, banana, milk, oats, sugar and 1 cup ice in blender until smooth.
- Serve immediately.
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This was my first attempt at making a smoothie with greens but it was delicious – definitely going to be a regular for me now. Thanks so much for a great recipe!
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Do we still add ice if everything else is frozen?
That really depends on personal preference. I always prefer to have ice in my smoothies whether the ingredients are frozen or not!
For smoothies, do you freeze your spinach right out of the bag, or do you blanch it first?
You can freeze the spinach right out of the bag.
this sounds so good!! I will definatly be trying this tommorow
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Hi Chung-Ah, I have just started my own smoothie recipe website and was doing a bit of research when I found your site. It’s beautiful and I love, love this recipe. You can’t beat a berry smoothie. Amazing photos? Do you take them yourself?
Thank you! And yes, all photos are taken myself.
About how many calories do you think are in the berry green smoothie? It looks so good and I’d like to make it. I’m just on a diet…I mean lifestyle change that includes watching my caloric intake.
Stephanie, feel free to use online resources at your discretion to obtain calorie information.
Stephanie, I didn’t calculate the calories on this smoothie, but if you are trying to keep the calories low, you can substitute for a couple of things. For instance, I used water instead of milk, and instead of sugar you can use honey or agave nectar (or at the very least maybe Stevia, the least evil of all the artificial sweeteners).
This looks delish – I will have to try it!! Lately I’ve been into chocolate green smoothies. You can check out my recipe at http://www.kaleandtequila.com/green-chocolate-hazelnut-smoothie/ 🙂
About how much of each ingredient do you use per smoothie, particularly the spinach, milk and oats? Excited to try this!
Ashlie, as this smoothie serves two, you would halve all of the ingredients for one smoothie.
I think I would make a plain old vanilla milkshake first – throw some cookies or nuts in there if I’m feeling adventurous. Something simple, delicious, and familiar to kick off my blending career(:
I’ve always been too nervous to try spinach in my smoothies but you’ve inspired me!
We make spinach smoothies most mornings(2cups spinach, 1/2 banana, 1 scoop vanilla protien, almond milk and ice). This would be great for that! and soups! squash soup with grilled bbq chcicken on top.
Well now I want to make the one you made! Looks delicious! I’d probably make a strawberry & spinach smoothie, because I always have those on hand 🙂
looks amazing!
A smoothie!
I would make an oatmeal cookie smoothie
Yummmm! I love to have a smoothie in the morning on my way to drop of kids at various schools and then to work. Great way to fuel yourself for an awesome day. To say my blender stinks is an understatement this would be a sweet upgrade. Thanks for the giveaway!!
Like a dink I forgot to say that I would make my favorite green tropical smoothie. It is soooo damn delicious!
Love all your posts. It’s my go to for all meals!!
I make smoothies everyday, so that would be the first thing I would make