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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I have never added oats to smoothies before, but keep seeing it used, I should try that – would make any smoothie more filling for sure 😀 It looks amazing!
This recipe sounds delicious so I will be for sure making one of these for tomorrow morning!
This would be great for the morning to help cut out cereal!
I’d make any kind of smoothie that did not call for a banana in the recipe. Bananas and I do not get along.
Frozen pineapple, acai berry mix unsweetened, banana, organic greens, maca powder and hemp seeds. Thanks
If I win I would make your smoothies in it first thing. Thanks for sharing recipes.
I’d definitely make a smoothie. Can’t wait to try this!
Yummy! thanks for the advice
Smoothies! I want to try and eat healthier and I think a blender would really help me out! 🙂
I would make a crustless coconut pie, I love to use a blender for this
I would make fruit smoothies for my pre-school classroom to get them to eat more fruits. They usually only like to set crackers.
This looks so yummy! Can’t wait to try the different fruit combinations. Thanks so much for sharing!
I love berries and I love smoothies. This would be a perfect smoothie for me because it is loaded with antioxidants that I need. My immune system is suppressed due to chemotherapy so I need all of the help I can get to build it back up.
love the freezer bag idea. great prep work!
I would make smooth vegan icecream <3
frozen blueberrys
soy milk
agave syrup
chopped or ground vanilla pods
mixing together and enjoy ^_^
Berry smoothies are my fav but I’ve never used oats in mine ever. I would def try the berry green recipe posted to see how well it blends the oats in.
I wonder what they’re like if you make them and freeze them, then pull them out the night before to defrost? I tend to only drink 1 a day but this recipe looks like something I’d try.
The beauty of these freezer bags is that there is no need to defrost. You can pack them in single serving packs too.
Fresh roasted almond butter! I have a poor quality food processor that I would LOVE to replace with this!
Can’t wait to try that smoothie! Yum!
Had a delicious bowl from jamba juice that had granola and pb blended in. Gotta start making it and other variations at home…in my attempt to be healthier and spend less.