Smoothies

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For all the smoothie recipes below, simply put the ingredients in a blender and blend away.  Add more or less ice to achieve your desired consistency. 

Rise and Shine
This smoothie recipe gives you a nice blend of fruit and some nutrient packed kale.  I promise you won’t even taste the kale in the recipe and it’s an awesome way of getting greens in your breakfast. 

Ingredients

• A handful of kale
  
  
• ½ cup of strawberries
  
  
• ½ cup blueberries
  
  
• ½ a cup of water (or you can add ½ a cup of almond milk or other milk of your choice)
  
  
• 1 tablespoon flaxseeds or chia seeds
  
  
• A scoop of whey protein powder (I use non flavoured)
  
  
• Crushed ice
  
  

Chunky Coco-Moca
I absolutely love this recipe.  To me it’s like eating dessert for breakfast!

Ingredients

• ½ a frozen banana
  
  
• 1 tablespoon unsweetened coco powder (I use Coco Camino an organic non Dutch process coco powder)
  
  
• 1 teaspoon coffee granules (any kind that you would put in your coffee filter)
  
  
• 1 tablespoon almond butter (or any nut butter of your choice. I’ve tried it with cashew butter and peanut butter – all are good)
  
  
• Small handful of spinach or kale
  
  
• 1 tablespoon flaxseeds or chia seeds
  
  
• A scoop of why protein powder (I use non flavoured but a chocolate flavour would work here too)
  
  
• ½ a teaspoon of cinnamon
  
  
• 1 tablespoon of matcha powder (optional)
  
  
• 1 cup almond milk (you can use water)
  
  
• Crushed ice
  
  

Fresh Fig Smoothie
This smoothie recipe is unique and when figs are in season and in abundance at our grocery stores in Canada I buy a bunch and freeze them. When they are frozen the smoothie has a beautiful creamy consistency. 

• 3-4 fresh figs, cut in half
  
  
• 1/2 small, frozen banana
  
  
• 1 heaping and tightly packed cup spinach
  
  
• 1 cup of almond milk
  
  
• 3 tbsp protein powder (optional)
  
  
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
  
  
• Crushed ice