So it's Spring (almost) and my office is doing a challenge to eat 5 cups of fruits & veggies a day. I'm all for veggies, but fruit never really gets my heart racing unless it's in smoothie form. One of the things I miss most since moving to Roch-cha-cha is my regular visit to Jamba Juice. Last summer I just couldn't seem to find a smoothie place. Perhaps you can help me out with that...
Until then, I'm getting my fruit servings in liquid form by making breakfast smoothies (and occasional late-night smoothies) with my own blender. Here are two of my favorites:
EveryBerry Smoothie
1 cup strawberries (I buy the frozen sliced Light kind because I'm lazy)
1 cup Stonyfield Farms Organic Banilla yogurt (I bought the light one, but probably should go regular to keep the sugar lower)
1 cup acai juice with blueberry (I'm just bobo enough to get excited about the magical headiness of acai berries)
1 cup blackberry cider juice (They make this for you at Wegmans, otherwise I would just use frozen blueberries or some other kinds of berry juice)
Blend away and there you go. I am not one to throw ice in, but if you want it to be cooler or chunkier, that's always an option...
Now if you're not of the school that likens smoothies to juicing, you may be of the school that wants a smoothie to be more of a milkshake. And here you go:
Chocobananabutter Smoothie
2 tbsp of peanut butter (but I'm not judging if your tablespoon is more of an ice cream scoop)
1 cup skim milk or vanilla soy milk (or chocolate milk)
1 cup vanilla yogurt (I'm using Wegmans superyogurt because it was on sale)
1 banana
A healthy squeeze of Hershey's Special Dark chocolate syrup
This morning I even threw in a handful of raspberries and some ground flaxseed, which made it a bit gritty, but whythehecknot? Once it's summer, I may go full throttle and add ice cream.
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