Mummy's Yummies

Smoothies

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If there is one thing that I can't do without, it's a morning smoothie. I like to make them with whole foods and keep the juice out - it cuts down on sugar and calories. As well, whole fruits make the smoothie more satiating. 

Making smoothies isn’t an exact science. It’s basically using what you have to create new and interesting flavour combinations. After some tweaking and fine-tuning, I finally came up with the recipe below. I like its consistency, but feel free to add more or less of an ingredient depending on how thin or thick you want your drink to be. By the way, I just used a regular old blender - it does the trick.

The smoothie base is always the same and goes as follows:                          
(the following recipe makes 2 fairly large servings)

1 banana (you can freeze it to make your smoothie icier)
1/2 a cup to 2/3 yogurt (I use regular 2.3% yogurt)
4 ice cubes
*** On a crazier note, my husband and I tried different ingredient combos to make a variety of new smoothies - we named them after popular WWF wrestlers (don't ask), hence the next few titles. To the base, you can add the following fruits:

Jake the Snake
¼ cup of blackberries
¼ cup blueberries

The Killer Bees
½ a peach or nectarine
1 kiwi

The Heartbreak Kid
½ cup of strawberries

Coco Beware
½ a mango

Hacksaw Jim Duggan
½ cup strawberries
½ a peach or nectarine

The Ultimate Warrior
½ kiwi
½ cup mix of cherries (halved and pitted), blackberries, raspberries, strawberries
½ a nectarine, mango or peach

Craving a milkshake? Try the 'Oh My Gawd'

Oh My Gawd
1 banana
1 tbsp ground flax
1 tbsp peanut butter
3 ice cubes (or more if you want it icier)
1 cup milk
2 tbsp cocoa, unsweetened 

Did you know that unsweetened cocoa is only 12 calories per 1 tbsp serving? Sweet!