I’m not big on drinking my food so I have to say so we don’t tend to make smoothies very often and we don’t have a juicer. When I do make smoothies I like to make them so thick that you almost need a spoon to eat them and I try to always include a decent serve of healthy fat. I’m going to experiment a bit more with all this though as part of our move to including vegetables with our breakfasts at least every weekday. That’s the latest project (“Project Royal Breakfast”) that I’ve set for myself – to get us all eating more “dinner for breakfast” types of meals like this one.
This smoothie is one we do from time to time. It’s full of goodness including good quality healthy fats and tastes great. Give it a go and let us know what you think and also please share your favourite (low sugar) smoothie recipes – because we’re by no means experts in this area!
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup coconut milk or cream
- 1 large banana in chunks (frozen best)
- 1 medium zucchini in chunks
- ¼ avocado
- 2 spinach leaves (or use another leafy green vegetable like kale)
- 20g of vanilla protein powder
- 2 tsp coconut oil
- 2 tsp gelatine (we use Great Lakes Gelatine powder)
- Place all the ingredients in your blender and then process on high speed until the mixture is nice and smooth. Use more or less zucchini / banana to make thicker or thinner drink or smoothie bowl
- Serve immediately.
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Wow what a fantastic website you have here! I would love to try Dom’s Clean Green Super Smoothie with my children. If I don’t have access to MACA POWDER in my country area, what would you suggest as a substitution? Many thanks, Anna
Hi Anna thanks for the kind words. I’d just leave it out. Let me know how you go. Depending on your children you may end up adding a banana or something to sweeten but great if can start like this 🙂
I have just started enjoying smoothies and find they keep me going better than even bacon and eggs….I start with some frozen berries (Oob organic) or 3-4 pieces frozen pineapple. Add a really good handful of frozen kale (I wash, spin and process kale from the market once a week to have it free flow in the freezer for smoothies, stir fries, soups etc). I usually chuck in an egg, as well as tbsp gelatine, a dollop of Virgin coconut oil, spoonful of cacao or cocoa, something fermented (just acquired some milk kefir grains which turns milk into almost yoghurt) and top up with some homemade coconut milk which I makw quite thin or just plain water. The coconut oil and milk makes it quite sweet, I never feel the need to add any sweetener.
hey Julie. Thanks for your comment. Sounds like you’re a pro. We don’t do so many smoothies but Dom does love when we do. Claire 🙂