Berry Banana Smoothie

I love to make smoothies, and without them, I wouldn’t get any fruit in my diet because I just don’t eat fruit. I don’t like the texture of most fruits, honestly.

Here are a few tips from my routine:

Each Sunday, I prepare my smoothie ingredients for the week.

I use ANY two or three fruits — I just have my wife buy whatever is on sale and in season. For example, I’ll slice a peach and throw it in a freezer bag with some strawberries and a plum.

Then I’ll put all my baggies in the freezer.

When I come home for lunch, I dump one of the bags in the blender and add some cold juice — pretty much any old juice will do for me. I find apple, grape and pineapple to be pretty good bases for smoothies. Cranberry tends to be the only thing I taste when I use it.

I don’t add ANY ice, because the fruit is frozen. So I still get the slushy effect without having to water it down with ice.

I don’t use any dairy products because I get enough in my diet. For some of you, that may not be the case, so throw in some yogurt or lowfat milk.

I do my fruit earlier in the day, like lunch or before, so the carbs and calories can benefit me. No sense doing it in the evening.

I saw lots of great suggestions in the comments page about other types and ideas for smoothies, but no one really said anything about this particular recipe. I’m not that innovative in the kitchen yet, so I followed it by the letter, and…I loved it! My daughter and I both had big tall glasses of it as a nightime snack. This has a little more yogurt than I’ve used in other recipes, and I like it because it makes it very thick and creamy. We’ll definitely make this again – another winner! Thanks so much for sharing!

I make my husband a smoothie in the morning he has half then and takes the other half to have at coffee break. He is trying to put on weight and I’m sure this smoothie is helping (I can’t have any of it!)

2 bananas
cup of milk
1/4 cup of whipping cream
tablespoon peanut butter
tablespoon honey
and good splash of the remainder of the coffee.

loads of calories in a cup!!!!Much cheaper than the store bought breakfast shakes. Very delicious

This has to be the best smoothie ever!! It is delicious and healthy.
You will need:
A BANANA
MILK
PEANUT BUTTER
VANILLA ESSENCE

Just blend all the ingredients together YUM!!

I found your smoothie recipes exceptionally delicious although a lot of them have milk or milk products added to them. Don’t get me wrong each to his/her own but some of us are just incapable of digesting milk and its by-products. Maybe you can try:
1 cup frozen mixed berries straight from the freezer with each 250ml of 100 percent cold fresh orange juice.
Really great on a sticky stinking hot summers day.

Does anyone know why my smoothies turn into a jello type consistency when I add blueberries then chill, this phenomenon doesn’t seem to occur with other fruits. FYI, I use Live Plant Powder and Protein Powder with all of my smoothies.
Thanks in advance
Daniel

I’ve been making this for years and I can’t find the recipe. If you can follow my freehand instructions it’s worth the effort – especially if you’re not a fan of bananas! Put 6 chunks of frozen mango (or frozen peach slices) in a blender. Add half a cup of frozen blueberries, 1/3 cup oats, 1/4 cup orange juice and then enough plain soy milk (or low fat regular milk) to cover the fruit. The result is pretty thick so add more soy milk to thin if you want. Top with a sprinkle of toasted wheat germ.

This page is great with all these wonderful tips and delicious smoothies. I wanted to add a different kind of smoothie to the mix- its an Indian drink great for summer- called Lassi.

1 cup buttermilk (chilled)
1/2 tsp grated ginger-fresh
pinch or more of salt
1-2 slices of chilli (optional, if you like it hot!)
1-2 tsp of sugar (acc to taste)-depends on how tangy the buttermilk is.

Blend it all together in a blender- I just whisk it together with a ballon whisk. Its a great afternoon snack- low fat and healthy and very very cooling.

Variations:
Add low fat or whole yogurt (substitute for buttermilk) for more filling and creamier taste.
Add chilled mangoes and its a bit sweet/tart.
Add chopped mint and it has a heavenly aroma.
Do all or combinations of these variations to get different taste everytime!
Do not forget the salt- it balances out the taste perfectly- not too sweet and not too sour.
Stay Cool!

1 ripe mango, cut into pieces and frozen
1 ripe banana, cut into pieces and frozen
5 to 8 strawberries, fresh
1/4 to 1/2 cup of orange juice
1 to 4 tbsp honey
ice cubes

Directions: combine mangoes, bananas, strawberries, orange juice, and honey in blender and blend until smooth. Add 1 ice cube and blend, keep on adding ice cubes until an icey consistiency is formed. Serve. Makes About 3 cups. If you want, you can leave out the Mango for a simpler smoothie

My friend in California and I like to use frozen berries instead of ice and soy milk instead of yogurt and definately a fresh banana is essential! We really enjoy this combination and its a good source of soy! Love your site!
Gina Ballinger & Yvonne Jensen

Hm.. I have great bannana smoothie too.

1 Banana( sliced )
1/4 cup milk
1/2 cup of any flavour/type of yogurt that you currently have in the fridge.
4-5 large ice cup ( about 1 cup )
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
1 tablespoon of sugar

Throw it in the blender and enjoy! :)

Like “beyonduplication” I have smoothies most days of the week for breakfast or lunch. I’ve recently gone away from using banana’s as a thickner (most people MUST have banana in their smoothie.) Instead, I’ve started using avocado; it tastes great, and is hugely benificial for health inside and out. This is a simple but delicious recipe I’ve been making alot lately.

• 1 ripe/soft avocado
• 1 cup frozen blueberries (thawed)
• 1 cup soymilk
• 2-3 kiwifruit

Simply remove skin/stone from avocado and kiwi fruit, chop into cubes and blend with blueberries. Slowly add soymilk to liquify. Use normal milk if you like, I just like the taste of soy. Add a little honey if you like some sweetness, this is a very creamy, subtly flavored smoothie.

I practically live on smoothies! I’m constantly expirimenting with all sorts of fruits. This is a smoothie recpie that I found in a cook book that I think is execptionally wonderful for people who want to get in their daily serving of green veggies:

1(?)cup white grape juice
1 cup green grapes
1/2 a cucumber, seeded
ice

Blend in a blender until smooth.
Enjoy!

Elise, my mother always made us banana smoothies when we were kids. I think it started because my brother and I had an uneven number of bananas to fight over. Always very simple, never measured, but very different from all these ideas, as far as I can see. We never used berries, or yogurt, or tofu.
My mother always did this:

Ice (couple handfuls)
Milk (1 cup?)
Bananas (2 or 3)
heaping Tbsp(s) of frozen orange juice concentrate

The concentrate makes it tangy, the banana makes it creamy. It’s very good. I still make this for my kids.

My favorite Smoothie recipe calls for:

10oz frozen Blueberries
3-4 frozen Strawberries
3Tblspoons of Soy Protein powder
about 3/4-1 cup lowfat milk

This makes aprox 1 quart of smoothie.

This breakfast for me. I make it all the time. I’m totally going to try a bunch of the other recipes here, though. They all look so good!