Today’s Homemade Fruit Smoothie

This morning I had a homemade fruit smoothie that was pretty tasty!  It was more of a green smoothie though.

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 banana
  • 1/2 cup blueberries
  • 2 packed cups spinach
  • 1 cup almond milk
  • 1 tbsp peanut/almond butter
  • 1 tbsp Chia Seeds
  • ice
  • small squirt of Agave sweetener

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Workouts this week and 3rd green monster smoothie

Not much to report this week.  It’s been quite the challenging week with a sick dog as most of you already know from Twitter and Facebook.  I did the best I could with exercise and hubs and I might do Wii Fit tonight but still not sure.

Workout stats for the week of June 22-28, 2009

Monday-

*Elliptical
Time: 17 min.
Calories burned: 179

*Personal training
Time: 20 min.
Calories burned: 200+

Tuesday-

*Walk outside
Time: 15 min.

Wednesday-

*Walk Away the Pounds Walk Slim
Time: 35 min.
Miles: 2
Calories burned: 320

*Walk outside
Time: 15 min.

Thursday-

*Walk outside
Time: 15 min.

Friday-

*Walk outside
Time: 20 min.

Saturday-

*Mow lawn
Time: 47 min.
Calories burned: 557

Sunday-

Day off

How did you do this week? Feel free to share your workout accomplishments here or on your blog if you have one and give us a link.

Had my 3rd green monster smoothie yesterday and it was quite tasty.  Kev took a video with my camera but I have no idea how to edit it so until then you’ll have to just imagine me drinking it LOL!

This green monster smoothie consisted of 1/3 cup blueberries, 2 handfuls of spinach, 1 cup unsweetened vanilla almond milk, 1 tbsp flax, 1 banana, 1 tbsp peanut butter, 8 ice cubes (not sure why it took that many this time) and 1 scoop of vanilla whey protein powder.  Tasty!

Make it a great week!

 

My first Green Monster Smoothie

I had my very first green smoothie for breakfast this morning.  I have seen so many varieties of this green monster smoothie, I wanted to try it out for myself.  To be honest my first impressions before even whipping up the green smoothie up was to gag ha ha.  But I was really quite surprised that it turned out quite yummy.  It didn’t turn out a pretty green like the many I have seen on food blogs around the web but it had it’s own unique mix of colors.  It looked like it would go nice with the Christmas holidays.  Hints of green and red to it.

Want to see?

Here are the ingredients

1 banana, 5 frozen strawberries, 1 scoop vanilla whey protein powder, 1 cup baby spinach, approx. 1 cup almond milk and 2 tsp. flax

I just guessed on the ingredient amounts and it turned out well to me.  I used my Magic Bullet® blender/mixer so the cups are small (but as you see below it filled a full glass and there was a tiny bit extra) and most green smoothies I saw I’m pretty sure were made in an actual smoothie maker or full size blender.  If you have any tips on the amounts or ingredients feel free to share!

Here’s the final product (can you see the colored specs?), yum.

I have a list of other green smoothie ingredients I would like to try so you’ll be seeing more of my concoctions on the blog.  It should be fun!

If you have made green monster green smoothies, please feel free to link to your blog or share with us here.


Green Smooth Book

Read about my 2nd green monster smoothie here.