Smoothie Acronyms: A Delicious Trio of Letters

Smoothies; some people may love them, and others may prefer to eat their calories. I'm 50/50, although I do like eating my calories, I like to kick back and enjoy a delicious smoothie here and there. I'm also super picky about the flavour of my smoothies and I don't like putting veggies in them; however, even though the below recipes don't call for any veg, feel free to get your greens in by adding a handful of spinach or kale. It'll obviously alter the flavour and although I can't guarantee max deliciousness, I can't imagine it changing the flavour too, too much. Especially if you're used to putting them in there anyways. Also, if you want to use a different nut butter other than almond, go for it. If you want to completely omit the almond butter, may I suggest unflavoured Vegan protein? Either or will work, but once again it will change the flavour. If you add the Vegan protein, I would add a tsp of natural vanilla extract to each smoothie. Completely your call though. It's your smoothie, modify however you'd like. 😊

SBP: Strawberry-Banana-Pineapple 

• 1 banana, pre-sliced & frozen
• 5 strawberries
• 1/4 cup chopped frozen pineapple 
• 6 - 8 ounces soy milk 
• 1/8 cup of almond butter 

SBP2: Strawberry-Banana-Passionfruit 

• 1.5 bananas, pre-sliced and frozen 
• 5 strawberries 
• 2 passion fruits. Cut in half and scoop out the inside of each shell. 
• 6 - 8 ounces soy milk 
• 1/8 cup almond butter 

BDC - Banana-Dates-Cacao

• 2 bananas, pre-sliced and frozen 
• 5 dates, pitted (soak for 10 minutes in warm water prior to putting in blender). 
• 1 TBSP cacao powder 
• 6 - 8 ounces of soy milk 
• 1/8 cup almond butter 

Instructions: 

Put all ingredients in each smoothie in a blender and blend away until smooth. Pour in a glass and enjoy with a reusable straw. Try avoiding plastic straws because they aren't good for our home, the Earth. 🙂🙂

For all of the above smoothies the only fruit that I used that I didn't freeze were the strawberries, dates and the passionfruit. If you want to use frozen strawberries, go for it; however, it might make the smoothie thicker. If you don't have passionfruit, feel free to replace with another fruit like mango, raspberries, blackberries or whatever else you'd prefer. 

Pour 6 ounces of soy milk in the blender at first and then add the extra if required. It all depends on how thick or not so thick you prefer your smoothies. To be honest, I just guesstimated the amount of soy milk because I didn't measure it out. But, it's definitely between 6 - 8 ounces. I'm a straight up pro when it comes to the guesstimating game. 

Enjoy your smoothies!! 😋😋