Green Monster

It's Thursday, 

which means 1 more day until Friday - we can do this!

Tuesday I did my product spotlight on Bolthouse Farms' "Green Goodness" juice.

I told you guys that I was gonna show you my own version of a green drink (more like a smoothie) so here it is :)

Doesn't look SO bad right? It's actually super delicious and healthy.

I promise ;)

What You'll Need:

2 heaping handfuls of spinach (low in calories, high in vitamins)

3 strawberries (full of fiber to keep digestion regular)

1 frozen banana - cut before you freeze (high energy fruit, full of potassium) 

Small handful of frozen blueberries (high in antioxidants)

About 1/2 cup of frozen mango chunks (improves digestion & lowers cholesterol)

1/2 cup of almond milk (I use unsweetened)

1 scoop of protein (I use vanilla flavored)

1/2 teaspoon of Splenda (optional)

source for health benefits

I put the protein in the blender, then the spinach, banana, blueberries, mangos, strawberries, and milk and mix it all together. I use the "puree" setting. Once everything is mostly liquidized (fancy word, huh?), I add in the Splenda (because I'm a wimp and have to add Splenda to just about everything) and blend it on the "liquify" setting for a few more seconds.

It doesn't look really appealing, BUT rest assured, it tastes gooooood! I usually drink one either for breakfast (if I have time to make it), or pre or post workout. It makes a decent sized glass - it usually takes me awhile to drink it all.

Here is what the finished product looks like:

If you don't have one of these hard, plastic cups with the lid and hard straw - you should really get on that. I use mine all the time to take drinks to class or to work. They're very car friendly, too!

This green monster smoothie tastes fruity (imagine that), but if you want a smoothie that's less fruity you might like to try the peanut butter banana smoothie that I posted about a few weeks ago! Do you see a trend here...I really like smoothies.

Give it a try and let me know what you think :)

Oh and PS: my best friend got me these adorable mixing bowls for my birthday, and I figured that since I used them to make this smoothie that it was appropriate to show them off ;)

Thanks, Britt :)

She picked these up at Anthropologie!