Smoothie breakfast

About 10 years ago, I worked at Starbucks. On one hand- making hundreds of frozen crappuccinos and being covered with that smell of the fake mix powder, has forever turned me away from Starbucks blended treats. On the other hand - I still love love love blended drinks. Personally I do not like the super sweet varieties of Jamba Juice. To make this thick like icecream, we pre-freeze our fruit so that we don't need ice which makes it soupy and lessens the flavor.

Since we cannot have milk/cheese/meats/oil, here is what we came up with for a quick breakfast that can alternate for what we have in stock. This was the first time adding greens to our breakfast, but it worked out great.

Serves: 2

Prep/Clean Up: 10 min

In a ninja (or whatever you have) we added a handful of spinach leaves and a handful of kale. Don't press it in to the bottom. Now add about 1 cup of coconut milk. On short pulses chop the leaves until its thoroughly tini-tiny.

• 1 (lady sized) handful of spinach leaves
• 1 handful of kale
• 1 cup of coconut milk

Next add your other items :

• 5 strawberries*
• 1/2 to 1 cup of berries*
• 1 peach*
• 1 banana
• 1/2 avocado
• your choice of whey protein
• Stevia (to taste)
• more coconut milk if needed

* We like to get organic fruit from the farmer's market and freeze them.

At first I was trying not to gag on the fact that it had kale and spinach. But after two seconds, I completely forgot. It is really tasty.

Snack Time

Sugar Free- Strawberry Smoothie!

Ingredients:
approx 1/2 cup of Frozen Strawberries
1/2 - 1 cup of Whole Milk
Stevia

Using a mixer or my favorite- a ninja- loosely fill small cup with frozen strawberries and top half way with milk. Add stevia to taste and blend!

Substitute fruit as desired or add protein powder. Great for diabetics or primal.