Hello friends and happy Wednesday! You know what that means – it’s WIAW! Since August’s theme is “Summer Staples” I will be sharing a couple smoothie recipes every WIAW for the rest of the month of August, since smoothies are my Summer staple. Last week I shared my recipe for a Chocolate Chunk Protein Smoothie. This week’s smoothie has a little veggie action going on. If you don’t know about WIAW, head over to Jenn’s blog to read a little more.
Breakfast
Berry Spinach Smoothie
Makes 1 large smoothie
Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup almond milk/any milk
- 1/3 cup plain Chobani
- 3/4 cup frozen or fresh strawberries
- 1/4 cup frozen or fresh blueberries
- 1/2 scoop protein powder (I used vanilla)
- handful of baby spinach
- 3 ice cubes
Start with the milk and then add the berries and Chobani and ice. Mix all together until smooth. If you need more liquid, add more milk a little at a time. Then mix in the protein powder. Finally, add in the handful of spinach at the end. I promise, you won’t taste the spinach at all. This is a great way to sneak veggies into a kid’s breakfast or a fast way to get a serving of vegetables during the day.
Lunch
Lunch was a pretty boring and typical meal. Another baby green salad + Chobani/fruit/granola.
Dinner
After a good 4 mile run and a shower, I got started on dinner. Tonight’s dinner was what Bernie called a “Sarah dinner”. Sweet potatoes+veggies+protein=Sarah Dinner. The sweet potato wedges were roasted up with the beans in the oven, paired with grilled chicken marinated in a Caribbean Jerk sauce. Quick, easy, and delicious.
Readers: Have you ever tried putting veggies in smoothies before? Anyone out there make an all green smoothie – I’ve been searching for a good recipe!
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What a tasty sounding smoothie! And that “Sarah Dinner” sounds like my kinda dinner, too. Hope you’re having a great week!
Amy
@Chobani
So delicious – but Cho makes any smoothie better! Hope you’re having a great week too, Amy!
Those sweet potatoes look so bomb! I’m sure you can attest to this, but isn’t it so hard eating even semi-healthy around men?! Chris wants everything baked w/ cheese (yum) and butter (double yum) but I’d be huge if I ate that all the time!
Yeah, Bernie is tough. Some days he’s all about it, and others he’s like “screw this – I want a burger.” It’s a challenge for sure!
Jerk chicken is one of my faves! Yum
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Your meals look so good. Love berry smoothies, heck I like any smoothie
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Thanks! I am the same way – berry fanatic over here!
I’ve only thrown spinach in my strawberry banana smoothie, and it wasn’t bad at all! My blender was a little old, so unfortunately there were tiny pieces of spinach, but I couldn’t even taste it. The weirdest thing was it being green, it threw me off!
Can’t wait to see you this weekend at HLS!!! When are you driving over? Maybe we can meet up and go in together!
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That would be very cool! I’m going over tomorrow probably around 2:00 for the 2:30 talk from Derek from Greatist, and then doing the 4:00 photo mini mingle. I’d love to meet up and walk in together! email me
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