Hi all

I recently discovered green smoothies and am now addicted. I thought that I hated spinach, but I consume it 5-6 days a week now in my smoothies. My recipe varies, depending upon what is in my fridge, but the basics are:

1/2 cup NF greek yogurt
1 cup almond milk
banana
1/2 cup cooked steel cut oatmeal
frozen mango chunks
any other fresh fruit (grapes, strawberries, apples, etc.)
2 handsful spinach or romaine lettuce

Sometime I toss in a Tb of almond butter or a carrot. I change the recipe every day. What I find absolutely amazing is that these breakfast smoothies will hold me for 3 or 4 hours with no hunger pangs until lunch time. Delicious, nutritious and filling. Not low calorie, but very Weight Watchers friendly. What more can one ask.

Brookelynne - I totally agree! Although I will say that there's a bit of controversy over the WW friendly part. I think the official stance is that if it's blended it's not zero points. I disagree since you're still getting the fiber and everything else in the whole fruit as a whole fruit blended (it's not like you're juicing it). But whatevs -- call me a heretic! :)

My fav smoothie:

blueberries- fresh or frozen
frozen sliced banana
unsweetened vanilla almond milk
scoop vanilla whey powder
chia seeds

Sometimes I will add a yogurt if I need extra calories, or use flax oil instead of chia seeds.

Sweet smoothie- choco pb monster

frozen sliced banana
squirt choco nesquik
tbsp pb or almond butter
vanilla almond milk (I love this stuff)
scoop choco whey protein

I've tossed a few handfuls of baby spinach into both those smoothies.

I LOVE smoothies!!! My most recent concoction is: 8oz unsweetend almond milk, 1 c fresh spinach, 1 frozen banana, 1 scoop protein powder (I use chocolate), 1T natural peanut butter, ice. DELISH!

I use a magic bullet, the oats offer extra fiber and more whole grains into the diet, besides its loaded with natural nutrients!

My current smoothie:

1 cup of milk (fat free) 90 calories
1 whole fresh banana 105 calories
1/2 scoop elite vanilla whey protein 80 calories
1/2 packet of apple & cinnamon oatmeal (uncooked) 65 calories
1tsp of cinnamon
A bunch of ice cubes

Total calories: 340

I usually have one of these for breakfast with my turkey bacon.

Sometimes I'll add frozen blackberries (90 cal per cup) or frozen peaches (50 cal per cup). I'm not a big fan of strawberry smoothies so I don't ever add them. LOL

Goddess Jessica

You and I are both heretics! You are right about the fruit controversy at WW. Personally, I don't see the difference between eating my fruits, vegetables, oatmeal and yogurt (all of which are perfectly acceptable tunder WW) and drinking this mixed up in a smoothie. It makes no sense to me whatsoever that blending fruit would somehow change a zero point food into one with points. Blending does not change the nutritional value of the fruit.

I know that consuming spinach is good for me, and if blending it into a smoothie gets dark leafy greens into me, that is a good thing. I have even used kale in my smoothies and thoroughly enjoyed it. Prior to that, I would not even consider ingesting kale.

I am enjoying success on WW, and have a smoothie almost every day. I tally up the points value as I would if I were chewing the individual smoothie ingredients. Works for me!

I started eating oatmeal for breakfast following katheats.com recipes because I read you should eat for the climate. But as it gets warmer, I'll do more smoothies and my fall back is:

2/3 c water
1/2-2/3 c frozen mango
1 banana
few baby carrots
2 big handfuls of spinach (I freeze mine so it lasts longer)
1tbs ground flax seed
few ice cubes

LOVE IT. Plus it keeps me satisfied for a while because it takes me so long to drink it.

My smoothies generally consist of:

Frozen fruit (favorite being mango, pineapple, & banana)
Protein powder (generally vanilla or chocolate muscle milk light)
Skim Milk, almond milk or water (depending on the fruit and calories I have to use)
You can make a whole lot of a fruit smoothie

So lately one of the things, for whatever reason, I’ve been craving is peanut butter. I have NO idea what is causing this craving, but it’s been a killer.
So I modified a smoothie into super tasty replacement meal/ice cream type substance
1/2 a banana (fresh or frozen)
8 oz of skim milk (or plain almond milk)
1/2 a serving of muscle milk light (vanilla)
1 Tbsp Smucker’s Natural peanut butter – creamy (NO sugar added)
So I’ve had this both ways, but frozen it tastes a whole lot like ice cream.
Calories: 333
Protein: 24.9g
Carbs: 34.2g
Fat: 11.4g
This meets or is close enough to my meal requirements (I am eating 6 times a day), that this becomes a heck of a snack/meal replacement. You get sweetness from the banana & the muscle milk. Overall I’ve had blizzards/concrete mixers from local fast food places that have a LOT higher in fat & calories with a whole lot less nutritional punch .
More or less this one lets me “feel” like I’m cheating but I’m really not based on my rules.

I have never thought of putting oatmeal in my smoothie. You people are GENIUSES! :)