Almost every morning I wake up and eat a smoothie. I have been working on this recipe for over 5 years, and it's absolutely perfected. It has the best of ingredients. When consumed in the AM, it gives your body everything it needs to kick ass for the day. Since they take some time to make I usually double the ingredients to make 2 at a time. I'll keep one in the fridge to eat the following morning. Obviously if you cut this recipe in half it's perfect for 1.
If you have other ideas or other ingredients to add, please comment!
2 cups of frozen blueberries
2 table spoons of All Natural Jiff Peanut butter - you can buy any peanut butter you like, almond butter is good too, but the peanut butter gives the most flavor.
1 cup of plain Greek low-fat yogurt
1 cup of Quaker Oats (fill cup with water and microwave for 30 seconds to soften up)
1 generous scoop of Super Green super food. (This gives you all your greens for the day, great if you have trouble getting eating celery and spinach regularly. Can be found here: http://amzn.to/iVCxDi )
1 generous scoop of vanilla whey protein (if you're doing heavy weight lifting you can add 3-5 scoops)
1 handful of almonds (healthy, and gives a nice crunch to the smoothie)
Half cup of water, and half cup of ice
Put it all in the blender, mix it up. Don't blend for more than 30 seconds, you don't want to completely grind up the almonds, you wand to keep some chunks in there, gives the smoothie a fantastic texture. Enjoy!
