green smoothie

I know what you're thinking: I went from s'mores cupcakes to a green smoothie.  Yep, I did, because this baby weight isn't going to lose itself.  I promise, though, this is a healthy option that still tastes like a frozen treat (especially if you haven't had the real thing in a while).

Since we spent our fourth anniversary in the hospital with Ruby, we were a little delayed on the whole gift/celebrating thing. (We did order Thai food in the hospital instead of eating the cafeteria food, woohoo!)  We decided to get ourselves a Vitamix blender since it is the "fruit and flowers" anniversary, and this sounded like a fun option.

This blender is no joke - it doesn't fit on our countertop and sounds like a lawnmower while it's running.  But it does produce some restaurant quality frozen drinks!  The high-powered equipment isn't a requirement for this smoothie though... I drank these pretty regularly from our normal $20 blender that came with Lane into our marriage.

To make life easy (and to give myself the ability to make a smoothie with one hand while holding a baby with the other), I packaged up the ingredients for one smoothie in ziplocs and put them in the freezer.  Now my fruit/spinach won't go bad before I get a chance to use it!

Green Smoothies 

Ingredients:

½ banana (frozen or not), cut into chunks

½ cup chopped frozen pineapple
½ pear (or apple), coarsely chopped
1 cup orange juice
1 cup baby spinach leaves, rinsed and dried

Directions:

Combine all ingredients in a blender or food processor and puree until completely smooth.  Serve immediately.

Source: Annie's Eats

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