A healthy smoothie recipe

Believe it or not I started writing a post about guns and school violence this evening, thinking about the recent shooting at Reynolds High School  in nearby Troutdale. But it turns out I had more to write there than I thought, so I'm going to let it marinate for a while longer. No sense in rushing that out the door.

So instead I present what I'm quite sure is the opposite of school violence in every way: a healthy smoothie recipe.

I've made this smoothie a few times this week and it's growing on me. You'll need:

• 2-3 cups of unsweetened almond milk, depending on how much you want to make and how thick you like your smoothies. I really like the almond-coconut milk blend.
• 1-3 bananas, barring the same.
• A tablespoon or less of peanut butter.
• Two tablespoons of plain, Greek yogurt. I'm partial to Fage.
• Cinnamon and ginger powder sprinkled, to taste. I find I enjoy a healthy amount of cinnamon.
• 0-3 strawberries, to taste.
• 1 quarter-cup of egg-white protein powder, because now it's definitely a smoothie and not a milkshake.
• 1 tablespoon or so of Vitamineral Green powder, to taste and preference. Now it's definitely not a milkshake.

I made one of these for my brother yesterday. His first words were "Why the hell is it green?" and then he proceeded to explain how he's not a smoothie person.

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Enjoy!

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Published on Wednesday, June 11th 2014. Read this post as plain-text.