Original Recipe from: http://iowagirleats.com/2012/01/04/my-top-secret-diet-weapon/


Below recipe and photo are from the above link.

Green Monster Spinach Smoothie

Ingredients:

1 frozen sliced banana
1 Tablespoon peanut butter
1/2 cup 0% Vanilla Chobani Greek yogurt
1 cup Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Breeze (or other kind of milk)
4 cups baby spinach (or more, or less)

Directions:

Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.  First add 1 sliced frozen banana, and 1 Tablespoon peanut butter in a blender. Tip: PEEL and SLICE your bananas before you freeze them, or you’ll be sorry! Next add bulking agents for staying power, like protein-packed vanilla Greek yogurt, and creamy unsweetened vanilla almond milk. You could use any kind of milk you want – cow’s, rice, soy, etc.  Fill the blender the rest of the way up with baby spinach.  Start the blender on “high blend” until everything’s mixed up, then switch it over to “liquify” to get the Green Monster velvety smooth.

Nutritional stats:

350 calories, 10g fiber, 21g protein



Hot Mama's Notes:

I had been wanting to try a green smoothie, and well, it was green.  I like spinach.  This smoothie doesn't really taste like spinach.  When blended all together, you really only taste the banana and peanut butter.  When making this smoothie, a different brand of greek yogurt was used, with no adverse effects, I would say.  Also, I used the Smoothie button on my BlendTech TotalBlender.  My spinach was fresh from my garden that day - yum!  :)