I’ve been told this is the best smoothie I’ve ever made! This ended up being dinner for my 4 year old the other night. After making 3 different dinners trying to get him to eat something (I know they say not to do that but I kept thinking he had to be starving, and I knew I would hear “I’m hungry!” later that night) I resorted to this smoothie. At least it’s got protein, some vitamins and it’s filling! So he’s full, (makes me happy) and he gets to drink instead of eat.

I usually keep a zip loc bag of frozen, ripe, peeled bananas in my freezer.  I find this makes a creamier smoothie than using room temperature bananas and ice. But when I’m all out of frozen bananas then room temp bananas it is, with a handful of ice.  You can adjust ingredients based on how thick you like your smoothies.

1-2 bananas (I recommend frozen)

2-3 tablespoons peanut butter (almond butter is great too, or sunflower seed butter)

1/2 teaspoon non alcohol vanilla flavoring

1 tsp pure maple syrup or agave syrup (optional)

1-2 cups almond milk, rice milk, or water

ice (optional)

Blend it all together and serve right away.

Variations:

Add a tbsp of coco powder for a chocolate version.

Add strawberries or blueberries for “peanut butter and jelly” version

These also make great ice pops!