The Green One

Ingredients

• 2 Bananas, frozen
• 3 cups Baby spinach
• 1 ½ cups Frozen mixed berries
• 2 cups Unsweetened soy milk
• ½ cup Plain nonfat Greek yogurt
• 2 tbsp Ground flaxseed
• 2 tbsp Almond butter
• ½ tsp Ground cinnamon

Method

1. Liquid first, then soft, then frozen — that order is why some blenders jam and others don't.
2. Blend the soy milk, yogurt, spinach and flax first until completely smooth and no flecks remain. This is the step that makes it drinkable for a suspicious eight-year-old.
3. Add the frozen banana, berries, almond butter and cinnamon. Blend 45 seconds until thick.
4. Pour and drink within a few minutes — it separates.

Notes

✨ The restaurant touch

Freeze the bananas in chunks. Fresh banana makes a thin smoothie; frozen makes it milkshake-thick with nothing added.

🧒 For the kids

Blend the spinach into the liquid completely before adding berries. Once the berries go in it turns purple and nobody asks questions.

🌿 From the garden

Spring spinach straight from the bed.

🥡 Leftovers

Pour extras into popsicle molds. That is dessert solved too.

Per serving

Computed from USDA FoodData Central values. A planning tool, not medical advice.