Healthy Smoothie
A while back my mom made these really good chocolate strawberry banana soy tofu smoothie drinks, and I've been wanting to find that recipe to make it myself. However, my mom doesn't know which book it came from (maybe Biggest Loser...??) and can't find it. So if you know what I'm talking about, please let me know the recipe! Thanks!
Anyway, I love the Strawberry Banana smoothies at Starbucks. YUM. However, they cost me $4.35 every time I want one! We've been needing a blender in the Condo, and I've really been wanting to make smoothies and all that fun stuff for a while. That's how I started wanting to find that recipe above. Starbucks puts some healthy stuff in their smoothies, and I wanted to make that super healthy yummy smoothie again!
Finally I gave up trying to find the recipe, and decided to use my memory, and combine a bunch of different recipes, and just make it up in general! This is the tale of what came out of that...
I ended up with these ingredients:
- Probably a cup of strawberries (I used waaay too many strawberries and it came out a lot more strawberry-ee than planned, but it was still really good!)
- 1 banana
- 1 cup of soy milk (I used chocolate, just to make the drink more chocolaty, I'm sure any soy milk could be used, or even regular milk)
- A dollop of yogurt
- 1 tbsp of honey
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- scoop of protein powder (I used chocolate protein powder, again for the chocolate taste, but there are various different flavors that can be used)
- 1/4 cup tofu
- 1 tbsp of flaxseed (grounded)
Since my fruit was frozen, I didn't bother putting any ice cubes in, but if you are using freshly cut up fruit, you might want to throw a few ice cubes in the blender too.
Toss it all in the blender and blend/whip it all up! It took me a little while to get it all in there and blended up. Either my blender sucks, or there was just too much chunkiness and not enough liquid. But it turned out alright in the end, it just depends on what sort of texture you're looking for. I like chunky!
Cali was curious as to what all the noise I was making was!
After it is all blended up, pour it out into glasses and have a yummy delicious drink! (I was really sad we didn't have any straws in the condo!)
If you try this recipe out and mix it up some, let me know what you end up doing with it! This was purely me making up something I thought might be healthy and yummy at the same time! Which it was decent...it's not like...chocolate milkshake from Macado's mouth orgasm good...but for something healthy, it was really good! (Oh, and this recipe made about two decent sized glasses worth of beverages!)
~Taylor~