Cooking Kids

Grab a blender, some berries, a container of yogurt, juice and some peanut butter and get ready to make some real simple smoothies. Smoothies are a staple in our house during the school year. Now that it’s summer we’ve been eating more whole fruit and less smoothies, but these recipes would be good for families on the go during the summer.

Berry Smoothies 

A couple handfuls of your favorite berries. Some good choices are raspberries, strawberries, blueberries and blackberries. Frozen berries work, too.

1 container of yogurt. We use vanilla, but you can use any flavor.

1 banana, sliced.

1 tablespoon of peanut butter. For more nutrition, use natural peanut butter with flaxseed and Omega oils.

1/2 C. favorite juice. We use Minute Maid blueberry pomegranate.

1 C. crushed ice

Fill the bottom of the blender with the juice, yogurt and peanut butter. Top with berries and the banana. Pour ice on top. Blend well. If mixture is too thick and blender slows down, add more juice.

Chocolate Banana Peanut Butter Smoothie

1 sliced banana

2 Tbsp. peanut butter

1 C. chocolate milk or chocolate ice cream

1/2 C. crushed ice

Mix all together in a blender and blend until well mixed. Top with chocolate syrup.

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