This week I will be posting 4 recipes that were inspired by The Usborne Healthy Cookbook. The first one is smoothies, I LOVE smoothies! It's a great way to pack nutritional ingredients into a drink without anyone knowing they are in there. The Usborne Healthy Cookbook had some really great ideas for smoothies and also gave you some fun nutritional facts on smoothies. The illustrations were easy to understand so a child could follow along.



I decide to use the smoothie recipes from the cookbook as a guide for me to make my South American Smoothie. I didn't want to head out to the grocery store so I looked for ingredients I already had in the house. When bananas start to get too ripe I throw them in the freezer to use for smoothies breads etc..so that was ingredient #1 for my smoothie.  I also had a sliced Papaya in the freezer...#2. The next ingredient was a ripe avocado #3, you may think...gross an avocado in a smoothie! Let me tell you avocados have nearly 20 essential nutrients, including fiber, potassium, Vitamin E, B-vitamins and folic acid. I also added organic banana/mango yogurt from my favorite yogurt company Traders Point Creamery and all their products come from grass-fed cattle. The last ingredient was honey, it gives it a little sweetness without adding tons of sugar.


                                                 


South American Smoothie

2 frozen bananas (let defrost enough to take the peel off)
1 Papaya (seeds out and meat scooped out)
1 Avocado
1/2 cup of your choice of yogurt                                                                                
4 tablespoons of honey
handful of ice

                 

Directions

Place all the ingredients into a bowl and use an immersion blender to mix until smooth or you can also place all ingredients into a regular blender and mix until smooth. Then ENJOY!



 


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