The Best Everyday Smoothie
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Introducing The Best Everyday Smoothie. Really! This recipe has been tested well over 1,000 times because that’s how much we make it! Includes a delicious, nutritious blend of frozen fruit, milk, juice, Greek yogurt, and spinach. Pair it with our Savory Breakfast Muffins, Egg in a Hole, or Baked Ham and Egg Cups for a balanced start to the day.
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Unlike similar recipes like our Very Berry Smoothie or Tropical Smoothie, this recipe serves 4+ people.
- It’s customizable. You can use different types of milk, a variety of fruits, and even sneak in some extra veggies like carrots, kale, avocado, shredded zucchini, cauliflower rice, or raw sweet potato.
- It’s so tasty. This is a recipe all ages will love!
- Well-tested. My husband makes a version of nearly every single day for the past 10 years. I think it’s safe to say it’s been tested well over 1,000 times.
Ingredients
Here are the building blocks to this Everyday Smoothie.
Ingredient Notes:
- Feel free to reduce the amount of juice, based on how sweet you like your smoothie. My husband uses less juice and more milk now days.
- Adding in extra veggies is easy and tasteless. The one my husband adds daily now is a handful of baby carrots.
Substitutions and Variations
- Use different fruit. Raspberries, strawberries, mango, pineapple, or oranges would be great additions.
- Add more vegetables. Toss in extra, mostly-tasteless veggies like carrots, kale, avocado, shredded zucchini, cauliflower rice, or raw sweet potato.
- Add protein powder.
- Add flaxseed or chia seeds. We love sneaking this into recipes. (Chocolate Banana Muffins or Many Overnight Oats Recipes, or Powerball Cookies for example).
How to Make the Everyday Smoothie
Add milk, juice, yogurt, spinach and banana to a high-powered blender. Blend until smooth.
After it’s completely blended, add the remaining frozen fruit (and any additional veggies like carrots).
Blend ingredients until smooth.
Look how pretty it is and all those antioxidants!
What Kind of Blender Should I Use?
Not all of them are created equal. I’ve owned a lot of brands over the years–Frigidaire, Cuisinart, Ninja, Vitamix, and Oster.
To really pulverize the smoothies, you’ll need a high-powered blender. The two blenders that stand out as clear winners from my experience are:
Very high-powered, super simple, and will last for an eon. Polly and I both own Vitamixes and highly recommend them. Very much worth the investment.
2. Nutri Ninja Personal and Countertop Blender
A more affordable option for high-powered blender. The best feature, in my opinion, is that it allows me to make single serving smoothies that get very smooth. Love the single serving blend-and-go design! The big blender doesn’t pulverize as well as the smaller containers do, just so you know.
FAQs
Yes! If you don’t drink all of your smoothie, pour it into an ice cube tray (or something to help portion it out) and freeze. Then pop out the small portions of smoothie to toss in your blender next time you make a smoothie.
Sure! Feel free to add in a sugar-free, unflavored protein powder or collagen powder. I like Vital Protein Collagen Peptides. You may need to add a little more liquid if you include this ingredient.
I think smoothies are even more fun to drink when you have some dishwasher-safe, reusable silicone straws on hand like these (or some paper straws like these) to top off your beverage. So stinkin’ easy to enjoy a healthy, colorful breakfast, right?!
Yes! Freeze blueberries, blackberries, strawberries (sliced or whole), and raspberries the same way — in a single layer on a baking sheet for a few hours. Then you can transfer them to a freezer-safe container and they won’t be all clumped together!
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Everyday Smoothie
Seriously delicious and full of fruits and veggies. We have this smoothie almost everyday!
Ingredients
- 1 cup milk (use whatever kind you want–dairy or non-dairy!)
- 1 cup orange juice (or you can use 1/2 cup milk and 1/2 cup OJ)
- 1/2 cup Greek yogurt (he uses vanilla, but I like plain b/c less sugar)
- 4 cups spinach, loosely packed
- 1 banana (a frozen banana makes it even creamier)
- 2 cups frozen blueberries (or frozen berry blend)
- 2 cups frozen tropical fruit (we use a mix of mango, pineapple and strawberries)
- Optional: 1–2 cups baby carrots (adds more nutrition and is tasteless)
- Optional: 1-2 scoops protein powder (your choice)
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Instructions
Make It Now:
- Add milk, juice, yogurt, spinach and banana to a high-powered blender. Blend until smooth.
- Add frozen fruit. Blend again until smooth. Enjoy!
Freeze For Later: After making the smoothie, freeze it in a freezable mason jar, leaving at least an inch at the top.
Prepare From Frozen: Place the mason jar in the refrigerator overnight to thaw. Stir with a spoon or throw in the blender again with a few ice cubes.
Notes/Tips
- A high-powered blender works best for this smoothie. We recommend the Vitamix Blender or this Ninja Blender.
- Feel free to reduce the amount of juice, based on how sweet you like your smoothie. My husband uses less juice and more milk now days.
- If you like the idea of frozen smoothie packs but don’t have time, give SmoothieBox a try. I wrote a full review of this smoothie pack delivery service here.
- Variations and Additions:
- Dairy-Free Version: Use plain almond milk or oat milk and use dairy-free coconut yogurt like Daiya brand.
- Use different fruit. Raspberries, strawberries, mango, pineapple, or oranges would be great additions.
- Add more vegetables. Toss in a little kale, avocado, carrots, or raw sweet potato.
- Add protein powder.
- Add flaxseed. We love sneaking this into recipes. (Chocolate Banana Muffins or Many Overnight Oats Recipes, or Powerball Cookies for example).
- Pair this smoothie with our 10-minute Spinach Frittata for a well-rounded breakfast or lunch.
Smoothie Packs Delivered to Your Door!
If you want to make life really simple, try SmoothieBox. We love these frozen smoothie packs that are delivered to your door.
In fact, you can read my full honest review of SmoothieBox here. I love having these in the freezer for days when I just don’t have time to whip up a smoothie on my own.
Love this! Easy, tasty, and I love the way it makes me feel energized and fresh for the day. I’m going to try making some in advance this week, I think.
Quick question… I’m interested in adding ground flaxseed. How much would you recommend adding? I don’t want to overdo it…
Hi Kelsey, glad you enjoyed it! Start with 1-2 tablespoons of ground flax in this larger batch smoothie and see how you like it. You can always add more but can’t take it out.