The Best Everyday Smoothie

By: Rachel TiemeyerPosted: 5/8/24Updated: 6/5/24

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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.

A purple smoothie in a glass cup with berries on top.

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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).

The ingredients for a smoothie layered in a blender.

Frozen fruit sitting on top of a partially blended smoothie inside a blender.

Blend ingredients until smooth.

Look how pretty it is and all those antioxidants!

A purple smoothie blended in a large blender.

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:

1. Vitamix Blender

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.

A Ninja blender with all of it's accessories.

FAQs

Can I freeze a leftover smoothie?

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.

Can I add protein powder to this 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.

Where do you find your fun straws?

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?!

Can I freeze my own berries?

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!

More Smoothie Recipes

Orangesicle Smoothie

Chocolate Covered Cherry Smoothie

A green smoothie in a mason jar with a measuring spoon of chia seeds and a sliced mango sitting next to it.

Green Machine Smoothie

Blueberry Muffin Smoothie

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.

A large SmoothieBox box with frozen smoothie packs surrounding it

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Rachel Tiemeyer

As co-founder of Thriving Home, Rachel dreams about creating recipes (literally) and uses her husband, her 3 kids, and even the neighbors as guinea pigs several nights a week. She believes that good food has the power to bring families and friends closer together and continues to wake up excited about her job each day, even after 10+ years!