Starting your Day with Quick and Healthy Smoothies

Healthy, convenient and portable, smoothies are ideal fuel-on-the-go for breakfast, an afternoon snack or dessert. Smoothies provide important protein, vitamins and minerals from ingredients like tofu, yogurt and fruit. For an easy breakfast or snack, try making one of our quick and healthy smoothie recipes, including banana smoothies, berry smoothies, green smoothies and more easy smoothie recipes. There are healthy smoothie recipes you can make for breakfast.

Raspberry-Avocado Smoothie

A creamy avocado makes a surprise appearance in a sweet beverage.

Ingredients

1 avocado, peeled and pitted

3/4 cup orange juice

3/4 cup raspberry juice

1/2 cup frozen raspberries, (not thawed)

Preparation

Puree avocado, orange juice, raspberry juice and raspberries in a blender until smooth.

Green Smoothie

Get your daily dose of dark leafy greens any time of day with this delicious green smoothie. Ground flaxseed adds omega-3s. Pour any extra into a freezer-pop mold and have it later as a frozen green smoothie pop

Ingredients

2 ripe medium bananas

1 ripe pear or apple, peeled if desired, chopped

2 cups chopped kale leaves, tough stems removed (see Notes)

1/2 cup cold orange juice

1/2 cup cold water

12 ice cubes

1 tablespoon ground flaxseed (see Notes)

Preparation

Place bananas, pear (or apple), kale, orange juice, water, ice cubes and flaxseed in a blender. Pulse a few times, then puree until smooth, scraping down the sides as necessary.

Banana Spice Smoothie

Ingredients

2 ripe bananas

2 cups vanilla kefir (see Tip)

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/8 teaspoon ground allspice

12 ice cubes

Preparation

Combine kefir, bananas, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and ice cubes in a blender; blend until smooth. Serve immediately.