New Smoothie Recipes for Fruit Lovers

If you can never find a convenient enough way to get fruits and vegetables into your diet, you need to workthrough these food groups through the lens of the smoothie. Let's look at a few great smoothie recipes for great health and devastating taste.

Let's start with a real zesty fruit smoothie that gives you a great boost in the Vitamin C department, it gives you potassium and it brings you a good fistful of omega-3 for better immunity. I don't have a name for it yet, but a functional strawberry-kiwi smoothie should be good enough.

So here is how you go about it - start off with a really ripe kiwi, all peeled and cut up. Throw it into the blender; pick up 2 ounces of strawberries all nicely hulled. You'll need about a third of a cup filled with orange juice, and to round the taste out, throw in half a banana. My personal touch is that I like to use vanilla yogurt too and a couple of teaspoons of flaxseed. There isn't much by way of preparation to smoothie recipes, and this is no exception. Your culinary expertise here consists of hitting the blender button long enough to really blend things properly. Oh, and don't forget the ice cubes. The resulting foaming frothing dementingly delicious drink has only about 200 calories, and you get plenty of fiber.

If you haven't guessed it yet, I really like bananas; there is such a high-class subtle flavor they bring to anything. For the next smoothie, let's try something that has a nutty flavor building on top of the banana. Let's call this the almond and banana smoothie. For the athletic readers among you, this is a great way to prop your strength up for a long bout on the tracks. Let's start off with the banana; slice it up (having peeled it first, of course), and throw it in the blender. If you can get almond milk, that would be great; if not, get three-quarters of a cup of low-fat milk. You'll need a teaspoon of honey, some vanilla for flavor, and a little almond butter. As always, preparation is simple enough. Hit the motor long enough to get it all nice and frothy. With anything with banana, it won't really keep; so you need to get to the serving part right away. This is one of those smoothie recipes that have a little extra in the calories and fat department. This one weighs in at 400 calories, and about 20g fat. And that's because you used low-fat milk.

And for a couple of quick extras, try these smoothie recipes - how about one with dates,carrots and milk; orhow about making them really filling? Smoothie recipes with oatmeal are all the rage now.