Pineapple-Peach-Berry Green Smoothie

It’s going to be hard to name these things—I can tell already. Because how do you accurately represent all of the yummy, healthy ingredients in the name of the smoothie without spelling them all out?

Anyway.

We’re still on a smoothie kick over here. With the exception of Tuesday (when I was afraid to eat anything good in fear that I was going to see it again on its way back up), we’ve had smoothies for breakfast every morning this week. I’m loving it.

I whipped up this one yesterday morning, when we decided we could no longer live in fear—we needed vitamins and nutrients, and things with flavor! It’s delightfully fruity, but not too sweet. Instead, the grapefruit juice makes it a little tart. Yum.

Pineapple-Peach-Berry Green Smoothie
Makes 2 large smoothies

Ingredients:
– 1-2 cups grapefruit juice
– 2 cups baby spinach
– 2 servings protein powder (for us, that’s 6 Tbsp)
– 1 cup fresh pineapple
– 1 cup frozen peaches
– 1 cup frozen strawberries
– 1 frozen banana
– 1 tsp. agave syrup (optional)

Directions:
Pour 1 cup of grapefruit juice into the blender. Add spinach and protein powder. Blend well. Add pineapple chunks and frozen peaches and blend again to make sure everything is liquefied. Add strawberries and banana and blend again. Along the way, if the smoothie is not “moving” in the blender—and therefore not circulating the ingredients effectively to blend them—add up to 1 cup additional grapefruit juice. At the end, add agave syrup (if desired) and blend again. Serve.