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Just like a chocolate shake. Except it’s healthy.

We’ve been making a whole lot of smoothies lately. My youngest son mastered the blender over the holidays and it’s been working overtime these last two weeks. Since he’s been hanging around the kitchen with me, he’s been the chosen guinea pig for my smoothie testing recipes. Which is great because he’s the only one of my children who eats anything.

Chocolate Smoothie – 5 Whole Food Ingredients

Chances are you probably have these ingredients in your kitchen right now, so give this recipe a whirl right now.

Cocoa
Almond Milk (or milk of your Choice)
Peanut Butter (or Almond Butter)
Ripe Banana
Ice

Smoothies are a brilliant way to get the kids to eat fruits and veggies they would normally kick up a fuss about. Once it’s all blended together it loses it’s scare factor and looks all kinds of delicious.

Fast Breakfast Option

It doesn’t matter how late you are for the bus, you always have time for a smoothie. It takes 20 – 30 seconds to whip one of these babies together and pop it in a cup to go.

Keep it Simple by having a few easy to make smoothie recipes on hand. Here are 4 or our go to smoothie recipes we make regularly.

Freeze your Ripe Bananas

Most of the smoothies I make for the kids breakfast contain bananas as a base. The more ripe they are, the sweeter your smoothie will be. So taste it before adding extra honey or sweetener.

I buy bananas in huge amounts. When they are on special, it’s like Christmas round here. I peel, chop and freeze them so that I always have them on hand for morning smoothies.

The 4 Basic Kid Friendly Smoothies Every Mom Should Know how to Make

New to the Smoothie making game? Keep these 4 easy to make, foolproof, kid friendly smoothie recipes up your sleeve or stuck to the fridge (print out the one page printable here).

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