Berry Smoothie

This is a fast and easy smoothie. I love to give this to my boys when they are having "I am not even going to try what you made for dinner moment" or when they are not feeling well and don't eat well. They love it and little do they know there is spinach in it, if you blend it long enough you can't see it and you honestly can't taste it because the berries are so sweet. I love it too, I usually have one after a good run with some Whey protein powder.

Ingredients:

Washed spinach- fill the blender more than 1/2 full without packing it down, can use frozen about 1/2-3/4 cup.

1-1 1/2 bananas depending on your liking.

1- 1 1/2 cups frozen berries

100% juice, to desired thickness (I use about 1 cup, usually apple juice)

4 oz of yogurt(your choice, vanilla, plain, berry are all great.)

Ice- about 7-8 pieces, depending on desired thickness, I usually skip this because my boys like it a little runny.

Put ingredients in blender. I start with the juice and spinach, blending it up well. Then I add the berries and mix a little bit, slowly adding bananas and ice. Simple as that. If you look at the ingredients you are getting a dose of almost all the food groups~fruit, protein, dairy, and vegetable. Spinach is a great source of iron, bananas have potassium, berries, such as strawberries and blueberries are rich in vitamin C, yogurt is a good source of calcium and does contain protein so keep those things in mind when you blend this yummy treat up and Jamba Juice will never taste the same.