3 Smoothies with Bananas
Make it Tasty
(click the links or pictures below to see the recipes and meet their makers)
(click the links or pictures below to see the recipes and meet their makers)
Bananas are to smoothies as flour is to bread. A basic, building block ingredient that dramatically ups the odds of your final product actually tasting good. Are there any smoothies that taste great without them? Sure, lots. But not this week on the guided smoothie tour :)
Make it Healthy
(from contributing registered dietitian, Julia Robarts, RD of jugglingwithjulia.com)
(from contributing registered dietitian, Julia Robarts, RD of jugglingwithjulia.com)
Go bananas! Go, go bananas! Bananas are the perfect sweet treat. They deliver straight to your pie-hole a bunch of energy, potassium, fiber, and Vitamin B6. And, it all comes in a cute yellow package shaped just right for those occasions when you need to make a fake phone call. In my family, we smear bananas with natural peanut butter, add them to oatmeal (with walnuts and maple syrup, oh my heavens), and use frozen bananas to make fabulous frappe-like smoothies. However, the way to go truly banana-nut-house-crazy is to make this Coconut Banana Bread with Nutella Swirl.
Julia is a mom and a Registered Dietitian in the Boston area with over 25 years of professional experience and degrees in nutrition from the University of Maine and Tufts University. Find her always informative and entertaining writing about real food for real life over at jugglingwithjulia.com where her tagline is "feeding my family ~ keeping my sanity".
Julia is a mom and a Registered Dietitian in the Boston area with over 25 years of professional experience and degrees in nutrition from the University of Maine and Tufts University. Find her always informative and entertaining writing about real food for real life over at jugglingwithjulia.com where her tagline is "feeding my family ~ keeping my sanity".
Make it Matter
Eating healthy can only matter if we do it consistently over time. My goal is to combine healthy smoothies with the power of habit to help you be healthier for as long as you want to be.
Here's how I see it: We only do things when we remember to do them, and when our motivation to do them exceeds the effort required. Guided Smoothie Tour installments support your healthy smoothie habit by reminding you to smoothie (if you're signed up to get the emails), and by making it both easier and more fun to do. Here's how:
Recipes you know by heart are easy to shop for and make, requiring less effort, and therefore less motivation....until you get bored, that is. Then you need something new to pique your interest and give your motivation a boost.
Find a few favorites along the tour that are worthy of your regular rotation. Then come back for fun, new recipes when you want to mix things up (pun intended).
Have an awesome day!
Shaun
Here's how I see it: We only do things when we remember to do them, and when our motivation to do them exceeds the effort required. Guided Smoothie Tour installments support your healthy smoothie habit by reminding you to smoothie (if you're signed up to get the emails), and by making it both easier and more fun to do. Here's how:
Recipes you know by heart are easy to shop for and make, requiring less effort, and therefore less motivation....until you get bored, that is. Then you need something new to pique your interest and give your motivation a boost.
Find a few favorites along the tour that are worthy of your regular rotation. Then come back for fun, new recipes when you want to mix things up (pun intended).
Have an awesome day!
Shaun
Join the Tour
The Guided Smoothie Tour is a blog and email series that each week introduces you to 3 new healthy smoothies from around the web, shares the nutritional highlights of that week's featured ingredient, and even helps a little with the hard part of a healthy smoothie habit: sticking with it over the long haul so it can actually matter to your health.
Make it tasty. Make it healthy. Make it matter. Join the tour. Just let me know where to send your weekly emails. If you decide it's not for you, you can cancel any time.
Make it tasty. Make it healthy. Make it matter. Join the tour. Just let me know where to send your weekly emails. If you decide it's not for you, you can cancel any time.
~ Let's be healthy together. Forever. One smoothie at a time. ~
