5 Healthy Breakfast Smoothie Recipes

Blender c/o KitchenAid, but opinions my own!

If your family is anything like ours, it’s difficult to get kids to eat a healthy breakfast during the week. Weekday mornings are a mad scramble at our house, and often there is little time for a full breakfast. Lately I’ve been finding ways to sneak in some vitamins and make them a high protein breakfast before they dash. These 5 healthy breakfast smoothie recipes have become household favorites. Add them to your list of healthy meal ideas!

Start With A Good Blender

First off, you need a good blender that has been designed for smoothie making. No joke, the KitchenAid K400 Stand Blender is a workhorse I am happy to add to my kitchen. So many blenders choke when you try to crush the ice in a smoothie concoction. They spin without mixing anything. Or sometime the ice doesn’t break into small pieces, and you end up with big pieces in your mouth.

Another thing I love about the KitchenAid K400 is the lightweight pitcher. It’s made from durable plastic, and easy to handle and clean. Plus the control dial even has a setting specifically marked for smoothies. It’s a great partner for me when I make my healthy breakfast smoothie recipes!

5 Healthy Breakfast Smoothie Recipes

Here are a few of our family’s favorites healthy breakfast smoothie recipes. I’ve chosen one from each of us, plus a bonus “dessert” smoothie for good measure. In addition, one of our daughters is milk-averse, so these are also lactose-intolerant smoothie recipes. These are easy healthy recipes – perhaps they will end up at the top of your healthy meal ideas list.

Strawberry-Banana Smoothie

• 1 banana
• 1 cup strawberries
• 1/2 cup non-fat vanilla Greek yogurt
• 1/2 cup almond milk
• 2 teaspoons agave sweetener
• Pinch of cinnamon
• 1 cup ice

Mexican Coffee Smoothie

• 1/2 cup chilled coffee
• 1/2 cup almond milk
• 3 1/2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/8 teaspoon almond extract
• 1 1/2 cups ice

Cucumber Smoothie

• 2 medium cucumbers, peeled/seeded/chopped
• 1 lime, juiced
• 1/2 cup water
• 4 tablespoons honey or agave nectar
• 1 cup ice

Mango-Pineapple Smoothie

• 1 cup chopped mango
• 1 cup chopped pineapple
• 1 cup coconut milk
• 1 cup ice
• Sprinkle with coconut

Cookies & Cream Dessert Smoothie

• 1 1/2 cups vanilla cashew milk ice cream
• 1-2 tablespoons chocolate syrup
• 3 Oreo cookies

*Note: I freeze the fresh fruit so it provides an even smoother, icy consistency when blended with the other ingredients.

I hope you enjoy these healthy breakfast smoothie recipes as much as our family. What’s your favorite smoothie combination?

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