Our Favorite Smoothie! Start off your mornings right with this family favorite! Fresh bananas, frozen mangos and berries, yogurt, almond milk, flaxseed meal and more. My kids love this smoothie and yours will too!
Hey guys! Welcome to Hip Foodie Family!
This is going to be a brand new section on my website! Kid approved recipes, baking, product recommendations, activities we are doing at home and more!
I also updated my homepage! Be sure to check it out!
This section of my blog was previously called Mom Moments. Right when I started my blog, I took the time to write posts about my kids. Moments we were having, special memories I wanted to capture, advice I wanted to share as a mother and just some fun. This is one of my favorite posts. And this one.
I hope you go back and read some of these posts .. they are really special to me and I think they might be helpful for any new parents out there. Being a parent is hard work and I truly believe you need a strong community and family to get through it all. My hope is that Hip Foodie Family can provide not only some inspiration in the kitchen, but fun activities to do at home with your children and some support from one parent to another.
A lot of my friends are surprised when they see my kids eating fruits and vegetables. Don’t get me wrong! My kids are not perfect eaters by any means. They do eat their fruits and vegetables but if you put a cookie in front of them, they’ll take the cookie.
They are smart too. Did I mention that?
Anyway, my advice for parents out there who want to get their kids to eat more greens? Make smoothies! Throw in 2 to 3 heaping cups of greens (spinach, kale, collard greens, whatever you have), blend those greens with frozen berries and yogurt and more and you are set!
This recipe is a family favorite! We hope you give it a try!
And here’s a “berry” approved smoothie recipe that is sure to become a family favorite!
Our Favorite Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 to 2 cups assorted frozen berries like blueberries, strawberries, raspberries and blackberries
- 1 to 2 bananas sliced
- ½ cup frozen mango chunks
- 1 cup non-fat plain greek yogurt
- 1 ½ cups almond milk + more if needed
- 1 to 2 tablespoons almond butter
- 1 to 2 teaspoons ground flaxseed meal optional
Instructions
- Place frozen fruit into your blender, top with the yogurt, almond milk, almond butter and flaxseed meal. Place lid on blender and blend until smooth. Pour into glasses and enjoy!
Noticed the new home page right away and it’s amazing seeing your family. Nice to see all the togetherness in the kitchen too. Your smoothies are also delicious! Keep up the good work!!!!
John, thank you SO much!!!! I greatly appreciate the support and to know you actually make and cook some of my recipes and love them, makes me SO happy!!! Can’t wait for your next email with all the photos! 🙂
These just might be the cutest photos I have ever seen. I love that you get your little ones involved in the kitchen too.
We literally just added a family section to our blog too 🙂
Really? Going to check it out now! Thank you, Dannii!!
I never saw that part of your blog. It’s great! And I love the new homepage too!
Honestly, being a parent is the hardest thing ever, and there’s no right way to do it. We all just spend our time avoiding the wrong things to do! I mess up all the time. Probably every day.
Love that your kids cook healthy things with you. And these smoothies look great!
Thank you so much, Mir!! Me too, Mir, me too!!!
What a fun section for your blog, Alice! Your kids are just the cutest, too. I can’t wait to see more of these posts! And I’m always looking for new smoothies to try, so I will have to make this one. Sounds delicious, especially with the mango in here!
Thank you so much, Gayle! I hope you try it!
OMG, LOOOOOOVE your new home page!! Those pictures are soooo adorable and heart warming, Alice!! You seriously have THE most precious family! Love ya’lls favorite smoothie – such a delicious way to start or the day, or perfect for a healthy snack! Cheers, friend!
Cheyanne, thank you SO much! Means so much!!!! xoxoxxo!!!
I LOVE how you’ve brought your family front and center into your blog!!! SO perfect! Congratulations on the beautiful new look
Liz, thank you so much!!!! Means so much to me! Thank you!
Love your new home page, Alice! Your girls are absolutely adorable!! Your smoothie looks delicious! Lots of great stuff in there, especially loving the almond butter 🙂
Thank you so much, Dawn!!!
your daughters are adorable Alice, I love seeing their videos and pics. give my love to them! 🙂 love the new homepage and smoothie sounds fantastic!
I love the header photo of your family in the kitchen! Such a lovely pic! I’m trying to get more fruits and veggies in the morning and I’ve been doing it often with smoothies. But you know how you get stuck making the same thing over and over again? Well that’s where I am. So thank you for this fantastic smoothie recipe to break me out of my smoothie rut – it has everything I love 😉
Thank you so much for posting about your favorite smoothie. Rarely do I make smoothie partly because I don’t know how to make it well but after reading this post, I think I have to consider making smoothie more regularly. My children rarely eat vegetables, which is always a problem to me. I will persuade them to join me coz I think that they’d be more interested in eating what made by themselves.