Green Smoothies!

Thanks to Pinterest and all the wonderful things that are on it, I have discovered Green Smoothies.

They. Are. DELICIOUS.  

After finding multiple recipes I have come up with some of my own that I have decided to share.  I am still on my calorie-counting diet and lots of the recipes I found were REALLY high calorie.  Now I know that most of that comes from fruit and I didn't want to skimp on that since it's the fruit that gives them such a good flavor.  Plus the calories from fruit aren't the processed white sugar or high fructose corn syrup kind, so they are essentially "good" calories.  But I did improve on the calories that are coming from the yogurt and/or milk.  I went for Greek yogurt since I was looking to add lots of protein to it and found vanilla Dannon Light and Fit Greek yogurt.  They only have 80 calories in one container and 12 grams of protein.  I also have found that I love soy milk in my Starbucks coffee instead of regular milk.  It makes my tummy happier and I don't get that gross bloating feeling after I drink them.  So for the smoothies I am using Silk Light vanilla soy milk which has 70 calories and 6 grams of protein in 1 cup.  That means that all of the smoothies start with 18 grams of protein!!  I have all the fruit frozen in ziplock bags to make them easy to throw together.  I peeled and sliced some bananas and froze them, bought frozen pineapple and peaches and them got some frozen mango, guava and passion fruit pulp (which has 2 to 3 grams of protein in each) to save me from buying whole mangos and things like that.  Sometimes I have to add a little bit of water to make the smoothies not so thick and though it says 2 cups spinach, I just keep adding until the blender is full and the smoothie is green enough.  So without further ado, here are my recipes.

Pineapple Mango Smoothie
(413 cal, 20 g protein)

1 cup light Silk
1 container light Greek yogurt
1 frozen banana (7 inches)
1 cup frozen pineapple
1/2 cup frozen mango pulp
2 cups spinach



Peach Mango Smoothie
(373 cal, 20 g protein)


1 cup light Silk
1 container light Greek yogurt
1 frozen banana (7 inches)
1 cup frozen peaches
1/2 cup frozen mango pulp
2 cups spinach



Banana Guava Smoothie
(394 cal, 21 g protein)


1 cup light Silk
1 container light Greek yogurt
1 frozen banana (7 inches)
1/2 cup frozen guava pulp
2 cups spinach




Pineapple Passion Fruit Smoothie
(394 cal, 21 g protein)


1 cup light Silk
1 container light Greek yogurt
1 frozen banana (7 inches)
1 cup frozen pineapple
1/2 cup frozen passion fruit pulp
2 cups spinach



Passion Fruit Guava Smoothie
(384 cal, 22 g protein)


1 cup light Silk
1 container light Greek yogurt
1 frozen banana (7 inches)
1/2 cup frozen passion fruit pulp
1/2 cup frozen guava pulp
2 cups spinach