Smoothies

These are our favorite smoothies, made daily. All use fresh bananas, and raw "quick oats" (rolled, 1 minute).

For a 48 oz smoothie, use

1 large or medium or 2 small bananas (1/3 to 1/2 cup)
heaping 1/2 cup raw quick oats
1/4 cup brown sugar (diabetics might do better with "twice the banana and 1/2 the sugar" or agave nectar, a low glycaemic natural sweetener friendly to diabetics)
  ice cubes to make 48-50 ounces

Nutrition additives added to most (but optional):

1 tbsp chia seed (omega 3)
2 tbsp wheat germ (b, e vitamins, fiber)
1 tbsp brewers yeast (b vitamins, including b12)
1/2 tsp purified fish oil (omega 3)

In addition to the above, we add for

Peanut smoothie:

1/3 cup unadulterated unsalted peanut butter (i.e. not the sugar and shortening laden peanut frosting sold as "Skippy" and the like).
1 1/4 cup water
1/3 cup nonfat dry milk
7 dashes sea salt

PBJ:

  peanut smoothie
  fresh frozen strawberries for 1/2 the ice

Mocha:

1 1/4 cup whole milk (unhomogenized if available, we get from Whole Foods)
1/4 cup raw almond meal (we get from Trader Joes)
1/4 cup raw unsweetened shredded coconut (we get from Whole Foods)
1 tsp alcohol free vanilla (we get from Trader Joes)
super heaping tablespoon cocoa (might be 1/4 cup)
1 tsp instant coffee

Indian Chocolate:

  mocha smoothie
  replace instant coffee with:
1/4 tspground cinnamom
1/4 tspground ginger
1/8 tspground cardamom
1/8 tspground cloves
1/8 tspground black pepper

Pina Colada:

1/8 cup reduce sugar to 1/8 cup
1 tsp lime juice
1/8 cup frozen pineapple concentrate
1/2 can coconut milk (unadulterated except sodium metabisulfite as preservative if canned, I use "Thai Kitchen" from Giant)
1/2 cup water (or use full can "lite" coconut milk which is 1/2 water)
1/3 cup nonfat dry milk (lots of fat in coconut milk already)
heaping 1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
1 tsp alcohol free vanilla
1/2 lb fresh frozen pineapple chunks

Orange Julius:

1/8 cup reduce sugar to 1/8 cup
1 cup unhomogenized whole milk
1 large navel orange
1/8 cup frozen orange juice concentrate
1 tsp lime juice
1 tsp alcohol free vanilla
1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
1 tsp coconut oil

Buttermilk Icecream:

2 cups real buttermilk from whole milk (it is thick, we get from Whole Foods)
1 tsp lime juice
1 tsp coconut oil
1/4 cup unsweetened shredded coconut
1/2 lb fresh frozen strawberries, raspberries, and/or blueberries

Slurpee (not very nutritional, but fun and better than 7/11):

No standard ingredients: this has no bananas, oatmeal, or anything all that healthy.