Ingredients:

1 ripe avocado, halved and pitted
1 cup milk
1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
3 tablespoons honey
8 ice cubes

Directions:

Blend until smooth

Ingredients:

1/2 cup vanilla or lime yogurt
5-6 ice cubes
1/2 cup low fat/non-fat milk
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
juice of half a lime
1/4 teaspoon lime zest + more for garnish
1 Tblsp protein powder

Directions:

Blend all ingredients except garnish.
Top with grated lime zest and a lime wedge.
Serve.

Ingredients:

1 cup tomato juice
1/2 teaspoons chopped jalapeno pepper
1/4 teaspoons cayenne
1/4 cups chopped onion
1/2 cups chopped parsley
2 cloves garlic, peeled

Directions:

Chop and blend all the ingredients together.
Serve immediately.

Please note that this is NOT a good choice for weight loss. It is however a great post workout smoothie for people who are putting on muscle and has lots of protein and antioxidants.

Ingredients:

1 cup fresh or frozen strawberries
1 cup vanilla nonfat yogurt
3 tablespoons chocolate sauce/syrup
3 tablespoons powdered almonds (can use peanut butter instead)
1 teaspoon flaxseed oil

Directions:

Blend together, add ice if you want it thicker.

It’s April and with tropical fruits like pineapple coming into season I can’t be happier. I adore pineapple. I love hitting the produce aisle and picking up fresh pineapple and just eating it plain with nothing added. Soo good if it’s ripe enough. 1 serving of pineapple (around 150 grams or so) is more than a whole day worth of vitamin C requirements. Just beware that there is a high natural sugar content so you don’t want to overdo it too much!

Ingredients:

1 c. fresh orange juice (you can use 1 can frozen juice instead if you double the rest of the recipe)
1 (8 oz.) can crushed pineapple, undrained (fresh pineapple will work too. Use about a cup of pineapple, 1/4 c. water, and 2 tsp. sugar)
2 med. bananas (sliced)
1 (8 oz.) carton plain or vanilla yogurt
1 c. crushed ice

Directions:

Combine everything except yogurt in the blender and whirl until smooth.
Add yogurt and whirl until blended.
Serve.

Ingredients:

10 good thick slices of cucumber
1 organic apple

Directions:

Place the sliced cucumber to the blender.
Peel and cut the apple into 4 pieces and add this to the blender.
Blend for approx 30 seconds and serve.

Great for fiber, water, and low carbs. In addition, cucumbers are negative calories (use more calories eating than you gain from the cucumber). Cucumbers don’t have huge amounts of any one vitamin but they do contain nearly all vitamins and minerals (A, C, K, B6, thiamin, calcium, iron, manganese, selenium, zinc and potassium) except salt so it’s a nice bonus supplement to your normal vitamin intake. Apples add additional fiber and vitamin c.

Ingredients:

2 tomatoes (chopped then frozen)
1 small cup of tomato juice
juice of 1/2 lemon
3 basil leaves

Directions:

Take the frozen chopped tomatoes and place in blender.
Pour in the tomato juice, lemon juice and basil leaves.
Mix until smooth, serve and enjoy!

Ingredients:

1/2 cup orange juice
1/2 cup peeled, pitted and sliced fresh mango
honey to taste
1/2 cup ice

Optional: 1/2 cup milk but use the whole mango
Optional: 1 Scoop protein powder (put this in blender first)

Place the juice, fruit and honey in a blender.
Blend on high speed for 30 seconds.
Add the ice and blend until smooth.

1 1/2 cups fresh orange juice (really try to get fresh OJ for this one)
1 banana
2/3 cup frozen strawberries
2 scoops fat-free vanilla yogurt
1 cup ice

Make sure you crush the ice completely and the drink is smooth.

1/2 a small cucumber
1/2 small cup of tomato juice
1 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce
2 drops of Tabasco sauce
4 ice cubes

Roughly chop the cucumber then add it to your blender with the remaining ingredients. Blend until all ice is crushed.