The smoothie buzz seems to be here to stay, we often see fad food diets and crazes come and go, but the humble smoothie addiction has endured.
The benefits are well known:
As opposed to juices they maintain the important fibres from the fruits and vegetables used.
They're a great way to help you towards your five a day.
They're easily adapted to include vegetables and supplements to help top up your nutrient intake.
It's a quick and easy way to get breakfast if you usually don't have time.
So why do I struggle so much with them? Even with a Husband that makes them religiously in his smoothie maker every morning?
Are you like me? Would you rather the extra 10 minutes in bed instead of breakfast and then regret it by 11 o'clock, when you're hangry and on the verge of a melt down in work? Or do you miss the caffeine in your tea that a smoothie just can't give you, but then feel guilty when you've hardly eaten any fruit that day?
If so, here's a nice psuedo smoothie to ease you into the process... It only has one of your five a day, but also has oats, and a flaxseed and chia mix to help keep you full, and top up your omega 3. It's made with full fat milk, which again keeps you full, has more nutrients and quite honestly just tastes better.
It's kind of like having strawberry ice-cream for breakfast, but not so naughty.
Strawberries and Cream Smoothie
Ingredients
- 200 ml Whole milk
- 8 Strawberries I used frozen
- 2 teaspoons flaxseed and chia mix
- 30 g oats
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla paste
- optional 1/2 teaspoon honey
Instructions
- In a blender place the dry ingredients - oats and flaxseed and chia mix and blitz for about 30 seconds until it forms a powder
- Add the rest of the ingrdients and blitz until smooth
- Serve immediately
What an absolutely fabulous photo Lisa. I'm a big fan of smoothies anyway, but I really really want one of these.
This looks really good, I do enjoy a nice smoothie. The whole milk makes it seem indulgent to me - I never have whole milk so would be a treat! x
Looks delicious and filling š I love breakfasts like this that taste more like a dessert but is still healthy. Beautiful shots!
Gosh that looks amazing! Yes please x
How lovely - just saw this via the FBC Facebook page and it's perfect timing for me as I just bought a Nutribullet yesterday. Question - do you taste the oats at all? In flavour or texture? Not that that's a bad thing but I'm yet to try it myself and I've only just managed to get my head around eating porridge lol.
Hi!
Sorry for delay! We have the nutribullet too, I'd say you can taste the oats which I quite like but it's not overpowering in fact much more tasty than porridge. So long as you dry blitz the oats first then the texture is fine, just like a typical thick smoothie but thickened with oats instead of bananas. Hope this helps! x