Tuesday: Kale Smoothie with Pineapple and Banana
Again four ingredients and again the blender’s frozen drink setting easily transformed them into a drinkable beverage:
1/2 cup coconut milk,
2 cups stemmed and chopped kale,
1 1/2 cups chopped pineapple (about 1/4 medium pineapple),
1 ripe banana, chopped.
This smoothie was quite a bit thicker than yesterday’s and would probably benefit from either adding a full cup of coconut milk or cutting back on the pineapple for a thinner consistency. Favor was good with the pineapple and banana dominating. I was surprised at how little I tasted the kale given it’s reputation for bitterness. Using canned, crushed pineapple was probably cheating but it was safer than locking me, a pineapple and a large knife in a room together.
It has 253 calories, 13 grams of fat, 5 grams of protein, 36 grams of carbohydrates and 5 (count them 5) grams of fiber. I was also interested to note its 119 milligrams of calcium. That’s more than twice the calcium of yesterday’s spinach, grape and coconut smoothie. I felt no ill effects from consuming the smoothie on today’s three-mile run. Enjoy and please take the poll.
Full smoothie recipe from realsimple.com.
Blog Post on Making Green Smoothies Without Bananas
The nutritional profile on this one doesn’t look so good compared to Greek yogurt. What’s the goal with these green smoothies anyway? more fiber?
It’s a combination of trying something different and just looking for a way to get more fruits and vegetables into my diet. I also wanted to experiment daily posts to see how it would affect views on the blog. Fiber is good too.
I like they way you show the ingredients measured out. It gives a good feel for the relative amounts. 2 cups of kale, yum!