Smoothies make a delicious, nutritious start to the day. And if you need to, you can always mix it up, pop it in a flask or bottle and take it with you for an any time of the day snack. Just one thing – to get the most benefit, “chew” your shake instead of guzzling it, to optimise digestion.
Banana shake
Suitable for raw diets / GAPS & SCD (no starch) / refined sugar-free diets and more. It can also be used as part of a low carb high fat diet. Choose the quantities that work you.
Blend together using a jug or a stick blender:
- 1+ large ripe banana
- 2+ eggs
- 100-120 ml fresh cream or yoghurt
- A generous pinch of sea salt
Optional:
- 1-2 tablespoons of melted butter or coconut oil
- A few frozen mango cubes or frozen sliced banana chunks
Variations:
- For FODMAPS – use a firmer banana
Emma’s After School smoothie
Leftover fruit from today’s lunchbox that isn’t still ok for the next day’s lunchbox could go into an after school smoothie, or use whatever fruit you have to hand:
- Milk, plant mylk, coconut water, juice or just water
- Fruit – fresh, frozen or leftover – anything works, even orange or mandarin pieces – frozen fruit often cheaper bought in bulk
- Optional: Avocado, chia seeds or a few nuts for some good fats
- Optional: throw in some spinach or micro greens for extra nutrients
Smoothies from Deb’s recipe blog
- Pear & Feijoa smoothie (with hints on freezing feijoas for later)
- Chocolate Blackcurrant smoothie
- Mix & Match smoothie + 4 of the possible variations
- 4 x Christmas morning smoothies – egg nog / mocha / chocolate / or pina colada – and a couple of other links
- Velvet Latte Strawberry Smoothie
More smoothies from other blogs
- Very Coconut smoothie – from the Candida diet website, low sugar, lots of good fats
- Almond Mint smoothie – from the Candida diet website as well. If you can’t find an almond milk without sweetener and want to make you own, here’s how.
- Chocolate Monkey shake – raw, Paleo, GAPS, Dairy free options
- GAPS smoothie – recommended by Dr Natasha Campbell McBride for those on the GAPS diet, but suitable for any whole food diet. Make sure to read the entire post to make sure it’s suitable for wherever you are at in your healing journey.
- More GAPS smoothies, and more nutrient dense smoothies from the same blog
- BePure Berry Smoothie
- Low-FODMAP Tropical Berry Smoothie
- AIP morning smoothie – suitable for Paleo, Autoimmune Paleo (AIP) or any whole food diet (except vegan, as it includes bone broth protein powder)
- Another AIP smoothie – this one is also vegan
- A collection of smoothie recipes – all whole foods
More breakfast ideas
- Christmas breakfast ideas
- BePure Breakfast Baskets
- BePure Salted Caramel Buckwheat Pancakes
- BePure Banana Pancakes
- BePure Warming Buckwheat Porridge with Seasonal Fruit
Recipe posts compiled by Deb.
For more recipes, go to the Recipe Index page
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