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Smoothies are delicious and nutritious!

When we went grocery shopping this weekend, we were determined to work in some healthy food, and decided to make smoothies a way to cram in some fruit and even a vegetable!
A VEGETABLE!?! You ask...how is this even possible?
Well my little blogger friends, I will tell you. I recently read that putting spinach in your fruit smoothie was an excellent way to add a vegetable into your diet, and the best part (for Colin) is that you can't even taste it, so long as you add a banana to the blend.
At the store, we had trouble distinguishing the spinach from other leafy greens, BUT we were able to find it in frozen form - it comes in a bag like the mixed frozen berries, the spinach is even portioned into cubes for easy use!
Side note spinach i s also a wonderful vegetable option because it is so high in iron - especially for the ladies, as we are always running short on iron for some reason. ANYWAY, we tried this out, and created a very healthy vitamin, antioxidant and other good stuff rich smoothie! Here is the recipe we are using currently

1 whole tray of ice cubes
1/2 cup orange juice (we use the kind with vitamin D and Calcium added)
1/4 cup (ish) of mixed frozen berries
1 cup nonfat yogurt (we like the blueberry pomegranate option, more antioxidants this way!)
1 banana
1 cube of frozen spinach

Blend

Ta-Da a yummy smoothie - this recipe makes two very large servings!

This is just our first shot at smoothie making, I am sure we will find other ways to sneak in some other healthy things that we don't usually get in our regular diet.