I got the idea for a spinach smoothie from blaqberry’s super-rad journal as well as from the website goneraw. (While I’m not thinking moving to an all-raw food diet, you can get tons of great vegitarian and vegan food ideas from these sources.

Everyone knows that spinach is good for you. Heck, it’s known as a “super food.” Packed with vitamins, calcium, iron and cancer fighting agents.

I actually like spinach, both cooked and raw. However, it’s great that it can be added into a smoothie – you can get a lot more of it that way and it bluks up the smoothie without adding fat and calories.

The best part? Kids will drink it! Why? Because it doesn’t taste like spinach. In fact if it weren’t bright green you’d never know there was a bit of spinach inside! I gave it to my toddler two morning in a row.

(Please excuse the horrible camera-phone pictures, I was without my camera and had to use the cell phone camera – you’re about to see a few more posts with horrid photos, sorry about that!)

Directions:

2 cups or more of raw spinach.

1 banana

5 strawberries

(I like to use dates to sweeten things, but you can also use sugar or a sugar sub)

Add one to two cups water – blend to your heart’s content.

It tastes like banana and strawberry – and not like leafy greens at all. I think the bright green color is fun! And so does Leo.

Now – getting it into a sippy cup! After you’ve poured some for yourself – leave some in the blender, add more water, blend on HIGH – pour through a strainer and into a sippy cup!

New feature alert – when I can I’m going to post nutritional info as well. I found a wonderful website that lets you build a recipe and it spits out a professional looking food label for you :

To make your own labels go see the website nutritiondata.com!

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