A Green Monster Spinach Smoothie is packed with good-for-you ingredients. Make and enjoy often for breakfast, snack, or anytime you need a pick-me-up!
Sick of salads but craving the health and hydration benefits? Drink your veggies in the form of a Green Monster Spinach Smoothie!
Green Monster Spinach Smoothies are one of my top secret diet weapons because, although they’re packed with baby spinach which make skin, hair, nails, and our overall selves feel totally great, they do not taste healthy at all.
I repeat, they do not taste healthy at all.
PLUS!
- Spinach is fat free, cholesterol free, low in calories, and very low in sodium
- Spinach is an excellent source of vitamin A, C, K, iron, fiber, folate, and lutein
- Leutin is an antioxidant that promotes good eye health, and may help prevent cancer of the liver, ovaries, colon and prostate, and even dementia.
- Dole lab tests found spinach juice has twice the chlorophyl, eight times the calcium, six times the magnesium, 10 times the potassium, 15 times the vitamin C and 43 times the vitamin A of wheatgrass juice!
Are you convinced yet? Well channel your inner Popeye and get to blending already!
To a high speed blender add a sliced frozen banana and peanut butter.
- Tip: peel and slice your bananas BEFORE you freeze them.
Next add protein-packed vanilla Greek yogurt, and unsweetened vanilla almond milk. You can truly use any kind of milk you want — cow’s, rice, soy, etc.
Fill the blender the rest of the way up with baby spinach. I usually get around 4 cups though you can use more or less if you like!
Blend until the Green Monster Smoothie is velvety smooth.
Pure green gold!
I almost feel guilty enjoying one of these babies, as it tastes like a sweet, indulgent ice cream shake. It’s perfect for breakfast, lunch or even a snack.
Try throwing in different kinds of greens, protein powder, and any frozen fruit or berry combo under the sun. The sky’s the limit with this ultra-healthy, not-healthy-tasting Green Monster Spinach Smoothie!
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 sliced banana, frozen
- 1 Tablespoon creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 cup 0% Vanilla Chobani Greek yogurt
- 1 cup milk, unsweetened vanilla almond milk recommended
- 4 cups baby spinach, or more or less
Directions
- Add all the ingredients into a high-powered blender in the order listed above then blend until very smooth.
Nutrition
Nutritional values are estimates only. Please read our full nutrition information disclaimer.
*Sources: Dole, WH Foods, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Just had this for lunch. It is awesome. Next stop, seeing if i can get my kids to like it.
Any suggestions for us gals with a tree nut/peanut allergy? I’ve been making my smoothies with 1/4 cucumber, 1/2 banana, a handful of frozen fruit and a handful of kale and spinach but I’d like to add something for staying power.
I would try protein powder – I really like vanilla whey protein powder!
I have a tree nut/peanut allergy too, try sunflower butter or soy nut butter in this, it tasted great when I did!
I love this and definitely want to try it…I have however read that too much spinach for women can lead to increased promotion of osteoporosis, is this true?!
About how much protein powder would you recommend adding? I went out and bought everything today, going to record my little adventure in weight loss! I also bought the frozen fruits to add, the unsweetened kind, since it would be easier and keep longer than the fresh here at my office. Do you just kind of go by taste on that or maybe do a half cup of mixed? Just wondering! Thanks!
Awesome! I usually do half of the scoop that’s usually provided in the protein powder container – probably a heaping tablespoon or so. Frozen fruit quantity is totally up to you – I’d add a 1/2 cup, taste and adjust!
This looks wonderful – thanks for sharing. I’m worried the spinach won’t blend properly and I will have “chunks” in my smoothie – but I use a Magic Bullet (uh-maze-ing!) so I think it should do the trick!
If you want the “sweetness” of the yogurt, but without the dairy, you could add ice for thickness and honey for sweetness. Just an idea!
On my 2nd green monster smoothie since reading your post and they are delicious! I sliced up my bananas and froze them in individual snack bags so they are ready to go when I am…they fit perfectly in my magic bullet right from the snack bag. These are delicous~thank you!
You can make it for 3 weight watchers plus points…
Banana – 0 pts
Spinach – 0 pts
1 tbsp Better n Peanut Butter (pb substitute) – 1 pt
1 cup UNsweetened almond milk – 1pt
1/2 cup plain nonfat Greek yogurt – 1 pt
Total weight watchers points plus -3!!! :)
I use pumpkin puree in my green monster as well as a little bit of cinnamon and sometimes a little brown sugar but not very often.
I love green smoothies! I don’t do dairy and I don’t usually add almond milk either but I do add a small handful of almonds or other nuts with water first then add everything else. I like to vary it by using blueberries (covers up the green color too), strawberries…well any kind of fruit works! I keep a lot of frozen fruit around just for smoothies! yum!
I found your blog from Pinterest. I am a green smoothie addict! I liked your recipe. If you want more info on smoothies, their benefits and recipes check out greensmoothiegirl.com and health nut-recipes.blogspot.com
So did you use this to lose any weight, just to be healthy, or both? If so, did you see any results? I did try it this morning and it tastes amazing! Thanks!
I make them for a health boost!
I totally just bought that almond milk to make this! Never tried it before…. can’t wait to make this!
Just curious…can you taste the banana in this? I’m not a fan of them at all and I was wondering if there is an alternative to put in instead of the banana.
I personally don’t think they taste too “banana-y” but I like bananas. You may want to make it with 1/2 a banana, or just sub in some other kinds of frozen I fruit!