Berry Green Smoothie {Crazy Cooking Challenge}

It’s time for another Crazy Cooking Challenge hosted by Tina at Mom’s Crazy Cooking. This month’s theme us smoothies! Smoothies are our go-to beverage for breakfast and snacks. I love that you can throw in all sorts of fruits (and even vegetables!). We like to customize ours depending on our mood with other ingredients like juice, milk, yogurt, honey or peanut butter.

It seems as though there are TONS of smoothie recipes out there. But I loved this one because it is simple and SO delicious. And with berry season in full production right now, it’s a great time to take advantage of all the berries out there. My kids and I all gave it a double thumbs up. I found it on the Six Sisters Stuff blog. What I love about it is the “secret” ingredient of spinach. I started added spinach to our smoothies summer before last when we were visiting my sister-in-law and her family. She served us a green smoothie and I’m telling you, you really cannot taste the spinach! But it adds some great nutrients to the smoothie—double bonus!

Here’s the recipe so you can try it too!

Just a few simple ingredients is all it takes for a delicious smoothie. We used lemonade instead of the called for apple or orange juice. Created a nice "tang".

Delcious strawberries! I used the kind that are sliced and found in the frozen section of my wholesale club.

Good-for-you spinach! You can't even really taste it in the smoothie!

We always have plenty of bananas on hand. Sometimes I will slice overripe bananas and freeze them for adding to all sorts of smoothies.

Frozen blueberries work great! We go blueberry picking every year so have them in the freezer year-round or you can buy them in bulk at your local wholesale club (or stock up when they go on sale at the grocery store).

In case you missed it before, you may be asking how does this Crazy Cooking Challenge work you ask? Well, once month (on the 7th specifically), a group of food bloggers get together to feature one food item for that month. We all make that item, in our own way and then post about it. You can enjoy visiting the other Crazy Cooking Challenge participants through the links below. And the extra twist? If you like my recipe, please click the ‘like’ button by my entry to vote for me. The recipe with the most votes will be deemed the ULTIMATE RECIPE for this challenge. Enjoy!