You can buy smoothies in most corner shops and supermarkets these days, or you could try making your own. You don’t need any complicated equipment to do it – if you already have a smoothie maker, you can use that, or you can use a liquidiser or food processor. Or you can use a hand-held blender which will also have lots of other uses around the kitchen, such as blending soups.
Select your fruit, yoghurt, skimmed milk, oats and a little honey, and get your creative juices moving. Don the apron and gather all the ingredients you need to whiz up hundreds of combinations of smoothies! I would also recommend investing in a bag of frozen berries as they are a delicious addition to any smoothie.
Here is a selection of my favourite smoothies. There’s one for everyday of the week!
All serve one, and are suitable for Coeliacs as long as the oats are certified gluten free.
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| Banana, oat & honey smoothie |
Blend one medium chopped banana with 1 tablespoon of oats, 1 teaspoon of honey and 200ml skimmed milk. Serve cold.
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| Pink & passion fruit smoothie |
Chop 2 large rings of fresh or tinned (in own juice) pineapple. Blend together with the juice of half a pink grapefruit and the seeds of one passion fruit (reserving some seeds for garnishing). Serve chilled, garnished with some passion fruit seeds.
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Chop 2 large rings of fresh or tinned (in own juice) pineapple. Chop half a fresh mango and blend with the pineapple. Add 1 pot of low fat tropical fruit probiotic yoghurt and blend until smooth. Serve immediately.
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Blend together one teacupful of frozen raspberries and one teacupful of fresh blueberries with 1 tsp honey and 5 or 6 ice-cubes until smooth. Serve immediately.
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| Peaches ‘n cream smoothie |
Hull and halve 10 strawberries and blend to a paste with 1 medium chopped banana. Add the juice of 1 orange and some ice cubes and blend until the ice is crushed. Serve immediately.
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