Secret Recipe Club: Zingy Green Smoothie

This month I was on the hunt for a good summer-y recipe from my assigned blog: Food Baby Life written by Aussie mom of two, Susan. I almost went with the The Hulk Green Smoothie...and can't help but have been tempted by these Easy Nutella Brownie Bites or these Cappuccino Brownie Bites. But ultimately I decided upon the Zingy Green Juice recipe and modified it to a smoothie recipe because unfortunately I don't have a juicer. But I really wish I did! I cut down one apple and used Greek yogurt as my base with a little bit of pineapple juice.

I loved how just absolutely delicious this smoothie was. The kids gobbled it up too, which is a huge deal to me because Matthew is much like me where he won't really eat a lot of fruits because of their texture - smoothies/juice are usually the perfect compromise. I can't wait to make it again because I want to put in my popsicle mold! The lemon and ginger really brought out that little zip to make it more than just a fruity sweet smoothie :)

Summer's Bounty Smoothies

I've never been big on eating fruit. It's not that I don't like the flavors - it's that durn texture that gets me every time! Smoothies are my favorite way to get my fix of fruit and they are especially nice to have during the hot days of summer.

Our produce is so funky up here - for weeks we didn't have peaches (my husband's favorite) in stock, just nectarines. So when I knew this recipe would use nectarines, I was all stoked, only to go to the grocery store and find no more nectarines and only peaches. LOL. I have the worst luck! I ended up using kiwi instead of the nectarine because we had some in the house I needed to use up!

Oh and this was my first time eating froyo! I loved it!