Creamy pineapple and strawberry breakfast smoothies
Creamy breakfast smoothies packed to the brim with nutrients. Chia seeds, almonds and yoghurt all add to the good-for-you factor of these fruity smoothies.
I’m struggling with breakfast lately. I just don’t have the appetite for anything properly nutritious first thing in the morning. A cup of coffee and perhaps a few rusks (South Africa’s more delicious answer to biscotti) are about as much as I can stomach. However, I know I need to do better and so I have been trying to build up my repertoire of quick, easy and varied breakfast options. I LOVE eggs for breakfast but I can’t eat them every day.
These breakfast smoothies are such a great way to get a truck-load of nutrition into your first meal of the day and they are bloody delicious, if I do say so myself. PLUS, you can make these the night before and keep them in the fridge before grabbing and go-ing the next morning. We’re winning all around today. I think the key to making really great smoothies is to try to pack as much into them as you can, nutrition-wise. These contain rolled oats, almonds, chia seeds, pineapple, yoghurt, strawberries and a little maple syrup (the pineapple and strawberries were very tart) but you can totally leave that out to create a no-sugar-added breakfast treat.
Table of Contents
Creamy pineapple and strawberry breakfast smoothies
Ingredients
for the pineapple smoothie
- 2 cups chopped pineapple
- 2 tablespoons rolled oats
- 2 tablespoons almonds
- 2 tablespoons Greek/Coconut yoghurt
- maple syrup to taste (optional)
- water/milk to thin out optional
for the strawberry smoothie
- 2 cups strawberries hulled and halved
- 2 tablespoons Greek/Coconut yoghurt
- 1 tablespoon Chia seeds
- maple syrup to taste (optional)
Instructions
- To make the smoothies, simply place all the ingredients for each smoothie in a blender and blend until smooth then layer in Ball® drinking jars and serve.
- Alternatively, you can combine the ingredients to make a single, super fruity smoothie.
Nutrition
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