Banana Pineapple Green Drink
My normal morning routine always includes a green drink for breakfast. Sometimes that is enough to fill me up, other mornings I might add a little something on the side. One of my favorites is cinnamon raisin toast. This morning, I had a huge bunch of spinach from my farmer’s market trip, yesterday. I usually start with a couple of handfuls of greens, throw it in the high-speed blender and then toss in what ever fruit I have around.
This morning I didn’t have any fresh fruit so I looked in the freezer. I lucked out and found some pineapple and bananas I had frozen a couple of weeks back. I often will freeze produce rather than let it go bad. Even greens can be frozen this way and used later for green drinks. The frozen pineapple and bananas blended perfectly with the spinach and made a completely tasty, filling, refreshing green smoothie!
Banana Pineapple Green Drink
SERVES 2
- 1 cup frozen banana*
- 1 cup frozen pineapple*
- 2 cups spinach
- 1 cup water
- Blend in high-speed blender until smooth.
* You can use fresh bananas and pineapple but I would add some ice.
Roy wrote on January 17, 2014
I’m going to try this one for sure so look out Pop Eye
Dreester wrote on January 9, 2014
I tried this recently! I did a cup of unsweetened almond milk (vanilla flavor if you’d like) and a little bit of honey. Though if the banana (not frozen) is ripe enough I omit the honey. Anyway, it’s super yummy!! and I’m not one for smoothies but this is super good and so easy to make! 🙂
Dotty L wrote on September 3, 2013
I just reread your into and didn’t realize that I could also freeze greens to use later on in smoothies….so I learned something else new today besides how to make this drink and enjoy it so much…..
Dotty L wrote on September 3, 2013
I just made this for dinner tonight and it was fantastic…I did add one tsp of sweet and low to it but next time I think I will just add a little more pineapple to it…been looking all over for a green smoothie th at sounded good to me and this was it…. yummy in the tummy….thanks for sharing this
Kim wrote on March 21, 2013
Thanks for sharing these great recipies! I’m just starting – I mean just dipping my toes into these waters – of raw eating. My first attempt at making a green smoothie was tasty, but stringy. Oh, so very stringy. It was the frozen spinach. I used a mini food processor and then a hand blender (twice) and it still had strings.
How do you prevent this? (tell me it’s not all about the $200 blender… )
Susan wrote on March 21, 2013
For green drinks, I would always use fresh spinach and also, you may need a stronger blender. A mini food processor and hand blender just can’t break the greens down like they should be. Cheers!
Terri Burfield wrote on March 1, 2013
I’m just getting into juicing and trying green drinks (that’s what I call them) and came across this recipe. I made it with fresh banana and pineapple…it was so good, I couldn’t even taste the spinach and was just sweet enough! thanks for the recipe!
Michelle wrote on November 12, 2012
Best green drink ever!!! Thank you!!!
kei wrote on November 7, 2012
OMG This looks so delicious. I would make this with fresh banana and pineapple!
Thanks for this. Healthy looking Beautiful colour too.