Green Smoothie

Handful of spinach leaves

½ - 1 cup coconut milk (or water)

1 frozen banana
1 fresh banana

1/2 cup raw cashews or almonds

1-2 tablespoons honey

1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 cup of ice (2 cups if using two fresh bananas)

Blend until smooth.

Morning Banana Smoothie

2   whole Bananas (best with brown flecks on peel)

2   cups Ice

1/3   cup Yogurt - preferably Greek yogurt flavored with honey

1/2   cup Cooked oatmeal

1/3   cup Almonds

Pour all ingredients in blender pouring ice in last. Blend on high for 30 seconds or until smoothie thickens.

http://www.chiquitabananas.com/Banana-Recipes/Banana-Oatmeal-Smoothie-recipe.aspx

Family Favorite Smoothie

3 C. Water

2-3 scoops orange juice concentrate

2 Tbsp honey or sugar

1 fresh banana
1 small vanilla yogurt

3 cups or so of frozen fruit

Blend all in blender

Our favorite fruit combination is strawberries, peaches and a little bit of mixed fruit.

Banana Shake

1 C. Milk
1 C. Frozen banana slices
1 Tbsp. Peanut butter
1/4 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp vanilla
Sweet cocoa powder (optional)

Blend all ingredients in a blender.

Brazilian Lemonade

 (ourbestbites.com)
4 juicy limes (try and find ones with thin, smooth skins; they’re the juiciest and the thin skin cuts down on the chance of your drink being bitter)
1 c. sugar
6 c. cold water
6 Tbsp. sweetened condensed milk
Mix cold water and sugar very well and chill until ready to use. This step can be done ahead of time.
Wash limes thoroughly with soap (I just use hand-dishwashing soap or regular hand soap); you need the soap to get the wax and pesticides off of the limes because you’re using the WHOLE lime, baby. Cut the ends off the limes and then cut each lime into 8ths.
Place 1/2 of the limes in your blender.

Add 1/2 of the sugar water, place the lid on your blender, and pulse 5 times. Place a fine-mesh strainer over a pitcher (the one you’ll serve the lemonade in) and pour the blended mixture through the strainer and into the pitcher. Use a spoon to press the rest of the liquid into the pitcher. Dump the pulp and stuff in the strainer into the trash. Repeat with remaining limes and sugar water. Add sweetened condensed milk; DO NOT leave this step out unless you will die of a horrible sweetened condensed milk allergy because this is the secret ingredient! You may want to taste test it at this point; I used giant, thick-skinned limes tonight and didn’t test it and it came out a little bitter. If it’s bitter, just add some more sugar and maybe a little more milk.
Serve immediately over lots of ice. This does not keep well, so don’t make this in advance (although you can cut the limes, mix the sugar water, and measure the sweetened condensed milk in advance). Serves 4