How To Make Healthy Smoothies Your Kids Will Love

Kids Like Healthy SmoothiesEveryone likes smoothies, right? What’s not to love when you combine creamy yogurt, fresh or frozen fruit, natural sweeteners, plus delicious and nutritious superfoods? If you have kids you know that they can come up with any number of reasons not to like something.

Smoothies are a great way for you to get all of your most nutritionally-packed foods into one glass, but it can also work for your kids. If they have been eyeing your concoctions with suspicion, assure them that smoothies taste good and get them in on making some. With the right ingredients you can craft tasty and nutritious smoothies that your kids will happily drink. Here are some tips to get you started:

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Blueberry Chocolate Dream Smoothie

Blueberry-Chocolate-Dream-SmoothieIndulge in this delicious, nutritious, filling, and dare I say amazing treat of a smoothie!

All the credit for this fabulous recipe goes to Ana, a fellow smoothie enthusiast, and chocolate lover. While exchanging emails about smoothies, chocolate, and good food she was kind enough to share this recipe with me, and now the smoothie world. She even supplied the beautiful image to the right. Thanks, Ana!

This dreamy smoothie is similar to the one’s I make for breakfast. It’s loaded with nutrition and macronutrients to keep you full of energy and satiated until lunch. There’s plenty of healthy fat, ample protein, and it’s low in sugar – a winning combo in my book.

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Bee Products: The Original Superfoods

Bee Products: The Original SuperfoodsThe humble honey bee is one of nature’s most important organisms. Bees are crucial for the production of food that we humans eat because they pollinate plants as they gather nectar from flowers. Without bees we would have a hard time growing much of our food.

In addition to helping us with our agricultural needs, bees make several products that we can harvest and use. People have been collecting and using them for millennia and using them for food, flavoring, and medicine. Today, modern science is catching up to what we have always known: bee products have great medicinal and nutritional value.

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Mean Green Detox Smoothie

Mean Green Detox SmoothieIf you’re looking for a nutritious and delicious green smoothie designed to support your body’s natural detoxification efforts, look no further.

This smoothie contains several of the usual detox suspects along with two potent green superfoods: spirulina and chlorella. This combination of ingredients results in what is perhaps the most potent detox smoothie I’ve posted to date.

What’s so special about spirulina and chlorella and how do they help you detox?

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Ferment Your Way to Phenomenal Health

Fermented Beverages - Milk Kefir

Milk kefir is one of the healthiest and easiest fermented beverages you can make yourself.

Fermented drinks, and foods, are among the latest trends in superfoods. Fermentation is a natural process, one that humans have been manipulating and benefiting from for millennia. Fermented foods and drinks are rich in probiotics, those helpful microorganisms that work in your digestive tract to improve your health in a number of ways.

Not all fermented products, pickles for instance, are appropriate for smoothies, but many are. Once you have learned about kefir, kombucha, Hindu lemonade, and other tasty fermented drinks you will definitely want to craft smoothie recipes around them.

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The Ultimate Turmeric Smoothie

The Ultimate Turmeric SmoothieThis recipe might just be the healthiest on my site. The combination of ingredients have been tweaked over the years to maximize the health imparting benefits.

However, I can’t take credit for this formula. A kind gentleman by the name of Raul was gracious enough to gift it to me. Raul is a chemistry professor at the National University of Mexico who has investigated turmeric for over 10 year. It’s safe to assume he knows more about turmeric than most people.

Raul shared this recipe with me so that more people can benefit from it. We both enjoy sharing and spreading information people can use to improve their health.

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