My Favorite Green Smoothie Recipe
Here’s my favorite green smoothie recipe. This is a smoothie that tastes great and is good for you. Â It’s loaded with greens and you can modify it with the fruit of your choice.
The problem with most recipes you see is that they are 90% fruit with just enough green to give it some color.
May 2023: This has been my favorite and go-to smoothie for seven years! In fact, I credit it with helping me lose weight and keep the weight off! (Can You Lose Weight After 50?)
I still make this a few times a week.

There are many recipes out there for green smoothies and I’m happy to add my version to the Internet.
About seven years ago, I started drinking one green smoothie a day. It seemed like a great way to get an extra vegetable or two into my diet.
Sometimes I use it as lunch but usually I will have it between lunch and dinner as an afternoon pick-me-up.
I modify this all the time. These days, I almost always use frozen spinach or kale. Then I add a second vegetable such as celery, carrot, or cucumber. Then some fruit to sweeten it up.
I feel like I’m flooding my body with feel-good energy and since I started drinking these daily, I’ve had lots of get-up-and-go to exercise, work, and connect with family and friends.
Here is the recipe for The Best Green Smoothie:
Add to your blender:
- 1 cup of fresh greens or 1/2 cup frozen greens. Spinach is my favorite
- 1 scoop plain collagen protein
- 1 scoop vanilla collagen protein powder
- 1 small carrot or ½ of a big one, or small cucumber or stalk of celery
- ½ an apple or 1/3 cup of any frozen berries
- 1/3 frozen banana or some frozen pineapple
- A small piece of ginger root peeled and chopped. Optional but gives it a nice flavor.
- Squeeze of lemon juice if you have it
- 1 cup unsweetened coconut milk, water, almond milk or other milk of choice
- Water if needed.
Add ingredients to your blender. Start your blender on a slower setting to get things chopped and moving. This is very important! Then finish on a higher setting to make this concoction smooth and drinkable.
I vary the fruits that I use depending on what I have and what I am in the mood for. Frozen spinach is my go-to for the green vegetable but sometimes I buy fresh power greens. I will often use cucumber or celery for a little extra green goodness.

Notes on Making Your Green Smoothie:
Greens. I like sweet mixes such as Super Greens or Power Greens. Most stores now have those mixes now. Spinach is mild and sweet and works well. Arugula is bitter so I don’t recommend something like that.
Water. Don’t add too much at first. The fruit and veggies are juicy. You want it drinkable but not too watery.
The Oil: I like to add about a teaspoon of MCT oil. This is found with supplements, not with cooking oils. It’s optional. My favorite is Brain Octane by Bulletproof
Collagen: A full serving is two scoops. I like to use one plain and one vanilla for some extra sweetness. I use Bulletproof brand.
Bananas. I let them get ripe—no green peels! Then I peel them and put them in a freezer bag in the freezer. You can break them into smaller pieces at that time or do it when you make your smoothie.
Other Fruits. I like to add about 1/3 cup of fruit, a little something sweet like banana and either half an apple or frozen berries. When you use berries, the smoothie will not look green but will still taste great.
The Ginger. I use a small amount of fresh ginger root. It keeps for quite a while in your refrigerator and you just slice off a piece as you need it. I think it takes the drink from bland to sublime. Again we can thank the Scottish boyfriend for this idea.
No Dairy? I prefer unsweetened coconut milk that I find in the refrigerator section of my store.
Sometimes little things can help us maker bigger changes.
Here are a few other green smoothie recipes that I love


Keep showing up my friends,
Sara
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