Stumped for a healthy snack or breakfast option? Smoothies are a great way to get more green veggies into your diet and allows you to ‘hide’ anything extra in there too, such as chia seeds or extra spinach – especially if the kids are being fussy.
My daughter makes a delicious smoothie when she needs something easy to make. The great thing about Yasmin’s smoothie is that she limits how much fruit she adds in to it. I often find that people are putting too much fruit into their smoothies, making them over sweet and not ideal for their gut. Ideally you want to limit a smoothie to the equivalent of just one piece of fruit – Yasmin’s is half a banana and half a cup of berries.
This smoothie is also full of prebiotic and probiotic bacteria, which is amazing for your gut. Probiotics are essential for our gut health because they nourish existing healthy bacteria as well as replacing healthy bacteria that has been destroyed.
If you’re not a smoothie kind of person, you should definitely check out other probiotic full snacks.
- Apple (with skin) or banana with 2 tbsp of plain natural full fat yoghurt
- Energy ball with chia seeds
- Homemade kombucha
- Sauerkraut
- Kefir
If you are a smoothie person, check out the recipe that my daughter has put together. Just chuck it all into a good blender and you are good to go!
- 200ml liquid of your choice
- ½ banana
- ½ cup of frozen mixed berries
- 1 tbsp peanut butter (good quality)
- 1 tsp raw honey
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- 1 tbsp psyllium
- 1 tbsp LSA
- 1 handful of raw spinach
- 2 tbsp plain natural yoghurt or kefir (coconut kefir if dairy free)