Christmassy Oat and Berry Smoothie

How does your Christmas morning start? We have a ritual that we follow every year. We all wear our Christmas jumpers to start off with. We then all gather in the lounge where the presents are sorted in piles for each person. Each person opens one present at a time in turn. Whilst we open our presents, I serve this tasty spicy vegan oat and berry smoothie to keep everyone replenished. Its the perfect start before we sit down to our breakfast.

What is your family's Christmas ritual? Do share in the comments below.

This smoothie is so easy to make, its vegan and dairy free too. The ideal way to start the day and get into the Christmas mood.

Yield: serves 2Author: Nayna Kanabar

Christmas Oats and Berry smoothie

Christmas spice, delicious oat smoothie to kick start your morning.

prep time: 3 minscook time: total time: 3 mins

Ingredients:

30 g Oats

50g Soya yoghurt

100 ml oat milk chilled

Mixed berries, cranberries, strawberries, blueberries

1 banana

1 pinch of nutmeg

1 pinch of cinnamon

1 teaspoon agave nectar (optional)

Method:

1. Place all the ingredients into a high speed blender . I used my Optimum 9400 and blend the ingredients until smooth and creamy.

2. Pour into tall glasses and serve chilled. Garnish with more berries if you prefer.

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I used my tried and trusted Optimum 9400 to blend my soup. The blender is so versatile and powerful that it grinds, pulses, makes ice cream, soups and amazing smoothies and nut butters too. It is easy to clean and maintain too.

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Tropical Smoothie

Its been a while since I have shared a smoothie recipe, but a few weeks ago I wrote about how I make smoothie packs to freeze every week. This smoothie pack I have used is my mango, coconut, pineapple  and lime to make a lovely tropical smoothie. It is one of our favorites and I am making it often since mangoes are in season.

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Yield: Serves 2 Author: Nayna KanabarPin it

Tropical Smoothie

Delicious mango, pineapple and Coconut gives this smoothie a tropical flavour that reminds me of tropical shores.

prep time: 5 mins Cook time: 0 Total time: 5 mins

Ingredients:

1 large mango stoned and diced.

1 cup fresh pineapple diced.

1 tablespoon freshly grated coconut and a little extra for garnish.

Juice from 1 lime

1 tablespoon Honey to sweeten (optional to taste)

1 cup icecubes

100 ml water.

instructions

1. Place all the ingredients into the Optimum Froothie 9400 and blend for 1 minute until smooth.

2. Pour the smoothie into tall glasses and garnish with the fresh grated coconut.

NOTES:

NB- Try and use fresh coconut or frozen, desiccated coconut does not give same flavour.

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I used my tried and trusted Optimum 9400 to make my smoothie. The blender is so versatile and powerful that it grinds, pulses, makes icecream, soups and amazing smoothies and nut butters too. It is easy to clean and maintain too.

The Optimum 9400 is upgraded to Optimum 9200A. Froothie also offer 0% finance on products over £299 and only require a 10% deposit. That's not all, the fab people at Froothie are offering you lovely readers FREE DELIVERY and an extra two year warranty use code "Ambassador8" in comments box when ordering.  

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Purple Carrot, Melon and Beetroot Smoothie

I love carrots and have recently discovered that carrots come in purple, white, reddish orange and the standard orange colour. They don't really taste that different but certainly look amazing. The purple carrots that I recently got were purple on the outside but orange in the inside. The vibrant colour of my smoothie comes from the purple carrots and the beetroot. Have you ever tried purple or white carrots before?

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Purple Carrot, Melon and Beetroot Smoothie

by Nayna Kanabar January-11-2018

Rich in vitamins and high in antioxidants, this delicious smoothie tastes as good as it looks.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup Diced Cantaloupe Melon
• 1 Purple Carrot peeled and diced
• 1/4 cup Beetroot peeled and diced
• 1/2 cup Water
• 1/2 cup Ice cubes
• 1 tablespoon Honey
• 1 tablespoon Lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon Nutmeg

Method:

1. Add ice, melon, beetroot and carrots, lemon juice,water honey and nutmeg to the Optimum 9400 blender and blend the ingredients until smooth for 1 minute.2. Pour into serving cups and enjoy.

Details

Prep time: 5 mins Cook time: Total time: 5 mins Yield: 2 servings

You may like other smoothie Recipes:

Vegan Chocolate Smoothie

Mango Avocado and Spinach Smoothie

Apple Cucumber and Spinach Smoothie.

I used my tried and trusted Optimum 9400  blenders which is capable of blending ice cubes and fruit and gives you the correct texture. It is easy to clean and maintain too.

The Optimum 9400 is currently on offer for £299. Froothie also offer 0% finance on products over £299 and only require a 10% deposit. That's not all, the fab people at Froothie are offering you lovely readers FREE DELIVERY too (for a limited time).  Just use this code 1572 FREE AMBASSADOR DELIVERY in the comments box when making your purchase, the delivery charge will then be refunded.

Vegan Chocolate Smoothie #healthyjanuary

This totally delicious chocolate smoothie is guilt free and is vegan too. It is made from bananas, avocado, dates, prunes and cocoa powder making it free from refined sugars too. I made this with my pre prepared smoothie pack that I keep in my freezer. To learn how to make my smoothie packs check my healthy january post.

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Vegan Chocolate Smoothie.

by January-4-2018

Creamy and rich dairy free smoothie that is delicious in taste but totally healthy.

Ingredients:

• 1 Ripe banana
• 1/2 Avocado
• 4 Ripe dates (Stoned)
• 4 Prunes
• 1/2 tablespoon Cocoa Powder
• 240 ml Cold Water
• 8 raspberries or black berries for garnish
• 1/2 teaspoon for dusting Cocoa powder

Method:

1. Place all the ingredients into the Optimum 9400 blender jug. 2. Add the water and blend for 1 minute until smooth and creamy 3. Pour into serving jars dust with a pinch of cocoa and garnish with frozen berries.

Details

Prep time: 3 mins Cook time:0 Total time: 3 mins Yield: 2 servings

To transport the smoothie so that you have a #smoothieonthego pour it into a smoothie cup or jar with lid, take a straw with you and its ready to go.

You may like these smoothie recipes:

Cucumber and Peach  Smoothie

Chocolate and Banana smoothie

Lemon Blueberry Muffin Detox Smoothie

Blueberry and Apple Smoothie

I used my tried and trusted Optimum 9400. The blenders is capable of blending frozen fruit and gives you the correct texture. It is easy to clean and maintain too.

The Optimum 9400 is curently on offer for £299 . Froothie also offer 0% finance on products over £ 299 and only require a 10% deposit. That's not all, the fab people at Froothie are offering you lovely readers FREE DELIVERY too (for a limited time).  Just use this code 1572 FREE AMBASSADOR DELIVERY in the comments box when making your purchase, the delivery charge will then be refunded.

Mango, Avocado, Spinach and Dates Smoothie #smoothieaday #smoothieonthego

My last post was all about how I have started my #healthyjanuary  journey, I am encouraging my family and my self to eat healthy. You can read all about it in my post here. I also explained in the post how to make smoothie packs for the freezer so that its easy to make your #onthegosmoothie in the morning. I created this delicious smoothie using my mango, avocado, spinach and dates  pack that I premade and have frozen into single servings.

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Mango, Avocado, Spinach and Dates Smoothie

by Nayna Kanabar January-1-2018

Tropical flavour smoothie, high in antioxidants and vitamins

Ingredients:

• 1 Medium Mango diced
• 1/2 Ripe Avocado
• 4 Ripe dates
• Small handful Spinach
• 240 ml Water
• 1/2 teaspoon Chia seeds

Method:

1. Add all the ingredients to the Optimum 9400 blender together with the water and bend for 1 minute.2. Transfer to serving cups and sprinkle with a pinch of chia seeds. Alternatively pour the smoothie into a travel beaker or cup, attach a straw with an elastic band to the cup and its ready to go.

Details

Prep time: 3 mins Blending time: 1 mins Total time: 4 mins Yield: 2 servings

I used my tried and trusted Optimum 9400. The blenders is capable of blending frozen fruit and gives you the correct texture. It is easy to clean and maintain too.

The Optimum 9400 is upgraded to Optimum 9200A. Froothie also offer 0% finance on products over £299 and only require a 10% deposit. That's not all, the fab people at Froothie are offering you lovely readers FREE DELIVERY and an extra two year warranty use code "Ambassador8" in comments box when ordering.  

My smoothie ready to take to work.

Healthy January #smoothieaday

Christmas is well and truly over and we are all in the same boat where we start to worry about our health. I am sure that majority of us feel guilty about the amount of food and drink that we have consumed over the festive period. January is the perfect time to take stock and change our lifestyle and eating habits.

10 things to change:

1. De clutter your kitchen cupboards and fridge of all junk food.
2. Rewrite your shopping list to include, fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds.
3. Replace refined sugars with natural sugars such agave nectar, maple syrup, stevia and honey but still consume them in moderation.
4. Stop buying cartons of juices and smoothies that have sugars and additives.
5. Make a meal plan and shop accordingly to avoid eating ready meals. Why not check out some healthy budget recipe ideas suggested by my friend Jan.
6. Replace sugary fizzy drinks with water.
7. Give up smoking
8. Reduce alcohol consumption
9. Replace sweet treats and desserts with fresh fruit. Aim to eat five fruits and vegetables a day.
10. Exercise, walk, swim, jog at least 30 minutes each day.

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Its important to eat a healthy breakfast as it will stop you getting sugar cravings mid morning. Eat porridge, granola or low fat cereals with less sugar. If you don't have time for breakfast the best thing to do is to make a smoothie to take with you.

At the weekend add to your shopping list the fruits and vegetables listed below. They are so that you can create single portion smoothie mixes to keep in your freezer ready to blend in the morning.

Fruits / Vegetables	Seeds/ Berries /Nuts	Milks/ Liquids	Spices / Sweeteners
Mango Pineapple Bananas Apples Pears Peaches Melons Baby Spinach Kale Avocado Kiwi Fruit Plums Berries Sharon Fruit White Cabbage Beetroot Cauliflower Cucumber Carrots Celery Coconut Lemon Lime Oranges  Fresh Ginger Fresh Turmeric	Pumpkin seeds Chia Seeds Flax Seeds Goji Berries Golden Berries Almonds Cashew nuts Oats	Soya Milk Almond Milk Water Coconut Milk Coconut water Rice Milk Yoghurt Hemp Milk Fresh Juice Ice cubes	Nutmeg Cardamom All Spice Cinnamon Maple Syrup Honey Agave Nectar Dates Stevia Cocoa

To make your smoothie freezer mixes:

1. Peel, cut and dice the fruits and vegetables into one inch pieces. 

2. Peel the root ginger and turmeric and cut it into small 1 cm pieces.(You only need a very small amount of this to add to your mix)

3.Once the fruit is cut, select 3-4 fruits and vegetable combinations from the above list. There is no strict ratio but I usually select the main fruit and make it to 1 cup, add 1/2 cup second fruit, and then 1/4 cup of vegetable such as spinach, kale, cucumber, celery or cabbage and put them into a zip lock bag. If you like you can add a cm cube of turmeric or ginger too. 

4. Make up all the pouches and label the zip lock bags to say what ingredients are in them and add a date. The best thing to do is to let your family add their own choice combinations into a zip lock bag to make individual smoothie servings. Label each bag with their name and what fruits are in them. 

5. Place the zip lock bags into the freezer ready for use.

6. To make the smoothie in the morning take a smoothie mix from the freezer and add it to the Optimum 9400 Blender or any other heavy duty blender, select or two ingredients from the seeds, berries and nut column and add it to the fruit, now select a liquid from the liquid column and add 50ml  to the blender. Finally choose a sweeter or spice and add a tiny bit to the blender, This is optional.

7. Blend the smoothie and pour into a onthego cup and your smoothie is ready.

There is no hard and fast rules about the combinations of fruits and vegetables you can choose but below are some suggestions.

• Pear and Pineapple and Ginger
• Mixed summer Berries (strawberries, blackberries and raspberries)  cabbage, banana,
• Kiwi, cucumber and kale
• Beetroot, carrot and Orange
• Sharon fruit, lime and Orange
• Melon, raspberries and banana
• Avocado, spinach and pineapple
• Red apple, beetroot and ginger
• Mango, turmeric and pineapple
• Kale, apple and melon
• Spinach, celery and cucumber
• Peaches, apple and ginger 
• Banana, avocado
• Blue berries apple and ginger

To get you started do check some of these wonderful ideas:

Carrot ginger and Orange

Kale and Mango smoothie

Blueberry and Apple smoothie  

Lemon Blueberry Muffin smoothie

Golden kiwi, pineapple and turmeric smoothie

To make the smoothies you will need together with all the ingredients a heavy duty blender. This is important as the fruits are frozen and budget blenders will not be able to blend frozen fruits.

I used my tried and trusted Optimum 9400 or Nutri Force Extractor. Both Blenders are capable of blending frozen fruit and give you the correct texture. They are both easy to clean and maintain too.

The Optimum 9400 is currently on offer for £299 and the Nutri Force Extractor is on offer for £189 . Froothie also offer 0% finance on products over £ 299 and only require a 10% deposit. That's not all, the fab people at Froothie are offering you lovely readers FREE DELIVERY too (for a limited time).  Just use this code 1572 FREE AMBASSADOR DELIVERY in the comments box when making your purchase, the delivery charge will then be refunded.

You will also need something to put your smoothie in such as on the go cups, mason jars with lids, glass bottles with lids and also straws. 

Although this sounds like an investment, it's totally worth it, think of the money you will save when you make your own smoothie. One single shop bought smoothie can cost up to two pounds and it also has many sugars and additives in it. For a fraction of this price you can make your own smoothie at home.

Tip: Buy bulk packs of fruits that are value for money. Also stock up on seasonal fruits. Shop at market stalls they often reduce berries etc at the end of the day as they often have short shelf life.Since we are freezing the fruit it does not matter if its a little over ripe. On average I worked out that one serving sometimes even two smoothie on the go costs less than 50p to make at home.

Apple, Cucumber and Spinach Smoothie in the Nutri Force Extractor.

My family are smoothie addicts and we adore our fruits and vegetable smoothie combinations. Each morning we take it in turns to make a smoothie for the family so that we can all take a on the go bottle full of this yummy goodness to work.

I usually make this in my Optimum 9400 blender by froothie and its my most used item on my kitchen worktop. However my daughter recently moved in to her new flat having just graduated from University and as much as I love her I was not going to let her take my beloved Optimum 9400 to make her smoothies in. Also her kitchen space is limited so we needed a compact version of a blender that she could use to make her smoothies. We found the perfect blender from Froothie the Nutri Force Extractor which fits on her work top and does the job really well. The blender is affordable, stylish compact, easy to clean and comes with many accessories such as a blend and take cup so you save on extra washing.

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• 1L Tritan BPA-free cup
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• Extractor blade
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• Flip-top lid
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My daughter loves using the blender and as mother I can be assured that she is getting her five a day. My daughter also tells me that she is been making some delicious pesto for her pasta in this blender so I can see a recipe coming up soon for it. Watch this space or alternatively sign up for email alerts so you do not miss any new recipe updates.

You can see in the video below a review and recipe demonstration of the Apple, Cucumber and Spinach smoothie that we made in it.

I used my trusty Nutri Force Extractor for this recipe. It is normally £179.00 but currently it is on offer for just £89 which means that there is a whopping £90 OFF right now. Just use the code AUTUMNSALE 90. That's not all, the fab people at Froothie are offering you lovely readers FREE DELIVERY too (for a limited time)! Just use this code 1572 FREE AMBASSADOR DELIVERY in the comments box when making your purchase, the delivery charge will then be refunded.

The blender is not just for smoothies , it can be used for many other recipes too:
You can also checkout some other exciting recipes and reviews of this awesome blender below:

Janice Pattie-Blender Banana bread
Lorna Korma -Eat myyy thoughts
Choclette Ammar- Beetroot green leaf smoothie
MandyMazliah- Tropical Cauliflower Smoothie


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