St. Patrick’s Day, like nearly every holiday, brings with it lots of sugary, food colored snacks. Sneaky parents, though, can still manage to please their kids with healthy eats. Try either of these for breakfast, lunch or after school. Cheers!
Mint chocolate chip smoothie. They’ll never know it has spinach unless you tell them!
Mint Chocolate Chip Surprise
- 1/2 cup plain or vanilla yogurt
- 1 overripe banana
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/4 cup fresh spinach
- 1/2t vanilla
- 1T real maple syrup (omit if you used vanilla yogurt)
- 2 drops mint extract
- 1T chocolate chips
Blend the yogurt, milk, banana and spinach until smooth. Add the remaining ingredients and blend until chips are mostly chopped. Serve very cold.
Green Tropical Smoothie
- 6 oz orange juice or skim milk
- ¼ cup pineapple chunks
- ¼ cup mango
- ¼ cup spinach
- ¼ avocado
- ½ cup ice
Blend and enjoy.
