Smoothies make it simple to include more fruits and vegetables in your diet, but they can quickly add up in terms of calories. Use our recipe: 1 cup fresh fruit or vegetables and/or cooked, frozen veggies + 1 cup fruit juice to make a smoothie with just about 200 calories. This recipe includes grape juice and blueberries.
| Prep Time: | 10 mins |
| Total Time: | 10 mins |
| Servings: | 2 |
| Yield: | 2 1 1/4-cup servings |
Ingredients
- 1 cup fresh blueberries
- 1 cup grape juice
- 1 banana, cut into chunks and frozen
- ½ cup low-fat plain Greek-style yogurt
- 1 cup ice
- 1 teaspoon honey, or to taste
Instructions
- Blend blueberries, grape juice, banana, yogurt, ice, and honey in a blender until smooth, at least 3 minutes.
- Other smart blends include: carrots and Granny Smith apple with orange juice and zest, pineapple and mango chunks with pineapple juice, and raspberries with cran-apple juice.
Reviews
Very good starter recipe! I made this as written and enjoyed it. Now I make this with lots of other frozen or fresh fruits and veggies I have on hand. I also add 3T hemp seeds and aloe vera juice and whatever else that suits my fancy. LOL If you’re new to smoothies and looking for something easy to make and tasty, you won’t be disappointed with this one.
Delicious and very healthy! I used a banana, blueberries and mango, all frozen. Added a little ground flax seed, scoop of vanilla protein powder. Along with Greek plain yogurt, added orange juice and a non-dairy creamer. Endless possibilities for a make-it-your-own smoothie!
I will definitely make this again! It’s a great start to your morning! 🙂 A bit less yogurt would be nice though.
This is an easy smoothie with great flavor. I have tried the blueberry one, raspberry and can’t wait to try more!!!
Made it exactly as set out. It was good.
This is a great base for smoothies. Also, if you use vanilla yogurt (which makes the flavors “pop”) omit the honey. Thank you LKB for sharing!!
I made the blueberries with grape juice it was scrummy and I’ll defo make it again. A real kickstart to breakfast.
I made some changes. I decided to use cherries and cranberry juice as well as flavored yogurt
3.1.19 Today I used fresh pineapple, pineapple juice, and Cabot® Greek Low Fat Vanilla Bean Yogurt (what I had on hand) for this smoothie. I did add some of the optional ice because we like our smoothies with a thicker consistency. This really is an excellent base for making a variety of fruit smoothies, and this combo this morning was delicious! A repeat for sure.