A delicious milkshake made with strawberries and bananas that is simple to modify for low-sugar diets. I started doing this 20 years ago, thanks to my mum. Although I don’t often add sugar or sweetener, I am aware that some individuals prefer a little more sweetness. If you’d prefer, you can use orange juice instead of milk.
| Prep Time: | 5 mins |
| Total Time: | 5 mins |
| Servings: | 2 |
Ingredients
- 1 cup low-fat milk
- ½ cup frozen unsweetened strawberries
- ½ ripe banana
- 2 tablespoons powdered chocolate drink mix
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons white sugar
Instructions
- In a blender combine milk, strawberries, banana, chocolate milk powder, vanilla, and sugar. Blend until smooth.
- If the consistency is too runny, add more strawberries.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 139 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 25 g |
| Cholesterol | 10 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2 g |
| Protein | 5 g |
| Saturated Fat | 2 g |
| Sodium | 62 mg |
| Sugars | 19 g |
| Fat | 3 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
This drink was very good and I didn’t even add the vanilla or sugar. I didn’t have chocolate drink mix so I just used chocolate milk and it worked fine. This ones a keeper
Decent enough
I think it was really yummy. My family enjoyed it 🙂 – Thanks!
This recipe was great. I changed it just a little. I used 1 cup of Lactaid Chocolate milk and added honey instead of the sugar with everything else I did as the recipe called for. The end result was amazing. Will definitely be making this a few times a week. Thanks for the great recipe!
This is a great recipe that is always tasty!
I made this recipe into a healthy post-workout drink. Subbed almond milk for regular milk, used a scoop and a half of chocolate protein powder and did NOT use vanilla or sugar…it was fantastic and PLENTY sweet!
This was good. I was looking for a smoothie recipe that didn’t require yogurt, since I was out. I hate using only 1/2 a banana…what do you do with the other half?? So I used 1 banana, 1 cup of mixed frozen berries, the same amounts of milk and vanilla, and 2 Tbsp cocoa powder instead of drink mix. I didn’t add any sugar and it was fine-I made it to be healthy, not unhealthy 😉 It had a good, thick texture and a nice taste.
I followed the recipe except I did omit the sugar. I used skim milk and Nestle Nesquik No Sugar Added chocolate drink powder. A great way to get a low cal chocolate fix.
Very yummy, but had to add a couple handfuls of ice to really get a smoothie consistency. Also used Chocolate Slimfast powder and turned it into a breakfast smoothie.
great!
Pretty good! The flavor was unlike any smoothie I’ve had before!I didn’t have frozen strawberries so I just used non-frozen ones and added about a cup of ice. i also didn’t have chocolate mix drink so I just subbed in a tbsp of cocoa powder and a tbsp of sugar. I also used whole milk instead of low fat which made it creamier. Thanks for a great recipe and I can’t wait to try it with frozen strawberries!
Excellent and low fat/low calorie drink! I substituted the low fat milk for non fat milk and switched the two tablespoons of sugar for 3 packets of Splenda. Yummy!
In all my shakes.. I replace half of the milk with the carnation evaporated milk. It gives it a little kick… Try it next time!!
I used Carnation rich hot chocolate powder mix and frozen strawberries that were already sweetened and pureed so I left out the additional sugar. This was pretty good, but I didn’t care for the vanilla in there, it just didn’t seem to go with the rest of the flavors.
I woke up this morning craving a banana smoothie but didn’t have ice or yogurt – went on allrecipes on my phone, found this recipe – had all the ingredients (used chocolate carnation instant breakfast powder for the chocolate) and threw them in my magic bullet and it was amaaazing!! My two toddlers and I sucked it down so fast I had to make 2 more servings!
Simple, on-hand ingredients, easy to make, and easy to modify for your tastes. I used a whole banana and fresh strawberries and supplemented with a few ice cubes with great results. This one will become a mainstay for us.
This was good- not great, but I would probably make again. I used pure baking cocoa so maybe next time when I have hot cocoa powder it will taste a little better???
This was very yummy!!!! I gave it to my little 7 year old sister who loved it as well. I recommend it to everyone!!!
Yummy! My little changes… I added more strawberries (1 Cup total), increased the vanilla to 1 tsp and went a little light on the sugar and ovaltine. Not too sweet and pretty healthy – great recipe! My toddler loves this drink too.
I left this recipe just the way it is, but when it was done I added chocolate whipped cream on top, which I think finished the product.
Not Bad. easy to make and fulfilling sugar was a bit too little for my taste so i added an additional 2 tsps. Its not heavy just the right consistency.