Food Friday: Breakfast of Champions!

K & O drink their breakfast as they plot out their day’s basketball strategies

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For several months now, K & O have been in the habit of smoothies for breakfast. We do this about 3 days a week. They believe (mainly because I tell them so, and partly because they feel it powering their jump-shots/goal-kicks/grand-slams) that these smoothies are “fuel” for their sports. Goodness knows, they are serious about their sports. As their mom, I’m serious about their fuel. K & O love this for breakfast. I love knowing that I’m sending them off to school with a few servings of fruit, and a whole lot of protein, already in their bodies at the start of the day. Here’s our current recipe:

K & O’s Super Smoothies!

This makes 2 very large smoothies or 4 normal sized smoothies (I used to make this recipe for K, O, Braydon, and me to share when the boys were younger… but now K & O drink the entire thing on their own).

Dump into blender, in the following order:

• 1/2 of a 32 ounce container of Chobani Greek non-fat yogurt (we rotate between strawberry and vanilla) — thats a lot of yogurt and a LOT of protein!
• 1 pack of Carrington Farms Flax Paks (0.4 ounce milled flax)
• approximately 1/4 cup wheat germ
• approximately 2-3 cups frozen strawberries, blueberries, mangoes, and/or frozen mixed fruit (we mix it up to keep it interesting! I buy frozen berries/fruit in bulk at BJs)
• fresh banana (1-2 bananas depending on size)
• approximately 2 cups orange juice

This will entirely fill our blender so that it is packed in with no space left. Blend on ‘high’ for an entire 60 seconds straight. Serve with smoothie/bubble-tea/pearl-tea straws for fast slurping (I buy these in large packs in Asian markets or on amazon).