Yes, low fat smoothie recipes can be great tasting, delicious, and good for you to. Best of all you can whip up a low fat (almost no fat) smoothie shake in minutes using fresh or frozen fruits, along with some simple ingredients like milk, orange juice and ice cubes.
That being said if you're always busy, want to eat right, but never have time to prepare something nutritious to eat or drink, now is the time to make it happen.
Below you'll find, three of our most requested smoothie recipes that are low in fat and great tasting to.
Go ahead, give each one a try in the next few days and I'm sure you'll be pleasantly surprised and will soon live by smoothies as a nutritious and healthy replacement for meals.
ripe banana, peeled and sliced
4 plump strawberries
1/2 cups skim milk
1/2 cup apple juice
Add first banana, strawberries, mil and apple juices to clean blender. Turn on blender and blend well until desired consistency is reached. Pour into glass and drink immediately. This is one of my most favorite low fat smoothie recipes.
Nutritional Facts Per 16 Ounce Serving:
Calories - 370
Carbs - 70 grams
Fat - 3 grams
Protein - 3 grams
2 bananas, peeled and sliced
1/2 cup blueberries
1 cup plain yogurt
For awesome results I recommend the follow. First peel and slice your bananas and place them in a bowl covered with a lid or plastic wrap. Place the bowl in the freezer and allow the bananas to freeze solid (this is something you can do the night before).
When you are ready to prepare your smoothie, remove frozen bananas from the freezer and place into a cleaned blender, add blueberries on top and then spoon in yogurt. Turn on blender and blend well until desired consistency is achieved. Pour into glass and drink immediately.
Nutritional Facts Per 16 Ounce Serving:
Calories - 410
Carbs - 32 grams
Fat - 3 grams
Protein - 4 grams
1-1/2 cups honeydew melon (seedless and chopped)
1-1/2 cups watermelon (seedless and chopped)
1 cup vanilla low fat yogurt
1 cup ice cubes
juice of 2 limes
To a clean blender add honeydew, watermelon, yogurt, ice and lime juice. Turn on blender, blending ingredients well until desired consistency is achieved. Pour into glass and drink immediately.
Nutritional Facts Per 16 Ounce Serving:
Calories - 350
Carbs - 35 grams
Fat - 3 grams
Protein - 3 grams
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We also have a nice selection of health smoothie recipes, as well as, a great article on How to Make a Breakfast Smoothie. One last thing, if you like berries, you just have to try out our berry smoothie recipesas well.