Team Smoothie Recipes—and Free Giveaway!

Do you love to feel nourished, energized, and sport a healthy, radiant glow? Then you must love smoothies as much as we do! If you haven’t tried a healthy and delicious green smoothie before, then you are in for a treat!

In the mornings at the Annmarie Gianni skin care headquarters, many of us arrive to the office with our mason jars, filled to the brim with our favorite blends of fruits and veggies. Who needs coffee? Am I right? (Okay, maybe a few of us can’t live without our lattes).

Smoothies not only taste great and provide loads of energy, but they also have a seemingly endless amount of healing properties:

• Promote natural weight loss
• Help you maintain a healthy weight
• Provide key vitamins and minerals
• Encourage clear and glowing skin
• Give you fiber, fiber, and more fiber
• Help balance your hormones
• Contribute to your daily consumption of fruits and vegetables
• Alkalizing  (helps to balance the body’s PH levels)
• Give you a great boost of antioxidants
• Support mental clarity and focus
• Boosts the immune system
• Help you feel proud for being so good to your body!

Remember, if you want your smoothie to be healthy and nutritious, keep the alkalizing greens dominant (anywhere from 60-80%). The fruits added should give it the sweetness needed to make the greens tastier and easier to get down (for those who are new to drinking their greens). Otherwise, too much fruit may send your blood sugar levels to the moon.

Don’t get me wrong—indulging in fruit smoothies can be a delicious way to treat yourself from time to time, but if you’re looking for wellness and nutrition, green smoothies are the way to go!

Here is a round up of some of our favorite smoothie recipes, which will help you sip your way to health and a glowing completion. For details on the giveaway, see below!

Green Watermelon

Annmarie’s Immunity Smoothie

• 1 cucumber
• 2 stalks of celery
• 3-4 leaves of kale
• Handful of cilantro
• 1 cup watermelon
• Small piece of garlic

This is refreshing and green-o-licious. The garlic will give it a kick and keep your immune system humming!

Instructions: Juice the cucumber, celery, kale and garlic. Then blend on high with the cilantro and watermelon. Enjoy!

Banana Blast Smoothie

Kev’s Breakfast Smoothie

• 5 oranges
• 1/2 cups spinach
• 4 bananas
• 2 pints strawberries
• 1/4 cup pre-soaked flaxseed

Instructions: Place all ingredients in a high-speed blender. Blend, enjoy and have a wonderful morning!

*Feel free to cut this recipe in half if you only need one-two servings.

Chocolate Maca Madness

Abby’s Energy & Antioxidant Smoothie

• 1/2 cup coconut milk
• 1/2 banana
• 3 ice cubes
• 2 heaping tablespoons of raw cacao powder
• 1 tablespoon of maca
• 1/8 tsp. of Shilajit
• 1 inch of fresh vanilla bean
• 1 handful of fresh mint leaves

Instructions: Place all ingredients in a high-speed blender. Blend and get ready to conquer the world!

Green Goddess

Maria’s Post-Yoga Smoothie

• 1 cup coconut water
• 5 handfuls of spinach, kale or romaine (for those new to green smoothies, start out using spinach, as it has less of an impact on flavor)
• 1 handful of frozen pineapple
• ½ avocado
• 1 serving hemp protein powder (or your protein powder of choice)
• 1 tbsp cacao nibs (optional)

Instructions: Place all ingredients in a high-speed blender. Blend, enjoy and restore those muscles!

Yummy Fruity Greens

Rachel’s Kickstarter

• ½-full cup of really cold apple juice
• 1 frozen banana
• Handful of frozen strawberries
• 1 heaping scoop of Health Force Nutritionals Vitamineral Greens
• 1 heaping scoop of Raw Power Protein Powder (plain flavored)
• 1 small baby scoop of Health Force Nutritionals Elixir of the Lake
• 1 teaspoon of Lucuma Powder
• A sprinkle of raw probiotics
• A sprinkle of vanilla powder
• (on top) tahini, honey, bee pollen and cinnamon

Instructions: Blend all of the above ingredients in a blender and then pour into a large cup that has about a tablespoon of raw tahini smeared on the sides. On top of the finished smoothie, drizzle raw honey and a dash of cinnamon and bee pollen. Voila! This will hold you over and make you feel great for quite some time.

Chocolate for Breakfast

Hope’s “I’m Out of Greens” Smoothie

• 2 cups of unsweetened almond milk
• 1 frozen banana
• 2 tbsp of cocoa powder (if you have other chocolate/cacao you like to use, go for it!)
• 1 serving of protein powder (I use hemp)
• 2 tbsp chia seeds

Instructions: Add all ingredients except chia seeds and blend. Adjust milk to your thickness preferences. Add chia seeds after, and give them a couple minutes to get all gelatinous before you guzzle. Smile because you’re enjoying chocolate and it’s not bad!

Experiment by substituting frozen strawberries or even oranges for the banana.

Green Berry Blast

Lisa’s Beautifying Smoothie

• 1-2 cups of water (less if you like a thicker smoothie, more if you like a thinner smoothie)
• 1 banana
• 1/2 cup raspberries
• 1/2 cup pineapple
• 2 large kale leaves (stem removed)
• 1 tbsp coconut oil
1 tbsp flax or chia seeds

Instructions: Place all ingredients in a high-speed blender. Blend, enjoy and feel beautiful!

Turmeric Smoothie

Daniela’s Anti-Inflammatory

• ½ -1 cup hemp or coconut milk (use to your desired consistency)
• ½ cup frozen pineapple or mango chunks
• ½ -1 banana (use to your liking)
• 1 tbsp coconut oil
• ½ teaspoon turmeric
• ½ teaspoon cinnamon
• ½ teaspoon ginger
• 1 teaspoon chia seeds
• 1 teaspoon maca

Instructions: Place all ingredients in a high-speed blender. Blend and enjoy!

Annmarie’s Easy Green

A perfect beginners smoothie!

• 1 whole head of romaine lettuce
• 1½ cup water
• ½ cucumber
• Half a bag of mangos
• Half a bag of cherries
• Half a bag of peaches
  

Instructions: Place all ingredients in a high-speed blender. Blend and enjoy!

Light as a Feather

Detox & Weight Loss Smoothie

• 1½ cups water
• 1 head of romaine lettuce
• 4 stalks of fresh celery
• 1 banana
• 1 apple
• 1 pear (cored)
• ½ cup of fresh lemon juice
• ¼ bunch of cilantro or parsley

Instructions: Add lettuce and water into a high-speed blender and blend until smooth. Then add the rest of the ingredients, blend and enjoy!

We hope you enjoy our team smoothie recipes! Feel free to indulge in any of these smoothies for breakfast, as an afternoon pick-me-up, or to help you body recover post-workout.  Also, have fun and experiment with adding your favorite fruits, veggies and supplements to your smoothie and both your taste buds and your belly will be thanking you!

Cheers!

Enter for Our Giveaway! Submit one of your favorite smoothie recipes!

Have a favorite smoothie recipe you’d like to share? Feel free to add your recipe in the comment section below and we’ll pick a winner to receive a copy of Renegade Health’s “Smoothie Recipes for Optimum Health” Book!

Update: this contest is now closed.