Kids Smoothies: Superfood Smoothie Recipe

Do you ever go to the grocery retailer along with your children, simply so you will discover one thing new that you simply’ve by no means tried earlier than?  We did that this previous week. So enjoyable!! And we got here dwelling with Crimson Chard.  Chard is a “dietary powerhouse — a superb supply of nutritional vitamins Okay, A, and C, in addition to a superb supply of magnesium, potassium, iron, and dietary fiber in this kids smoothies”

LET’S MAKE A SUPERFOOD SMOOTHIE RECIPE: kids smoothies

This fruity recipe is the proper getaway as your consolation drink throughout scorching summer season days or everytime you really feel such as you want some refreshment.

SUPERFOOD SMOOTHIE INGREDIENTS

• 1 cup of cranberries
• 1 cup of blueberries
• 1 banana
• 2 massive leaves of purple chard (with the stem eliminated). If they’re small leaves, you’ll need 3

DIRECTIONS TO MAKE A SUPERFOOD SMOOTHIE RECIPE

Step 1: kids smoothies

Be sure you wash the chard nicely earlier than you eat it.  In case your chard is like ours, it is likely to be a contact gritty.

Step 2

Chop the inexperienced up and add it to the blender together with the fruit.

Step 3: kids smoothies

Mix the smoothie with sufficient water to make it easy.  I believe we used between 2 and three cups of water, simply stored pouring it in till our veggies and fruit have been pureed and easy.

This recipe makes roughly 2 pints of smoothie.

BENEFITS OF THIS SUPERFOOD SMOOTHIE

You’re ingesting roughly 3 cups of chopped chard leaves, that could be a complete of 70 energy, however for every 1/2 cup of smoothie (i.e. kid-sized portion) there may be 100% of the every day worth for Vitamin Okay.  Wowsers!  

Add that to the antioxidant energy of each blueberries and cranberries, together with the micro-nutrients and the potassium from the bananas, that is GOOD for you.  I believe you possibly can virtually really feel your hair rising as you drink it!