It’s that time again! 12 bloggers, 12 recipes, 12 ingredients or less. This month’s theme is just perfect for spring- fresh and fruity.
I made a healthy tropical smoothie for you all to enjoy today. It’s naturally sweetened, dairy free, and delicious! This is one of my kids’ favorite smoothie combos. Any extras left in the bottom of the blender? Just throw them into popsicle molds and freeze for later.
I call for lots of frozen fruit in the recipe. You don’t have to use it but I strongly recommend it. Getting into the habit of keeping lots of frozen fruit on hand will change your smoothie life. It makes the texture like a Jamba Juice, thick and almost ice cream like! And we all know that is never a bad thing.
Need some more advice on smoothie making? You might like my recent post on Good, Better, and Best Smoothies.
Enjoy, and be sure to check out all of the other recipes for this month.
Clean and Healthy Tropical Smoothie
- Yield: 2 large smoothies or 4 smaller portions
Ingredients
- 2 cups frozen pineapple
- 1 cup frozen banana (about 2 bananas)
- 1 whole orange, peeled
- 1 1/2 cups vanilla almond milk
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
Instructions
- Add all of the ingredients to a blender and process until smooth.
- If your blender is working too hard or not mixing well, add a bit more almond milk and blend again.
- Enjoy right away.
Notes
Any leftovers are great frozen into popsicles for later!
And if you want to throw in a cup of frozen blueberries you’ll have a delicious purple smoothie! Less tropical but still super delicious.
All of the pretty ladies who are participating:
Everyone brought their A-game! These recipes look delicious.
- Strawberry Cheesecake Mini Jars from Mom Endeavors
- Mixed Berry Panna Cotta from BetsyLife
- Simple Strawberry Tart from The Rebel Chick
- Minty Strawberry-Lime Icebox Pie from Home Cooking Memories
- Easy Fresh Fruit Tartlets from A Little Clarification
- Strawberry Lemonade Popsicles from A Night Owl Blog
- Easy Apple Tarts from Million Moments
- Classic Strawberry Shortcake from Eat Your Heart Out
- Lemon Sorbet from See Vanessa Craft
- Triple Berry Granitas from Around My Family Table
- Blueberry Slush from Plugged In Family
This is super similar to some of my favorite smoothie recipes. Love using frozen fruit to get that thick and creamy texture! So refreshing.
My kids love smoothies, and I love that it has almond milk so I can have it too!
Melissa I need a large one of these smoothies right now! I was just commenting on Kimberly’s popsicles about how we are sweating here in FL. This looks so refreshing!! Pinned!
I’m so trying this! Thanks!
People need to realize they are not “clean” eating if their food has the dye’s in it. Red 40, Red 3, Yellow 3, Blue 1, etc. A lot of times dye’s are sprayed on the fruits (yes even frozen fruit) to make the color more attractive to customers. If you are eating food with dye’s in it you are NOT clean eating.
Melissa;
Hi,your smoothie looks really good,but I was wondering what the carbs and sugar content is in your tropical smoothie.
I am a diabetic and I was wondering if this smoothie can be made in a magic bullet blender for 1 person.
How can I lower the sugar and carbs in your tropical smoothie?
Can I put protein powder in your smoothie with the coconut milk and the frozen tropical fruit in my blender?
Kim
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You could use an online app to figure out the carbs for this, I don’t have the info. And yes, coconut milk and protein powder would be great in this!