Grapes are available year round, but summer seedless grapes are the best. As spring approaches I’m looking forward to the delicious flavor a crips red grape contains. Try thi in a smoothie and reap all the health benefits the red grape has to offer. Grape smoothies don’t get the respect they deserve.

Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 cups chilled (not quite frozen) red seeless grapes
• 2/3 cup sherbet ice cream (raspberry or lime)
• 1/2 cup unsweetened grape juice
• 1 to 3 cups of ice (start with one and add more as needed)

Blend this one ingredient at a time and add the ice cubes slowly until the thickness you want is desired.

Strawberries are good source of vitamins and nutritional value. These are things that stress can deprive us of and drinking fruit smoothies containing strawberries can help replenish us and keep us healthy.

Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups strawberries
• 1/2 cup strawberry nectar
• 1 pitted peach
• 1 cup low-fat plain yogurt or strawberry yogurt if you don’t have the nectar.
• 2 cups ice

I love lemonade and with spring around the corner the weather will be getting warmer here in Virginia so I think having a new lemonade smoothie receipe ready is a good idea. I haven’t tried real lemons, I would love to hear if anyone else has.

 Ingredients:

• 1 cup lemonade
• 1 1/2 cups of rasberries
• 1 cup low-fat lemon yogurt
• 2 cups of ice

Looking for a delicious and protein packed smoothie? This may satisfy both the needs of your tastebuds and muscles.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups of milk
• 2 tablespoons chcolate milk syrup
• 1/2 teaspoon dry chocolate pudding mix
• 1/4 cup peanut butter
• 1 banana
• 1 cups ice

You may wish to add whey power, which I have and that packs even more protein in this drink. Try one tablespoon for extra protein power.

This is the flu season and we all know one of the best things to do is to drink liquid and take vitamin C. Smoothies are the perfect solution to help avoid the flu and help you get better if you have the flu. So lets stock up on Vitamn C without using orange juice.

Ingredients:

• 3 cups of watermelon
• 1 cup cataloupe
• 1/2 cup strawberries
• 1 cup low-fat plain yogurt
• 2 cups of ice

Blend and feel better soon.

Tomatoes are a great ingredient for a healthy smoothie recipe because of their antioxidant properties. Men in particular should add tomatoes to their diet to help prevent prostate cancer.

Ingredients: 

• 2 cups (chopped) tomatoes
• 1/2 cup tomatoe juice
• 1/4 cup apple juice
• 1/2 cup carrots
• 1/4 cup (chopped) celery
• Tabasco or hot sauce to taste
• 2 cups ice

Feel free to add more lime sherbert if you want your smoothie sweeter or thicker. Can you ever have too much lime sherbert?

Ingredients:

• 2 cups cran-apple juice
• 1 1/2 cups of limeade
• 1/4 cup lime juice
• 2 scoops lime sherbert
• 1 cup ice

Blend and really enjoy. This is a favorite smoothie of mine.

Trying to get out the door in the morning and eat a good breakfast is a tough combination, so finding a good smoothie combination to help me is a good idea. Well, I like Grape Nuts cereal and I like to mix it in yogurt and eat it with lunch or for a snack. So why not blend it into a breakfast smoothie? So I did.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup Grape Nuts cereal
• 1/2 cup vanilla yogurt (low-fat)
• 1 cup ice
• 1 banana
• 2 cups juice (orange, apple or whatever you like. I wouldn’t mind trying pineapple in this)

Blend and feel the energy!

Sometimes it can be tough to find good grapes, especially during the winter months in Viriginia, so using grape concentrate in place of grapes is a good idea for a grape smoothie recipe.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups vanilla ice cream (that’s the cow part)
• 8 tbs. frozen grape juice concentrate (I like Welch’s and this is the purple part)
• 1 cup of milk (also the cow part)
• 1 cup of ice

Blend and enjoy.

I absolutely love avocadoes and adding them to a smoothie is something I never thought of before. But I’m all about trying something new and how bad could it be? Well, it was excellent and the avocado adds a creamy texture you don’t find in smoothies usually. Try this avocado smoothie and surprise it on your friends. They’ll be amazed it was made from avocado.

Ingredients:

• 2 bananas
• 2 cups orange juice
• 1 cup of strawberries (preferably fresh, but frozen will do)
• 1 cup of orange or strawberry sherbet
• 1 cup ice
• 1 avocado, peeled and pitted