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Home » Breakfast » Banana & Strawberry Breakfast Smoothie

14 March 2015

Banana & Strawberry Breakfast Smoothie

Get your day off to a great start with this quick, nutritious and delicious banana and strawberry breakfast smoothie. With an added ingredient to help keep you feeling full until lunchtime.

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Banana and strawberry smoothie

Since sharing the recipe for my Banana and Almond Breakfast Smoothie in January I’ve been enjoying having more smoothies for breakfast. They’re quick, nutritious and most importantly, they taste good.

A lot of the smoothies I’ve been having have been a very close variation of the original, with bananas and oats. So recently I’ve been trying to find something a little different.

I’ve still used bananas (they taste so good and make a nice thick smoothie which makes it feel more filling), and this time I’ve switched the oats for wheatgerm, which is high in fibre, helping to make it a filling breakfast.

I bought the wheatgerm from my local health food store. If you can’t get hold of any then crunched up bran flakes work just as well.

banana and strawberry smoothie 3

This smoothie tastes best when it’s made from very ripe strawberries and bananas. If either the strawberries or bananas are a little under ripe it can taste a little bitter.

If you find this is the case then add a little something sweet and this will help to balance out the flavours. I choose to use stevia, a natural sweetener with no calories. However, sugar or other sweeteners would work too.

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Banana and strawberry smoothie

Banana & Strawberry Breakfast Smoothie

Get your day off to a great start with this quick, nutritious and delicious banana and strawberry breakfast smoothie. With an added ingredient to help keep you feeling full until lunchtime.
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Active Time: 3 minutes
Total Time: 3 minutes
Servings: 2 people
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INGREDIENTS

Metric - US Cups/Ounces
  • 400 ml skimmed milk
  • 1 banana
  • 6 large strawberries
  • 2 tbsp wheatgerm - or bran flakes

INSTRUCTIONS

  • Put all of the ingredients into a blender (400ml skimmed milk, 1 banana, 6 large strawberries, 2 tbsp wheatgerm).
  • Blend until smooth
  • Serve

NOTES

If you prefer your smoothie to be a little more icy then you can use frozen bananas and/or strawberries or chuck in a few ice cubes.
If you prefer your smoothie warm then pop it into the microwave (covered) on full power for 1 minute.
Have you tried this recipe? Please leave a comment and rating at the bottom of the page to let others know what you thought.
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NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION

Calories: 183kcal | Carbohydrates: 28g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Cholesterol: 16mg | Sodium: 95mg | Potassium: 595mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 19g | Vitamin A: 240IU | Vitamin C: 26.3mg | Calcium: 246mg | Iron: 0.6mg

Any nutritional information provided is the estimated nutritional information per serving. Please refer to my guide to Charlotte’s Lively Kitchen nutritional information if you would like to learn more about how this is calculated.


Course: Breakfast

Free From/Suitable For…

The ingredients I used to make this recipe are all free from the following allergens. However, please check any labels carefully for allergens you need to avoid as brands can vary and product recipes can change over time.

  • Suitable for Vegetarians
  • Egg-Free
  • Tree Nut-Free
  • Peanut-Free
  • Sesame-Free
  • Soya-Free
  • Sulphur Dioxide & Sulphite-Free
  • Fish-Free
  • Crustacean-Free
  • Mollusc-Free
  • Celery-Free
  • Mustard-Free
  • Lupin-Free

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  1. Fiver Feeds says

    March 22, 2015 at 12:34 pm

    Banana&strawberry is probably my favorite smoothie, I just love the combination of those two.

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  2. Mel says

    March 16, 2015 at 1:17 am

    We love smoothies around here. We have them most days for afternoon snack and the kids are keen to make their own combinations (hence my Sunday photo today!). love the taste of Wheatgerm and used to sprinkle in salads when I was a student. The only problem is it was ‘inflating’ my tummy, he he! I only use it to make bread these days, but still love it!

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    • Charlotte Oates says

      March 17, 2015 at 11:19 pm

      I’ve not tried it in a salad before, sounds nice (although not the inflating part!)

    • Mel says

      March 17, 2015 at 11:23 pm

      It tastes yummy just sprinkled over the top… adds a little ‘je ne sais quoi’ (but you’ll look 6 months pregnant after a week if you do that every day!).

    • Charlotte Oates says

      March 17, 2015 at 11:27 pm

      Hmmmmm, maybe just once in a while then!

  3. Helen says

    March 15, 2015 at 8:51 am

    Perfect for the two brownish bananas I still have in my fruit basket (already made banana bread!). I wonder if this would work with frozen strawberries….? Helen

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    • Charlotte Oates says

      March 15, 2015 at 8:56 am

      It works well with both fresh and frozen fruit. The iciness makes it a bit thicker and slightly milkshake-y.

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