Try My 2 Healthy Smoothies. Perfect For Breakfast Lunch And Dinner |

hello beautiful person watching this video welcome back to my channel if this is your first time stopping by hello and a very warm welcome to you and thank you so much for watching on today's episode of cooking with benna i am going to be sharing with you all two of my go-to smoothies now i mentioned before that smoothies help a lot to clear out my skin when i had my really bad acne moments smoothies are great guys for detoxifying our bodies they are anti-inflammatory they really help a lot with maintaining weight so if you're looking to lose weight you want to incorporate smoothies in your diet they help boost our energy levels and they are ideal for every stage of life so kids can have it older adults can have it and even persons that are having difficulties chewing they can have smoothies i love them because i can even make them sometimes in the evening and in the morning i just drop and go on very busy days now i use for my green smoothie spinach but usually i will switch the vegetables sometimes i will do kale colored greens sometimes i'll throw in cucumbers or celery whichever green vegetables i have at home i just throw it in there and that's the beauty of smoothies that you get to customize it to suit your taste so guys please stick around and i will show you in a moment how i put this together so i'm going to walk you through the ingredients we need and then we can start putting our smoothie together so for the green smoothie i have here about two handfuls of baby spinach now when it comes to my green smoothies i always keep it simple i always pick one leafy green at a time and the reason is because when you start to mix and match leafy greens it can end up ruining the taste of your smoothie sometimes the smell um some people that i've talked to they don't like smoothies just because of the taste or and also if you don't have like a good blender it doesn't blend the greens really well and so it becomes chunky so if you want to start um one leafy green at a time is great i prefer baby spinach just because they are milder and also a little bit sweeter i promise you you won't taste in a smoothie baby spinach i'm also going to be using about half an inch of ginger for some added metabolism boost i have here about one medium ripe banana now banana is going to be my only fruit in this in the green smoothie i love bananas because they bring that creaminess to your smoothies and also if you don't like bananas you don't like the smell of bananas you can swap it with mangoes if you're allergic to bananas swap with mangoes and if you just don't like the smell of bananas i promise you what's bananas do in your smoothie is that they're gonna give up their smell and also take away the smell of the greens and it creates some balance and creaminess that makes your smoothie so yummy now let's move to our protein i'm going to be using this flax seed flax seed is high in protein fiber and also omega-3 fatty acids i'm also going to be picking a nut so in this case i'm going to be using this raw almond butter this is going to give us some good healthy fats in our smoothie and sometimes i also use my chia seeds so for the chia seeds if you want to use them make sure you soak them really well and of course water um i use water in my smoothies now if you want to use um any sort of milk you can go ahead and do that but for me i just prefer using water because i always always like to keep my smoothies whole so that's why i just go with water so so let's move to the second smoothie this smoothie is my daughter's absolutely favorite i um i just love it because of the oatmeal inside oatmeals keep you fuller they're really high in fiber as well and a really great great breakfast option so for this option i'm going to be using half a cup of oatmeal for the bananas i'm going to use just half a banana just because i have other fruits here so i have one cup of strawberries and i also have half a cup of blueberries and i'm also going to be using one cup of water so to start guys i'm going to go in with one cup of water in our blender next i'll go in with our bananas i'll just add our bananas in i'll go in with the ginger next one tablespoon of flax seed and finally i will go in with the almond butter i have one tablespoon of almond butter and i'm using the raw almond butter now what i'm going to do is i'll first of all um put in some of the greens and if all the greens don't feed that's okay i will um start blending and then i can add the rest of the greens later to the blender so guys our smoothie is all good to go i'm just gonna serve it in this glass this wine glass sometimes it's good to serve your smoothie in the white wine glass that way you pretend you're drinking some wine guys it looks so yummy it's so creamy and uh i'm just gonna put some lemon to the side and if you like a straw you can use a straw to drink your smoothie and enjoy cheers guys so for our oatmeal berry smoothie i'm going in first with our water always so that i'm going to add half a cup of oatmeal i have here one cup of flax seed powder i'm going to go in with half a banana next half cup of blueberries and finally our strawberries so guys our oats banana and berries smoothie is all ready just look at how beautiful that looks i love the color and creaminess the oatmeal and the banana they just bring some creaminess to the smoothie and the color from the strawberries and the blueberries it just adds up that beautiful color i'm just gonna serve it guys and again once more if you want a straw you can totally go ahead with your straw and enjoy your smoothie guys so beautiful and just so yummy if you like this video guys please do not forget to give it a thumbs up also let me know in the comment section what your favorite smoothie blend is please consider subscribing to my channel so we can continue to encourage each other and grow together and when you do please do not forget to turn on that notification bell so each time i upload a new 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