Hi Everyone,
Happy Monday to you! This week is a short week for me, and I LOVE it! We do not get to many holidays off, but we do have Good Friday off and it will be a good Friday! Next week I am going to Monterrey for work and I think I’ll be spending my Good Friday doing a little shopping. I am in dire need of some capri’s and spring shirts. Since last week I have been having fun with Smoothie Monday’s so today I have another smoothie for you today. I figured we better start the week off on a good foot or a nice rabbit hop! 🙂
I thought since this is Easter week that I would theme today’s smoothie after next weekends holiday. If you don’t celebrate Easter, that’s ok too, you can still have a nice healthy smoothie that is light, filling, sweet and has a little bit of a tropical flair!
I actually based this smoothie off of a Carrot Cake which I have been craving, but this doesn’t taste like carrot cake, it has more of a tropical taste to it do to the sweetness of the carrot juice and the pineapple. It’s very good! I picked up some fresh carrot juice from Trader Joe’s which was really tasty. I never had carrot juice before and I was impressed on how it tasted and how sweet it is. For my the milk, my Husband out of all people, found Dream Blends Almond, Cashew and Hazelnut Drink. I didn’t find that it had to much of a nut taste, but that could be because I’m still fighting off this cold. This drink will help with my cold too! It has 110% vitamin C!
This drink is perfect for a pick me up, a good dose of vitamins, which I’ll share with you in the recipe section and perfect for when you’re in need of a nice drink to cool you off.
- ½ cup carrot juice
- 1 cup pineapple, frozen
- ½ cup Almond, Cashew Hazelnut Drink (or milk of choice)
- ⅛ tsp cinnamon, ground
- ½ cup ice
- Add all ingredients in a blender, process until smooth.
Vitamin A: 15%, Vitamin: B-12: 25%, Vitamin C: 110%, Vitamin D: 12.5%, Vitamin 20%, Calcium: 17%, Iron: 6%,
I hope you are liking Monday Smoothies. Since I have to make my recipes way in advance, so I have them for you next week, next weeks smoothie is going to be a sweet treat! I have a crazy idea and I can’t wait to try it! Here’s a hint, cake! 😉 Hope it turns out.
Have a wonderful week!
Remember be Happy and Be Healthy!
Toodles,
Jennifer
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Hi, Jennifer – What a surprise to see your new design. It looks great! There is a bar to the left, though, that is placed just on top of the text, making it hard to read. It’s the rectangular bar with the buttons for Facebook likes, Pinterest, etc. I wonder if it’s only my computer or if anyone else is having this little glitch?
Thanks for all your wonderfully creative and healthy recipes!
Beth
Thanks Beth! I am surprised to see my new design too! lol I woke up and here it is. Thanks, after work today, I’ll play around with it and it fix it up. Thank you for your feedback! Have a great day!!
I love this smoothie idea! So pretty, too!
Thank Gloria!
Yay for a short week! I have Friday off too and am so excited!
Love your cute new design!!!
Enjoy your Friday! I know I will too! 🙂
This smoothie looks tropical and so yummy!! I’m OBSESSED with your new web design by the way (:
Thank you!! 🙂
I have never put carrots in a smoothie, I must try! Love your new blog design too!
Thank you Stephanie!! Carrots in a smoothie makes it very sweet! It tasted way better than I imagined!
What a refreshing sounding smoothie! 🙂
Thanks Amy! I really liked this smoothie, very refreshing!
Healthy and delicious. I like the carrot juice a lot and in smoothie it will be much tastier.
This smoothie is so good, you wouldn’t even know there is carrot juice in it!
Love the redesign!!! And that carrot juice. I’ve NEVER seen that there?! What have I been doing. Must pick that up b/c it’s so much easier than to juice carrots!
Thank you Averie! The Carrot Juice is found with all the fresh drinks int he refrigerated isle.
This sounds really tastety. I’ve been doing a lot of green smoothies lately. My hubby has been kicking and screaming but it’s good for us. Got to try it. Thank you for sharing.
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I have to do the green smoothies, I keep buying spinach, but then I forget to add it in! Oddly enough, my picky Husband likes my smoothies! But I give them to him when he’s working on his car, so he doesn’t give much thought into, just drinks it! Hey, I’ll take it! lol
Oh lala, this looks refreshing!! Thanks for linking up at our Gluten Free Fridays party! I have tweeted and pinned your entry to our Gluten Free Fridays board on Pinterest! 🙂
The party will be GREAT this week! We are giving away a tote full of goodies from Namaste Foods! The items are gluten free and allergy friendly! Can’t wait to see what you bring to the party!
Cindy from vegetarianmamma.com