Hi Everyone, Happy Monday to you!
Let me ask you a question. Do you dread Monday’s? Do you get tired quicker on this day? Do you get the Monday Blues? Well I have a cure for you. Something, that will give you pep, something to make you smile and something that will make someone else smile if you decide to share. Let me show you what I have for you.
This is the cure for the Monday Blahs! Let me introduce to you my Peanut Butter and Jelly Smoothie!! This smoothie has protein, energy, vitamins and nutrients, not to mentions tastes AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you’re a fan of the famous peanut butter and jelly sandwich, then this is the smoothie for you. It’s made with non-fat milk, 2 tablespoons of the best healthy fat ever, peanut butter, greek yogurt and my personal favorite berry, strawberries!!! This is one of my best smoothies I have ever made in my opinion, however I am kind of bias since it contains peanut butter!
My lovely step-daughter who eats the worse food ever, I’m not kidding about that, was getting ready for work, and I know her, she probably didn’t eat and would end up eating pizza at work. So I made this smoothie, poured it in her travel cup and said drink this at work. She said fine and out the door she went. The next morning she asked, was that a peanut butter and jelly smoothie? It tasted just like the sandwich and it was really creamy smooth. Yupper Doodles it was!! She said she loved it and loved how sweet it was. Ha ha no sugar in this drink. :) I thought this smoothie is way healthier than the pizza and the candy she would end up eating at work. Plus this smoothie will fill her for hours and the protein boost will give her much-needed energy at work. I’m glad I could giver her something nutritious, since she needs all the nutrition she can get. I couldn’t even tell you what the last vegetable or fruit she ate and french fries and strawberries and cream frappuccinos from Starbucks don’t count!
A thick, creamy, healthy smoothie that tastes just like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Ingredients
- 1 cup non-fat milk
- 1/2 cup Greek yogurt, plain 0% fat
- 2 tbsp. peanut butter, creamy
- 1 cup strawberries, frozen
- 1/4 tsp stevia (to taste)
- 1 cup ice
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a blender and process until smooth.
Notes
Calories per serving: 201, Fat: 8.3, Cholesterol: 2.5, Potassium: 177, Carbs: 18.6, Fiber: 2.6, Sugar: 10.4, Protein: 14.3
I hope you like my Monday pick me-up! I know how Monday’s are and it’s nice to come home from work and have a nice nutritious treat to ti me over till dinner. Since this recipe makes two servings, I can share the other half with Jenny. It’s nice to sit down together, sipping over a smoothie and talking gossip!
Have a wonderful day!
Toodles,
Jennifer
Omg!! What a great smoothie recipe .Thanks for sharing. I also wanted to say I love love your blog your stories are great. Thanks again for all u do.
Franna
You are so sweet Franna! Thank you so much! You made my day!
What a fun, delightful way to start the day! BTW, you’re quite sneaky, fooling your step-daughter like that!
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lol, I have to sneak in nutrition some how with my crazy family!!
Looks so yummy! I could live off of PB&J anything.
However, I’m curious about the calories? What kind of PB did you use? Unless it was pb2, I don’t see how this is only 201 calories. 2 tbs of PB are usually 180-200 calories alone.
I used Smart Balance peanut butter, 190 calories for 2 tbsp. milk 100 calories, strawberries 45 calories, yogurt 60 calories is 395. Makes two servings, so it comes to about 197. The recipe makes a smidge over 3 cups. Hope this helps.
Another lower calorie way to go is PB2, which has only 45 calories per 2 tbsp. It is very nice in smoothies.
I love PB2, I use it all of the time! The stuff is amazing! Last week, I got some slack using PB2 instead of PB so I thought in this recipe I would go with peanut butter, but PB2 will work to!
Didn’t realize it made two servings! That helps a lot!! Thanks
Your welcome!
Jen has delish smoothies i pin them all lol. i think she has a great blog and web site and im always printing her recipes. So thanks Jen for another great smoothie, can’t wait to try it. Oh i also use Smart Balance PB.
Yummm this sounds amazing! Peanut Butter Jelly time!
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YUM! PB & J in a glass-yes please!
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lol, I agree! Give my PB and J anytime anyway!
This sounds wonderful and looks beautiful. I just tried a smoothie recipe this morning that didn’t work (NOT yours!), so I’m really happy to see this one. I would probably add a scoop of vanilla (or non-flavored) protein powder to up the protein to where I like it. I’m really glad I found your blog – it seems we have similar tastes in food.
I’m glad you found me too! Great idea on adding protein powder, I love that!!
This looks so creamy, flavorful and refreshing! Thanks for sharing!
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Your welcome!
Ooh, how adorable! I like that you used strawberry jam- my favorite!
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Strawberry is my favorite too!
Mmmm yummm I am going to have this for breakfast tomorrow!!
Hi Kristi! You’ll have to let me know what you think.
I am TOTALLY going to try this!!!! It sounds and looks amazing! Pinning! Thanks for sharing this, love your blog!
Best,
Jen @ YummyHealthyEasy.com
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Ahhhh, thank you so much Jen!!! I’m going to check your blog out now!
I put peanut butter in a smoothie for the first time the other day! I don’t know what I was waiting for – it was SO good. I’ll have to try your recipe next time!
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I love PB in smoothies, but I don’t do it nearly enough!! I don’t know why?
Any suggestions for making this a pb and grape jelly smoothie? I wouldn’t think just using grapes instead of strawberries would quite work but im kinda new to smoothies.
Thanks!
Holly
Hi Holly! I don’t think grapes would work well, to watery. Maybe you could find an all natural grape jelly and add that in. I Just don’t know how much you would need.
What can I use as a substitution for steevia…it makes my throat swell shut…alergic!
Thanks! LR
Hi Elle, I tried to write you from my phone, but it didn’t go through. Just use granulated sugar in place of stevia!! It will taste find. Just start out with a teaspoon and work your way up from there!