Easy Green Smoothie Bowl

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A green smoothie is a great way to eat a healthier lunch or snack everyday, but what happens when you get tired of drinking your food? Sometimes you just want a change.

This Healthy Green Smoothie Bowl takes the ingredients of a typical green smoothie drink and turns it into a tasty lunch that you can eat with a spoon! With spinach, avocado, coconut flakes, protein powder, and banana, you can choose from a few toppings and know you’ll be eating a delicious healthy lunch.

I love a green smoothie at lunch, because it helps me to stay on a healthy-eating plan every day. If I eat something else, like leftovers from the dinner the night before, I’ve noticed I’m more likely to make unhealthy choices later. I don’t know what it is exactly, but eating a healthy lunch really helps me.

But I’m always cold, especially during the winter. Back in January, I was determined to eat healthy, but every time I’d drink a green smoothie for lunch, it would literally chill me to my CORE! It was probably the frozen fruit I’d use, but I just could not do it anymore!

So I started experimenting with a smoothie alternative and came up with this Healthy Green Smoothie Bowl recipe. I couldn’t think of what on earth to call this at first, but I did some googling and read about smoothie bowls. And this is a Smoothie Bowl if I ever saw one!

I adore this Green Smoothie Bowl recipe because it includes a nice amount of spinach and avocado – two foods I try to eat frequently because there’s so many benefits. And both fit so deliciously into this recipe that I don’t even realize I’m eating them!

The other great thing about this green smoothie bowl is that it takes less than 5 minutes to whip up in a food processor. It’s also easy to double the recipe and save half for the next day, though I do think it tastes the best freshly made. You could even put this green smoothie bowl into a mason jar and take it on-the-go! 

Add a few delicious toppings, like walnuts, strawberries, banana slices, and coconut flakes and you’ll have a real treat in your hands. It’s really hard to believe this is such a healthy lunch!

What You’ll Need for this Green Smoothie Bowl:

• ½ avocado
• spinach, one large handful
• 1 ripe banana
• 2 Tbsp coconut flakes
• 2 Tbsp protein powder (I love this pea protein powder)
• 1 Tbsp almond milk
• 1-2 Tbsp hemp hearts, optional

Toppings:

• chopped walnuts
• sliced banana
• coconut flakes
• berries

Put the avocado, spinach, and banana into a food processor and mix until nicely combined.

Scrape the sides, then add the coconut flakes, protein powder, almond milk, and hemp hearts (optional) and mix again.

You can add a little more almond milk if you want to thin it more. I prefer a thicker smoothie bowl myself.

Spoon into a bowl or mason jar.

Add your favorite toppings, grab a spoon, and enjoy your delicious Green Smoothie Bowl lunch!

Easy Green Smoothie Bowl

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This delicious Green Smoothie Bowl takes less than 5 minutes to make and is an almost effortless way to get fruits and vegetables into your diet!

• Author: Erika Bragdon
• Prep Time: 5 mins
• Total Time: 5 mins
• Yield: 1 serving 1x

Ingredients

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• ½ avocado
• spinach, one large handful
• 1 ripe banana
• 2 Tbsp coconut flakes
• 2 Tbsp protein powder
• 1 Tbsp almond milk
• 1–2 Tbsp hemp seed, optional
• Toppings:
• chopped walnuts
• sliced banana
• coconut flakes
• berries

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Instructions

1. Place the avocado, spinach, and banana into a food processor and mix until nicely combined. Add the coconut flakes, protein powder, almond milk, and hemp seed (optional) and mix again.
2. Spoon into a bowl and top with your desired toppings.