Breakfast Smoothie

I have a love-hate relationship with breakfast. I don't really like cereal, or eggs, or yogurt. But I like really bad breakfast food, like hash-browns and bacon-egg-n-cheeserz (a breakfast sandwich of my childhood). So that kind of made me stop eating breakfast. But recently I concocted an awesome breakfast smoothie that's not awful for me. It started with mocha powder, ice and milk. Then came almond milk instead. Then PB2 (powdered peanut butter) and frozen bananas. Suddenly I had an awesome breakfast smoothie that I really liked and wasn't half bad nutritionally.



The ingredients are simple: 1 half of a frozen banana, some ice (I fill my cup about 1/3 up), 2 tbs. of PB2, 2 tbs. of mocha powder, and 3/4 cup of almond milk. I've recently considered swapping the mocha powder and ice with frozen coffee cubes but haven't tried yet. You can also use whatever milk you please.



First, cut the banana into pieces so they blend better. Then blend the ice and the banana together. I do this with the ice shaver blade in my Magic Bullet. That will yield a banana-y ice-y mixture as pictured.



Then add the milk, PB2, and mocha powder. Blend together with a normal mixer blade until thoroughly mixed. It's as simple as that.

I previously made this drink without the frozen banana, but it has a slushy overly ice-y texture. The frozen banana makes it creamy, without the flavor being to overpowering (I find banana mellows when frozen). The PB2 also mixes way better in a frozen drink than "real" peanut butter.

So if you, too, have a love-hate relationship with breakfast try this out and let me know what you think! Enjoy! :)