With the abundance of chocolate and sweets on offer at most Halloween parties the accompanying sugar highs seem pretty guaranteed. To counteract, and to provide some fruit and veggies my toxic swamp smoothie packs a double banana hit, with added swampiness from spinach. I know that many children are adverse to spinach, but rather remarkably you cannot taste it at all. Whip them up out of sight of the children, or add some cocoa powder for an extra muddy toxic swamp.
I used banana flavoured drinking yoghurt, blended with banana as a base for the smoothie. Either banana or vanilla yoghurt would work in its place, thin down if needed with a little milk. If you have a decent blender make an extra thick smoothie by peeling and freezing chunks of banana and blitzing from frozen. (A standard stick blender will be powerful enough to pulverize the spinach but might not cope with frozen banana)
If you feel that the green toxic swamp will not go down well with your little horrors make a muddy toxic swamp, by adding a spoon of cocoa powder and a little honey to sweeten.
- 2 small bottles banana flavoured drinking yoghurt, (or banana milk or yoghurt)
- 2 bananas
- 1 large handful baby leaf spinach
- milk to thin, optional
- 1 Tbs cocoa powder
- honey to taste
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Place all the ingredients in a blender and blitz until smooth
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Serve immediately with spooky treats
Gonna have to try this one Helen. Love the photos :)
Thanks Jac. Made in the Vitamix of course.
EWWWWWWWWWWWW! (yum)
EWWWWWW indeed. I actually start nearly every morning with a green smoothie.
Oh yes, my kids are going to love this – thanks for sharing!
Toxic Swamp? Why yes, I’d love a glass!!!
Fabulous recipe and idea Helen and a wonderful tonic to all the sweets and chocolate around this time of year. I long for a proper smoothie machine but will try this in the magi mix and see how it works.