Pineapple Mango Green Smoothie

It’s time to announce that the green-smoothies fad has officially made its way to my blog. If you haven’t made a green smoothie before, don’t worry, the Pineapple Mango Green Smoothie may have a strange colour but I promise it tastes delicious.

I got this recipe from Café Zupas, which like most smoothies has you blend all the ingredients together at once. My first green smoothie wasn’t a good one. The leafy chunks overpowered the fruity flavor, not necessarily the experience I wanted.

Nevertheless, when making this smoothie, I blended the spinach and almond milk together before adding the fruit. This helps with increasing the smoothness in this green drink.

Together, mango and pineapple give an irresistible tropical taste and contain more than the right amount of Vitamin C people need. These fruits will also provide you with dietary fiber and Vitamin A.

The spinach is what makes this smoothie green; it is full of health benefits and a main part of why this smoothie contains a variety of essential nutrients. It is perfect for cardiovascular health, antioxidant health, and even stress relief.

I love simplegreensmoothies.com, they have tons of valuable tips and recipes to making awesome green smoothies. If you need more help on how to make the perfect green smoothie, click here for five tips to get you started.

If you haven’t gotten on the green smoothie bandwagon yet, try this recipe and I’m sure you’ll be hooked.

Get my version of the recipe here, and enjoy!

Stress Reducing Cool Berry Smoothie

It’s that time of year again, school is getting busier and students are starting to get a case of something most humans are familiar with… stress.

There are multiple ways to relieve stress and believe it or not, eating healthy can be one of them. Numerous foods have a relaxing effect on your body, and the smoothie I made this week include some of those stress-fighting foods.

The Stress Reducing Cool Berry Smoothie includes lettuce (I used kale and spinach), cucumber, blueberries, and coconut water. 

Each ingredient has a factor that aids in relaxing the body. To start off, blueberries are high in vitamin C, which is known for its effect of fighting stress. Cucumbers are excellent for cleansing your skin, and help avoid those surprise breakouts that come when stressed. Coconut water contains several minerals and a variety of B-vitamins. There is research that proves several B-vitamins play a crucial role in lowering anxiety, depression and stress.

Now the one thing I would suggest is if you don’t like the taste of blueberries, I wouldn’t try this. Personally, I love blueberries, so I thoroughly enjoyed this smoothie. However, you can always switch the blueberries with other berries high in Vitamin C.

Once again I added some chia seeds and matcha powder for additional nutrients.

Get the full recipe here, relax and enjoy!

The Californian Smoothie (Avocado-Berry Smoothie)

The first smoothie I want to share is not only healthy and easy to make, but extremely delicious (or what some people would say, berry-licious).

The Californian Smoothie (Avocado-Berry Smoothie), is not really your typical winter drink.  However, as I am not a winter person and have been experiencing a lot of cold weather lately, I’ll take anything that reminds me of summer.

This smoothie is sweet, a little sour, and full of nutrients. It includes; avocado, frozen strawberries and raspberries, pitted dates, almond milk and a tiny amount of honey.

To go further into the nutritional benefits, Vitamin C is especially important in the winter. The strawberries and raspberries are full of this nutrient, which help fight the unwanted illnesses that come along with the cold weather. Avocado is high in multiple nutrients, proven for lowering cholesterol and very good for your heart.  Lastly, almond milk is an excellent milk substitute that is low in calories and contains more vitamins and minerals.

To make it even healthier, I also added some crushed flax seeds and chia seeds. Flax seed has a good source of magnesium and dietary fiber, chia seeds are full of protein and help you stock up on your omega-3.

The good thing about smoothies, well the ones I make at least, once you have the ingredients all you have to do is stick it in a blender.

I got this recipe from a great website called Yummly, get the full recipe here, and ENJOY.

The Blended Approach

Like most female students in their twenties, thoughts of participating in a healthy lifestyle have come to me on multiple occasions (it usually only lasts a week). 


The idea of not only living healthily but eating healthy is currently trending, and I happen to see it everywhere I go.  Yet, between school, work and hanging out with my dog, eating healthy was never something I could grow a habit of doing. I also have a feeling that I’m not the only one with this problem.

Being healthy is necessary, but as a young student, enjoying myself can be just as important. Knowing this guided me to believing in the power of a healthy and delicious smoothie.

Smoothies are not just tasty, but they are also incredibly easy to make. Even the kitchen virgins can put one together. They are the perfect way to make sure your body receives the nutrients it needs, and helps get rid of the toxins it doesn’t. 


Over the next few months, I will be posting recipes and instructions on how to make some of my favourite tasty and healthy smoothies… and I promise they won’t all be pink! The smoothies will not only taste great and make you feel healthy, but they will be full of the essential nutrients. Having a smoothie everyday is the perfect way for a student, or really anyone with a busy lifestyle, to join the trend and start the smooth journey of living a healthy lifestyle.