I realize this sounds weird, but give it a try! It’s delicious. The banana makes it nice and sweet with the milk, and you can’t taste the spinach. I promise! 
Ingredients:
- Half a ripe banana
- 1 C skim milk
- Fresh baby spinach (Pack in as much as you want! I use 2 huge handfuls)
Instructions:
Just toss it all in the blender with a couple ice cubes and mmm… SO delicious!!
Such a great way to sneak in some greens 
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Anne, I wonder if instead of the spinach I could use some green grass powder. I have been drinking Green Vibrance- organic greens and freeze dried grass juice…
I drink it in the a.m….and it is a slow process….maybe in the smoothie it would go down faster and taste better. Just a thought.
Absolutely! That would definitely make it tastier. I do that a lot with the Vega greens smoothie powder – have you tried it? Pretty tasty actually!
Dear Anne! This is pretty amazing! but I must say that as a child my grandmother used to give us some kind of juice (wich i didnt like because it was too healthy
that contained fresh orange juice+spinach juice. It really doesn’t taste bad and I appreciated more these days.
GRacias for this recipe!
A hug from Lima, Perú
Smart grandma
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Tried this smoothy with strawberries and it was pretty good. Although mine was brownish not green! lol I’m not sure why. I got this from my friend Tina at FFF blog.
Hi!
Just read your post! Ha ha! The reason your smoothies combining spinach and strawberries is brown, is because the combination of the colors green and red makes brown! Still a great smoothies, I tried it and loved it! Thank u!
Yum! Thanks so much for this recipe. I am in the first trimester of a twin pregnancy and having a really hard time eating due to queasiness. Last week I discovered I could stomach smoothies with bananas, milk, and vanilla whey protein to up my protein intake, but I wasn’t getting enough vegetables. I tried throwing in a couple handfuls spinach in the smoothie and I can hardly taste it at all. Now I can get protein AND veggies in a form I can handle eating – thanks!
Yay I’m so happy to hear that!
Hi Anne! These recipes look wonderful, and I’m so excited to try some of them. I noticed, however, that you use dairy in your spinach smoothie. I’ve always been told that its not good to combine dark leafy greens (spinach, kale, etc) with dairy because the dark greens interfere with your body’s ability to absorb the calcium in the dairy. As a general rule, I always use non-dairy milk when I make green smoothies. Have you ever thought about doing this?
Hi Liz! I haven’t thought about that, but that’s just because I love regular milk. I’ve learned in school that a lot of things block other things from being absorbed depending what you are eating together.. and it’s kind of impossible to always eat the perfect combination, so I’ll just do the best that I can. I probably wouldn’t ever buy non-dairy milk… so it makes more sense for me to just drink these when I feel like it with regular milk, and absorb what my body can, vs. not having them at all. But by all means – try the recipes with non-dairy milk and let me know how they are!
Almond milk in this recipe is great. So anyone who is non-dairy…just as awesome as with dairy milk
Awesome
Thanks for the tip!