Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Oat Smoothie – Healthy breakfast smoothie chock full of peanut butter, banana, oats, and chocolate topped off with delicious fresh blueberries.
Time to start the new year off healthy. And for me that includes smoothies. They don’t take much thought and it’s a great way to start the day. Minus the fact that it makes me think it’s 10 degrees below. And it starts this whole cycle.
Drink coffee. Warmth. Ahh… Drink smoothie. I’m flippin’ freezing. Ahhh….I need more coffee. And on it goes. But besides that I definitely put smoothies on my regular breakfast rotation.
For all my fellow blogger friends and photographers I have to let you in on a little secret. This simple smoothie turned not so simple when I went to edit pictures. Let me back up. When I took the pictures everything seemed great and I had my usual fun.
When it came time to actually edit and put them on the blog I was frustrated. They just didn’t seem to capture the smoothie the way I wanted. I could be super stubborn, delete the pictures and start over but I’m too tired for that.
So here you have an ultra simple delicious AMAZING picture with some mediocre pictures. Thanks for listening as I vent about my ‘job’ that I adore. I feel so blessed to be able to do this everyday and it’s truly a joy. So if the worst thing that can happen is I learn from my mistakes and grow. Then that’s a great thing.
Enjoy your January!
Til we meet and eat again,
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Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Oat Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 handful of ice
- 1/2 cup milk soy, almond or regular
- 1 large or 2 small frozen bananas
- 3 tablespoons oats
- 1 Tablespoon peanut butter or any nut butter
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder
- fresh blueberries for topping
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients except blueberries in a blender in the order listed. Blend until smooth. Pour in glass and garnish with fresh blueberries
Great smoothie and great pictures!! I don’t know why you don’t like them!
This smoothie looks fantastic, Melanie! I love the peanut butter and oat combo, so delicious and healthy!
So…am still wondering which of these pictures you consider “mediocre”….??? Melanie – they all look fantastic to me – they make me wanna smoothie even though I try to avoid them in winter! Welcome back!!! And Happy happy New Year!!!
My smoothie-a-day habit is back in full force now that the holidays are over! Love the flavor combo you have here and ps- your photos look great to me! You’re your own worst critic 😉
These pictures are still beautiful! And you can never go wrong with a chocolate peanut butter smoothie — the perfect healthy treat!
how delicious!!!!!
Love the photos and the flavours Melanie! How are they mediocre? Girl we are so hard on ourselves – they look fab!
Thanks for the encouragement Jessica! I surely needed it today!
The pics look great, as does the smoothie! I hate photographing drinks of any kind. It’s SO hard!!
Glad I’m not the only who has a hard time with this! Thanks Dorothy!
Love the flavors in this smoothie, it looks delicious! I think the photos look fabulous! Happy New Year, Melanie!
I hear ya on the warm then cold drink then warm again situation. I do it every time too 🙂 This is one awesome sounding smoothie…and I think you are too hard on yourself. The pics look great!
I think the photos look great! I mean heck, I would reach through the screen right now and grab that smoothie if they would invent the darn technology for it already! Pinning this so I remember to make!
Thanks for the encouragement Chris! Hope you find the time to try it.
Girl… I kinda want to hate you 😉 Your photos look great and I’m over the moon when I can get mine to look that good!
All the same, this is the recipe I plan on trying in a few. This preggy lady is craving smoothies!
Thanks for the sweet compliment Kendra! Hope you enjoy it like we have!