Tropical Green Smoothie

I'm not a good food photographer, or a good recipe-writer, but I wanted to write a quick post about the deliciousville that has been my standard breakfast for the past week. It's ultra-yummy and contains nearly all of my favorite whole plant foods.

How to (approximately) make my latest favorite smoothie:

Step 1) Buy a Vitamix.

Okay... you don't HAVE to buy a Vitamix, but it makes smoothies smooth like no other blender can.

Step 2) Collect the following:

2 frozen bananas
1/2 to 1 cup frozen pineapple
1/2 cup frozen mango
1 cup vanilla coconut milk (or plain sweetened, or unsweetened--the drink from the box, not the thick stuff from the can) (available at Trader Joe's)
1/4 cup frozen orange juice concentrate (or just use orange juice and skip adding water)
a handful of baby kale
a handful of baby carrots
1-2 tablespoons ground flaxseed
enough water

Step 3) Blend!

Step 4) Drink in the perfection.

There you go! At night, I sometimes make a second round, but leave out the water, and then it blends into a nice, thick sorbet-like consistency, which I eat for dessert. If you chill the sorbet version in the freezer for an hour or two, it's almost the same thickness as fro-yo.

My picture, sadly, doesn't show you what a pretty shade of mossy sage green it is in real life. Oh well.