Kale, Spinach, Banana Smoothie

After I go on a run is one of the times when I'm feeling my best and healthiest. 

So why stuff my face with gnarly greasy food? I try to always reach for my trusty handheld blender (the purple thing in the background of the pictures) and whip up a smoothie.

It's incredibly easy to make any type of smoothie. Normally the ingredients I use are as follows:

1 banana

1/2 cup frozen fruit

Dab of honey

Just enough almond/soy/rice milk to cover everything

Sometimes half a scoop of women's protein powder, I use one called Aria from Trader Joe's. (I realize now that it's not vegan, and has some milk ingredients in it)

Then you blend it up for a great post-workout recharge!  These are also great first thing in the morning when I'm not really feeling eating solid food.

After my run on this particular day, my paleo roommate and I discovered that we each had a whole bag of frozen kale that we had forgotten about in the freezer.

Since I had run out of frozen fruit anyways, I just put in a bunch of kale and some spinach leaves out of my salad bag along with the banana, and blended that right up.  Turns out the almond milk and banana covered up any sort of bitterness from the leafy veg's. The outcome was this beautiful green jem, that tasted really good!