Four Summer Smoothie Recipes

It’s summer, and you want to get out the door quickly – whether to the beach, the pool or somewhere with an air con that works better than yours. But you can’t skip breakfast for all the reasons you already know. Plus, there are so many summer fruits to enjoy before they disappear.

Enter the smoothie. Throwing a handful of nutritious ingredients into the blender isn’t hard, and the result is delicious and fast. If you’re extra organised, you can even pre-fill sandwich bags with ingredients and freeze them for future you.

With the help of some of our favourite cafes around the country, we compiled four fail-safe smoothie recipes to try for when you need a health kick in the morning, when you crave a decadent but nutritious after-work snack, or just whenever. Because who doesn’t love a good smoothie?

Harry’s banana-date smoothie

Ingredients

1 frozen banana
1 Hi-Bran Weet-Bix
80g medjool dates
30g activated macadamias
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Pinch chai spice
200ml house-made almond-macadamia milk

Garnish
Chopped macadamias
Crushed Weet-Bix (optional)
Dates, roughly chopped
Pinch chai spice
Drizzle of maple

Venus Wholefoods mango green smoothie

Ingredients

1 cup of mango
1 big handful of spinach
1 heaped tsp chia seeds
1 cup orange juice
6 large mint leaves
1 Weet-Bix
1 cup ice

Mammoth banana-pineapple smoothie

Ingredients

1 frozen banana
50g pineapple
30g coconut
250ml coconut water
1 Weet-Bix
30g acai
1 tsp white chia
1 medjool date

Little Big Sugar Salt cherry-coconut smoothie

Ingredients

250ml almond milk
1 tbsp coconut yoghurt
2 gluten-free Weet-Bix
3 tsp cacao
4 tsp cherry compote or cherry jam
Ice

Garnish
2 cherries
Shaved coconut