This post has been sponsored by Arizona Milk Producers. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Raise your hand if you have trouble getting your children to eat vegetables? If you did not raise your hand, consider yourself lucky or you are lying, lol. A super easy way I hide in vegetables & more protein for the kids is a smoothie. A chocolate strawberry smoothie is one of my go-to smoothies to hide the vegetable and cottage cheese taste. I use cottage cheese to add some protein and cottage cheese makes it much creamier as opposed to adding straight milk. Also, the cottage cheese is a great substitute of you are looking to make the smoothie recipe keto friendly. My favorite brand of cottage cheese is Shamrock Farms and I pick it up at my local Safeway in the cold dairy section. I also use Safeway grocery delivery straight from the app.
I make the kids smoothies andI usually make myself a smoothie bowl for Nick and I. We all need the added protein for our daily workouts and the additional Vitamin D for a healthy immune system (I cut out a lot of the fruit for me, Nick still needs his vegetables hidden, I call him my 4th kid 😉
Visit here to find your nearest ABSco location and pick up all your ingredients for the strawberry chocolate cottage cheese smoothie.
Strawberry Chocolate Hidden Veggie Smoothie
Ingredients:
Makes 32 ounces-
1/3 cup Daisy Cottage Cheese
2 cups Water (Use one cup for smoothie bowl or else there will be too much liquid)
2 cups Frozen or Fresh Strawberries
1/2 cup Frozen or Fresh Spinach
One Large Banana
1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract
1/4 tsp Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Cacao Powder (you can also use cocoa powder, cacao has more vitamins though) This is the chocolate, yummmmm!
1/2 tsp Super Green Powder (usually found in the supplement/vitamin section)
Optional- coconut flakes, fresh blueberries/strawberries, I also add a little more chocolate powder (anything you want for garnish)
If you use fresh strawberries and spinach, add some ice to make it cold!
Add everything to a blender and blend! You may need to blend a couple times to get a smoothie/juice consistency!
The kids do not really enjoy cottage cheese by itself, however, they cannot tell it is in the smoothie and I get to sneak in added protein and vitamins into their smoothie! Also, Cole loves the coconut flakes, the girls do NOT. I made that mistake once…
Enjoy your hidden vegetable chocolate smoothie in a cup or a bowl packed with protein rich and multiple vitamins from cottage cheese!
