This Peach Kiwi Green Smoothie is the perfect way to eat your spinach! Even the kids will love this one.
Getting your kids to eat green food can be tricky. They aren’t naturally inclined to eat leafy green vegetables. At least MOST kids aren’t. If you’ve got one of those, consider yourself lucky!
Smoothies are a great way to get more greens into your kids’ diet. Green smoothies for the win! This one is creamy, sweet, and delicious!
This Green Smoothie allows them to totally getting all the nutritional benefits without any of the I-don’t-wanna-eat-my-veggies fight they may or may not put up.
Your kids put up a fight, right? Please tell me Meghan’s not the only preschooler out there who needs a little shove to eat her greens.
This version of the Green Smoothie, with peaches and kiwi, is full of vitamin C, which helps our bodies absorb the iron in the spinach.
Recipe Ingredients–What You Need
Just LOOK at all the fresh, nutritious food we are packing in there! Also, I must say, I highly recommend the Vitamix blender for the smoothest smoothies! (affiliate link)
1/4 cup full-fat coconut milk, refrigerated if possible (the canned kind)
Using full-fat coconut milk that’s been refrigerated makes the smoothie incredibly rich and creamy, almost like a milk shake. This works just fine if your coconut milk hasn’t been refrigerated, though, so no worries if you forgot to put it in the fridge. (Been there.)
1 large, ripe banana
A banana adds sweetness without the need for added sugar! Use a frozen banana for an even thicker smoothie.
1 kiwi, peeled
Kiwi adds vitamin C to this smoothie, which helps the iron from the spinach be absorbed.
~10 slices frozen peaches
Frozen peaches make for a thick and creamy smoothie, and also make it easy to use peaches even when they aren’t in season. Peach season is too short to only make this green smoothie recipe in the summer!
1-2 cups baby spinach leaves
Any greens can be substituted here, but baby spinach has a very mild flavor, making this very kid-friendly.
additional unsweetened almond milk or water, if needed
If you’d like a thinner smoothie, add a little extra liquid until it’s the texture of your preference.
If you haven’t introduced your kids (or yourself!) to a green smoothie yet, this one is a great place to start and the perfect excuse to drink a green breakfast! If you have, this is a fun version that tastes as good as it is healthy. Another great recipe for getting more greens is this Pineapple Spinach Smoothie! Another great green smoothie recipe is this Kale Smoothie!
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Peach Kiwi Green Smoothie
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 1 large smoothie or 2 small smoothies 1x
Description
This Peach Kiwi Green Smoothie is naturally sweetened and a great source of vitamins A and C!
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup full-fat coconut milk, refrigerated if possible (the canned kind)
- 1 large, ripe banana
- 1 kiwi, peeled
- ~10 slices frozen peaches
- 1 handful baby spinach leaves
- additional unsweetened almond milk or water, if needed
Instructions
- Place the coconut milk, banana, kiwi, peach slices, and baby spinach leaves in the blender and blend until smooth. If it’s too thick for your liking, add a small amount of unsweetened almond milk or water to your desired consistency.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 0 minutes
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 large smoothie
- Calories: 378
- Sugar: 38 grams
- Fat: 14 grams
- Carbohydrates: 63 grams
- Protein: 11 grams
Smoothie recipe sounds delish! I always love sneaking in spinach in my brother’s smoothie. Hehe. He never tastes it. 🙂
I love how you can get extra greens via smoothies without tasting them!
So glad I popped over here and found this, might be just the thing to help my family get healthy again! Thank you. We love adding spinach to our smoothies too, and flax seeds. My oldest son, the one who’s been sick, won’t eat fruit but he sure does love smoothies. 🙂 We have them at least once a week to make sure he’s getting enough fruit in his diet.
We like to add flax seeds to our smoothies, too. Love the extra fiber and omega 3s!
Yum! I love the peaches in here! I’ve been kinda bored with my green smoothies, I will definitely give this a try!
I just discovered green smoothies in January and have had many since then… love them! But I recently read that having these on a regular basis if you don’t rotate through many different greens can actually be harmful to you (for example, buildup of oxalic acid from spinach). Since you know so much about health and food, I thought I would ask your opinion? Thanks 🙂
First, I think no matter what food you are talking about, eating too much of anything can be bad. Everyone should aim to eat the biggest variety of vegetables and fruits they can, and not simply eat the same kinds week after week. As for greens, I know we don’t eat nearly enough greens to be harmful to us, although I wish that was our issue! 😉 From what I’ve read, though, you’d really have to consume a large quantity of raw greens on a daily basis (like more than 3 bunches of kale daily over an extended period of time) before there would be any cause for concern. If you are consuming a large quantity of greens on a daily basis, as long as you are switching it up and not eating one kind exclusively, you should be okay.
Thank you for setting my mind at ease! 🙂
If it does bother you too much i know collard greens have more calcium than oxalates (my bearded dragon needs low oxalates). Oxalates bind to calcium so it cancels them out in collards and you end up wih calcium.
Thanks for the info! That’s great to know as my sister-in-law has recently had some problems with kidney stones and was ordered to eat oxalates only in moderation. I will let her know to look into collard greens more.
This sounds like an amazing combination of flavors!
I would love this!
We did a whole day of green foods last year (complete with your green grilled cheese), but will be traveling this year on the 17th, so I’m shooting for a green smoothie for breakfast and then hoping there are elements of green in our road-trip foods. 🙂
Have you seen this naturally colored rainbow cake post?
http://itsybitsyfoodies.com/rainbow-cake-with-natural-dyes-for-the-dailybuzz-moms-9×9/
I’m thinking I’ll try the green layer (which is spinach) for some green cupcakes that I can freeze ahead of time.
Wow the work that went into that cake is incredible! I love it though. 🙂 Definitely make the green layer into cupcakes!
I don’t know how I always forget to pick up coconut milk when I go to a town that has the stuff- I drive myself nuts- it’s been on my list for months! Note to self- remember coconut milk!!!!
This looks and sounds yummy! Most kiddos come naturally to the veggie battle- one day she’ll come around 🙂
That stinks that you can’t get coconut milk locally!
I’m making your green grilled cheese sandwiches for St. Patrick’s Day! 🙂
Fun! I think I’ll be serving them this year, too. 🙂
oh i need to look those up!! yum
Q: Is it ok to leave out the coconut milk since it’s high in fat and cholesterol is pretty high. My nutritionist tells me I should consume less fat
I would assume your nutritionalist is talking about hydrogenated fats, but yes, you can substitute coconut milk for another milk like almond milk or use coconut water, but it won’t be as creamy. You could also use lite coconut milk. I hope you enjoy this!