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Your New Favorite Healthy Smoothies

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Nutrition health coach Kelly Ann Monahan made a Apple Ginger Smoothie and a Berry Boom Boom Smoothie. For more of Kelly Ann’s clean eating and gluten-free recipes, you can find her cookbook Sweet Healthy Living: Delicious, Easy, Recipes...Clean Eating Never Tasted So Good at www.Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, iTunes and other digital retailers.

APPLE GINGER SMOOTHIE

*Buy USDA organic ingredients whenever your budget allows

Ingredients:

1 large cucumber, peeled
1 medium apple, cored and chopped
1-inch chunk of ginger root (or use a dash of ground ginger)
1 Tbsp. (or more to your liking) of fresh lemon juice, seeds removed
Pinch of fresh parsley (or use a dash of ground parsley)

Directions:
Wash the cucumber and apple well before peeling and chopping. Remove the ginger root’s skin and discard. Mix all of the ingredients in a high-power blender.

*Makes 1 serving

BERRY BOOM BOOM SMOOTHIE

*Buy USDA organic ingredients whenever your budget allows.

Ingredients:

1 cup organic frozen berries of choice
8-12 oz. (unsweetened) vanilla almond milk
1 Tbsp. ground coffee
1 serving vanilla protein powder
2 Tbsp. (unsalted, unsweetened) almond butter

Directions:

Mix all of the ingredients together in a high-power blender and enjoy!

*Makes 1 serving