Recently, I agreed to go for a run with one of my friends. We had planned to go at around 11 am Saturday morning. When we met up, I asked my friend what he had eaten for breakfast. His answer surprised me – he said “nothing.”

Needless to say, part way around our run, my friend started to feel tired, and I felt great and wanted to keep going and going, all thanks to my breakfast smoothie.

I can never run very well if I miss my breakfast, but I also knew I wouldn’t be able to run if I ate too much. Subsequently, I started my morning with a coffee and this wonderful strawberry oatmeal breakfast smoothie I’m sharing with you today.

Whether you want energy for exercise, or just want a quick but healthy breakfast, this recipe is for you.

No matter what flavors you prefer, there are smoothies for you to make that you’ll love. All you need is a good blender (the blender I use and my other recommendations here) and a few simple ingredients.

With smoothies, healthy eating was never so easy. Try this great-tasting recipe and see for yourself!

Preparation time – 3 minutes

Cooking time – 0

Number of servings – 1

Ingredients

• 1 cup soy or almond milk, unsweetened
• ½ cup rolled oats
• 1 banana, chopped
• 12 frozen strawberries
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon raw honey

Instructions 

1. Pour the soy/almond milk into your blender
2. Add the banana, oats, strawberries, vanilla, and honey
3. Put the lid in your blender
4. Blitz on low for 30 seconds, and then on high for 30-60 seconds until smooth
5. Serve immediately or pour into a thermos and save for later

Recipe credit – Happy Money Saver 

More Breakfast Ideas

You can find more ideas for your breakfast here. I’ve also shared more meal replacement shakes you can find here.

I explain how you can lose weight with meal shakes.

I’ve included the plan I used and you can follow or edit it to adapt it to your routine

The few things you need in your kitchen to get started

The meal replacement shake powder I use and why it’s my number one preference from all the other products currently available.

There are 15 meal replacement shakes recipes divided in

• 10 breakfast shakes recipes
• 5 lunch shakes recipes

All recipes are low in sugar, low in salt, low in fat and contain no trans fat.

Healthy Recipes to maximize your weight loss goals.

All recipes contain the shake powder I used and the nutrition information.

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Ingredients 

• 1 cup ice
• ½ cup skim milk or soya milk or rice milk as preferred
• 1/3 cup canned pumpkin puree
• 1 tablespoon raw honey
• 1 scoop Idealshake Meal Replacement Shake – vanilla flavor (available at IdealShake Official Site)
• 1 pinch ground nutmeg

Method

Put all the ingredients into your blender, adding the Idealshake Meal Replacement powder last. Blend on high until the ingredients are smooth and frothy. The blender I use, why and also smoothie blenders under $200 here.

Nutrition

Calories 241
Protein 16.1 grams
Carbohydrate 39.1 grams
Fiber 6 grams
Fat 3.1 grams

Ingredients 

¼ cup old fashioned rolled oats
½ cup frozen strawberries
½ cup plain, low fat Greek yogurt
½ cup ice
½ teaspoon freshly grated ginger
1 scoop IdealShake Meal Replacement Shake – strawberry flavor  – Available at official site.

Method 

Place the oats and ½ cup water in a blender. Let soak until the oats have softened, about 15 minutes. Add the remaining ingredients. Blend until smooth and frothy. My blender recommendations on “Choosing the Best Blender for Smoothies”.

Nutrition

Calories 289
Protein 26 grams
Carbohydrate 38.1 grams
Fiber 9.8 grams
Fat 4.6 grams

Ingredients

1 cup water
1 cup seedless grapes
1 cup baby spinach
½ cup ice
¼ cup coconut milk
1 scoop Idealshake Meal Replacement Shake – vanilla flavor (Available at Official Site)

Method

Put all the ingredients into your blender, adding the Idealshake Meal Replacement powder last. Blend on high until the ingredients are smooth and frothy. The blender I use and the models I recommend on this article.

Nutrition 

Calories 217
Protein 12.7 grams
Carbohydrates 37.3 grams
Fiber 6.9 grams
Fat 4.1 grams

Ingredients

• 2 cups water
• 1 scoop IdealShake Meal Replacement Shake – mocha flavor (available at official site)
• 1 medium banana – chopped and frozen
• 1 teaspoon natural peanut butter
• 1 tablespoon chia seeds
• 1 teaspoon instant coffee or 1 shot espresso

Method

Pour the water into your blender, my blender recommendations here, and then add the Idealshake Meal Replacement powder, the frozen banana, one teaspoon of peanut butter, the chia seeds and the coffee. Put the lid on your blender and then blitz on slow for a few seconds and then fast for 30-seconds until smooth. This smoothie is best drunk straight away.

Nutritional Information

• Calories 337
• Protein 17.2 grams
• Carbohydrates 44.2 grams
• Fiber 13.8 grams
• Fat 13.1 grams

Ingredients

• 1 scoop of IdealShake® Meal Replacement Shake
• 1 scoop of low sugar vanilla Frozen Yogurt
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 Ice cubes

Directions

Put all the ingredients in the blender and blend until smooth. If you don’t have a powerful blender, I’ve shared my recommendations for kitchen blenders under $200 here, you may need to break the ice cubes before you add them. Let it blend for 1 minute and its yogurt frozen time!

Bananas are high in sugar so let’s use only half banana to maximize weight loss (contains approx. 5g of sugar). Bananas, like other fruits (Avocado, Mango) are high in potassium. Potassium helps to:

• reduce the risk of stroke
• lower blood pressure
• reduce the chances of kidney stones
• build muscle
• synthesize proteins, thus improving absorption

For this shake we’ll use the Vega One All in One Nutritional Shake, because it’s the one with the least amount of sugar (<1g).

Ingredients:

• 1 scoop of  Vega One All in One Nutritional Shake, available on Amazon.com
• 1/2 Banana
• 1/2 cup pineapple juice
• 1/2 cup water

Directions

Add all the ingredients to the blender and let it roll for 30 seconds. Why I’ve bought a top blender and what blenders I recommend under $200 at “Choosing the Best Blender for Smoothies”.

Let’s start our day with this Ginger fighter shake to strengthen your body’s defenses…

Ingredients

• 1 scoop of RAW Organic Meal Vanilla
• 1 cup Almond Milk
• 1 tsp ground ginger or 1/2 tsp of peeled and minced fresh ginger

Directions

I prefer to use fresh ginger as you can easily buy it in most groceries stores. You have to peel and mince it – use a garlic crusher for ease. If you enjoy the ginger taste you can make it stronger by adding 1 teaspoon instead of the directed half.  Glass bottle with Ginger Powder Organic, Kosher available at Amazon.com (1% of their sales supports organic farming) .

If you are not used to ginger, give it a try. In the beginning it may taste too spicy and peppery, but slowly you’ll get used to it and enjoy it’s lemony sweet, pungent taste.