After School Chocolate Smoothies

As soon as we get home the kids are starving. Of course our first reaction is to pull something from the pantry but WAIT! Real food, whole food is most likely not in the pantry!! If we really think about it, real, whole food doesn't have to take long to make. And if your kids are like ours...they want it to taste good too! Give them a piece of fruit, peanut butter with apples or celery sticks or...SMOOTHIES!

Smoothies are such a great way to incorporate whole food into our kids diets and tasty too. And you can even sneak in some ingredients they don't even have to know are in there:) Today I suggested CHOCOLATE smoothies and of course they jumped!

Here is the simple recipe I made up (so you know it's super easy...lol!)

Chocolate Smoothie
1 cup of organic milk (can substitute for nut milk as well)
1 tsp pure maple syrup
1 tbsp raw cacao
1 tbsp peanut butter
1/2 frozen banana
some ice cubes

Blend together in a high speed blender and enjoy! Play around with quantity of ingredients to taste. 

Here's to whole health!
Stacey