Doesn’t this little smoothie look like a little paradise in a glass?  How appropriate because I’m currently away on vacation at the beautiful Gulf Shores, Alabama beach!  This time could not have come quick enough!

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I’ve looked forward to going on this beach trip for months.  We’ve come almost every year since I was a child, and now I get to take my own family.  We didn’t go last year because we went to Disney World, but we sure did miss it.  We stay in a big condo with my parents and other family.  The time I get to spend with them on this trip is priceless.

Now I’m still working on my kids “beaching” skills.  They get all excited to go down there and take out the sand toys, but about 10 minutes later, they usually ask to go back to the pool.  What??  Wait a minute!  We just hauled all this stuff plus 4 kids down the mile trek to the beach chairs, and you’re done already.  Then we spend the next 30 minutes asking them to just play for a while before we hike back up to the pool.

Let’s just say I’m hoping for more “beach kids” this trip now that they are older.  I loved the beach and wanted to stay out there all day when I was little.  Now to be fair, the pools are pretty darn great, and I don’t mind a pool one bit, but I would like to enjoy the sand and waves a little too.  I’ll be posting some pics on Instagram for sure!

So while I’m away I leave you with this little paradise treat!  This smoothie is so fast to whip up!  It’s filled with frozen strawberries, pineapples, bananas, milk, and of course, chocolate syrup!  My kids loved it.  Who wouldn’t?  The chocolate syrup just begs you to take a sip!

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Banana Split Smoothie

Yield: 2 smoothies

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Ingredients

• 1 banana
• 1 cup sliced frozen strawberries
• 1 cup frozen pineapple chunks
• 3/4 cup milk
• 2 6 oz. containers of strawberry banana yogurt
• Chocolate syrup

Instructions

1. Place banana, strawberries, pineapple, milk, and yogurt in a blender.
2. Blend until smooth.
3. Drizzle chocolate syrup along the insides of a glass. Pour in smoothie mix and serve with a straw.

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So do you have a lot of milk drinkers in your house?  I wish I could say that I did.  My oldest son will pick milk over anything else to drink.  He loves it.  My oldest daughter…not so much.  She would just rather juice all the time which drives me crazy.  My youngest daughter will drink what I give her usually unless she hears the other kids making a big deal out of something.  Then she gets a little picky too.

So I try to make them all get their calcium in other ways too with chocolate milk and yogurt.  Luckily my “non-milk” drinker does love those choices.  She also LOVES smoothies.  When they hear me break out the blender, they come a runnin’ to see what I’m making.

They loved this one too!  What’s not to love?  Bananas, pina colada yogurt, milk, and chocolate chips!

Go Bananas Smoothie

Yield: 2-3

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Ingredients

• 2 bananas (chopped and frozen)
• 2 - 6 oz containers of light pina colada yogurt
• 1 1/4 cups milk
• 1/4 mini chocolate chips

Instructions

1. Blend all ingredients until smooth. Pour into glasses and serve with a straw.

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