Green Toddler Smoothie

This delicious Toddler Green Smoothie is filled with apple, banana, cucumber, spinach, and lots of pineapple! It’s rich and creamy with just enough sweetness that everyone in the family will enjoy it, even your toddler or picky eater!

Why helloooooooo there sexy green smoothie <—— never thought I would call a smoothie sexy before.

But this green toddler smoothie is where it is AT!

For your toddler.
For you.
For you and your toddler.

This recipe makes enough so you can enjoy it with your toddler. Just imagine – both of you sitting side by side on the front porch, quietly drinking your morning smoothies – fueling up with good-for-you spinach, cucumber, apple and banana while getting a little sun on your arms! Your toddler isn’t having a tantrum, they aren’t whining about what they want to watch on youtube and they haven’t even spilled their smoothie yet. Just you and your kiddo getting a healthy green start to the day. Ahhh…! So amazing! Can you feel it – the peace this smoothie gives you?

Oh wait.. back to reality.

If you follow me on Instagram then you know I make a ton of different smoothie combinations for both Ellie and myself for breakfast. Actually, I make them for myself and Ellie just always ends up stealing them from me. Almost makes me mad, but then I remind myself that he is consuming a ton of fruit and vegetables alongside her breakfast. So I get over it and now make a recipe and half of everything I blend.

And while I hardly ever measure ingredients when I make these smoothies, this one is my go too green smoothie base, so I have it down pat.

The perfect green smoothie for even the pickiest toddler (or parent:).

It is thick, rich and bursting with flavor, and I mean good flavor here, not flavor in the dense-green-spinach-or-kale sorta way. We all want our smoothies to be chalk-full with the nutrients of those greens but seldom do we want to taste them at 7:30 in the morning.

This smoothie gets it’s sweetness from the apple and the pineapple, it’s thickness from the banana and the hemp seeds and it’s freshness from the cucumber and spinach. It is full of fiber, protein, calcium, iron and will keep you full all morning.

One of the tricks I use to get more flavor and nutrients in my toddler smoothies, is that I don’t usually use ice.

I find that ice, dilutes the taste of the smoothie and waters it down.

Instead, I like to use frozen produce – spinach, pineapple and even banana in this recipe. Frozen berries, kiwi, chopped carrots, cherries, kale and even sliced apples all make great frozen additions in other smoothie recipes.

Sometimes I forgot to freeze my brown bananas the night before, or I ran out of frozen spinach and had to use fresh instead, not too worry, this smoothie will still turn out delicious if you don’t have any frozen ingredients on hand. Just add a small amount of ice until it is cold enough but not watered down.

My rule of thumb is that I try to use 2-3 frozen ingredients instead of ice. I find that gives the smoothie enough chill-power while not making it too thick.

Optional Add-ins for this Toddler Green Smoothie Recipe

But the best part of this recipes is that you can add in any extras of your choosing. You can add some chia seeds or flax seeds for extra omega-3’s. You can add some shredded coconut for a tropical flare. You can even add some oats for some extra fueling power.

It can really be adjusted to your toddlers tastes, dietary restrictions or what you have on hand.

So have at it! Set forth and blend!

• 1 tbsp shredded coconut

• 1/2 tsp of chia or flax seeds

• pear instead of apple

• 1 kiwi – fresh or frozen

• 2-3 pitted dates (instead of honey)

• small handful of cashews

• 1/4 cup oats for extra staying power

MORE KID APPROVED GREEN SMOOTHIE RECIPES

Our favorite smoothie recipes are below. To make them safe for baby, just omit the honey in the recipe. 

• Avocado Green Smoothie for Baby and Toddler
• Baby’s First Spinach Smoothie
• 3 Green Smoothie Freezer Packs for Toddlers
• Green Mint Chocolate Smoothie

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