This Chocolate Peanut Butter Smoothie is a simple and delicious treat, blending chocolate soy milk, ripe bananas, and a surprising low-fat, low-calorie twist – powdered peanut butter.
With just three healthy ingredients, it’s a guilt-free indulgence that satisfies your sweet cravings while replenishing your body. It’s also completely vegan!
Did you know that after a long run/workout, one of the best recovery snacks is chocolate milk? How awesome is that?! It has double the carbohydrates and protein content of milk, water, or other sports drinks AND helps replenish tired muscles.
While cooking meals for my brothers this past week, I realized that they needed help to up their “snack” game. You see, my brothers workout a lot and so they need to eat a ton to make up for the large amount of calories being burned. To help with this, I decided to make an easy protein packed smoothie that they could make on their own.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Smoothie Ingredients
The base is chocolate soy milk (I like the Silk brand) blended with bananas, ice cubes, and PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter (also used in Lightened-Up Apple Crumble recipe) making this smoothie totally vegan, too.
Chocolate Soy Milk – The base is chocolate soy milk (I like the Silk brand).
PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter – PB2 is the secret ingredient, it has less fat and almost 70% fewer calories than traditional peanut butter, but you still get that protein packed peanut butter flavor.
Bananas – A classic smoothie ingredient because for their creamy consistency and sweet flavor.
Sometimes I add crumbled cashews on top, but that is totally optional!
This Chocolate Peanut Butter Smoothie recipe only has three ingredients (not including the ice-cubes) so there is no excuse not to whip one of these up after a particularly hard workout (or as a sweet treat!). I mean, you could have made one of these in the time it took to read this post. It’s that quick! (If this isn’t motivation to hit the gym, I don’t know what is.)
Healthy Chocolate Peanut Butter Smoothie
This Chocolate Peanut Butter Smoothie is a simple and delicious treat, blending chocolate soy milk, ripe bananas, and a surprising low-fat, low-calorie twist – powdered peanut butter.
Ingredients
- 2 cups chocolate soy milk
- 2 tbs PB2 (powdered peanut butter)
- 2 bananas
- 4-5 ice cubes
Instructions
- In a blender, combine the soy milk, PB2, bananas and ice cubes and blend until smooth.
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