This post is about the best and easiest chocolate peanut butter smoothie you can make featuring PBfit Peanut Butter Powder! It is healthy and delicious. It also has bananas, cocoa powder, maple syrup, and more.
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Smoothies are glorious. They’re versatile, easily individualized, easy to make, taste great, and are good for you. This chocolate peanut butter smoothie is no exception. They’re also a great way to sneak in some extra healthy ingredients you can’t taste.
I know that you are absolutely going to love it! I have genuinely made this peanut butter smoothie almost every day for the past 6 years if not more.
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The Best and Easiest Chocolate Peanut Butter Smoothie Featuring PBfit Peanut Butter Powder
Below are the ratios that I usually use to make this smoothie. However, you can adjust them to your liking.
I use the Magic Bullet Blender to make my smoothies and I love it. It works great, has three cup sizes, and doesn’t take up much space on the counter. I highly recommend it!
This recipe yields one serving of smoothie.
Additional notes will be under the recipe, indicated by asterisks.
Ingredients:
1 Cup Frozen Banana Pieces*
1 Tablespoon Maple Syrup
2-3 Tablespoons PBfit Peanut Butter Powder**
1-2 teaspoons Cocoa Powder
1-3 Tablespoons of BetterBody Foods Organic Super Seeds
½ – ¾ Cups Oat Milk (or milk of choice)***
Instructions:
- Put all ingredients into the blender. Depending on your blender, you may need to add the ingredients in a specific order.
- Blend ingredients until the peanut butter smoothie has a smooth consistency with no clumps. If it is too thin, add more frozen bananas. If too thick, add more milk.
- Enjoy!
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Notes for the Peanut Butter Smoothie Recipe
* I have found using frozen bananas, as opposed to room-temperature bananas and ice, makes the perfect thick and creamy smoothie consistency. I will buy large batches of bananas at the store, break them into about ½-inch thick pieces, and freeze them. Freezing the bananas when they’re more ripe (starting to turn brown) makes for a sweeter smoothie. However, you can buy the already frozen bananas in the freezer aisle in your local grocery store.
Side note, you can also add some frozen avocado pieces. It’s a great way to sneak in avocados, it completely masks the taste. It also contributes to a thick and creamy consistency. I find mine in the freezer section at the grocery store. They’ve been out of stock the last few times at my grocery store, so I’ve mostly been sticking with frozen bananas. If you use frozen avocado, use less frozen bananas to whatever ratio you like. My perfect ratio is 2-3 avocado pieces and the rest bananas.
** I use PBfit Peanut Butter Powder. It has great health benefits (listed below). Mainly, I found that it is way easier to use in a smoothie than regular peanut butter. It’s a powder that can be easily scooped and put into the smoothie. Peanut butter, however, can be messier to deal with. That may be a personal problem, so if you want to use regular peanut butter, go ahead!
*** If you’re going for a thicker and creamier smoothie consistency, I recommend using Oat Milk or Soy Milk in your chocolate peanut butter smoothie. I find the smoothie is too thin whenever I use other milk. I always have Oat Milk on hand because I use it for smoothies, matcha lattes, and to have with my cereal. It also adds another great depth of flavor to the smoothie. That being said, Soy Milk is another great option. It’s a thicker milk, has a neutral taste, and is more suitable for other cooking purposes. My favorite brand of oat or soy milk is Silk. It’s my go-to.
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This smoothie could also easily be made into a smoothie bowl. Simply add more frozen bananas to create a thicker consistency. Then, add any of your favorite toppings, such as freshly cut bananas or strawberries, more seeds, creamy peanut butter, granola, etc.
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This chocolate peanut butter smoothie has several health benefits for your body
As mentioned, smoothies are amazing.
They’re also a great way to sneak in some extra healthy ingredients you can’t taste.
That is especially helpful for people like me who don’t love the texture of a lot of food, like fruits or vegetables, so smoothies are perfect. Can anyone else relate?
1. PBfit Peanut Butter Powder
PBfit Peanut Butter Powder is a protein powder with 8g of protein in one serving (2 tbsp). It only has 3 ingredients including peanuts, coconut palm sugar, and salt. Additionally, it tastes good in the smoothies.
Moreover, it does not have to be limited to smoothies. It can also be used in baking and simply add water to make it into a creamy spread.
Last but not least, PBfit Peanut Butter Powder has 87% less fat and approximately ⅓ of the calories of regular peanut butter. So it is an amazing alternative to peanut butter, and like I mentioned before it’s easier to deal with than creamy peanut butter when making smoothies.
2. Cocoa Powder
Cocoa Powder has a myriad of benefits. For one, cocoa powder, with this chocolate peanut butter smoothie in particular, is easy to incorporate into your diet.
It is rich in polyphenols which are naturally occurring antioxidants.
Cocoa powder may reduce blood pressure, improve cholesterol and blood sugar, help reduce high blood pressure, lower the risk of heart disease, improve blood flow and cognitive functioning, may even improve mood and symptoms of depression, and others.
Once I learned of all the benefits of cocoa powder it was a no-brainer to incorporate it into my diet. This chocolate peanut butter smoothie is the perfect way to do that.
3. BetterBody Foods Organic Super Seeds – Chia Seeds, Hemp Hearts, and Flaxseed Meal
I love that BetterBody Foods Organic Super Seeds mix has all three in one, so I don’t have to buy three separate products. You can add them to any smoothie!
In my experience, it helps me stay fuller longer when I add this seed mix to my smoothies.
In addition, the only ingredients are organic chia seeds, organic flaxseed meal, and organic hulled hemp seeds. That’s it. It is also gluten-free, soy-free, and dairy-free.
I only use it with smoothies, but you can also add it to oatmeal or puddings.
Most importantly, it contains 5,700mg of omega-3, 8g of fiber, and 6g of protein per serving (3 tbsp). The chia seeds and flaxseed meal provide the omega-3, and the hemp hearts provide essential fatty acids your body needs but doesn’t create on it’s own.
4. Oat Milk
Oat milk adds a depth of flavor to this chocolate peanut butter smoothie and has several health benefits, as well.
For one, it has more calcium than milk. Furthermore, oat milk is a great source of Vitamin D, Vitamin B12, and Riboflavin (another vitamin in the B vitamin group).
It is also dairy-free, vegan, gluten-free, nut-free, soy-free, non-GMO, and has no artificial flavors or colors.
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There you have it, the best and easiest chocolate peanut butter smoothie recipe!
Smoothies should be more utilized. Adulting is hard. Trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle is hard.
Not only do they taste good, you can make them in a pinch.
Smoothies are full of health benefits, easy to throw together, require minimal dishes, a simple way to sneak in ingredients you struggle to incorporate into your diet, and actually taste good.
Although this is my favorite smoothie recipe, the possibilities are endless. There are a million different ingredient and flavor combinations you can make.
Does anyone else struggle to use all of their fruits or vegetables before they go bad?
Most of the ingredients in this chocolate peanut butter smoothie last a while, so I can always have them in stock in my kitchen.
Cutting them up and freezing them to use in smoothies can also help with that.
Buying frozen pre-cut fruit or vegetables makes smoothies a breeze
Buying a mix of frozen fruits, especially ones that are a pain to peel and cut yourself, makes your life easier and more cost-effective.
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My young adult life has been a journey of how to sneak more fruits and vegetables into my diet
I struggle with my daily intake of fruits and vegetables because I honestly don’t enjoy the texture or taste of most of them.
Does anyone else relate to this struggle?
Also, I have anxiety and depression, so I must eat and eat well.
At times, I have a loss of appetite, and making an entire meal isn’t always in the cards.
That’s where smoothies come in. I never regret having a smoothie. I make my body happy, I load with ingredients that benefit me, and it takes a fraction of the amount of effort cooking does.
It can also be a great snack option. You can make a small smoothie instead of grabbing for “easy” snacks that aren’t as good for you.
Plus, it takes barely any dishes to make a smoothie. That is always a win in my book.
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Needless to say, this chocolate peanut butter smoothie is a simple and delicious way to incorporate incredible health benefits into your daily life
Do you have a favorite go-to smoothie recipe? What ingredient(s) from this chocolate peanut butter smoothie do you want to add to your smoothies? I’d love to hear all about it!
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