Kiwi & Spinach Smoothie

So a green smoothie.  Never in a million years did I think I would be posting about one.  I saw them on other blogs, and other recipe sites, and thought not a chance!  They all said you couldn’t taste the spinach, but I didn’t believe it.  Well, as the ultimate skeptic, I am here to tell you that you can’t taste the spinach!
This particular smoothie uses kiwi and bananas for the fruit.  You have to trust me when I say this tastes exactly like a kiwi.  You can’t even taste the banana in there, it is 100% kiwi.  A friend shared a recipe for a kiwi and spinach smoothie from her Ninja blender book.  I put my own twist on it, to see if I could make it a little healthier, and here is what I came up with.
I have to tell you, that my 7 year old can not stand spinach, or any vegetable really.  But he actually begs me to put spinach in his smoothies.  I will be sharing his all time favorite one next week.  It is a great way to get more fruits and veggies into you and your kids!  Someone gave me the idea of putting the smoothie in a fun colored cup, and then your kids won’t even know it is green.

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Kiwi & Spinach Smoothie

Ingredients

• 2 kiwi, peeled and halved
• ½ banana, peeled
• 1 cup baby spinach
• ½ cup vanilla yogurt (any kind is fine)
• 2 Tbls ground flax seed (optional)
• ½ cup apple juice
• 10-12 ice cubes

Instructions

1. Place all the ingredients into a blender.
2. Blend until smooth

Notes
Greek Yogurt will give you more protein than regular yogurt