Pumpkin Pie Smoothie
May 12, 2011 § 5 Comments
Why, pray tell, is pumpkin only an fall food?? I mean, the canned stuff on the shelf year-round. And it tastes good year-round. And by good, I mean amazing. I love pumpkin. Nom nom nom nom nom. Get the picture?
I’ve love starting the morning with a smoothie. They don’t take long, they’re filling, nutritious, and easily adaptable.
Pre-blending. Not so pretty.
Since I’ll be gone all summer, I’ve been trying to use of a bunch of excess stuff I had in my pantry. So most recipes I’ll be posting will be part of a “cleaning out my pantry” series. I had a can of pumpkin in the pantry so I figured I should use it. Why not?? Just because its spring? Pshhh….bring on the pumpkin.
Recipe from: Oh She Glows
1 Tblsp Ground Flaxseed
1/2 Cup Pumpkin Puree
1 Cup Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk
1 heaping tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice
1 tsp Molasses
1/2 Scoop Vanilla Protein Powder
4-5 Cubes of Ice
oh i love love love love this!! why haven’t i thought of it before??? I use pumpkin purree in baking a ton. it’s such a great substitute for butter/oil. But I never thought of a smoothie. Can’t wait to try it!
For some reason, I was at the store yesterday and thought “i’m gonna buy some pumpkin”. I don’ tknow why I thought that, or what drove me to do it… but then I get this mysterious email that you were following me on twitter. Sos I hop on over to your blog ad the first thing I see is a picture of what appears to be my pantry.
The gods have smiled upon me this day!
And I just saw your post that you’d put pumpkin granola in your parfait. That sounds FANTASTIC.
Let me know what you do with can of pumpkin you bought!
whoa. that smoothie looks freakin amazing!
i SO need to try this!!!!