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If you are a Weight Watcher having a hard time meeting your good health guideline for servings of fruits and vegetables on a daily basis, you may want to consider adding in a healthy green smoothie.
Green smoothies are not only easy-to-make, but they can be nutrient-rich, delicious and very satisfying as well. But be careful, it’s very easy to overload your blender (affiliate link) and wind up with a smoothie that has a half-day’s allowance of calories – or more!
It’s best to use a high-powered, high-speed blender (affiliate link) (I love my Vitamix
) and to blend in stages – this way you minimize the big green leafy chunks and won’t end up “chewing” your smoothie. After all, your smoothie is supposed to be sipped with a straw 😉
You can also avoid the need for a lot of ice by using some frozen fruits.
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Below you will find a small collection of some our our favorite Healthy Green Smoothie Recipes that we’ve gathered from around the web and calculated points plus. If you are more adventurous and want to create your own, we’ve found that some good liquid bases to start with are: water, unsweetened almond milk, coconut water, rice milk and green tea.
But first, here’s one of my go-to early morning green smoothies – it tastes great and keeps me feeling full until lunch.
Peter’s Rise and Shine Green Smoothie
Rise and Shine Green Smoothie Recipe
Ingredients
- 3-6 leaves any type of kale
- 1 banana
- 1 apple, cored and sliced
- 1/2- inch fresh gingerroot
- 2 cups water
- ice, optional
Instructions
- Add ingredients to high-powered blender (like a Vitamix (affiliate link)) and blend to desired consistency. Pour and enjoy.
Notes
More Favorite Healthy Green Smoothie Recipes
Beginner’s Luck Green Smoothie from 100 Days of Real Food (about 198 calories and 5* WW Points Plus per serving)
Simple Green Watermelon Avocado Smoothie from Green Lite Bites (about 125 calories and 3* WW Points Plus per serving)
Collard Greens Smoothie with Mango and Lime from Real Simple (about 183 calories and 5* WW Points Plus per serving)
Green Vitamin Cocktail Smoothie from Dr. Oz (about 182 calories and 5* WW Points Plus per serving)
Snoop Dogg’s Favorite Green Smoothie – a new personal favorite this simple spinach, banana, citrus smoothie is satisfying and delicious.
Super Green Detox Smoothie from Prevention (about 160 calories and 4* WW Points Plus per serving)
Crazy Sexy Green Goddess Smoothie from Prevention (about 357 calories and 10* WW Points Plus per serving)
Vegan Avocado Spinach Smoothie from SkinnyMs (about 299 calories and 8* WW Points Plus per serving)
Healthy Green Smoothie for Breakfast from Shape (about 123 calories and 3* WW Points Plus per serving)
Strawberry Banana Blueberry Green Smoothie from Simple Green Smoothies (about 219 calories and 6* WW Points Plus per serving)
Glowing Green Smoothie from FitSugar (about 154 calories and 4* WW Points Plus per serving)
Green Tea Green Smoothie for Beginners from Jeanette’s Healthy Living (about 117 calories and 3* WW Points Plus – when dividing this recipe in half)
*PointsPlus® for healthy green smoothie recipes calculated by Simple Nourished Living; Not endorsed by Weight Watchers International, Inc.
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HI! THis is such a great resource, thank you! One question, I’m trying to figure out points for whole veggie smoothies that have no fruit. I just made a smoothing with kale, cabbage, small amount of red pepper and carrot, salt, cayenne, white balsamic, lemon, ginger. Any thoughts? THANKS! Marina
Hi Marina, I would be inclined to count it as 0. The only vegetable of those listed that might be a concern in large quantities would be the carrots. But if I only used 1 or 2 I wouldn’t worry about them. Hope this helps.
Why would there be a pointsplus value for a green smoothie? There are only veggies and fruit and they are free.
Hi Maggie, Thanks for your question/comment.
When Weight Watchers transitioned to 0 Points for fruits and most vegetables a few years ago some members struggled with the change. Even some Weight Watchers leaders began gaining weight. This was eventually attributed to eating too much fruit. There has been confusion about how to count/track fruits and vegetables used in smoothies.
With the WW Points Plus system, fruits and most vegetables have 0 points. But fruit and vegetable juices have points. For example, if you eat an orange, or two or three, it costs you nothing from your daily Points budget. But if you drink 8 ounces of orange juice it costs you 3 PointsPlus. If you eat plain carrots they have 0 points plus. But if you add carrots to a recipe in WW Recipe Builder their calories would count in determining the recipe’s points plus value. It’s important to remember that ZERO is not the same as FREE! It the WW meetings I’ve attended it was explained that when making smoothies it’s best to count the points because it’s so easy to over-eat/drink when prepared this way instead of eating the whole foods. I’ve found that I can eat 2 or 3 fruits without counting them, but more than that and I need to track. It’s going to vary from person to person. And it’s best to use your weight loss as your guide. I hope this helps.