Green Ice Cream {#whatveganseat for breakfast}

My morning meals have been mostly smoothies for the last couple of weeks – most likely because I have stepped up my fitness quite a bit as I am training for a summer duathlon (run – bike – run). I love a tall, liquid breakfast after a workout. Yesterday was a rest day from exercise; I wanted all the powerful nutrition of a smoothie but was most definitely craving a new texture.

I grabbed my usual smoothie ingredients (frozen fruit/ice, something green, plant-based milk, flax or chia seeds and a date or other natural sweetener). I simply altered the amounts of each ingredient and suddenly I was eating a beautiful bowl of green ice cream. Same great ingredients – completely different mouthfeel experience.

Green Ice Cream

by JL goes Vegan: Food & Fitness with a side of Kale

Ingredients (Serves 2)

Spinach (a generous handful)
1 Medjool date, pitted
3 large frozen strawberries
1 frozen banana
1 tablespoon ground flax seeds
1/4 cup soy milk (or preferred plant-based milk)
Ice cubes (just a few)

Instructions

Add all ingredients, in order listed, to a high-speed blender.
Blend for just a few minutes, to desired ice cream consistency.
Serve and enjoy!

This ice cream is smooth, filling and packed with nutritious flavor.

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Tagged as: breakfast, green smoothie, i eat plants, ice cream

Laura @ Sprint 2 the Table

Great minds… my breakfast looked exactly like that today, except I used butternut squash to get mine creamy. 3 cheers for breakfast-desserts!
- http://jlgoesvegan.com JL
  
  Hip hip hurray!
http://www.betterwithveggies.com Heather Blackmon

You are awesome – this look s absolutely amazing. Green breakfasts are the best!!
- http://jlgoesvegan.com JL
  
  Ha! Thanks! Anything to get out of a rut when it comes to breakfast!
Stefanie

I have never tried a green smoothie. I’ll have to give it a try one day. A dualathon would be fun. I’m not much of a swimmer but can run and bike. Good luck with your race this summer.
- http://jlgoesvegan.com JL
  
  I love triathlon but I just can’t make time in my schedule this year for three sports. Running and cycling is easy because they both start from my house – don’t have to drive somewhere!
Chamomile

Best of luck with the training! I find biking is ridiculously tough, my legs transform into a strange mix of strained muscles and jelly ahhahah, so I can’t imagine how fun running would be afterwards, you must have amazing endurance JL, kudos to ya!A run/swim/run duathlon would pretty cool though, hope one pops up in my city someday soon.

Ahh, this recipe is perfection, strawberries + banana + spinach = green trinity of awesome? I adore adding random green stuff to pretty much everything I can get away with (months ago I discovered how awesome my morning raw buckwheat “porridge” tastes with several cup-fulls of greens blended up!), so this is just lovely, no more plain banana soft serve for me then.
Off to freeze some bananas, this’ll be a great treat for mum’s day, I’ll sneak in some cacoa/carob powder ’cause she loves the choco!

Thanks for the recipe, have a great end of the week!
- http://jlgoesvegan.com JL
  
  Wow, I just love your idea of blended greens in a porridge! Clever and delicious!
http://www.leafynotbeefy.com/ Kelly @ Leafy Not Beefy

Yum yum yum!!!
- http://jlgoesvegan.com JL
  
  Even my husband liked it! LOL
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Peggy Labor

What an interesting ice cream!
- http://jlgoesvegan.com JL
  
  A little nutty, right? But it works!
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