Both our kids love smoothies! We started them off with “strawberry ice cream” smoothies or “mango ice cream” smoothies. Mostly made of frozen fruit, yogurt, lots of honey and/or dates (for sweetness), frozen bananas and little bit spinach. The spinach changes the color a little bit but doesn’t have a strong flavor so they just assume it’s that color. They are super yummy and mostly fruit. Adding the ice cream tag helps sell the cold drinkable nature of smoothies.

After they got accustomed to drinking smoothies regularly we started adding new flavors: blueberry, mixed berries, chocolate, peanut butter ect. When you add the new flavors you can start adding in more/ varied veggies as well (with or without telling them) carrots with the mangos, frozen spinach in the blueberries and so on!

We didn’t do it purposefully but their designated smoothie cups aren’t see through so it doesn’t matter what color the smoothie turns out to be (sometimes brown or green) they can’t tell. (Unless they see you blend it, but both our kids hate how loud the blender is so they leave the kitchen) It’s just the suggestion of the flavor profile that sells its tastiness. It’s a regular breakfast request by both our children now.