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If there was ever a time that I could truly say how much I love a smoothie, this banana peanut butter and date smoothie would be it. I make this smoothie daily. It’s the perfect post-workout drink (you can easily add in vanilla protein powder to this) or the perfect after-dinner treat to curb that sweet tooth.
Since I’ve been on my sugar-free challenge, this is what I have been having as a treat every evening. It’s naturally sweetened due to the dates and it literally tastes like a dessert and it’s actually GOOD for you because there is NO added sweeteners! It’s all-natural and tastes like a million bucks.
Seriously, it’s SOO good. I’m 100% hooked and I’m never hooked on smoothies. I even got my coworker to make it one morning and he loves it! When I say I’m truly in love with a smoothie, this is the one.
With this smoothie, to preserve the flavor, I use ice and frozen bananas. I love my smoothies thick so the amount of ice you use will definitely vary depending on how you like your smoothies! I don’t recommend using frozen fruit in this unless you want a mixture of fruit flavors but I beg you try this just as is first and tell me you don’t love it just for its pure banana, peanut butter, and date flavor.
Banana Peanut Butter and Date Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 cup (237 ml) unsweetened plain almond milk
- 1 ripe banana
- 4-5 pitted dates
- 1 frozen banana
- 2 tablespoons natural creamy peanut butter
- ¼ – ½ cup (177 g) ice
- Optional: your favorite protein powder, I recommend vanilla or chocolate flavored so it doesn't affect the flavor of this smoothie too much.
Instructions
- Place all ingredients into a power blender (like a Vitamix) and blend until smooth. If you like it thinner, add more almond milk.
Notes
Nutrition
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So I used regular milk and extra peanut butter but this was phenomenal! I never measure anything so I hope it’s just as good tomorrow!!!
Dates are way too sweet to eat alone but now I can finally get them in!
Really enjoyed this. I made it pretty much as shown except I used 3 Medajool dates and slightly less peanut butter. Highly recommend if you’re trying to not use refined sugar in your diet, as I am.
This was really good. Thanks for the recipe. I had to alter mine slightly-i used pitted prunes instead of dates and peanut butter. Delicious.
Very good. Personally I like my drinks really cold so I think next time I’d only use frozen bananas.
I made this recipe and added the following
1/2 avocado
Splash of vanilla
Dash of cinnamon
1T cocoa powder
Yum!!!
Delicious!
It was a little two sweet for my tastes the first time I made it using the above directions but it was still good. So I made it again only using 2 dates ,1 Tbsp of peanut butter ,added a 1/4 cup of vanilla Greek yogurt ,6oz of skim milk ,1 cup of ice and 1 small banana . Was much better the second time around .
Pleasantly surprised, this was creamy and good! Used 1 frozen banana, Oat milk and no extra ice. Will definitely make again. Thank you for the recipe, needed to use up my Dates..😋😋
Never thought this could be good. Been needing to choke down dates in my third trimester of pregnancy. This smoothie is amazing! I can’t wait to have it again. Thanks!
This was INSANELY GOOD! I never included dates in my original banana smoothie but omg! Next time I will definitely boil the dates in water to soften them . I HATE that it’s 500 calories lol I can only drink 1 a day if that’s the case