Blueberry Pineapple Smoothies

Breakfast is usually an all-or-nothing kind of thing for me.

Either I go all out—pancakes and an omelet and bacon and fruit and coffee and it-wouldn’t-be-breakfast-without orange juice—or I grab a banana or an underdone piece of toast that, at best, might get peanut butter haphazardly slathered on it, and then run out the door.

I used to dislike most breakfasts altogether—especially the proper English breakfasts we’d get when my family would travel across the pond to the UK during my summer vacations as a kid. I’m sorry, I would like my scrambled eggs to not still be liquid, thank you. Also, you’re certainly not helping anything with that black pudding business or that “bacon” that’s really just a slice of ham, or you know, that random tomato.

The sausage and the baked beans though, that I can get on board with.

Most of the time, I’d rather just fast forward to lunch. 

Apparently this is not allowed though, seeing as how somewhere along the line breakfast got named “the most important meal of the day” which just completely ruined my plan to shun it for good. Thanks a lot, nutrition people.

Despite the fact that I know I have to eat something before I sprint to my car in the mornings, it can still be difficult to make the time. Smoothies are the perfect middle-ground between that half toasted toast or that handful of grapes I sometimes call breakfast and spending the time to make homemade hash browns or a small breakfast soufflé. 

I can even eat it in my car without the risk of getting peanut butter on my steering wheel. Always a good thing. Not that I've ever done that or anything, obviously. 

Blueberry-Pineapple Smoothies

Makes 1 smoothie

1 large banana (sliced and frozen)

½ cup pineapple (fresh or frozen)

½ cup blueberries (fresh or frozen)

½ cup fruit juice (apple juice works well, but anything you have on hand-like orange juice-can work)

Combine all ingredients in a blender. Blend together until smooth. 

Adjust the amount of juice as necessary to assist with blending or to thin out the smoothie if it appears too thick. Serve.