Smoothie Ice Cube Concentrates for Make-Ahead Breakfast (vegan, DF, GF)

Make your smoothies for the week, and store them in ice cube trays. Each of the 6 recipes below makes enough smoothie concentrate for 8 single smoothies. A fast healthy meal-prep recipe that makes breakfast healthy, easy, fast and fun!

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Smoothie Ice Cube Concentrates for Make-Ahead Breakfast (vegan, dairy-free, GF)
Easy Healthy Smoothie Recipes!

Use ice cubes to make your morning meals easy, fast and healthy. Smoothie mornings in general are my favorite because they can be made fast, can be filled with nutrition, make me feel great and are an easy way to get nutrition into my family at the break of dawn!

Well, these brick concentrates are a way to make smoothies even faster – here are my six favorite recipes to make smoothie concentrates. Make ahead, freeze in my favorite ice tray, and blend up 3-4 thawed cubes with 1/2 cup of your favorite liquid when you are ready to use.

How the Smoothie Meal-Prep Works Step by Step

Make your smoothie concentrate flavor or flavors of choice for the week on Sunday or your favorite meal-prep day. Pour the concentrate into the ice cubes – two trays per flavor recipe. And freeze.

Each of the 6 recipes below makes enough smoothie concentrate to fill two of the covered ice cube trays I recommend. Each tray holds 1 cup of concentrate in 14 cubes.

To make a single smoothie, pop out 3 cubes (or one more), set them in a glass either overnight or a half-hour before blending.

Add the thawed cubes to the blender and 1/2 cup or more of your favorite liquid (I provide recommendations below).

Blend, and there you have a smoothie for one! These fast healthy meal-prep recipes make breakfast healthy, easy, fast and fun!

Remember to use organic fruits and veggies based on the “Clean Dirty” lists by the EWG. For instance, berries, zucchini and apples are all test high in pesticide absorption so should be bought organic or peeled. (Download the EWG’s most up-to-date list in a convenient printable format to hang on your refrigerator for fast reference.)

Using this smoothie cube how-to and if you made all these recipes, you could have enough cubes ready in the freezer to make 48 fast smoothies, whether several at once, or on a single-serve basis!

If you want your final smoothie to be thicker, try adding a zucchini or banana, chia seeds or even a handful of gluten-free rolled oats.

And of course you can add almonds, cashews and quinoa. If you do, please remember to rinse and soak them, preferably overnight, and rinse again before adding to your smoothies.

And remember, you don’t have to cook the quinoa. You can even add buckwheat groats. These additions boost the protein and nutrition considerably.

And here are a few other additions that you may have not have thought of that you can add to your smoothie

• Pea Protein Powder
• Coconut Butter
• Goji Berries
• Flaxseed Meal
• Camu Camu Powder
• Wheatgrass Powder
• Ceremonial Grade Matcha Tea

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Smoothie Ice Cube Concentrates for Make-Ahead Breakfast

Make your smoothies for the week, and store them in ice cube trays. Each of the 6 recipes below makes enough smoothie concentrate for 8 single smoothies. A fast healthy meal-prep recipe that makes breakfast healthy, easy, fast and fun!

Course Breakfast

Cuisine American

Keyword eat the rainbow, meal prep, smoothies

Prep Time 30 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour

Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes

Servings 48

Author Dee Dine

Ingredients

PINK Pitaya Berry Smoothie

• 1/2 cup strawberries
• 1 cup peeled dark pink pitayas (dragonfruits) or 2 packets frozen found in Whole Foods or 1/2 cup freeze dried pitaya found here
• 1/2 cup plant milk
• 1 tsp baobab powder
• 1 tbsp lemon juice

YELLOW Mango Cream Smoothie

• 1 cup mango
• 1 banana
• 1/2 cup plant milk
• 1 tsp baobab powder

PURPLE Acai Blackberry Smoothie

• 1 cup blackberries
• 1 banana
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 tbsp acai powder

BLUE Spirulina Protein Smoothie

• 1 cup plant yogurt
• 1/2 cup water
• 3 tbsp coconut butter
• 1 tsp blue spirulina
• 2 tbsps maple syrup

ORANGE Carrot Citrus Smoothie

• 1 cup carrots
• 1 medium zucchini, peeled and chopped
• 1/2 cup coconut water
• 1/4 cup orange juice

GREEN Sweet Leafy Smoothie

• 1 cup spinach
• 1/2 cup chopped apple
• 1/2 cup white grapes
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 tbsp lime juice

Useful Equipment

• Covered Ice Cube Tray I like this brand because each tray holds 1 cup of concentrate and has a cover so the ice cubes do not take on freezer scents and tastes. I typically use two trays per flavor - The ingredient lists above create 2 cups worth of mixture per flavor. But of course you can use any ice tray and adjust the recipe to make as much concentrate as you want.
• High Speed Blender (I use a Blendtec, square pitcher is easy to clean!) OR a..
• Food Processor Here is my favorite.

Instructions

To make the smoothie concentrate ice cubes

1. To your blender or processor, add the ingredients for the flavor smoothie you plan to make except the liquid.

   Blend the mixture roughly and add half the liquid called for in the recipe. If half is enough to create a pourable mixture, then stop blending/processing and move to STEP 2.

   If the mixture won't blend well without more liquid, add the remaining liquid into the container and blend again. You can even add a bit more of that same liquid if the mixture needs it to blend creamy.
   

   Your GOAL: roughly 2 cups of mixture of a creamy, pourable texture.
   

2. Once your smoothie flavor choice mixture is smooth and pourable and is about 2 cups, pour into ice trays -- the ingredient lists above make 2 cups per flavor -- and freeze at least 4 hours. Pop bricks out and store in an air-tight container in the freezer to blend up for future smoothies. They seem to last at least a month - I haven't kept them longer

To use these cubes to make your smoothie

1. Into your blender put 4-6 bricks, 1/2 to 1 cup of milk or coconut water or plant milk, and blend. As before, start with 1/2 cup of the liquid, and add the rest only if needed to create a smooth pourable texture.

   REGARDING liquid choice in the final smoothie:

   --coconut water will sweeten it,
   

   --plain water will make it more bland, and
   

   --milk will make it more creamy.
   

   If your blender can't blend ice cubes easily, pop this mixture (with only 1/2 cupc liquid) into a glass the night before and keep in the refrigerate to blend up in the morning.
   

Storage Time

1. Smoothie cubes will retain nutritional value frozen for at least two months.