This smoothie takes it’s inspiration from a friend’s recipe which he uses to keep him fueled full of energy for his long days at work and time in the gym!

What you will need

• 3 tablespoons of Fairtrade peanut butter (smooth not chunky!)
• 1 Fairtrade banana
• 2 scoops of frozen yoghurt
• 200ml skimmed milk

Instructions

All in the smoothie maker and hit go!

Optional Extras

If you want you can add some banana flavour whey protein or even some oats to this just like Barmy Varney does to keep your body in shape and keep you fuller for longer!

Ingredients

2 Peaches

4 handfuls of raspberries

2 scoops Fairtrade Frozen Yoghurt (or natural Greek Yoghurt and 2 handfuls of ice)

Recipe

This one isn’t rocket science – all ingredients into the smoothie maker and hit go!

Possibilities

You may want to use a flavored yoghurt instead of straight forward unflavored Greek!

Want to be even more fair? Use Fairtrade Apple and Raspberry Juice instead of (or as well as!) the fruit.

• 1 Fairtrade Banana
• 1 Fairtrade Coconut
• 1 Fairtrade Vanilla Pod
• Half a pot of Fairtrade Greek Style Yoghurt (available in Co-Op stores)
• 2 Handfuls of ice

You may want to use frozen yoghurt and scrap the ice cubes???

Peel the banana, carve the flesh of the coconut out (keep the milk). Slit vanilla pod length-ways and scrape out the seeds. Put all ingredients into smoothie maker (including flesh and milk of coconut), put ice in last- and guess what, your on a lovely tropical beach- nice!

• 1 Fairtrade Vanilla Pod
• 3 Fairtrade Bananas
• 2 or 3 handfuls of ice
• 2 pots of Fairtrade greek style yoghurt, from co-op
• 4 teaspoons of fairtrade sugar dissolved in a small amount of water

Slit vanilla pod lengthways and scrape out seeds, add bananas to smoothie maker follwed by yoghurt, sugar/water, vanilla seeds and then the ice. This is far better than any milkshke made with vanilla extract or essence etc. Fairtrade bananas and vanilla pods are top quality.

For more details on where to buy fairtrade vanilla pods see:

http://www.fairtrade.org.uk/products_spices_buy.htm

• Handful of frozen Strawberries
• 1 Fairtrade Banana
• 150ml Bio Yoghurt (Mango papaya and passionfruit is best)
• 200ml Fairtrade Passionfruit Juice

Mix in the smoothie maker until smooth, Serves 1-2

• 1 large papaya
• 2 tablespoons fairtrade mexican honey
• Cinnamon to taste
• 1 Passionfruit (or juice if your smoothie maker isn’t top notch)
• 200ml fairtrade greek style yoghurt from Co-op
• Handful of ice

De-stone and de-skin papaya, chop into chunks and add all ingredients to smoothiemaker!

The passionfruit will help relax you and the cinnomon provide some vaso-dilation to relieve stress and blood pressure. The Perfect nap-aid!

• Handful of cranberries
• 250ml cranberry juice
• Handful of grapes
• 400ml of natural yoghurt
• Handful of ice

Prepare cranberries (remove stalks and wash), add all ingredients to smoothiemaker- smooth, pour, drink, wake up!

This smoothie can be made without the cranberries, just add more juice to taste.
Grapes sweeten the smoothie but are not essential.

For the limey melon smoothie, you will need:

• 1 1/2 cups watermelon
• 1 1/2 cups honeydew melon
• 1 lime
• 1 cup ice cubes

1 cup = about a quarter of the final amount of smoothie

Slice the melons and remove the skin. Squeeze the limes to get the juice out of them. Pour in the yoghurt and ice cubes. Blend until smooth. Serves 4!

For this fairtrade ginger and vanilla smoothie you will need:

• 2 Fairtrade bananas
• 2 tbs Fairtrade vanilla extract
• 2 tsp Ginger spice blend
• 250 ml Yoghurt
• 250ml Milk
• Handful of Ice cubes

As usual put all the ingredients in the smoothie maker and blend until you have reached smoothie consistency

You will need:

• 2 kiwi fruit
• 1 grapefruit + 1 blood grapefruit
• 250g natural bio yoghurt
• 2 handfulls ice cubes

Quarter the kiwis and limes. Peel the grapefruits. Pour the yoghurt into the Smoothie Maker. Put the rest of the fruit into the Smoothie Maker along with the ice cubes. Mix it all up to smoothie consistency, this should take about 30 seconds. Turn the Smoothie Maker on to help ease out the smoothie as you pour it into a glass.

This fruit smoothie is super tangy, and if you’re not a fan of citrus fruits this may not be the smoothie for you. You could try mixing and matching the fruits about, for example adding some melon instead of the grapefruit to make it less of a citrus smoothie.