Breakfast Smoothie

I wish I had the guts to experiment with recipes and make up my own but I feel like that would turn out disastrous. Soooo instead I hit up places like pinterest and blogilates to find new ones to try out. Today's recipe came from pinterest, or more specifically Mindfully Frugal Mom. I like to make this the night before I have class (so on a Sun or Tues) and refrigerate it so I can just grab it and go in the morning. It's yummy, filling, and super easy since I have to leave at 7:15 for my 8:00 class. The recipe actually has quite a few calories, but I've tried altering it cut down on them. It went from originally having 630 to...*drum roll* 453. Not super great, but not horrible either. We want to keep in mind that this is a meal replacement smoothie so having a few extra calories isn't necessarily a bad thing.

So here is what you will need:

1/2 cup milk (you can use any kind you want. I use unsweetened vanilla almond milk)
1/2 cup Vanilla Yogurt (the recipe suggests stonyfield whole milk yogurt. I just used dannon light & fit fat free)
1/2 cup quick oats
1 banana
1 tbsp peanut butter (or any other kind of nut butter you want).
1 tsp chia seeds (optional but great for omega 3s!)
1 tbsp cocoa powder (optional)

Instructions:

1. Soak oats in 1/2 cup of water for 5-10 minutes.
2. Place everything into your blender in this order: milk, oats (with water), yogurt, peanut butter, banana, cocoa powder, chia seeds.
3. Blend everything for 30 seconds - 1 minute until everything blended and smooth. Serve chilled.

Like I said, I put it in the fridge overnight and just grab it in the morning. Easy peasy!