Celebrating 1,000 visitors! Free recipe and giveaway!
Providence Regional Cancer SystemCan you believe this weather?! The National Weather Service is calling it "a parade of Pacific storms".
It's about this time of year when us Pacific Northwesterners start to get antsy for some (any!) sun. While we can't bring that to you, we can share this great new recipe from Libby, our recently certified Oncology Nutrition Registered Dietician. And ... because we're excited that today we reached 1,000 visitors to our blog we'll be giving away a 17-piece Magic Bullet Express and a $25 gift card to Ralph's Thriftway.
To enter to win, all you have to do is comment on this post and share your favorite tropical fruit. We'll randomly pick the winner next Friday, March 18.
Ingredients
- 1 cup frozen mango chunks
- ½ cup well-cooked carrots
- ½ medium banana
- 1 cup Greek-style yogurt (plain) with active & live cultures
- ½ cup milk or alternative dairy beverage
- 1 tablespoon of honey, blue agave nectar or maple syrup
Mix all ingredients and blend until smooth.
Nutrition information
Makes 2, 8oz servings.
When made with nonfat yogurt and nonfat milk (or other milk) this provides 200 calories, 12 grams protein per serving.
If you need to gain weight, make with whole milk yogurt and whole milk to increase calories to 325 calories, 12 grams protein. Calories and protein can be increased further by adding 3 tablespoons of skim milk powder (90 calories, 9 grams protein).
Blended smoothie can be kept in sealed container for 24 hours. Provides good source of vitamin A, vitamin C, potassium, calcium, protein and probiotics.
Reader Comments (3)
I really like this post, because .... volunteering at the Infusion Center, I meet many patients who are looking for tasty recipes (that will go down easily) and will help with their overall nutrition. I'm going to make this one up for them to try this week. We'll give it a taste test.
Oh yes! favorite tropical fruit? Mango or a nice fresh pineapple.
since i just got back from Hawaii, i will say the papaya and mango are my favorite fruit. We had it all different ways including a drink. Thanks for sharing this recipe. I plan to try it.
Thank you both for sharing. We hope you'll share your feedback with the recipe! We randomly chose (between 1 and 2) and the "chooser" chose 1, which means Lynn you're the winner!
Thank you again to both of you for taking the time to comment, and as always if you have a future blog topic to suggest, let us know.