if i were a color...

One of my favorite things about fruit (besides their amazing flavors) is that they are so PRETTY! My favorite time of the day is mornings...ESPECIALLY smoothie time! But my smoothies are rarely picture-ready because I throw in a bunch of fruit, seeds, powders, and veggies... and they end up looking like Shrek's pond- which doesn't inspire really anyone to want to go follow the recipe! So this morning, I was feeling like there was a lack of color in the sky when I was on my run, so I decided to make a rainbow in my favorite smoothie jar :) I added a few extra ingredients to this special smoothie, but mainly, all I did was switch up the way I made it. Here's what I mean...

Tropical Rainbow Smoothie:

Ingredients:

(we are dividing up the ingredients into four parts- four layers)

Green layer:

• 2 leaves of ripped kale
• handful of spinach
• one (big) cut up piece of celery
• a few sprinkles of coconut sugar (if you want)
• 3 scoops of hemp protein
• 2 tbsp whole flax seeds
• .25 frozen banana

Yellow:

• sliced mango (however much you want)
• pineapple chunks (again- however much you want)
•  .25 frozen banana
• 1 tsp maca powder
• small handful of sliced almonds

Purple:

• handful or two of fresh or frozen blueberries
• .25 frozen banana
• vanilla extract

Pink:

• frozen or fresh strawberries
•  almond milk

note: in each layer, I used almond milk to blend; use however much you want- I did half water/half almond milk but remember you want each layer kind of thick so it will layer correctly when you pour into the jar or cup!

How to make:

•  I blended up the yellow layer first and poured into a jar... combine each layer separately into the blender and pour one after another on top of each other
• top with unsweetened coconut shreds

This sounds silly- but I SWEAR my smoothie tasted better this morning! More than likely, it tasted the same- but I just got so excited at how pretty it was that I enjoyed it greatly more! Anyway, treat yourselves to color on a gray, foggy morning :) enjoy!