Pink Ribbon Smoothie

Total Time: 12 mins Preparation Time: 11 mins Cook Time: 1 min

Ingredients

• 1 cup red seedless grapes or 1 cup seedless black grapes
• 1 cup strawberry (fresh or frozen)
• 1 slice fresh ginger, peeled (to taste)
• 1/2 cup low-fat vanilla yogurt (or a similar amount of soy milk if a vegan smoothie is needed) or 1/2 cup low-fat strawberry yogurt
• 1 cup ice cube (or frozen skim milk or soy milk cubes)
• 1 teaspoon bee pollen (my own addition, with thanks to rita l for getting me back into the habit! i use cc pollen) (optional)
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon (optional, penzeys has several wonderful varieties)

Recipe

• 1 wash fresh fruit and place all ingredients in the vita-mix container (or blender) in the order listed.
• 2 secure 2-part lid.
• 3 select variable, speed #1.
• 4 turn on machine and quickly increase speed to #10; then to high.
• 5 blend for 30 seconds or until smooth (or gradually increase your blender's speed and process until everything is smooth.