Okay, I've borrowed the picture, but this pretty much resembles the breakfast smoothie I make for myself most days (when I've added strawberries to it, as I did this morning). Because my concoction contains ginger root, it's great for giving you a bit of 'zing' and also especially good now the winter is drawing in.
To make one of your very own, this is how you do it:
First, take the dry ingredients (I've listed them below) and whizz them in a blender until finely powdered. Add the fruit, yogurt and just enough liquids to make it pourable, and give the mixture a good top speed whizz until it's all nicely slopping up the sides of the blender. If you're new to smoothie-making, add just a small amount of juice or milk at first, until you have the desired consistency. I personally prefer my smoothies to be really thick, so I don't put that much juice or milk in.
Of course, the fact that I have a big crack in my ancient Braun food processor means it all slops on the kitchen counter as well, but I have got into the habit of using a tea towel to patch up the crack while I blend. I'm not sure how long I will continue this behaviour until I get fed up and invest in a new machine (and it has given me a good 15 years so I can't fault the appliance - I'm going to get another Braun, eventually).
Anyway, once it's all thoroughly blended I do of course drink it. And I especially love the slightly (very slightly) chewy bits of date which make it lovely and sweet. Here's the stuff I put in (liable to be changed at any given moment depending on the contents of my fridge and what I feel like):
Dry ingredients:
2 stoned dates (Medjool are the nicest)
1 sliver of peeled fresh ginger root
Pinch of cinnamon
Tablespoon organic porridge oats
Few nuts (about 4-5, almonds are nice, although I tend towards mixed)
Wet ingredients:
I small banana
Either 5-6 strawberries or 1 kiwi fruit or 1 small soft pear
2 tablespoons natural Greek yogurt (this morning it was organic vanilla yogurt)
Apple juice or milk, enough to make the mixture drinkable rather than spoonable.
I'm Andrea, and am obsessed with creating fabulous food. After I managed to ditch dieting, the reason Chocolate and Beyond was born, it seemed natural to evolve my site into a foodie blog. More so since I also ditched animal produce to be vegan. Now, I love showing how inventive cruelty-free cooking can be. And sometimes I like to rant, too. I wouldn't be myself otherwise :) x 
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