I make smoothies all the time in my Ninja. This sounds yummy and I have a bottle of black strap molasses collecting dust in my cabinet! Thanks for sharing.

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You might also want to try this with strawberries. Sometimes I use frozen strawberries instead of bananas and leave out the molasses and spices. With sweetened almond milk, it taste at least as good as products like strawberry Nesquick, but obviously much healthier. And definitely think about getting an immersion blender. It's so much easier to store and clean, than a traditional one. It's the best thing I bought. 

Started to take black strap molasses a week ago...trying to minimize as much "sugar" as possible...so switch to the b.s.m. when I need a kick.  I use it to take my fish oil liquid and in green tea.  Just made a beautiful loaf of banana bread with oat flour and b.s.m. and pumpkin.  Grandaughter loves it.  Going to make some for my dad over Easter.  He has an ileostomy.  So I'm always trying to find good goodies for him!  My mom always started using b.s.m. last week and she is finding that she is sleeping better.  Thanks for the smoothie recipe.  I will give it a "whirl".

Thanks for the tip  I am also going shopping.   Grace

Hi fight like a girl  I would love to have your recipe for bread it sounds good.  Also I bought the red strap molasses and made the drink it is delicious  and also  was happy to see that it has iron and all kind of good stuff in it. Thanks   Grace

Hi GraceB...I've never seen "red" strap molasses.  Here is the recipe for the banana bread.

2 eggs room temp

1/8 cup black strap molasses

1 tsp pure vanilla or vanilla bean

1/8 cup pure solid pumpkin puree

2 well riped bananas smashed

1/8 cup unsweetened applesauce

Mix all ingredients until well blended.

In another bowl add:

2 cups oat flour

1 tsp baking soda

1 tsp baking powder

1/2 tsp salt

sift together with fork. Add to banana ingredients. Blend well. 

Preheat over 340 degrees F. Bake for 55 to 60 minutes or until center comes out dry.  (You may need to cover bread after 30 minutes with foil if top is getting to burn)   ENJOY

fight like a girl  I mad a mistake I meant blackstrap LOL.  Thanks for recipe   Will let you know how it is   Thanks  Grace

Hey GraceB...that's what I thought lol...let me know what you think of the bread.  It's a little moist than most breads but I enjoy that then you don't need any spread on it!

Thanks for the Black Strap Molasses suggestion.  I make huge smoothies and a 12 oz one wouldn't work.  I have thought of using my immersion blender in the past and bet it does a good job. I've recently replaced our 10 year old Vitamix with a new BlendTech.  I just use it for making smoothies.  Since I've been making smoothies for over 3 years I have borrowed many blenders when staying the night at other's homes.  The regular blenders worked fine. I didn't like my daughter's Ninja one because of the huge spinning blade in the middle.  It's great for her as she uses it to make cookie dough and for other things I use a regular mixer for.  I liked my son's blender best .  My husband put the Vitamix away for use when he wants to make powdered sugar out of regular sugar,  peanut butter or other things - he rarely uses it for.

I make monster smoothies with unsweetend Almond milk, coconut water, PlantFusion protein powder, and all sorts of fruit.  It depends on what sounds good to me.  I always have a full banana and 2 cups of frozen fruit. The hint about freezing bananas is a good one. I get day old or clearance bananas sometimes.  I peal them and place them in one inch or so chunks on a cookie sheet sprayed with cooking spray.  After they are frozen I put them in a gallon zip top freezer bag.  I buy fresh fruits to clean and freeze them too.  I mainly get already frozen fruits, except I use fresh apples. This cuts down on my need for ice.  I also put in spinach, kale or carrots and a fresh apple.  My newest thing is freezing seedless red grapes.  I don't like using fruit juices, as they are high in calories. I use, blueberries, strawberries, peaches, cherries, grapes, mango, pineapple and apples.

I found that you only need to use either pineapple or apples but not both at the same time.  Blueberries and Cherries are the best for covering the kale/spinach taste and don't need to be used.together either. I usually have at least 4 kinds of fruit in my smoothie a day. Carrots mix well with strawberries. I freeze fresh kale and spinach.  Pre frozen spinach taste was gross IMO.  If the kale comes triple washed and cut up nicely I just stick the bag straight into the freezer. 

When I want ice cream at night I mix chocolate PlantFusion powder with 1 cup of unsweetened vanilla Almond milk, a banana, tablespoon of peanut butter and some ice.  If I stick it in the freezer for 10 minutes or so it becomes more solid.  I also use an old plastic peanut butter jar and lid over and over again with smoothies.  I'll fill it with part of a smoothie and stick it in the freezer. It works better than setting in a glass filled with  smoothie. Then my husband or grandsons don't accidentally spill my smoothie

P.S. I add in ice most of the time too.

Hmmm... I'm starting to suspect bananas give me urgency. :-/

the smoothie tasted so good, too!

Have you ever put fresh herbs into your smoothies?

I like a couple of mint leaves for sweet ones (chocolate mint???) or I use cilantro, parsley or basil in my salty ones (sort of a frozen gaspacho soup).

Also lemon, orange or lime rind to wonders to camoflage nasty vitamin or leaf veggie tastes as well as ginger (great if you have nausea) for a little kick...ginger, mint and orange are fantastic and passion fruit is a dominant flavour that can hide just about anything.

Here they use a lot of natural remedies and orange blossom water is great for tummy aches, nervousness, stress and depression...

Just ideas

Sharon

Sounds very good and I will try this.  I also, make my smoothies mostly with banana and yogurt and vanilla.  I add spinach sometimes.  I also add walnuts or almonds.  I mix it up.  Never tried Black strap molasses.  I do have that.  I have a great marinade for chicken using black strap. 

HI Sharon   What is orange blossom water?  Is it oranges soaked in water because it sounds like a good remedy for stomach aches. Thanks for the tips on good smoothies and cure alls.

Hi Grace,

There are a number of 'flower waters' that they use over here, Geranium, orange blossom and a few others that I can't remember at the moment.

They are extracts kind of like essential oils...

You can sometimes get them in specialty stores. It is sometimes call 'Mazar' and a few drops go a long way...they put a few drops in fruit salads, in hot water or tea or on a damp cloth that you can then put on your forehead when you have a headache.

They also drip a few drops onto a sugar cube and it gets sucked on for tummy aches.

Peppermint oil is used that way too...if you have any middle eastern shops around where you live or an exotic section in your local grocery store you should be able to find a bottle of it.

It tastes very nice and smells lovely

Sharon