Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Strawberry, Banana, Almond, Whole Food Smoothie

Give your new Glass Smoothie Straw a workout with this delicious easy to make smoothie. Just a few ingredients swirled in your blender will create a wonderful light breakfast or anytime pick me up. This smoothie also packs a nutritional punch with more than 90% of your days requirement for vitamin C, more than 20% of your days supply of manganese, vitamin E, magnesium, potassium, B6 and ribloflavin and 8% of your days supply of iron and calcium. Woohoo!

Ingredients:
¼ cup almonds
1/2 cup strawberries
1 ripe banana
½ cup cold water
½ cup ice

Instruction: Toss the almonds in the blender alone and blend a minute. Then add the remaining ingredients and blend until smooth. Pour into a tall glass and drink with your glass smoothie straw.

Nutrition Information:
Calories 266, Protein 7g, Fat 12g, Carbohydrate 36 g, Fiber 7g

GLASS STRAWS

We‘re really excited about our new line of earth- friendly glass straws. They’re super strong, they can slurp up both cold and hot drinks. they feel great in your mouth and they even make really cool sounds when you stir, especially if there’s ice in your glass!

The sipper straw is a bit shorter and has the smallest opening of the three sizes. This one requires a little suction on your part and is perfect for anything you want to sip slowly like wine and cocktails hot tea or coffee.

The drinking straw flows easily and is perfect for everyday use of your favorite beverages such as iced tea, lemonade or juices.


The smoothie straw has the largest opening, it’s big, and is best used for thick drinks like smoothies and shakes.


Our sipper set of 4 is perfect for entertaining because each straw has a different colored glass dot on it, so your company can always find their glass!