Breakfast Smoothie

In all of my unofficial research on what it takes to either get leaner (or maintain optimum weight once you finally get there), eating 5-7 times a day has become one of my top personal rules. Now of course the challenge with this dramatic lifestyle change, if you have been eating only three times a day, is in preparing all that food. At first this becomes a huge burden in addition to carving out time to actually eat the additional 2-4 times each day. Now don”t let the title fool you — this smoothie isn”t only for breakfast you can have it for any of your meals throughout the day. It also isn”t a high calorie smoothie so I really like to have it for one of my “snack meals” — mid-morning, mid-afternoon or before bed. Now from a food prep standpoint this is where super shakes, meal replacements or smoothies come in. Since we have started our blog I have continuously talked about some of my favorite “get lean foods” and oatmeal is certainly near the top of the list. For smoothies oatmeal is great because it adds tremendous thickness and texture. I love to keep frozen fruit on hand for my smoothies and lately instead of frozen blueberries or strawberries I have been going with a mixed fruit which has all of my favorite berries – strawberry, blackberry, blueberry and of course raspberries. But the real beauty of smoothies of course is that it only takes minutes to prepare. What You’ll Need