Antioxidant Rich Strawberry Goji Smoothie

We have been focusing on trying to get more antioxidants into the teen each morning at breakfast because when she eats more foods with lots of antioxidants then her acne problems practically disappear.   When she stops eating antioxidant rich foods then her acne comes back.  It's true.  I love what eating good foods can do for you and this is a very visible one to prove it.

Goji berries are nutritional powerhouses!  They are super high in antioxidants and rate extremely high on the ORAC scale {like a 25,300 vs. 2,400 for blueberries}.  You want young looking and beautiful skin?  Start eating goji berries!  They look like this:

  
I bought my goji berries here.   But I want to plant my own bush and have them all the time.  You can purchase seedlings to plant your own from here.

Antioxidant Rich Strawberry Goji Smoothie

1 1/2 cups vanilla yogurt or kefir
1/2 cup water
1 1/2 cups frozen sliced banana
1 cup frozen strawberries
1/4 cup goji berries
2 tbsp whole golden flax seeds

Combine everything in a high speed blender {mine is a Blendtec but a Vita-Mix is great too ~ a regular blender may not get everything as smooth as you like ~heck, my old one before I got the BlendTec wouldn't even crush ice! ~ but it will still probably taste good}.  Serves 2.

This smoothie was quite tasty and refreshing.   In fact, it was so tasty I might be able to sneak these into The Tod's old "monkey drinks" {aka those Danimals yogurt drink containers I've been saving ~ more on that later!}

Stay tuned for more upcoming antioxidant rich smoothies!  Oh yes, and the Nopales salad experience I will update you on probably tomorrow!  :D