Bananas, nut milk, protein packed peanut butter, healthful flax seeds for beautiful insides and beautiful outsides, and thickening oats.
It’s a smoothie for your health… but it’s also feels like you’re drinking a milkshake. Drink up and rush out the door. There’s life to live!
Peanut Butter, Banana, and Oat Milkshake
makes about 2 1/2 cups. one large or two small portions
2 cups cold almond milk (soy or regular milk would also be delicious)
1 banana, cut into chunks (frozen is ideal) (definitely peel the banana… like, for sure.)
1/4 cup peanut butter
1 heaping teaspoon honey
1 tablespoon flax seeds, ground into meal
2 teaspoon old fashioned oats, ground fine
In a spice grinder, pulverize flax seeds and oats into a fine powder. My spice grinder is just my coffee grinder really well cleaned out.
In a blender combine almond milk, banana, peanut butter, honey, and ground flax and oats. Blend until no banana chunks remain, and the mixture is thoroughly incorporated. Pour into a glass and enjoy immediately.
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Sounds delicious. Can’t wait to try it. Just need to get bananas!
Now that is my kind of breakfast!
just blended my flax seed and oatmeal so it will be ready in the morning for my smoothie! Last week I was just making banana, almond milk & flax seed smoothies one day, and oatmeal the next…now I can combine!!! yay!
you lengthen my to-do-list!! Oat, banana and PB! who could resist!
The straws, Joy, the straws.
I’ll make the drink oh yea, I will but I need to have some of those straws?
Whole foods?
xoxoxxo
Sounds as healthful as it does delicious! Someone just told me that oatmeal can actually increase HDL (good cholesterol). I had thought that nothing could be done to improve upon that.
Hello Breakfast!
I have flax seed meal sitting in my fridge, begging me to use it.
You must have heard it calling out to me.
You are so healthy, Joy! :D Major props. And this milkshake looks to-die-for!
Yum! Sadly, when I moved from North America to Europe I had to say goodbye to all of my electronics. I’ve slowly started to re accumulate things, but a blender (or food processor) is yet to come. Hopefully soon so I can blend up this tasty looking smoothie!
if you start with ground flaxseed meal, you can use a whisk or rotary egg beater to mix your milkshake. good luck!
Genius! I am making this for breakfast this week for sure.
I love to make something very similar to this for breakfast (especially in the summer). You really should try soaking the oats and flax in the almond milk overnight; it makes the smoothie so much smoother!
Yes please!! This sounds/looks absolutely divine! It’s totes going on my list for the week.
Love this milshake, sounds amazing:))
Just made this for breakfast today. Delicious!! I did have to replace the PB with Nutella (how we ran out of PB I’m not sure, but…). This was a great way to start a crazy Tuesday!! Thanks for another amazing recipe!
I am just starting to enjoy flax! What a great timing. Sounds yummy.
I love this so much and it is totally going to be breakfast this morning.
I wish I had one of these right now – sounds delicious!
I have something very similar for breakfast every day: soy milk + oats + ground flaxseed + frozen fruit (mango or berries).
The frozen fruit gives it a smoothie consistency and ground flaxseed is better than whole because your body is better able to digest it.
Looks so good, and anything anything with PB is good by me :)
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Joy! You can try it out next time with dulce de leche instead of peanut butter. It works perfectly with the banana! Hello from Argentina!
I feel like you are the queen of milkshakes.
this looks great! i cant wait to make this for breakfast!!
great idea. I love drinking my breakfast- it’s just too early to chew cereal! The photography is beautiful! Thanks for this post!
ahhh!!! this looks amazing! I’m so sad that I don’t have all the ingredients at this moment, because I want to make it right now. but since I don’t I guess I will have to go to the store and buy them.
This looks super good, can’t wait to try it!
I was so excited when I saw you made your milkshakes in a mason jar! one little tip i’d love to share is that the blades of a blender will screw perfectly onto a mason jar! then you can make one smoothy at a time, and drink it directly from the jar – saves a dirty dish and even a few more seconds! try it! =) thanks for sharing the recipe i’ll definitely try!
Thanks for always reminding me how beautiful life is. Even if it’s just because of a milkshake ;-)
Hi Joy
This smoothie/milkshake was AMAZING.
I’m not a big smoothie person but I’m following a fertility diet and they want you to have a smoothie everyday and I’ve been having a hard time finding recipes I like. I subbed almond butter and coconut milk and added my supplements. (Maca, UltraGreens and Vitex) I will definetly be making this again. It was so delicious.
Thanks so much!!!
I wish I had this wonderful concoction for breaky…..peanut butter yum!
Yum all it needs is some chocolate! haha
Wow, looks delish! What kind of honey is that? Looks very opaque..
it’s raw honey.
I always love your pictures. So beautiful and so colorful.
This recipe is perfect! Healthy and delicious — win win!
PBBO Milkshake? Creamy raw honey, a banana just arriving to it’s overripe prime and peanut butter full of body….mmmm…creamy dreamy heaven.
Mouth-watering!!!
I’ve been telling myself that I need to start drinking smoothies, and this protein-packed number might just start my new habit. Thanks!
I added up the calories and oh my gosh…it’s a meal!!!!! and too much for breakfast!!! peanut butter is so fattening! I made it and it was delicious! Help, how can I make it less caloric???
Cut the peanut butter down to a tablespoon, the honey down to a small drizzle, and the almond milk down to one cup, and use unsweetened almond milk (only 35 calories/cup). It won’t be quite as luxuriously milkshake-like, but a tablespoon of peanut butter is enough to add plenty of flavor! You’re also getting a lot of healthy fiber from the flaxseed, which makes this a pretty complete meal. I have a nearly identical one for breakfast every morning (with raw spinach instead of oats) and this + a palmful of almonds fills me up right through lunch!
Hi Joy, a great addition to this is raw baby spinach. The only change to the smoothie is color–it turns light green. But the taste is still delicious and you add tons of spinach-vitamin goodness!
Its my favorite peanut butter and banana sandwich in smoothie form- yummm!!! That was the only sandwich I ever wanted to eat for lunch between 2nd and 4th grade…I still remember the days of being devastated (total drama queen) when I got ham or turkey instead of my beloved PB and B. Thanks for the tip on grinding the oatmeal…I’ve tried putting it in smoothies before whole and have been disappointed with the texture…can’t wait to make this!
Any shake involving bananas and peanut butter I’m on board with. It’s still healthy without the oats and flax, right? No?
So this is the first time I’ve been on your site, this is the second comment I’ve left, and the 3rd recipe I’ve looked at. I love this blog. And Joy, I already love you (probably creepier sounding than intended). This is a recipe after my own heart and I’m so excited to make it in the morning!
i’m so glad you’re here!
Just made this for me and my toddler and we love it! I think next time I’ll do it with just a teeny aren’t bit of honey cuz my banana was super ripe n sweet. Thanks Joy for a delicious and healthy treat.
This is the second time in one day that I saw putting oats in a smoothie! EWG just published their Worst Children’s Cereals study, but in that article, they recommended healthy breakfast alternatives. A smoothie with oats in it was one of the alternatives! I eat all crazy kinds of archerfriendly smoothies, but I have not tried oats. This recipe you have is pretty much archerfriendly, too, except for the almond milk. I will try this tomorrow. With my nanas.
I forgot to ask – do you not own a Vitamix? If you had one, you wouldn’t need to grind those oats and flax seeds prior to making the smoothie. I’m sure you know that it could blend those beauties up for you.
Yum! I love that you used almond milk! I have a close friend who has to go dairy free and LOVES to cook. Do you have any suggestions for a really excellent dairy-free cookbook?
I love this! I wanted to let you know that I featured this in my “What I Bookmarked This Week” post – stop by and see.
Ooh, I am totally making this tomorrow. Maybe minus the flax, since I don’t have any. Do you think it will still be delicious? I’m betting yes!
Question – I really want to make this smoothie asap(because it looks and sounds delicious!) but alas I just have instant oatmeal. Would that be okay instead of old fashioned?
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