How To Make The Perfect Pregnancy Smoothie
Getting the right foods during pregnancy can be hard work. However, it can be pretty hard to get an irritable pregnant woman to stomach all, or any, of these foods. One life hack is a morning smoothie. Make a double serve of our Knocked Up Smoothie and you’ll hammer out serious servings of iron, protein, vitamin c, folate, calcium and omega 3s. Plus a bunch of other nutrients that an incubating women and her baby need to be healthy.
Knocked Up Smoothie Recipe
- Makes 2 servings
- Takes 5 minutes
Ingredients
- Baby spinach — 3 cups
- Mint — 1 cup
- Frozen banana — 2
- Pumpkin seeds — 1 cup
- Tahini — 2 tablespoons
- Blackstrap molasses — 2 tablespoons (if too hardcore go with honey, maple or dates)
- Flax seeds — 2 tablespoons (or chia seeds)
- Ice — 1 cup
- Non-dairy milk or coconut water — 3 cups
Method
- Blend and force-feed to Mum. Pin her down if you have to.
Blackstrap molasses is a monster for iron, which is something pregnant women really struggle to get enough of. But molasses is polarising. So you can swap in honey, maple syrup or dates. Dates are apparently brilliant for labor and to prevent perineal tearing but my best resource for this is a local midwife and reddit so don’t take that as gospel.
