Mango Smoothie

This Mango Smoothie recipe requires you to make your own oat milk. It’s much easier than you think, it literally involves chucking 4 ingredients into your blender and blending it for 1 min. It’s definitely worth the effort as the flavour is so much better than store bought oat milk. You’ll also find this a good way to avoid some of the unwanted ingredients in store bought plant milks, such as vegetable oils, carrageenan, gums and natural flavours.

You’ll notice I use gluten free oats in this recipe. Oats are naturally gluten free, however most oats in Australia are processed on the same lines as gluten containing grains and so will contain traces of gluten. However, gluten free oats have been processed in a dedicated gluten free production facility, meaning they are gluten free. If you have coeliac disease you will need to determine if you can tolerate oats. It is rather a complicated issue (there will be a blog post on this soon!) with differing opinions globally, you can read more here.  You can buy gluten free oats from most health food stores or online, I use this brand.

Smoothies are often not the most nutritionally balanced drink. They are often high in fruit sugars, but will lack in protein, fibre and healthy fats. Which means you are left hungry about an hour after drinking one for breakfast! To make sure your smoothie fills you up and is nutritionally balanced I recommend adding a good source of protein, a tablespoon of oil, such as flaxseed oil. As well as adding an element of fibre, such as chia seeds.