Ever since I successfully made a Healthy Cherry Garcia, I’ve been dying to make a Mint Chocolate Chip version. I’ve had this recipe in my mind for a LONG time, and finally got around to making it last night. I might play around with it a little more, but overall, I think it was pretty good for the first try!
Ingredients (serves 3-4)
- 3 Frozen Bananas (cut into 2-3 inch pieces prior to freezing)
- 1/2 cup frozen Avocado (cut into cubes then frozen)
- 1/3 cup Unsweetened Almond Milk
- Half of a vanilla bean (slice open and scrape inside out)
- 1/2 Teaspoon Peppermint Extract
- Garnish with dark chocolate chips
Directions
Put frozen bananas, Avocado, almond milk, peppermint extract and inside of vanilla bean in a high speed blender or Cuisinart, and pulse/stop and stir occasionally until it gets to a creamy consistency. You might need to add more almond milk.
Maya loves to push the button 🙂 
That’s it!!
Garnish with the dark chocolate chips (although, omit this if you are strict on certain diets). 
Enjoy! We did 😉
I took these the day before I left on my girls weekend over a week ago…
For a sizing reference. I’m 5′ 8″, and I got a small. It’s actually almost too long! Nothing a little knot doesn’t fix!
Because…twinning is winning! haha. 
Maya wanted to “Make me look beautiful” by putting weeds in my hair 😉 
You can’t really see them, but…so sweet! 
I can’t even handle her sweet smile!!! LOVE HER!
The low tide was SO cool, but it was SO slippery out there on the rocks. We ventured out a little bit, and then came back.
I thought about messing with this image in Photoshop to enhance the beauty, but decided to leave it exactly the way I took it in my camera… 
Same with this one. I’m not much of a landscape photographer, but I couldn’t help but take a picture on this day. 
And, I’ve always wanted to capture Maya mid jump. Oddly…when I finally did, I realize it wasn’t exaaaaaactly how I pictured it in my mind 🙂 
There may or may not have been some wine before we took these… 😉 
Sadly, I left my tripod leaning up against a building in Portland when I was loading my car up, and left it there. WAHHHHH!!!! I had all these plans to get a bunch of pictures of us together.
On me…
Ingredients (feeds 4 with leftovers)
Earlier we saw a purple sea star (that I took a video off, but spaced on taking a picture of!) and a live crab, but it quickly hid under a rock. Later we found a baby crab that was sadly not alive anymore…
We had a little “Pretty Woman” moment, where I pretended the crab bit her 🙂 
Seriously…that face!!! 
I literally want to eat her up!!
It’s hard to get Maya to come anywhere near me, because she just wants to run and play in the sand.
Yup…this view is only a few yards away from the above shots! Honestly, not even that! I could have pivoted from the above shot to get this!! 
She honestly face planted in the first 5 minutes!! 🙂 I’m SO glad I thrift all her clothes!!
EXCEPT for the fact that once she’s down there…she doesn’t want to get up ;{
So, I have to offer to play with her (which is really all I want in the first place!) 🙂 
And….back to playing in the sand.
Until I gave her permission to just jump and play! 
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