This almond butter smoothie weight loss recipe is low calorie, vegan, gluten-free. And, it’s packed full of metabolism boosting ingredients!
The easy smoothie with almond milk makes a great meal replacement almond shake, breakfast, or recovery meal after a hard workout.
Our yummy almond smoothie recipe is packed full of protein, thanks to the almonds, almond milk, and protein powder. Best of all, you can use any protein powder you like!
Adding almond butter in protein shake recipes adds more protein, a metabolism boosting kick, and antioxidants!
This almond butter smoothie weight loss recipe is low calorie, vegan, gluten-free
Almond Butter Smoothie Weight Loss Recipe
This article will supply you with everything you’ll need to make an almond milk smoothie with banana.
From a shopping list, to a printable recipe card. You’ll even find added protein tips, the best blenders for almond meal replacement shakes, a nutrition label, and more.
To make this almond protein shake easy, we have supplied you with these helpful sections…
What You’ll Find in this Article:
- Ingredients in Almond Butter Smoothie Recipes (shopping list!)
- How to Make an Almond Butter Smoothie for Weight Loss
- Almond Butter Smoothie Weight Loss Recipe (recipe card!)
- Nutrition and Calories in Almond Shake for Weight Loss
Helpful Tip for Shopping: Take a screenshot of the shopping list to your phone. This way you have it at your fingertips the next time you go grocery shopping.
Recipe Card Uses: You can email yourself this recipe card so you can easily search for it (I have a folder in email just for recipes!) Or print it so you have it handy, and can make notes. You can even pin this almond milk smoothie weight loss recipe to Pintrest so it is safely stored for you.
Up next, a shopping list for our almond meal Replacement shake for weight loss…
Ingredients in Almond Butter Smoothie Recipes
You can easily add MORE protein to this already protein packed almond in smoothie recipe.
Feel free to add in a second scoop of these powders, some Greek Yogurt, or even (my favorite) some collagen powder.
How to Add More Protein to this Banana Almond Smoothie:
- Greek Yogurt… is a great metabolism boosting ingredient to add to your almond butter smoothie recipe. Just add 1/4 cup per serving. Get unflavored and unsweetened to make a almond milk smoothie healthy.
- Protein Powder… we have supplied you with our favorite Orgain Organic Plant Based Protein Powder in vanilla flavor. It’s vegan and all-natural (plus it adds 21 grams of protein!)
- Chocolate Protein Powder… if you love chocolate, Orgain Organic Plant Based Protein Powder also comes in chocolate peanut butter… YUM!
- Collagen Powder… for our non vegan and vegetarian readers, collagen power is a great option. It has no flavor and 18 grams of protein. Plus you can add it to soups, tea… even your morning coffee!
Shopping List for Almond Butter Protein Shake:
- Almond butter
- Banana (sliced and frozen)
- Vanilla Protein Powder
- Unsweetened Almond milk
Special Tip: You can find all the measurements in the recipe card below. There you can choose how many servings of this banana almond protein shake you want to make, and it will do all the measurement math for you! All of the ingredients for these meal replacement shakes can be doubled or tripled with the click of a button.
Up next, how to make a healthy meal replacement shake recipe…
How to Make an Almond Butter Smoothie for Weight Loss
Making an almond butter smoothie weight loss recipe is easy and fast.
If you make smoothies daily, it might be time to upgrade your blender… Here are some of our favorites.
Best Blenders for Almond Smoothie Recipes:
- Vitamix Explorian Blender
- Ninja Professional Countertop Blender (under $100 on Amazon!)
- Magic Bullet Blender (under $50 on Amazon!)
- Ninja Personal Blender
How to Make Almond Milk Smoothie Recipes:
- Add the ingredients for almond butter smoothie to a blender.
- Blend until smooth, adding more almond milk (or water) 1/8 of a cup at a time to reach desired thickness.
- Pour into a glass and immediately rinse your blender out (to stop the ingredients from sticking to the inside).
Special Tip: You can find these directions, along with measurements, nutrition and more in the sharable recipe card in the next section!
Up next, a sharable recipe card for this banana and almond butter smoothie weight loss recipe…
Almond Butter Smoothie Weight Loss Recipe
This almond butter protein shake makes a great meal replacement shake!
Feel free to get creative, add in a handful of spinach, or some frozen berries. This almond shake for weight loss is versatile and fun to add to!
Almond Butter Protein Shake (LOW CALORIE)
Equipment
- Blender
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon almond butter
- 1 banana (sliced and frozen)
- 1 scoop Vanilla Protein Powder
- 1/3 cup Unsweetened Almond milk
Instructions
- Add the ingredients for almond butter smoothie to a blender.
- Blend until smooth, adding more almond milk (or water) 1/8 of a cup at a time to reach desired thickness.
- Pour into a glass and immediately rinse your blender out (to stop the ingredients from sticking to the inside).
Notes
Nutrition
Up next, calories in almond smoothies…
Nutrition and Calories in Almond Shake for Weight Loss
This smoothie may be higher in calories than some of my other smoothies (most are 100 calories and under) but that’s because it’s a meal replacement shake recipe.
Regardless, this healthy almond butter smoothie is packed full of protein and healthy (metabolism boosting ) ingredients.
You can find more smoothie recipes in the next section… keep scrolling!
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You can just omit it
Any substitute for the banana? I’m moderately sensitive to them
This smoothie is really good. I used 2/3 cup almond milk and it was still pretty thick, but this recipe will go on my “Faves” list.