Ingredients:

• 1 to 2 Medium Organic Frozen Bananas
  
• A Few Large Ice Cubes
  
• 1 Cup Organic Raw Almond Milk, Organic Raw Coconut Milk, or 100% Grass Fed Raw Whole Milk
• 1 Tbsp. Organic Raw Honey
  
• 1 Tbsp. of Fermented Organic Cacao Nibs
  

Instructions:

1. Blend your organic ingredients in a high speed blender until smooth and creamy.  Pour into your favorite drinking glass and sip away.

If you want to cut down on oxalic acid, omit the almond milk.  I would use coconut milk or my favorite raw grass fed whole milk.

You could increase the amount of protein in this smoothie by adding a scoop of your favorite protein powder or a couple of raw pastured eggs.

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of Organic Frozen Strawberries or 3/4 cup Fresh Organic Strawberries & A Few Ice Cubes
• 6 oz. of Organic Raw Almond Milk, Organic Raw Coconut Milk, or 100% Grass Fed Raw Whole Milk
  
• 1 scoop of Chocolate Non-Denatured 100% Grass Fed Whey Protein Powder (10 to 20 grams of protein)
• 1 Tbsp. Organic Peanut Butter or 1 Tbsp. of 100% Grass Fed Raw Cream or 1 Tbsp. of Raw Coconut Cream
  

Instructions:

1. Blend your organic ingredients in your favorite blender and drink!

*Whey protein comes with some amazing health benefits, but you need to use a whey protein powder that has not been denatured or destroyed by excessive heat or processing.

Base Ingredients:

• Flesh of Ripe Organic Avocado
• 1 Tbsp. of Fermented Cacao Paste
• 1 cup of Organic Coconut Milk
  
• Spring Water & Ice Cubes
• Optional:  Organic Raw Honey
  

Instructions:

1. Create your choice of organic ingredients and blend on high speed until a creamy texture is reached.  Enjoy!

To make rich and nutritious chocolate smoothies - make your own raw coconut milk from mature organic coconuts that you buy at a grocery store.

But first, learn some techniques on how to crack open a coconut.

First, you'll need to drain the coconut water from the coconut before cracking it open.  Test each eye of the coconut with a knife to find the softest spot.

Then poke a hole in the softest eye with a knife or a clean screwdriver.  Drain the coconut water over a bowl to catch the coconut water and save for later to drink.

To crack open the coconut, you'll need a hammer.  Hold the coconut in your left or right hand (or less dominant hand).  Now with your other hand, whack the hammer on the equator line of the coconut.

Be sure to keep your fingers out of the way of the hammer!  Keep turning the coconut and whacking along the equator line until the coconut cracks open.  This may take more than 1 complete turn.

About Young Coconuts

Young coconuts seem to be preferred for making smoothies by the vegan community.

Because the coconut water that comes from young coconuts is one of the highest sources of electrolytes.

Also, the meat of young coconuts is much softer than mature coconuts - more gelatinous. 

Young coconuts will also probably blend more easily than the hard meat of a mature coconut.

However, young coconuts will be lower in calories and higher in carbohydrates than mature coconut meat and they will lack in healthy fats. 

I actually prefer mature coconuts myself and believe that the meat from a mature coconut is much more nutritious than young coconuts.

You can make raw coconut cream or raw coconut milk with mature coconut meat which you can then use in your chocolate smoothie recipes.

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