As a busy mom of two little girls, I’m always looking for the easiest breakfast recipe for myself. I love my breakfast Avena smoothie recipe because it’s easy and delicious on the go! This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #50YearsofBreakfast #CollectiveBias
Easy and Delicious Breakfast Avena Smoothie Recipe
The best thing about this breakfast Avena smoothie recipe is that it’s under 375 calories and has tons of nutritious vitamins and minerals all in one drink for moms an enjoy on the go! An Avena smoothie with Nestlé Carnation Breakfast Essentials® is my favorite meal, especially when I’m heading to the gym.
All of the ingredients needed for my Avena smoothie were found at my local Walmart. So much easier when you can find everything that you need in one place. You can find the Nestlé Carnation Breakfast Essentials® in a variety of flavors like Classic French Vanilla or Milk Chocolate in the cereal aisle at your local Walmart. I also purchased some fresh strawberries, cinnamon sticks, and sugar.
Ingredients Needed
- 1 packet of Nestlé Carnation Breakfast Essentials® vanilla flavor
- Cinnamon stick
- 3 tablespoon of Avena (Cream of Wheat)
- Strawberries or your favorite type of fruit
- 1 1/2 cup of Milk (we use soy milk)
- 1/2 teaspoon of sugar or 1 tablespoon of honey
- 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
- Ice cubes
- To go cup
Before sharing the recipe there are two ways that you can make your Avena smoothie. You can use the stove top or the microwave when you are in a hurry. I have shared both below. The pictures will show you how easy it is to create on the stove and the Instagram video was created using the microwave.
Recipe Instructions
- In a small pot on medium high heat add 1 packet of Nestlé Carnation Breakfast Essentials, 3 tablespoons of Avena (cream of wheat), 1/2 teaspoon of sugar, 1 1/2 cup of milk, and your cinnamon stick.
- Using a whisk mix all the ingredients together and allow to slightly boil. Then lower temperature to low and cook for another minutes or so, whisking in between.
- Add ice cubes in your blender or mixer. Take your cinnamon stick out of your Avena and pour the entire Avena content into your iced blender.
- Blend until all crushed ice is dissolved. You can add as much ice as you would like. The more ice you add the thicker the consistency.
- Next, add your strawberries or your favorite fruit into the mix. You can also leave it as is and just add a little bit of cinnamon. Blend together until smooth.
- Pour into a cup with ice to finish cooling off and you are ready to run out the door with a healthy breakfast!
If you are in a rush moms you still have to remember to eat, so instead of cooking everything on the stove just pour everything in a microwavable safe bowl.
- Cook for 1 to 2 minutes, stirring every 30 seconds until it’s all combined and smooth. Add to blender with your strawberries and ice.
- Blend together until smooth and pour into a to-go cup, top while a dash of cinnamon and head on out! Check it out below!
- 1 packet of Nestlé Carnation Breakfast Essentials in Vanilla
- Cinnamon stick
- 3 tablespoon of Avena (Cream of Wheat)
- Strawberries or your favorite type of fruit
- 1 1/2 cup of Milk (we use soy milk)
- 1/2 teaspoon of sugar or 1 tablespoon of honey
- 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon
- Ice cubes
- To go cup
- In a small pot on medium high heat add 1 packet of Nestlé Carnation Breakfast Essentials, 3 tablespoons of avena (cream of wheat), 1/2 teaspoon of sugar, 1 1/2 cup of milk, and your cinnamon stick.
- Using a whisk mix all the ingredients together and allow to slightly boil. Then lower temperature to low and cook for another minutes or so, whisking in between.
- Add ice cubes in your blender or mixer. Take your cinnamon stick out of your avena and pour the entire avena content into your iced blender.
- Blend until all crushed ice is dissolved. You can add as much ice as you would like. The more ice you add the thicker the consistency.
- Add your strawberries or your favorite fruit into the mix. You can also leave it as is and just add a little bit of cinnamon. Blend together until smooth.
- Pour into a cup with ice to finish cooling off and you are ready to run out the door with a healthy breakfast!
- This recipe has 342 calories made following the instructions above.
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What types of fruit would you add to your Avena smoothie?
This looks like a satisfying smoothie great to start the busy morning, thanks for sharing #client
Gracias Adriana!
I am not a big breakfast person, so smoothies are a perfect option for me. They give me the nutrition I need and they are not super filling, either.
I’m the same way 🙂
This looks yummy! We start every morning over here with a smoothie, just because it’s an easy way to add more fruits & veggies into our day right off the bat. I’ve never tried adding cinnamon to my strawberry smoothies, though- I’m wondering if a few sprinkles of it ground would work well, as I don’t boil my smoothies first?
My husband loves them when I add cinnamon to his smoothies! He says they taste better 🙂
I would never have thought of putting cream of wheat in a smoothie. We put oats in ours though. I’ve never used Carnation Breakfast, but your smoothie looks good.
It’s delicious!
I didn’t know about these Breakfast Essentials. What a perfect breakfast though! Really portable, and full of protein…
Yes, the protein in them is great!
Now that is an awesome way to use the breakfast essentials. I’d be happy to wake up to one of those each morning.
It turned out so yummy!
I like pretty much every berry out there. Will be trying this with blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. I think it might be good with banana too. I had Banana Cream of Wheat and it was delicious
It’s amazing with banana as well!
I always love breakfast smoothies. Thank you for sharing this recipe, it looks appetizing. Would definitely make this for the family.
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It’s hard to think of what ingredients to put together to make a great smoothie for kids. That cinnamon flavor paired with strawberries sound too good. I wanna try it soon for a healthy and filling breakfast.
The strawberries and cinnamon definitely go together and gives the smoothie a nice sweet spicy taste 🙂
Cream of wheat hmmm definitely interesting. I am so loving this smooth and I want to give it a try soon as it looks so healthy
It tastes super good and really filling 🙂
I need a breakfast treat like this. It’s easy to prepare and really very healthy.
It’s delicious! Plus, super easy to make!
We drink a lot of smoothies over at our house. They are really easy to make and take no time at all. Have to see if i can find Breakfast Essentials here so I could try out your recipe too! Thanks for sharing.
Hope you do! It definitely will give your smoothie a nice taste 🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
Thank you for allowing me to learn something new as never heard of this brand before! Breakfast is the most important part of the day and I love a good smoothie!
It’s so yummy! Thanks for stopping by Joanne!
Oh yeah, that looks yummy! Thanks for the recipe 😀
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wow what a gret smoothie to drik at morning. Full of energy and nutriions. i will definatly try this.thanx fr sharing
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This smoothie looks delicious. I love adding strawberry as you did. I would add blueberries or kiwis. They are so good in a smoothie
Oh I might have to try it with kiwis!!
This is a great breakfast idea! I love having things for breakfast that will keep you full until lunch. Also, thanks for the rebate information.
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I see you used a Magic Bullet! I love your pictures and the breakdown of this delicious smoothie!