With the holidays on my mind, I was thinking, gee, wouldn’t it be fun to do some sort of overnight, healthy egg bake in the slow cooker to wake up to on Christmas morning?

And then I thought….absolutely not. I am just OVER egg bakes during the holidays, really. It’s just so cliche and, really, who has time to eat in the morning when there are presents, a thousand different things going into the oven, and yeah, the whole house needs to be deep cleaned NOW. —> (if you want a FULLY  accurate picture of me cleaning my house, watch this video.) But what we do need is caffeine and lots of it. That’s where I come in with this coffee bean smoothie. We’re going straight to the source.

This is sort of like a coffee IV drip.

Or at least the next best thing. And guess what? You’re still getting a totally PHFF-balanced breakfast in about 2 minutes. Blend, sip, and go.

I would suggest high-quality coffee beans for this – I would actually always suggest high-quality coffee because it tastes better and gives you more energy, but especially for this smoothie, you’ll want something that doesn’t taste like burnt plastic (Folgers).

The slightly crunchy beans gives this smoothie a real cookies n’ cream vibe, without the cookie. I bet if you used chocolate protein instead of vanilla it would taste even more like it. I’m definitely going to try that the next time I have some chocolate protein powder lying around.

OK here we go – let’s get jacked.

Coffee Bean Smoothie

Serves: 1

No need to carry both your coffee and your morning smoothie with you – just combine them. This smoothie uses ground coffee beans instead of brewed coffee, making it more potent and giving it a little crunch.

Ingredients

• 1/2 frozen banana

• 1 Tbsp coffee grounds

• 3/4 c unsweetened nut milk

• 1 Tbsp peanut butter

• 1 Tbsp chia seeds

• 1 scoop vanilla protein (~25 g protein)

Instructions

1. Combine everything in a blender and blend.

2. Add more liquid, if necessary.

Fat: 13 | Carbohydrates: 24 | Fiber: 7 | Protein: 35

Notes

Feel free to add a big handful of spinach – you won’t taste it, but it’s an easy way to sneak in greens.