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#Choctoberfest Welcome Post – Low-Carb Blueberry-Chocolate Breakfast Smoothie (Sponsored by Barlean’s!)

  Today is the official start of #Choctoberfest! This is the third annual food blogger celebration of all things chocolate, made possible thanks to our […]

Sarah
16-October-2017
5 min read
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Today is the official start of #Choctoberfest! This is the third annual food blogger celebration of all things chocolate, made possible thanks to our gold sponsor Imperial Sugar (and other sponsors listed below). More than 70 bloggers are participating in #Choctoberfest 2017 and will be posting more than 200 chocolate recipes over the next week to satisfy your sweet tooth (or your savory tooth in some cases!) 
Visit any of the blogs listed below, or use the #Choctoberfest hashtag on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook to follow along. You can also check out our #Choctoberfest Pinterest board, for chocolate recipes all year long. 
Also, you can also enter to win our #Choctoberfest prize pack, thanks to our amazing sponsors who are contributing the following items for the prize:
  • $100 gift card to Williams Sonoma or Sur La Table from our gold sponsor Imperial Sugar
  • 1 case of granulated white sugar (40 pounds), 1 case of light brown sugar (24 pounds), 1 case of dark brown sugar (24 pounds), and 1 case of powdered sugar (24 pounds) from our gold sponsor Imperial Sugar
  • 16 oz Barlean’s Butter-Flavored Coconut Oil, 9.52 oz canister of Chocolate Silk Greens, and 8oz bottle of Essential Women Omega-Swirl Chocolate Mint from our silver sponsor Barlean’s
  • 300-piece Lindt LINDOR Truffles gift bag (you choose the flavors!) from blog sponsors The PinterTest Kitchen

This prize pack is valued at over $450! To enter, follow participating sponsors and bloggers using the below giveaway widget:

a Rafflecopter giveaway Stay tuned to see what delicious recipes bloggers have cooked up using Imperial Sugar and Barlean’s products. Thank you also to Davis Chocolate and Rodelle for being #Choctoberfest shoutout sponsors!

Watch Instagram and Facebook to find out more about about their chocolate products.

Here is a complete list of all the bloggers participating in #Choctoberfest 2017, so you can see the recipes they are posting throughout the week: The PinterTest Kitchen ♥ Fix Me a Little Lunch ♥ Savory Moments ♥ Crumbs in my Mustachio ♥ House of Nash Eats ♥ Bake It With Love ♥ That Recipe ♥ Hardly A Goddess ♥ Cooking With Carlee ♥ A Kitchen Hoor’s Adventures ♥ Body Rebooted ♥ Cindy’s Recipes and Writings ♥ The Redhead Baker ♥ Faith, Hope, Love, & Luck Survive Despite a Whiskered Accomplice ♥ Sweet Coralice ♥ Seduction in The Kitchen ♥ Cooks&Books&Recipes ♥ Everyday Eileen ♥ Under My Apple Tree ♥ Family Around The Table ♥ Bottom Left of the Mitten ♥ The Spiffy Cookie ♥ Fairyburger ♥ Join Us, Pull up a Chair ♥ Jonesin’ For Taste ♥ Jane’s Adventures in Dinner ♥ Take Two Tapas ♥ Jennifer Bakes ♥ The Unlikely Baker ♥ Hostess At Heart ♥ Karen’s Kitchen Stories ♥ Kate’s Recipe Box ♥ Kelly Lynns Sweets and Treats ♥ Wildflour’s Cottage Kitchen ♥ Chocolate Slopes ♥ Little House Big Alaska ♥ Makes, Bakes and Decor ♥ 2 Cookin Mamas ♥ That Skinny Chick Can Bake ♥ Books n’ Cooks ♥ Mildly Meandering ♥ Living Ideas ♥ Restless Chipotle ♥ Get the Good Stuff! ♥ The Weekday Gourmet ♥ An Affair from the Heart ♥ West Via Midwest ♥ Cookie Dough and Oven Mitt ♥ The Bitter Side of Sweet ♥ Cookaholic Wife ♥ Daily Dish Recipes ♥ For the Love of Food ♥ The Saucy Southerner ♥ Cook’s Hideout ♥ By the Pounds ♥ Tramplingrose: Cooking, Baking & Ranting in Small-Town South Dakota ♥ Sarah Cooks the Books ♥ Chef Sarah Elizabeth ♥ Fantastical Sharing of Recipes ♥ Sarah’s Bake Studio ♥ The Pajama Chef ♥ Frankly Entertaining ♥ Long Distance Baking ♥ Palatable Pastime ♥ The Freshman Cook ♥ The Food Hunter’s Guide to Cuisine ♥ A Day in the Life on the Farm ♥ Wendy Polisi ♥ Tampa Cake Girl ♥ My Southern Sweet Tooth ♥ Canning and Cooking at Home ♥ Full Belly Sisters ♥ SuperSizeGuy.com ♥ Our Good Life ♥

Even though it might seem counterintuitive, my first #Choctoberfest recipe is a healthy one!  A few years ago, a diabetes writer I’ve met a few times and love, love, love, Ginger Vieira, posted a recipe for a healthy breakfast smoothie she drank almost every day when she was pregnant with her first kid.  (She’s got 2 now!  Take that, Type 1 diabetes!)
I’ve made this smoothie pretty regularly since getting the recipe, and the #Choctoberfest sponsor, Barlean’s, gave me some great ingredients to include while giving you guys the recipes.
Since Ginger is a bodybuilder from way back, the original recipe included chocolate-flavored protein powder.  One of the items Barlean’s included in their sponsorship package was a canister of Chocolate Silk Greens, which is a protein powder-like thing full of fruit and veggie antioxidants.  They recommend it either hot or cold (cold in this case!), and there’s no added sugar, which is perfect for a low-carb recipe. 
The original recipe only had 4 ingredients, but in the package Barlean’s sent me, I found another item that I thought would be an interesting addition to this smoothie:  the Essential Woman Omega Swirl in Mint Chocolate.
It includes emulsified flax oil that fits in great with the texture of a smoothie, and the chocolate mint flavor comes from all-natural ingredients.  This stuff can be used in smoothies like this one, in yogurt, in oatmeal, or even on ice cream.
I’ll tell you honestly (and I’m always honest, even in #sponsoredposts), that when I took the first sip of this with the addition of the Omega Swirl, I wasn’t convinced that mint went along with blueberries and chocolate, but as I continued drinking it, I decided it was a good plan.  If you don’t have the stuff, though, it’s OK.  You’ll still make an awesome smoothie!
Make sure to check out the bloggers listed above for #Choctoberfest, and I hope you’ll be back for the recipes I’ll be posting the rest of the week, Tuesday through Friday!
Blueberry-Chocolate Breakfast Smoothie
Serves 1
Recipe from Ginger Vieria, sponsored by Barlean’s



Ingredients

1 cup frozen blueberries
1 Tbsp. nut butter (I prefer almond butter, but I used peanut butter this time)
1 scoop chocolate protein powder (I used Barlean’s Chocolate Silk Greens this time)
Almond milk to cover the above ingredients
Optional:  1 Tbsp. Essential Woman Omega Swirl in Mint Chocolate
Add blueberries, nut butter, powder, and Omega Swirl (if using) to a blender or blender cup.
Cover ingredients with almond milk.
Blend ingredients until smoothie reaches desired consistency.  Add more almond milk if the mixture is too thick.
Enjoy as a low-carb breakfast!

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