Plant Based Juniors

Two Registered Dietitian Nutritionist helping you raise your plant-based babies, toddlers, children and teens.

Basic Açaí Bowls

Jump to Recipe

We love açaí bowls! These bowls are such a tasty summer treat with everything we’d like to see on a PB3 Plate.

Açaí Bowls sometimes get a bad rap for being “full of sugar,” but they’re actually a delicious, nutrient-dense meal when made with the right ingredients.

Here’s how we make them:

In a blender, start by adding some unsweetened açaí. Then add some frozen fruits. We like bananas and blueberries. Then we toss in some hemp seeds for protein and omega-3 fatty acids. Dates are optional, but they add a little sweetness and some microbiome-feeding fiber. Instead of fruit juice, we use unsweetened soy milk which has eight grams of protein per cup and a little more than that of healthy fat. Then blend it all up! We like to top these with more fruit, hemp seeds, or optional nuts or nut butter. You’re also welcome to add googly eyes if that’s your jam!

A round bowl of purple acai smoothie, with blueberries on top as well as strawberries cut into the shape of hearts, with a sprinkle of hemp seeds and a golden spoon coming out of the bowl. The bowl is sitting on a white and gray marble countertop.

Acai Bowls can check all the boxes for our “PB3 Plate.” Our PB3 Plate Model is a visual model of everything you need on a plate in order to have a nutritionally-balanced plant-based meal. If you’re not familiar with it yet, check out “PB3 Plate: What is it and how do you use it?“

Here’s how the ingredients fit into the PB3 Plate categories:
Fruits/Veggies: açaí, blueberries, banana
Protein-Rich Foods: soy milk, hemp seeds
Grains/Starches: bananas (also a fruit but contain resistant starch so they can fit in here too)

These açaí are such a tasty, balanced summer treat! Let us know if you try them!

Want to save this recipe?

Enter your email and get it sent to your inbox! Plus, we’ll send you our free 5-day mini-course on Pediatric Nutrition!

Name(Required)

Basic Açaí Bowls

We love açaí bowls! These bowls are such a tasty summer treat with everything we'd like to see on a PB3 Plate.
Print Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 Packet of unsweetened açaí
  • 2 Frozen bananas
  • 1 cup Frozen blueberries
  • 2 Tablespoons hemp seeds
  • 1-2 Pitted dates
  • 1 cup Unsweetened soy milk

Instructions

  • In a high-powered blender or food processor, combine: 1 packet unsweetened acai, frozen bananas, frozen blueberries, hemp seeds, pitted dates, and unsweetened soy milk.
  • Blend until smooth.
  • Add your favorite toppings. We like fruit, hemp seeds, or nuts/nut butter.

If you liked this recipe, check out these others:

Helpful Resources

Our course

  • plant based nutrition for kids: a to z guide

    Plant-Based Nutrition for Kids: Your A to Z Guide

    • Meet the moms behind the blog.

    Plant-Based Juniors (PBJs), is a community for parents and educators interested in properly implementing plant-based diets for children. Created by Alexandra Caspero MA, RDN and Whitney English MS, RDN – both moms and registered dietitian nutritionists – PBJs is dedicated to filling the gap in credible pediatric nutrition information for plant-based infants and children.

    PBJs promotes an all-inclusive “predominantly plant-based” approach, supporting all families from vegan to vegetarian to flexitarian. Basically, if parents want to get more plants on the plate, PBJs wants to help!

     

    Grab our book – it’s a bestseller!

    Our book, The Plant-Based Baby & Toddler is where we translate nutrition information in a practical non-anxiety-inducing way and provide everything you need to raise healthy, conscious kids.