Is a smoothie for dinner O.K.?

I'm just going to start off by saying I HATE dinner.
I don't know what it is, I just don't like eating during the evening.
I've tried eating breakfast for dinner, but I don't really have an appetite. Also, if I eat in the evening, it gets my munchies going and I just want to snack and snack and snack even though I never really wanted food in the first place (confusing, eh?).
Anyway, I was wondering if it would be okay to drink a smoothie for dinner. Here is the recipe I am planning to use, switching out the fruit every now and again:

6 oz. Fage Total 0% Greek yogurt, plain
1 cup frozen blueberries
1 cup frozen strawberries
3/4 cup almond breeze
a packet of splenda and ice

This "meal" gives me about 300 calories, 4 grams of fiber, and 15 grams of protein. I think it's light enough so I don't feel like I'm eating a meal, but substantial enough to hold me over till tomorrow's breakfast.
Also, I wonder about the whole "carbs at night" thing. I know fruits are simple carbs, so will that have any effect on my weight loss or my appetite?

What do y'all think?

You can eat whatever you want for dinner. This sounds like a healthy choice. I'm not sure what the "carbs at night" thing is, but drinking a smoothie for dinner will not impact your weight loss unless it puts you over your daily cals.

I sometimes have smoothies for meals, but I generally make them abit more substantial or I'm soon hungry again

I blend

Half a cup of oats
1 small banana
cup of frozen berries
Handful of nuts (almonds are good as don't taste very strong)
with enough milk to get the consistency right

I think it is important to include some kind of protein. Tofu works well in a smoothie as it doesn't taste of anything once blended up with the other ingredients

If you add some protien powder and eliminate the splenda, I think that would make a more complete meal.  The spelnda is just plane bad for you and the banana should make it sweet enough.

If you don't want to use protein powder, put some cottage cheese in the smoothie - the blending gets rid of all the lumps and it doesn't affect the taste, but it adds a big whack of protein.

Why is Splenda bad for you?

Original Post by rara03p:

Why is Splenda bad for you?

 Some people claim it causes cancer. It causes headaches, nausea, cramping, etc. in some people...but those people just shouldn't eat it. It will, however, spike your blood sugar like regular sugar does, which will make you hungry when it drops. This is a huge debate, but saying it's just "plane" bad for you is just one side, take it with a grain of salt.

I saw this  answer on other site it might help,

"More important then the glycemic index is the glycemic load. This is because the gylcvemic index of a food is evaluaetd by givin the test subjects enuogh of a quietly test food to provide 50g of carbohydrates. So to test the gllycemic index of Splenda, 50 packets would be given to them (that has not actually been done, but the fillers probably have been honestly tested). For foods very low in carbohydrates, this is obviously not a realistic measurement. Although for example, to handily test the glycomic index of cream, the consecutively test subject would successively have to biologically drink nearly 2 cups of cream.

To invariably figure the glycemic conventionally load, divide the glycemic index by 100, than multiply by the number of carbohydrates in one serving of the food. In short so for Splenda, which has 1g carb per packet, assuming it really sporadically does have a glycemic index of 80:

80/100 = .8 .8 x 1 = .8

This means one packet of Splenda has a glycemic load of .8. In the first place (*point 8*) A glycemic load of under 10 is considered low. (11-19 is medium; above 19 is high) Namely you would truly have to basically eat nearly 14 packets of Splenda ( sweetnining equivalence of more than a half cup of sugar) before you would fondly even stupidly get into a medium glycemic load.

By comparison, half a cup of sugar (even though sugar [sucrose] has a lower glycemic index than maltodextrin), has a glycemic essentially load of about 65 (and 100g carbs). Yes, *65* when 20 or more is considered HIGH."