I am still without internet at home which is very frustrating and is the explanation for the sporadic posts recently. Today I am visiting my Dad and making use of his WiFi. Rather than do a typical, this is what I have eaten today post, I wanted to show you 4 breafasts I have had recently. They are all very healthy. 3 tasted wonderful and 1 was not so wonderful but super healthy so I ate it anyway.
I did post this recipe the other day but was missing the photos I took. As it was so delicious, I am posting it again, this time with the photos.
1. Carob and Cashew Dip
Ingredients (serves 4)
- 200g cashews, soaked 8-12 hours ( I soaked overnight and we had this for breakfast)
- 60g carob powder
- 4 tbsp olive oil
- 1 heaped tbsp Blackstrap molasses
- 250ml water
Method
- Drain the cashews and add them to a high powered blender
- Add the other ingredients
- Blend until smooth – about 3 to 4 minutes
Wash some fresh fruit such as strawberries and dip and eat and enjoy.
Harvey refers to this now as chocolate pudding and regularly asks if we can have it again. Such a great way to get children to eat fresh fruit. The fact he thinks it is a pudding is a bonus.
2. Sunshine Breakfast
Ingredients (serves 1)
- 1 banana, frozen
- 30g goji berries, soaked for at least 1 hour
- 4 fresh apricots
- 1 tbsp sunflower seeds (optional, but they provide protein, healthy fats and fibre)
Method
- Cut banana in to chunks and add to blender
- Drain goji berries (drink the soak water, it’s delicious!) and add to blender
- Remove the stone from the apricots and add to blender with the sunflower seeds
- Blitz until smooth.
Look at this amazing colour ! It looks like tomato soup but it really isn’t.
This tasted fabulous and I could have licked the bowl clean (I did actually 🙂 )
3. Bloody Good Buckwheat
Ingredients (serves 1)
- 1/2 cup of raw buckwheat groats, soaked overnight and rinsed well
- 1 blood orange, peeled
- 1/2 avocado
- 1 banana (ideally frozen but fresh would work)
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- 1/2 pomegranate
Method
- Rinse buckwheat, drain and place in a bowl
- Blitz orange, avocado and banana in blender until smooth. Pour over buckwheat.
- Sprinkle chia seeds and pomegranate on top.
The buckwheat softens with soaking but retains crunch and the blended fruit and avocado is cool and smooth. The seeds and pomegranate add more crunch so this is a lovely bowlful of contrasting textures and interesting flavours.
This is the one that tasted awful but was so healthy I ate it anyway.
4. Spirulina Cream
Ingredients (serves 1)
- 1 banana
- 1 apricot
- 2 strawberries
- 1 tbsp flax oil
- 1 tbsp freshly sprouted chick peas
- 1 tsp spirulina
Method
- Put everything in the blender and blitz until smooth.
I dislike the taste of spirulina and the flax oil doesn’t taste great either. But this little pot of green was so full of amazing nutrients I managed to eat it all and consoled myself by thinking about how much good it was doing me. The texture was perfect which helped it go down.
Try something new and different for breakfast 🙂
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