Last week I posted on what I was eating for breakfast, and asked for your favourite recipes to help make mornings smoother. So you fly out of bed!
Here they are below. I should just note that for me, mixing different fruits in the one meal ain’t great . General wisdom is that it causes bloating because different fruits take different amounts of time to break down in the gut (so it means enzymes are used up by the most easily digested, leaving the rest to ferment a touch). Also, I advise not eating toooo much fruit in general in the morning – it’s full of sugar and gets the metabolism off to a high GI start. Some berries or half a banana is best! IMO.
Also, I advise using full cream normal milk, as opposed to soy or processed substitute milks. Yoghurt with coconut water is best. Again, IMO. Full fat? Yep, it’s needed to activate leptin, the “I think I’m full now” hormone, in our brains…so we don’t go hunting for toast at 10am.
My favourite is this one from Aaron at Origin of Energy. These guys really know their stuff (they’re a personal training gym/kitchen/shop/lifestyle school all in one; you’ll hear more about them soon). I drop in on my way to work and grab one of these:
Chocolate Coconut Smoothie
- 1 Virgin coconut
- 2 Eggs
- 10g Raw Cacao
- 10g Coconut oil
- Stevia 1/8 teaspoon
1. Put all the ingredients in a blender and blend on high for 30 seconds
*Always put the coconut oil in just before you blend so it doesn’t turn solid in the cold milk. During the winter months you may have to melt it on a gentle heat before you put it in.
*You can use honey instead of Stevia and add fresh & or frozen banana
*To make caffeine free substitute cacao for 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon.
Blue Berry Yoghurt Smoothie
- 250ml Kefir or Paris Creek Yogurt
- 2 eggs
- 50g Blueberries
- 1 Tablespoon Coconut oil
- 1/2 Teaspoon Fresh Cinnamon
- Stevia 1/8 teaspoon
1. Put all the ingredients in a blender and blend on high for 30 seconds
2. Serve in cup with a sprinkle of fresh Cinnamon on top
*Always put the coconut oil in just before you blend so it doesn’t turn solid in the cold milk. During the winter months you may have to melt it on a gentle heat before you put it in.
Kat Eden from Body Incredible blends the following:
- 100ml of unhomogenised organic milk (you can get this at Coles). If you prefer to avoid dairy, then use some nut milk.
- 100 ml filtered water.
- 1 teaspoon of bee pollen. You can buy this at your health food or organic store, or online. Bee pollen contains 10 essential amino acids, is 20% protein, and has 59 trace minerals in it.
- 1 scoop of organic grass-fed protein powder (optional)
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- 1 teaspoon Stevia (or more depending on your preference). Stevia is a naturally sweet herb up to 300 times sweeter than sugar, and with no adverse effects on your blood sugar levels.
- 2-3 tablespoons raw or organic full-fat plain yogurt. I use one from my farmers markets, or the Jalna Biodynamic one from Coles.
- 4-6 ice cubes
The fabulous nutritionist Zoe Bingley-Pullin blends this mango and oat milk smoothie:
- 1 x mango
- 1.5 cups oat milk
- 1 tbsp of flaxseed oil
- 1 tbsp of almonds
Emma Sutherland who is the nutritionist on the new show I’ve been filming, Eat Yourself Sexy does this: My morning organic smoothie – a combination of oat milk, banana, sheep milk yoghurt, probiotics, Acai berry powder, frozen berries and spirulina.
Reader Nicky does this: a cup of rice milk, soaked chia seeds, LSA, a spoon of Spirulina (from the Suveran), 1/2 a frozen banana, 1 raw egg…. mixed together in my Vitamix – best kitchen appliance ever!
Claire says: I have a smoothie each morning straight after my hot water and lemon in winter or fresh iced ginger tea with lemon and mint in summer. One of my faves is a green smoothie:
- Banana
- Berries
- Kale
- Spinach
- Lime Juice
- Linseeds
- Splash of cloudy apple juice
Amber says: My mother introduced me to a smoothie made with kefir, raspberries, banana, water, and almonds when I was desperately ill with Crohn’s/stress a year ago. I think it kept me alive for several weeks single-handedly!
Nice one Amanda:
- 1/2 cup plain unsweetened -no-crap-no-fruit-DEFINITELY-no-sweetener-yoghurt
- 1 banana (yip I freeze them too – peel them first or it’s a cold and slimy mission)
- berries if I’ve got them (frozen or fresh) and what;s with the half banana everyone? go wild, eat the whole thing!
- 1/2 cup oats – use oat bran if oats are hard to digest – you need this for slow release energy
- 2 TBLSP protein powder – I use pure whey powder as the soya stuff got a bad rep and might be all GM and make you grow extra ears
- raw egg
- some water (to get consistency you like)
- cinnamon (proven to slow down absorption of glucose into bloodstream and tastes yummy)
- small handful of nuts/ pumpkin seeds – flax/linseed if you need them (must GRIND flax/ linseedfirst – use coffeegrinder! do in bulk and refrigerate.)
