Healthy Breakfast Smoothie
Create your own smoothie from whatever seasonal fruit you have at hand. They can be as simple or fantastic as you wish. Combining the fruit with good fat and protein lowers the ‘Glycemic Index’ of the smoothie, giving a more steady, longer-lasting release of energy.
Blend a combination of:
• Seasonal fruit and berries: use just one type of fruit, or several.
• Fats: soaked nuts; ground seeds; tahini; avocado; egg; coconut cream
• Flavouring: honey; spices; vanilla; cocoa; carob, soaked dried fruit
Breakfast is a good time of day to add nutrient dense ‘superfoods’ to your diet.
The following can also be added to a smoothie:
• Ground flaxseed or flaxseed oil (for Omega-3)
• Spirulina
• Vitamineral green or Barley Grass (from Wild Health)
• Bee pollen
• Protein powder or 1 free range organic egg
Here is my favourite simple breakfast smoothie which keeps me going all morning:
Simply blend all ingredients until smooth.
Making it in the Tribest Personal Blender is especially easy - simply blend and exchange the blender base for a 'sipper top'.
There you go; a meal in a glass!
½ banana, chopped
1 apple, cored and chopped
¼ cup sunflower or pumpkin seeds, soaked overnight (do enough for the week and refrigerate)
1 T ground sesame seeds or 2 t tahini
1 T ground flaxseed or flaxseed oil
1 T Vitamineral Green
1 free range organic egg (optional)
1/3 -1/2 cup soy milk, rice milk or water as necessary
Pinch of good quality sea salt