5 Simple & Healthy Breakfast Recipes: A Great Start to your Day

As I am sure you are aware, breakfast is the “most important meal of the day”. Quite often it can be one of the most difficult & challenging meals. After sleeping for hopefully 8 hours, your body needs refueling to provide you with energy, vitality, and a mental boost for the day ahead. Here I share with you simple, easy, nourishing, and healthy breakfast recipes and suggestions to give a great start to your day!

Why Breakfast is So Important

Skipping breakfast can lead to some quite negative consequences for your day, being that of impaired cognitive performance, learning difficulties, brain fog, headaches, heart problems, increased risk of diabetes, and impaired bone health, just to name a few of the health risks associated with not eating a wholesome breakfast. Eating or drinking [as in a smoothie] for breakfast will result in benefits of improved energy and performance during the day. Long-term health benefits include improved brain performance, a healthy heart, and reduced risk of diseases such as diabetes and obesity.

5 Simple, Easy, Nourishing Healthy Breakfast Recipes & Suggestions

Firstly, we will start with non-cooking suggestions these are great for the days that you are busy heading off early in the morning.

1: Oatmeal, Yogurt, Pecan & Blueberry Parfait

Serves 1 = 1 cupful

This is a no-cook oatmeal recipe, that is left overnight. Gently reheat oats in a saucepan quickly in the morning. Then adding your berries, pecans, and maple syrup.

What you need:

• 1/2 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
• 1/2 cup boiling water
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla essence
• 1/2 cup blueberries, fresh or frozen, thawed organic blueberries
• 2 tablespoons plain Greek yogurt
• 1 tablespoon toasted chopped pecans 
• 1 teaspoon pure maple syrup

Combine oats and water in a jar or bowl. Cover and refrigerate overnight. In the morning, heat if desired in a small saucepan. Now top with blueberries, yogurt, pecans, and maple syrup.

2: Avocado, Radish & Cucumber on Sourdough Toast

Serves 1–2

What you need:

• 2 pieces of sourdough bread
• 1 lemon squeezed
• 1 avocado
• 1–2 radishes
• 4–5 slices of cucumber
• Ground pepper

Variations for topping using the avocado as your base can be tomato, onion, capsicum, mint, parsley, and poached eggs. You can also add cottage cheese.

Pop the bread into the toaster, in a bowl add avocado, squeezed lemon and pepper and mash together. Spread the avocado onto the toast and then top with the radish and cucumber or any other toppings as mentioned.

3: Berries, Banana, Kiwi Fruit & Quinoa Fruit Salad

Serves 1–2

What you need:

• 1/4 cup of organic fresh or frozen blueberries
• 1/4 cup of organic fresh or frozen strawberries
• 1 small banana
• 1 kiwi fruit
• 1/2 cup of plain Greek yogurt
• 1 tablespoon quinoa

Chop up the fruit put into a bowl, top with yogurt then quinoa. Each of these recipes provides you with protein, calcium, essential vitamins, and minerals.

4: Poached Eggs with Spinach and Ricotta Cheese

Serves 1–2

What you need:

2 eggs
2 teaspoons of white wine vinegar or apple cider vinegar
2 pieces of wholegrain or wholemeal bread
1 cup of baby spinach
1 tablespoon of ricotta cheese

Boil the kettle with filtered water. When boiled pour water into a skillet pan about 8 cm deep. Add vinegar. In a bowl put your baby spinach add boiling water then drain in a strainer after a few seconds. Put toast into the toaster or avocado in the oven. As water comes up to boiling crack your two eggs separately into the boiling water. With a wooden spoon gently splash boiling water over eggs. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes for a soft yolk or 3 to 4 minutes for firm. Using a slotted spoon, remove the egg from the water. Have toast or the base you have chosen on a plate and place the eggs onto it.

5: Easy Scrambled Eggs

Serves 1–2

What you need:

• 2–3 eggs
• 2 spring onions (chopped)
• 2–3 button mushrooms (chopped)
• 1/4 cup of Almond or coconut milk
• Cracked pepper for taste

Crack eggs into a large mixing bowl for fluffy scrambled eggs use a whisk to fold eggs gently until yoke and white are fully mixed together. Pour in milk and mix again with whisk. Now stir in spring onions, mushrooms and pepper. Heat a shallow pan with a tablespoon of olive oil, when oil is heated add mixture stirring constantly until mixture is cooked through. Takes about 5 minutes.

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