Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It helps our body’s engines to start, our metabolism to work and minds to turn. It has been said that it helps us get energy throughout the day and feel more active. Last week I challenged myself to document each and every single breakfast I made and the result are six different recipes with fresh and natural ingredients to keep us running in the morning – and a special brunch by the seventh day.
Monday: oatmeal with honey and cinnamon.
Boil water, pour two cups of Quaker oatmeal in the water and stir until it becomes soggy.
Add honey at your taste and a little bit of powdered cinnamon.
1. Classic Oatmeal from Quaker,
2. Water,
3. Honey,
4. Powdered cinnamon.
Tuesday: toasted bread with butter.
My mother always said that one of her guilty pleasures in life is eating butter. We never had the habit
of cooking our meals with butter or adding it to our food. The only way I eat it – when I’m cooking – is
on a piece of toasted bread. It’s just so good. Toast two pieces of bread, let them cool off for a bit and
spread butter over them.
1. Bread – this one is from a local bakery,
2. Butter.
Wednesday: cereal with vanilla almond milk.
I don’t eat cereal that often because I’m intolerant to wheat flour, and most cereals contain wheat flour.
While oatmeal is a good option, it’s not the most practical one. I was lucky enough to find Warm and
Crunchy Granola Honey Almond from Quaker. You pour one or two packages on a bowl, pour milk,
I’ve been using vanilla almond milk, heat it up for 25 seconds in the microwave, stir a bit and get ready
to eat some goodness.
1. Warm and Crunchy Granola Honey and Almond from Quaker,
2. Vanilla Almond Milk.
Thursday: greek yogurt, granola, berries and honey.
After the toasted bread, this is my favorite breakfast. Just pour a cup of greek vanilla yogurt,
two tablespoons of granola, wash some berries and also pour them over. Top it off with a little
bit of honey, if the granola doesn’t have added sugar.
1. Activia Vanilla Greek Yogurt,
2. Almond Chia Granola Clusters from back to Nature,
3. Raspberries and blueberries (or any other of your berry preference),
4. A little bit of honey.
Friday: gluten free waffles with honey and berries.
TGIF! I used to have the habit of doing my own waffles and/or pancakes. My mother, during winter time,
used to throw waffle and tea parties for me and my friends, with her special heart-shaped waffle maker.
These ones, I normally buy at Whole Foods and they are gluten, wheat flour and egg free – which is perfect
for me. You just have to put them in the toaster and spread whatever you prefer on them – I usually put a
little bit of honey, M prefers butter.
1. Van’s Gluten Free Waffles,
2. Honey,
3. Raspberries and blueberries (or any other of your berry preference).
Saturday: cup of green tea.
Saturday is, usually, one of those days I let myself get up a little bit later than usual. Eleven or
eleven thirty in the morning its when I’m normally doing breakfast, but it’s already so close to
lunch time that I choose to just drink a cup of tea to wake up, while I check emails. You just
have to boil some water, depending on how much tea you want to drink, let the tea rest for
two to three minutes, not more than that, and pour it into a cup.
1. Twinings Green Tea,
2. Water.
We don’t have a habit to go for brunches, but this past sunday, we woke up wanting to leave the apartment and spend some time together. We got ready and went straight to Brooklyn to have brunch at Café Mogador – one of the best I’ve tried. It’s quite enough and it comes with an orange juice and a cup of cappuccino.
All the photos were taken by me.