8 Easy ways to add more veggies to your breakfast
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In the western diet we don’t often think of putting vegetables in our breakfasts, we are more inclined to use fruit at breakfast time. Many other countries traditionally eat more vegetables at breakfast time. It often comes down to what you are used to, the foods you grew up on. So why do you want to add vegetables to your breakfast?
Vegetables are:
· High fibre
· Low calorie
· High nutrient
· Alkaline
So vegetables will help to:
· Alkalise your diet
· Lower inflammation
· Improve overall health
· Aid with healthy weight management
That’s all very well but how do you add vegetables into your breakfast without you feeling like it’s no longer like breakfast?
Here are my 8 easy ways to add more veggies to your breakfast:
1. Smoothies/smoothie bowls – you can add spinach, kale, avocado etc
2. Juices – these are great for hard vegetables like carrot, beetroot, cucumber etc
3. Omelettes – throw in the kitchen sink (not literally)
4. Scrambled veg – add spinach, tomato, onion, mushrooms etc to your scrambled egg
5. Grilled breakfast – lean/turkey sausage, with mushroom, tomato, onion, spinach
6. Loaded toast – my favourtie at the moment in avocado, tomato and cucumber with some rocket salad
7. Go international – think of dishes you might have had on holidays – breakfast burrito (Mexico), shakshuka (Israel), breakfast hash (Scotland) even the breakfast grill from Ireland
8. Veggie bread – this can be zucchini (courgette) bread, healthy carrot cake/buns, olive and sundried tomato focaccia, feta and vegetable loaf and more
Give it a go and add some veggies to your breakfast for the next week, see if it makes a difference to your day!
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Very nice but not so naughty Berry Cookies
Sometimes you just want something that satisfies the child in you and nothing else will do. These are the perfect cookies for that exact moment. You are going to want this recipe in your life.
Berry nice cookies
Servings – 22
Prep time – 10 minutes
Total time – 25 minutes
INGREDIENTS
– 4 cups oats (we used @flahavans )
– 2 cups strawberries chopped
– 4 ripe bananas mashed
– 1 cup nut/seed butter (we used our fave almond & coconut from @pipandnut )
– 1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
OPTIONAL
– Blueberries
– Nuts
– Seeds
– Vanilla essence
– Orange essence
– Peppermint essence
METHOD
– Turn the oven on to 175 C
– Mix everything in a bowl
– Scoop a small amount of the mix into your hands, roll into a golf ball size then place on a parchment lined baking tray then press down to form your cookie shape.
– Place in the oven for 15 minutes
– Remove from oven and let cool on a wire rack
Enjoy!!
N.B. We love these for breakfast, as a snack or as part of a dessert
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