Category: Breakfast Food

Birdseed Breakfast Cereal

Most boxed breakfast cereal contains sugar, pesticides, additives, dies and damaging trans fatty acids (hydrogenated oils). You can make your own healthy cereal.

Buckwheat is not related to wheat and is a “gluten-free” product. Buckwheat is related to the rhubarb plant. Buckwheat health benefits:

High in essential amino acids, especially lysine, theroing, tryopha also high in sulphur containing amino acids.

Helps to thin the blood, Anti-Inflammatory, reduces sugar in the blood, strengthens the capillaries, helps to reduce LDL cholesterol and helps to prevent hemorrhoids and varicose veins

Buckwheat (Kasha)
Sunflower seeds
Add fruits or yogurt or other nuts
Can use coconut milk (plain) or almond milk (plain)
Can add stevia for sweetener

Makes a nutritious breakfast

Can soak the buckwheat and/or nuts the night before if you want them softer.

BANANA-CASHEW LETTUCE WRAP

Serves 2

!/4 cup raw cashew butter

12 romaine lettuce leaves

2 bananas, thinly sliced

Spread about 1 teaspoon cashew butter on each lettuce leaf. Lay a few banana slices on the butter and roll up like a burrito.

Note: This makes a delicious, healthy breakfast or snack.

BLUE APPLE-NUT OATMEAL

Serves 2

1 2/3 cups water

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

1/4 cup old-fashioned rolled oats

2 tablespoons dried currants

1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries

1 banana sliced

1 apple, peeled, cored and chopped or grated

2 tablespoons chopped walnuts

In saucepan, combine the water, cinnamon, oats, and currants. Simmer until the oatmeal is creamy. Add the blueberries and banana. Cook for 5 minutes, or until hot, stirring constantly. Mix in the apples and nuts.

Oatmeal – Pumpkin Pie Style

2/3 cup gluten free oats (Bob’s Red Mill)

2 cups almond milk

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup pumpkin puree

1/2 tablespoon chia seeds

1/2 teaspoon cinamon

1/4 teaspoon ginger

1/8 teaspoon nutmeg

Heat the oats and almond milk in a medium sized pot to boil.

Turn down to simmer and add the pumpkin and chia.

Simmer for 5-7 minutes

Add remaining spices, stirring regularly.

Simmer for additional 5 – 7 minutes

Serve hot

Banana To Go Breakfast

2 cups fresh or frozen blueberries

2 banana, sliced

1/2 cup old fashion rolled oats

1/3 cup pomegranate juice

2 tablespoons chopped walnuts

1 tablespoon raw sunflower seeds

Combine all the ingredients in a small microwave-proof bowl. Heat the microwave for 3 minutes.

Note: For on the go, combine all the ingredients in a resealable container and can eat later, either hot or cold.

Serves 2

Antioxidant – Rich Breakfast Bars

1 medium ripe banana

1 cup old fashioned oats

1 cup frozen blueberries, thawed

1/4 cup rasins

1/8 cup pomegranate juice

2 tablespoons finely chopped dates

1 tablespoon chopped walnuts

1 tablespoon Gojo berries

1/2 tablespoon raw sunflower seeds

2 tablespoon ground flax seeds

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

Mash banana in a large bowl. Add remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly.

Lightly wipe an 8″ x 8″ baking pan with a small amount of olive oil. Spread mixture into pan.

Bake for 25 minutes. Cool on wire rack cut into bars. Refrigerate any leftover bars.

Serves 8

Drink Your Salad

Half of all Americans do not eat three servings of vegetables a day. Those vegetables that Americans do eat includes the heart attack-causing foods that are fried in trans-fats like french fries and potato chips. Raw, uncooked vegetables offer the most powerful protection against diseases like heart disease, cancer and many others. Consuming a significant quality of raw foods is essential for superior health. Currently Americans consume about 25.5 percent of their calories from fiberless animal foods and another 62 percent from highly processed refined carbohydrates and extracted oils. Half of