Easy breakfast bowl

If you’re anything like me, weekday breakfasts have to have 3 essential ingredients:

• Filling
• Healthy
• And above all super-quick!

This easy breakfast bowl recipe has it all. It can be literally thrown together in just a few minutes and it will keep your family’s energy high until lunch.

As a nutritionist, I always insist on having protein and fat for breakfast rather than the usual carbohydrates. Most commercial breakfasts (corn flakes, sugar-loaded muesli, white bread, breakfast cookies, and fruit juices) contain lots of simple carbohydrates such as refined sugar that will inevitably make your or your kids’ energy crash mid-morning. If you want to read more about what to eat for breakfast, make sure to read my post on this topic.

So, back to my quick and healthy breakfast bowl…

It just needs a protein base like yoghurt, a few protein-dense toppings like nuts & seeds, and some fruit for extra vitamins. To offer daily variation I like to put a mix of the following ingredients on the breakfast table, and if your kids are big enough (and mess-free) you can let them make their own bowl. On very busy mornings my husband usually lines up 5 bowls and fills them all at the same time, a bit like a production line.

FOR THE BASE, CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

• Full-fat plain yoghurt
• Unsweetened Greek yoghurt
• Dairy-free yoghurt (coconut, almond, soy, …)

TOPPINGS HIGH IN PROTEIN AND HEALTHY FATS:

• Nuts: cashew, almond, pecan, brazil, hazelnut
• Seeds: chia, flax, hemp, sunflower, pumpkin, sesame
• Nut butters: almond butter, hazelnut butter, peanut butter, cashew butter
• Rolled oats
• Homemade classic granola
  
• Homemade crunchy granola (our favorite!)
  

FRUIT:

• Fresh fruit: any kind of berries, banana, kiwi, pear, apricots, peaches, …
• Dried fruit: apricots, figs, dates, raisins, goji berries
• Coconut flakes or shredded coconut

HEALTHY SWEETENERS:

• Maple syrup
• Raw honey
• Coconut sugar
• Homemade date caramel
  

Tip: to make it even quicker, you can mix your favorite nuts & seeds in a big jar to put on the breakfast table