Healthy Breakfast Ideas: Blueberry Smoothie

Welcome friends. You must have read that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. However if we are eating salty, oily and process breakfast then instead of helping us, it becomes more harmful and makes us lethargic.  

Read More: Everyday Zen Habits to happy and healthy 

This is 1st post in series of posts I will create about various healthy breakfast ideas. Most of these breakfasts will be live food that will detox your body and make it energetic without coffee or tea.  

This is very simple recipe with bananas, blueberry and coconut water. If you do not have fresh coconut water available you can use little water just to make it easier to blend or you can purchase these cartons shown at the bottom of this post. 

You add shredded coconut for additional taste. To make it more filling you can use peanut butter or overnight soaked peanuts during blending.

Ingredients:

1 Banana

1/2 cup Blueberry

1/2 cup Coconut Water

1 Tbsp Peanut Butter/1 Tbsp Soaked Peanuts (Optional)

  

Method:

Mix and blend all ingredients well. Top is with shredded coconut for additional taste.

Serves 2 for light breakfast or 1 for filling breakfast

Cookbook for Kids and Strawberry Salsa

Other day I stumbled upon a Vegetarian Children's Cookbook at our local library. At first look I fell in love with this book. Once I got it home, both my grand kids also just wont let it go.

Colorful drawings of utensils, cutting methods , large print, simply written recipes and most beautiful food images, suddenly inspired love for cooking in both the kids.

BTW talking about love for cooking, check out these 10 Hobbies to Boost Mood and Emotional Health

Coming back to subject of this book, we renewed it twice, paid some fine 3rd time and then decided to get our own copy of Forest Feast for Kids: Colorful Vegetarian Recipes that are Simple to Make.

Just like the title suggests, recipes are so simple and very simply written,

None of the recipes are more than 4-5 steps. They are written in big prints that even 5 year old child will be able to make these recipes with some oversight of the adult.

Book uses few ready made ingredients like Pie Dough and Store bought pesto to make it simple for kids to follow.

We have already made couple of recipes from this book and continue to explore more.

Below is the Strawberry Salsa inspired from Forest Feast for Kids: Colorful Vegetarian Recipes that are Simple to Make.


Ingredients:
2 Tomatoes
1 small Onion
4-5 large Strawberries
Cilantro
Green Chilli (Optional)

Lime/Lemon Juice

Salt per taste

Method:
Chop or roughly blend first 5 ingredients
Add Lime Juice and Salt Per taste
Mix it , Chill it and enjoy with chips or as topping for other toastada, enchilada etc.

Enjoy the recipe and also don't forget to check out Forest Feast for Kids: Colorful Vegetarian Recipes that are Simple to Make.

I am sure you will fall in love with this book just like my grand kids did.