Mens sana in corpore sano! A healthy breakfast must be nutritionally balanced to provide you plenty of energy at the beginning of the day.  I like slow mornings when you wake up and have coffee in your pyjama, but these kind of morning I can afford only in the weekends. I’m not much of a breakfast person during the week, most mornings I usually grab a cup of coffee, a hard-boiled egg and a piece of fruit, or whip up a smoothie. I must confess, I am obsessed with avocado toast for breakfast, especially when I have avocados in my fridge that need to be used up. The following breakfast recipes are my favorites:

1. Avocado – egg toast

• 1 or 2 slices of wholemeal bread (sometimes I use slices of puffed rice)
• 1/2 avocado
• 1 boiled egg not very hard
• salt and pepper

How to make it:

1. Toast the bread (or you can use fresh bread slices, but I like it toasted).
2. With a fork, mash the avocado on the slice of bread.
3. Cut the boiled egg into slices and place it over the avocado.
4. Season with a little salt and pepper.

2. Healthy banana pancakes

• 1 banana
• 1 egg
• 30 ml normal milk or almond/soy/oats
• 4 tablespoons of ground oats
• fruits of your choice (I like it with berries)

How to make it:

1. Mash the banana with a fork in a bowl.
2. Add the milk and the egg, then mix until smooth.
3. Add the ground oats.
4. Melt a little coconut butter (or normal butter if you don’t have coconut butter) in a pan.
5. Bake it for 3 minutes on each side.
6. Add the fruit.
7. You can also add Greek yogurt over the pancakes, then fruit you like and a little honey.

3. Salmon – fresh cheese toast

• 1 or 2 slices of wholemeal bread (sometimes I use slices of puffed rice)
• 2 teaspoons of fresh cheese (Philadelphia or something similar)
• a hand of arugula
• 2 slices of smoked salmon
• pepper

How to make it:

1. Smear the fresh cheese on the toast.
2. Add the arugula and optional cucumbers or radishes, if you like it.
3. Add the slices of smoked salmon.
4. Season with pepper.

4. Oatmeal pudding

• 5 tablespoons oats
• 3 tablespoons yogurt
• 1 tablespoon protein powder (optional)
• banana slices
• blueberries
• a little honey if you want it sweeter
• normal milk or almond milk

How to make it:

1. Add the ingredients in a jar or bowl that you can cover.
2. Close the jar and mix the ingredients by shaking the jar.
3. Leave it in the fridge overnight.
4. You can add more fruit before eating the pudding.

5. Toast with peanut butter and banana

• 1 slice toasted bread
• peanut butter
• 1/2 banana

How to make it:

1.  Smear the toast with peanut butter.
2. Add banana slices as many as you like.
3. You can optionally add a bit of honey.

Voila! Enjoy it ! 🙂