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Banana Chia Pudding

Every morning, my boyfriend and I bring greek yoghurt with cream, dried fruits and nuts to work for breakfast. It's delicious, but we've had it everyday for months now and I've been looking for alternatives in case I get sick and tired of my yoghurt mix.

I saw that they were selling Chia Cups at IGA. At $5 a pop, I could easily make one myself! And it's so easy!!! It is so naturally sweet that you could even have it as a dessert.

Serves 2

Ingredients:
2 medium sized banana, chopped
4 tbsp coconut cream
2 tbsp chia seeds

Place the banana and coconut cream in a bowl and blend it with a stick blender.
Once it is smooth, mix in the chia seeds
Refrigerate for the next morning or serve immediately!

Banana Pancakes

It has been a while since I've made breakfast on a weekend... and by a while, I mean 2 months. The boyfriend has been working almost every Saturday, apart from when he was in Thailand, and then on Sundays, I get lazy and just want to sleep in. But yesterday I really wanted to try this new banana pancake recipe he had posted on his facebook page, Paleo Perth, a long time ago. The recipe did not disappoint. It was so good! I had adjusted the recipe a bit though. We don't have any almond butter... they are a bit expensive. So I used almond meal instead.

It was a huge breakfast and I was glad one of our housemates had joined us. As usual, I had cooked too much food and we had three bloated bellies by the end of it.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup almond meal

3 eggs

3 bananas

Mix all the ingredients together in a bowl.
In a frying pan, heat up some butter and cook the pancakes as you would with normal batter!

Kiwi and Avocado Smoothie

I took spinach, kale and rocket from the backyard, and milk is just an estimation. If you like it thick, add less, if you want it less thick, add more. You could also add some whey protein! The sky is the limit!

Ingredients:

2 kiwis

1 avocado

1 banana

1 cup of milk

1 cup of kale, spinach, rocket

Blend everything in a blender!

Deviled Avocado

Came across this recipe online and since we had an avocado left, I decided to try something new!

Ingredients:

1 avocado

1 egg

salt

pepper

herbs

cheese (optional)

chilli (optional)

Half the avocado, pit it and sprinkle salt on both halves.
Beat the egg and pour it in both halves where the pit was.
Add a bit more salt, pepper, herbs and cheese and chilli on top if you want!
Bake in the oven at 220C for 16-18 minutes.

Scrambled Eggs

I love scrambled eggs. They are my favourite kind of eggs. Weekends are the only days we get to cook bacon and eggs (and sometimes mushrooms and sweet potato stuff and pancakes). Since growing our vege patch, we have had great success with our herbs so I decided to throw in some of these herbs instead of the store-bought dried herbs!

I love my scrambled eggs with milk, it makes it so smooth and yummy. Then there's basil, chives, oregano and parsley from the garden and salt and pepper. We also cooked our mushrooms with the herbs... hmm so good!

Juice

This delicious juice has been my breakfast for the past week. YUMM! If you don't have a juicer already, I recommend you get one. You can get one from ebay or gumtree. I got mine near new for $70 and it's a good brand - breville. I love it.

You can juice any fruit and vege you want. Carrots, tomatoes, spinach, apples, oranges, grapes... When the weather gets too hot, we put pour the juice into moulds to make icy poles!

This was in today's juice...

Ingredients:

3 carrots

2 pears

2 granny smiths

2 apples

fistful of spinach, washed

half a fistful of parsley

Make sure the spinach is washed because they get quite sandy.
Once all fruits and vege have been laid out, turn the juicer on and juice away!
For best results, place spinach and parsley between two apples or pears so you get more juice out of them or else they just go through the juicer.
Enjoy!

Hash Brown

My boyfriend brought home bags of sweet potatoes one day from a friend's house so I had to come up with some ways to cook them all so they don't go to waste. This morning I made sweet potato hash browns (with bacon and eggs and mushrooms) and he loved it!

Ingredients:
2 cups sweet potatoes, grated
1 egg
salt
pepper
cinnamon

Beat the egg and mix it with the grated sweet potatoes.
Add salt, pepper and cinnamon to taste.
On a frying pan, heat coconut oil over medium heat.
Place a forkful of sweet potato mix onto the frying pan and press it down to form a cake. Repeat until you have enough of little hash browns covering your frying pan.
Cook for about 5 minutes or until the bottom is golden brown before you flip it over.
When both sides have turned golden brown, it is ready to be served with whatever you want for breakfast!

Stuffed Mushroom

I like surprising my boyfriend. So I try to make something new at least once a week… whether it’s trying a new recipe online or experimenting with new things. Last Saturday I decided to experiment. My boyfriend being a boy thought that the bacon wasn’t enough and wanted more! So maybe next time I’ll stuff it with more bacon and probably rub some oil on the mushroom as it was a tad dry on the outside.

Ingredients:
2 large portobello mushroom, stemmed
2 eggs
Lots of bacon, cubed

Preheat oven to 160 degrees. Beat two eggs and mix in the bacon. Pour the mix into a large mushroom and put it on a tray and bake it in the oven for 20 minutes.

Bacon and Eggs Muffins

My boyfriend prefers to have bacon and eggs every morning. I try to get up in time sometimes, other times I just make him a protein shake and send him off because I'm too lazy. On weekends I try to make him a surprise.

This day, I found a recipe online. Little bacon and egg muffin cakes. Too cute not to try!

Ingredients:
Strips of bacon
4 eggs
Salt and pepper
Mixed herbs

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Line the muffin tray with cupcake papers.
Line the inside of the cupcake papers with bacon strips.
In a bowl, beat the eggs together. Add salt, pepper and the herbs and mix it together.
Pour the mixture into the bacon lined cups and bake in the oven for 20-30 minutes.

Note: You can add any leftovers you may have in the fridge. Tomatoes, mushrooms, etc.

Almond Pikelets

One thing I’ve missed the most since going on the Paleo Diet, was Pancake Sundays. Coincidentally, my boyfriend bought a bottle of maple syrup. So I decided to surprise him and start the Pancake Sunday tradition! I jumped online and found a delicious pancake recipe that both of us enjoyed very much. Hope those of you who are gluten-intolerant as well can enjoy a lovely Pancake Sunday.

Ingredients:
2 eggs
1/2 cup almond meal
1/2 cup coconut cream
1 tbsp butter

Beat the eggs together.
Add almond meal and coconut cream to the eggs and mix them together. Consistency should be thick. Add more almond meal if necessary.
Heat up a tablespoon of butter on frying pan on medium high.
Place a tablespoon of the mix in the frying pan and flip it over when the mix is starting to dry up. The top side should now be golden brown.
Cook for another 30 seconds to a minute and serve with maple syrup!

Protein Shake

Want to get big? Drink this for breakfast! My boyfriend has gotten so big since he started lifting again – gained 10kg of muscles in the past 2 months. I’d like to think that I contributed by feeding him lots and lots of good food. He generally either gets this or bacon and eggs for breakfast if I am bothered to wake up early enough to cook. Weekends I would make something special like Almond Pikelets to change it up a bit… I like to surprise him

For those of you who are looking to get big, his secret is also to drink 2L of milk everyday. That’s right, we get at least 14L of milk every week just for him. And we don’t get the hi-lo or low fat stuff, he gets the A2 milk… when he can afford it. Mostly we just get the normal full cream milk – it’s more accessible and cheaper. But if you’re trying to get used to drinking more than a glass of milk, start by having this protein shake for breakfast every morning!

Ingredients:
250ml of milk
1/4 cup of coconut cream
a banana
an egg
a heaped scoop of whey protein
handful of berries, optional

Blend everything in a blender.

Note: all these ingredients are adjustable. This morning he requested an extra banana and an extra egg in his protein. So what you want to put in it is totally up to you.

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