Recipe #5: Breakfast of Champions II—health food nut

 This is my current go-to breakfast, and not because I’m a health food nut. I have HFN tendencies, but as my other recipes will attest, I am not a true nut. 

This breakfast tastes good, keeps me satisfied until lunch time, and is easy to put together in the morning. 

I will say that healthfood-type ingredients tend to be expensive, and are becoming ridiculously expensive. This is not your cheapest option for breakfast, but you’re worth it!

Ingredients:


Directions:

First things first. Let’s toast those sliced almonds until they are golden brown and fragrant. If you do this in your toaster oven, watch them like a hawk the first few times to figure out your oven’s settings and heat level. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve not followed this advice and burned my delicate (and expensive) sliced almonds, rendering them inedible. When they were normal-expensive, it was bad enough. Now that they’re ridiculous-expensive, it’s not an option.

This is how they look pre-toasting:


This is how they should look after toasting:


Now let’s mix our other ingredients, directly into our cereal bowl:


I add two heaping Mooninspoonfuls of Qia cereal (an overpriced prepackaged mix of hemp, chia, and buckwheat), one Mooninspoonful of expensive cacao nibs, and a healthy Mooninspoonful of relatively reasonably priced flax meal.

(Note: I have, on occasion, replaced the health faddy cacao nibs with cheaper and sweeter semisweet mini chocolate chips, and it’s a great lower cost, but less health nutty, option.)

Next I add a half to full Mooninspoonful of increasingly pricey honey (depending on how sweet I need it), and a few Mooninspoonfuls of plain Balkan yogurt, the price of which has recently become criminal unless we get it on sale. I have started making my own yogurt, but that’s another story.


Mix it all up real good:


Add a sliced banana:


Mix it all together, top with perfectly toasted almonds, and it’s ready to eat!



I’m enjoying mine on the deck outside this morning, with tea and local birdsong, punctuated by my neighbour’s renovation noises. Ting a Ling!

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