Breakfast, as we all have heard, is the most important meal of the day. It’s supposed to get us going, help us concentrate, and keeps weight down just to name a few things. I’ll be honest and say that I skip a balanced breakfast pretty often, replacing it with high calorie Starbucks Venti White Chocolate Mochas instead.  I’m ashamed.  

Anyway, I’m still on an Ellie Krieger kick. I’ve become quite fond of her new book The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life. But aside from one meatloaf recipe I can’t seem to tear myself out of the Breakfast chapter. There’s just too much good stuff in there.  I decided to do a couple of posts over the next week or so showcasing some of Ellie’s recipes that I’ve tried.

Let’s start with the Blueberry Blast Smoothie.

This has the most minimal of ingredients – “superfood” blueberries, non-fat yogurt, non-fat milk and honey.  The recipe is for one serving size and you get a full glass for under 200 calories.  It’s not overly sweet which I had to get used to, but it was really good.  This smoothie is a great way to start out the day and you only need about two minutes to make it. Anyone of us breakfast skippers can spare two minutes in the morning, I’m sure.  My one piece of advice: check your teeth after drinking this! Don’t go around grinning wide until you’ve looked at yourself in the mirror because there might be tiny antioxidant filled blueberry pieces in your teeth. You’ve been warned. It’s a small price to pay for health, ya know? You can view the recipe here and you can even watch a video here if you like visuals (the video cuts off when Ellie takes her first drink… hehehe, wonder why…)

Next up is Cherry Vanilla Oatmeal.  Stay tuned!