Healthy Breakfast Smoothie Recipes

Breakfast Smoothie Recipes Make Great Breakfasts. We've all heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Nutritionists all agree that a nutritious breakfast is the key to how well you perform for the rest of the day. Unfortunately, many people find that breakfast is the most difficult meal to fit into their hectic schedules.

Breakfast smoothies may be the solution for you! A typical smoothie can be prepared and consumed in just a few minutes, and you'd have a hard time coming up with a meal that offers as much energy-providing nutrition.

The Benefits of Breakfast Smoothies. Healthy breakfast smoothies are loaded with phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals and enzymes that come in a whole-food form. The fruits and vegetable blended together in healthy smoothie recipes provide vitamins, minerals, enzymes and fiber that will do wonders for your health — and build up your body’s defenses against disease.

In addition, when fruits and vegetables are blended, the plant fibers are broken down just like when you chew them; the blender literally does most of the “chewing” for you. This makes smoothies easy to digest, and it also means that you'll absorb more of the nutrients.

Healthy smoothie recipes can also be a great source of fiber. Fiber works to improve your digestion and helps you start your day feeling more satisfied, and maintains that feeling longer.

Making Your Breakfast Smoothie Recipes into Protein Powerhouses. Most smoothie recipes make smoothies that are relatively low in protein. For some people, a high-protein breakfast is essential to provide the energy they're looking for to start their day.

The solution to this is to add protein and healthy fat to any healthy smoothie recipe. You can do this easily by adding coconut oil, a couple of raw eggs or a protein powder to your basic smoothie recipe. None of these will change the taste of your smoothie significantly; you won't notice the eggs at all, and the protein powder just thickens your smoothie more than anything else. See the information under "Optional Ingredients" below to learn more.

Recommended Starter
for Your Breakfast Smoothie Recipes

Many recipes for smoothies call for the use of milk or yogurt. I personally don't recommend the use of dairy products, but I will leave this up to you. I suggest using a nut milk instead, and that's what you'll find in any of the fruit smoothie recipes below. Substitute regular milk or yogurt if you prefer.

Here's my universal recipe for a healthy smoothie starter. This takes just a few minutes and it's ready to go!

Almond Milk Smoothie Starter

Combine the following in your blender:
• 12 oz of water
• 1/3 cup soaked, raw almonds
• 1 tbsp coconut oil
• stevia — sweeten to your taste

Blend until smooth and strain through a nylon-mesh nut bag to remove the almond meal.

You can use this as a substitute for milk in all healthy breakfast smoothie recipes — or drink it as is. It will only keep for a couple of days, but it's so quick to make, it hardly matters.

About Stevia. If you want to add some type of sweetener to your smoothie recipe, I recommend using stevia.

Stevia is an herbal extract that's 300 times as sweet as sugar. It comes in powder, liquid or tablet form and has no calories. Stevia also does not raise blood sugar levels and is safe for diabetics.

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Chilling Your Breakfast Smoothies

Is there's anything more satisfying than a cold, creamy smoothie? There are two ways of chilling your healthy breakfast smoothie recipes:

• Ice Cubes — a good way of thinning down a smoothie that's too thick and chilling it at the same time.

• Frozen Fruit — has the advantage of not diluting the taste, and also giving your healthy smoothies a creamier texture. It's very easy and convenient to create a stash of frozen cut-up fruit, so you always have some on hand.

Optional Ingredients
for Your Breakfast Smoothie Recipes

Optional ingredients for any healthy smoothie recipe that will increase the nutritional value, protein and fiber content of your smoothie include:

Superfoods such as chlorella, spirulina, acai, goji berry and others give your smoothies extraordinary antioxidant content and other nutritional benefits.

Hemp Protein Powder adds protein, healthy omega-3 fats and fiber to your smoothie.

Raw Organic Eggs give your smoothies nature's purest form of complete protein.

Coconut Oil contains about 50 percent lauric acid, a rare medium-chain fatty acid found in mother's milk that has many health-protecting properties. It also gives your healthy smoothie a richer, creamier taste.

Cinnamon, Nutmeg and Cloves have higher concentrations of antioxidants than any fruit or vegetable, and add their warm spiciness to your healthy smoothie recipe.

Breakfast Smoothie Recipes

The following link will take you to my page of healthy smoothie recipes. Any of the recipes can be used as breakfast smoothie recipes — just add any of the optional ingredients listed above to boost the nutritional content. (The optional ingredients are listed on each recipe page for your convenience).

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