A Breakfast Carnival! - Quinoa & Fruit, and Super Shake!

Kimi over at Nourishing Traditions is doing a carnival on fast, easy breakfast ideas. My two staples as of late have been Breakfast quinoa and our Super Shake.

For breakfast quinoa, I soak the Q overnight in a mason jar. Be careful to only fill half with quinoa, as it expands pretty quickly and can bust your jar open if you put too much in! In the morning, I rinse it through a strainer, then put it in my ricecooker or stovetop pot with water and a tablespoon of ghee and a few tablespoons blackstrap molases. Cook that until its almost done, and at the end, I add frozen berries, usually blueberries or raspberries. Top it off with Vanilla Hemp Milk and that is my super nutritious, allergy free breakfast.





On most work mornings, I am trying to start the day with a smoothie I can drink in the car. I make enough for both hubby and I, and I sneak in as much good stuff as I can. Seriously, this is different every time I make it, b/c I switch up the fruits I use, or what juice I put in but you will get the general idea.

I put about a cup of ice at the bottom of the blender. I add 1 scoop of Super Green stuff, and break open 2 probiotic capsules. I add about 2 tbsp of Nordic Naturals Cod Liver Oil (though this will change to Kirkmann's now that we are soy free). Half a bag of frozen fruit, a banana, maybe some coconut yogurt, hemp milk, black currant juice, whatever strikes my fancy or is in the fridge.....and blend! If you don't use berries, and say use mango and pineapple, it will still have a slight green tinge. The berries make it a pinky purple and do cover the green stuff flavor better. Now I won't lie and say this tastes like the perfect Jimmy Buffet sit on the beach smoothie, but its palatable enough to get all that goodness in to start the day. I am sure you could add flax, coconut flakes, VCO, maybe a small chicken liver, or other things to make it super nutritous without changing the flavor much, but I don't dare try yet.