A delicious, healthy breakfast makes it easier to start the day and puts you in a better mood. Mornings are the ideal time to supply your body with nutrients that will help you feel fit and well throughout the day.
Preparing a healthy breakfast is not rocket science and, with a few tips, it can be done in no time at all. Above all, you should pay attention to the combination of ingredients and a varied diet and take enough time for your breakfast.
Healthy organic breakfast from Verival
With just a few tips and tricks, you can get even more out of your breakfast.
Our 5 tips for a healthy breakfast:
- Add as much colour as possible to your plate
- Add variety and try something new
- If you're short of time, prepare your breakfast the night before
- Top up your breakfast with delicious and nutritious toppings
- Make your own breakfast products and adapt them to your diet and preferences
Add colour to your healthy breakfast
A colourful plate, for example with fresh fruit or vegetables, is not only visually appealing, but also provides you with many nutrients. Of course, this applies not only to breakfast. The more colourful it is, the healthier it usually is. By adding different fruits, you get a variety of different nutrients.
How about a delicious bowl of strawberry chia porridge with fresh blueberries, strawberries and chia seeds, or a fluffy yoghurt with bananas, raspberries and flax seeds?
In this recipe, for example, we have added fresh, local raspberries to our rather monotonous chia pudding. This adds a little more colour and we can benefit from the trace elements and vitamins contained in raspberries.
A healthy breakfast means variety
It's often tempting to simply eat the same thing every day, because then you don't have to think about your diet and meal plan. However, eating is much more fun when you try different dishes and recipes. After all, healthy eating should also be enjoyable and thus remain long-term feasible. Why not try our original Bircher muesli recipe?
A simple tip for getting more excited about new recipes is to regularly invite friends over for breakfast or brunch at the weekend. It makes it much more worthwhile to experiment with more elaborate and longer recipes, which you might be less inclined to make in your busy daily routine.
Healthy breakfast – a time-consuming affair?
To ensure you eat a nutritious breakfast even when you're short of time, it's worth preparing breakfast the night before, for example in the form of overnight oats. You can then make ideal use of the time you save by not having to prepare breakfast by making it a leisurely affair.
Eating slowly is also part of a healthy diet, as digestion starts with chewing. Slow chewing ensures that the nutrients contained in the food are better absorbed. In addition, the body can better register the food intake. This helps you to stay full longer and makes you less prone to food cravings.
There are now countless overnight oats varieties. However, this recipe for banana-coconut overnight oats is still one of our favourites:
Tipptopp Toppings
Healthy toppings have the advantage of spicing up a dish and rounding it off wonderfully, while also providing additional nutrients. Nuts, fruits or seeds are the perfect addition to your porridge, muesli or yoghurt.
The more variety, the better. When it comes to toppings, you can let your creativity run free and be inspired by the season or current trends, for example. For example, you can use fresh regional berries in summer or spices such as cinnamon in winter. Here are some more delicious topping ideas:
- nuts
- fruit
- cinnamon
- cocoa
- pumpkin seeds
- dried fruit
- flaxseed
- hemp seeds
- chia seeds
- sunflower seeds
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Homemade recipes for your healthy breakfast
Many breakfast products, such as jams and spreads, often contain more sugar than you would expect. This is not ideal for a healthy breakfast. It helps to spend a little time preparing recipes. This way you can make sure to reduce the sugar or replace it with other sweeteners.
Above all, homemade means that you know what's in it and you can of course adapt each recipe to your own taste and diet. We recommend that you simply make your own spreads, for example raspberry-chia jam, cashew butter or peanut butter. These can be used not only as a spread, but also as a topping on yoghurt and porridge.
Verival breakfast variety with no added sugar
Making your own plant-based drinks, ideally using oat drink, is not only healthy for you but also environmentally friendly. Here, too, you can determine how sweet your drink should be by making it yourself. By also reducing waste, you are doing something good for the environment.
