Seven sweet breakfasts, ordered from the five-minute one to the ones you start the night before.
Most of them are sweetened with fruit rather than sugar, and that’s the difference between a breakfast that tastes like dessert and one that behaves like dessert an hour later. Five of the seven are ours.
1. Chocolate Banana Chia Pudding
Five minutes of work: chia, almond milk, cocoa and half a mashed banana, stirred together and left to thicken. 319 calories for the bowl.
Mashing the banana rather than slicing it is what makes the whole pudding taste of banana, so don’t skip that step.
Get the recipe from The Cooking Foodie.
2. Quick Creamy Chocolate Oatmeal
Cocoa stirred through oatmeal on the stove, ready in about six minutes, and one of ours. It’s for the mornings when you want breakfast to feel like a treat and have almost no time to arrange it.
3. Healthy Whole Wheat Vegan Crepes
The closest thing here to a proper weekend breakfast, and our own recipe. Whole wheat flour, no eggs, no dairy.
Let the batter rest before the first one goes in the pan. In our experience that’s the difference between crepes and rags.
4. Healthy Quinoa Breakfast Bowl
Quinoa instead of oats, which gives you more chew and more protein for the same effort. Cook the quinoa the night before and this turns into a five-minute assembly job in the morning.
5. Baked Oatmeal with Blueberries
This one’s ours as well, and it’s the one that feeds a household. It bakes into a tray you cut into squares rather than a bowl you eat straight away, and it’s good warm on the day and just as good cold from the fridge for three or four days after.
6. Easy Overnight Oats with Strawberries
The last of ours, and the one we make most often. Oats, plant milk, chia and strawberries go into a jar the night before, and there’s no sweetener beyond the fruit.
If the strawberries are good you won’t want any.
7. Tiramisu Overnight Oats
Half a cup of brewed espresso goes in with the oats, and that’s what makes this taste like the dessert rather than like coffee-flavored oatmeal. 455 calories for the jar.
It uses two tablespoons of unflavored protein powder, which you can leave out if it’s not something you keep in the house.
Get the recipe from Green Heart Love.
Sweet without the sugar
Banana, dates and ripe berries will carry a whole breakfast on their own, and cocoa makes almost anything taste like a treat for about four calories a spoonful. If you want the longer version of that argument, we wrote about why breakfast is the easiest meal to get right.
And, always, seek health consciously.
