Apple and apricot chia pudding

It was about time for some more chia pudding breakfasts. So what did I have around apart from the standard chia seeds and tahini?  I came up with some of my normal breakfast foods, namely apple with cinnamon, dried apricots and Greek style yoghurt. Delicious! 

Ingredients 

2 dessertspoons chia seeds
2 tsp tahini

1/2 apple

Cinnamon
2 dried apricots

Greek style yoghurt

Mode

Place the chia seeds in a bowl for an individual serving
Add the tahini and stir to combine well
Chop apple roughly and add

Sprinkle apple with cinnamon
Spoon on Greek style yoghurt to fill the bowl
Stir to combine, making sure the chia is not in a pocket
Top with chopped dried apricots
Place in the refrigerator overnight

Monday breakfast

What I wanted for my Monday morning "breakfast without toast" required 5-10 minutes preparation the night before so that the chia seeds and to a lesser extent the other ingredients could absorb the kefir.  But it was well worth the planning ahead and the ten minutes the night before. And it certainly doesn't take longer to prepare than toast! Enjoy!


Ingredients

3 tablespoons chia seeds
1 tablespoon tahini
2 dried figs
1/2 apple
6 raspberries (fresh or frozen)
100-150 mls kefir

Mode

Place chia seeds in bowl which will be used for breakfast
Add tahini to bowl
Roughly chop the figs and place in bowl
Chop the apple into bite size piecesand and add
Mix all ingredients thoroughly
Add kefir to bowl and mix well
Sprinkle raspberries on top
Place in refrigerator overnight
Eat for breakfast and enjoy!!

Breakfast!

This is another in my series of "Breakfasts without toast" for those of you who don't believe one can start the day without bread (or sugar). I always do and I don't feel inclined to make and eat "bread substitutes" which just are not bread.  This is fairly similar to one I posted the other day, but includes Turkish apricots instead of Greek figs. And yes I know that there is "sugar" in fruit but I aim not to eat added, white and deadly, sugar.

Ingredients

3 heaped soupspoons strained yoghurt
1/2 apple
cinnamon
6 Turkish dried apricots
20 almonds
35 gr pomegranate seeds

Mode

Chop the apple roughly and place in breakfast bowl
Sprinkle with cinnamon
Roughly chop the apricots and place in bowl
Add almonds.
Spoon on the yoghurt
Top off with pomegranate seeds.
Enjoy!

Breakfast for a hot day

My friend, Trish, is always fascinated by what I have for breakfast as for her bread is the staff of life and she cannot imagine starting the day without her toast.  So this is for you, Trish! Because it makes me feel better, I try to eat as little as possible in the way of sugar and flour essentially.  And that means that I try not to eat bread - at least at home.

I do eat sugar in fruit and vegetables, and carbs in them and in rice and pulse unlike my more obsessive anti-carb friends. But I don't buy fruit yoghurt, for example, as it almost always has added sugar as well as the fruit.  My yoghurt of choice is plain Greek yoghurt (i.e. strained yoghurt) and I add my own fresh and dried and frozen fruit as well as nuts to it. Once I used to strain my own yoghurt, but nowadays there are many varieties available and buying it already strained means that what to do with the whey is someone else's problem.

This is the breakfast I had today to start a 41c day and to keep me company while I struggled with the use of a seemingly forever elusive and elastic Greek verb. Coffee was, of course, also needed as well as cat. I await the verdict of my teacher on my imperfect understanding of the verb, but my breakfast was yummy.

Ingredients

3 heaped soupspoons strained yoghurt
1/2 apple
cinnamon
2 dried figs
20 almonds
35 gr pomegranate seeds

Mode

Chop the apple roughly and place in breakfast bowl
Sprinkle with cinnamon
Roughly chop the figs and place in bowl
Add almonds and pomegranate seeds
Top off with the yoghurt
Enjoy!