February 28, 2003
Really Super Easy Breakfast
How to make a very fast very healthy breakfast:Step One: Buy some 21 oz. glasses
Step Two: Buy a Braun 200 watt vertical Hand Blender. It is very important to get the Braun because the blade is detachable from the motor, which makes for risk-free cleaning. Other blenders that are one piece are scary because you can forget to unplug them and can hit the button to turn the blades while you are cleaning it. I don't know if it's enough to take off a finger, but I wouldn't want to find out. The Braun is from $19.99 to $39.99 depending on if you get extra attachments like whisks and nut choppers.
Step Three: Always have the following ingredients on hand: A bottle of organic flax seed oil, a carton of organic soy milk (I like vanilla flavored), organic bananas, organic strawberries. I usually just buy a bunch of packages of frozen organic strawberries. That means the only thing you have to time are the bananas. I live alone, so I usually get one bunch (7-8) of newly yellow bananas, and one bunch of green bananas. It usually times it perfectly.
Step Four: Make a shake every morning. Take out your 21 oz glass, cut up one banana into seven or eight pieces. Put 4-6 frozen strawberries in the glass. Cut up another banana. Pour in enough soy milk to go 1/4 up the glass. Pour in a couple guggles of flax seed oil - 2-3 tablespoons. Attach the blade to the blender, blend it (15 seconds, easy), detach the blade from the blender, put it in the sink.
Step Five: Drink your shake. It's so smooth I usually drink it in one tip-back. Then all you have to do is rinse off the blade and rinse out the glass and put it in the dishwasher.
Easy easy, I do it every morning.
Now I need a couple of other similarly easy things to help with lunch and dinner to make sure I get full nutrition every day. Two bananas, strawberries, and flax seed oil is a heck of a good start, though.
Posted by Curt at February 28, 2003 03:11 PM