We all have been there, haven’t we? We have carefully pondered the time it will take to get us ready in the morning and planned ahead in order to minimise the grumpiness associated with dragging your lion cub out of bed (and the subsequent drama that may ensued). We want to sit down and enjoy a healthy breakfast with our little one (s) and set off with the right foot to face the -most likely-packed schedule ahead of us. But the ideal situation does not always match your  real/current situation…As a single mother, getting myself and my 4-year-old son ready in the mornings can be at times challenging and most of the days, making sure he is awake, eats his breakfast and is at least 98% happy with the outfit choice for the day always come first to sitting down and having my breakfast in relative peace…That, and, of course, wiping off the tiredness of my mama bear face with a quick make-up fix. Yes, life is all about setting your priorities isn’ it? But fear not,  fellow mamas, because I always make sure I resort to my nutrients-packed shot before we dash off to school and get to my second destination for the day, aka my work office, where I usually enjoy the second course of my daily breakfast – also in relative peace-.

Intringued? If you want to know what my super quick and super energetic “two-course” breakfast consist of, I encourage you to keep reading:

First course ( home-based)

I have a quick smoothie which takes me literally 2 minutes to make and  consists of a quarter of a littre of oats or almond drink, two ripen bananas, a spoonful of spirulina powder and a teaspoon of Agave syrup, which I recently incorporated into my diet and I cannot get enough of. Depending on mood and time, I sometimes add some variations and make this spirulina smoothie.

Second course ( office-based)

The previous night – when my little one is well-tucked into bed and fast asleep – I pour a mix of seeds into a quarter of almond or oats drink.

The seeds I use for breakfast are:

• 1 spoonful of chia seeds
• 1 spoonful of  sesame seeds
• 1 spoonful of flax seeds
• 1 spoonful of pumpking seeds
• 1 spoonful of sunflower seeds
• 1 spoonful of hemp seeds

I add a few dices of mango and leave the mix in the fridge for the night for the seeds to get “soaked in”. This helps make them extra soft -and nicer to eat- as well as getting the nutrients ready for your body to absorb and digest. Getting this ready takes literally  under 2 minutes.

The next morning I add a spoonful of maca organic powder – which helps boost your energy and inmune system and has a high nutritional value – and a spoonful of agave syrup. Not only does agave syrup taste delicious, but this low-calorie natural sweetener, helps hide the somewhat earthy flavour of the maca powder -which I do not particularly like- so adding agave syrup is a win-win.

And voilà. There you have it: my super-quick and super-nutritiuous time-constrained single-mum-type-of-breakfast.

Give it a go and let me know if you like it in the comments below.

Enjoy,

Cárol