For most people, mornings are so rushed that they’re lucky if they can find time to gulp down a Carnation Instant Breakfast shake. But every now and then, life surprises you with the gift of leisure. The following is a recipe for one of those rare mornings:
Waffles are so last year.
French Toast? Who’s that? It’s time to make room for the new kid in breakfast:
Pancake Roll Ups!
Above, Carrot Cake Pancake Roll Ups, filled with raisins and Healthy Cream Cheese Frosting, covered with carrots and more raisins and frosting.
Step One: Cook up your pancakes, a bit thinner than usual. In the photos, I used 24-Carrot Cake Pancakes.
Step Two:Â Top each pancake with lots of yum-licious ingredients
Step Three:Â Roll up the pancakes. Side note: I *heart* the cute strawberry plate from Pier One.
Step Four:Â Put more deliciousness on top!
Step Five:Â Devour your Pancake Roll Ups before other members in your house see them and beat you to it!
My favorite instant breakfast is cereal with dried fruit, cocoa roasted almonds, and alwaysss dried cherries!
My go-to morning madness breakfast is a big bowl of cereal with a drizzle of homemade peanut butter and a sprinkle of flaxseed. Keeps me going all morning long! 😉
I love making the popular-around-the-blog-world chocolate cherry bomb smoothie when I’m in a rush – it’s probably one of my top 3 breakfasts and it’s so nice to be able to blend it and stick it in a cup to drink as I drive to work! 🙂
My favorite speedy breakfast is a baggie of gluten free granola with raisins or dried apples thrown in!
That’s easy…a Luna bar!
Hi Katie! i just want you to know how much I adore you !I know you hear that all the time, but you’re such an inspiration to me. I’m VERY VERY thin and LOVE to eat and concoct all sorts of quirky creations in my kitchen too. Everyone in my family worries about me, but the simple fact is, I enjoy creating healthy foods and eat more than they do! I can’t help it I’m thin!:) I’m a nutrition major hoping to be a nutritionist as well so I appreciate your great documentation of calories and importance of certain foods and nutrients. Great job! I’m also ADDICTED to chocolate and I thought I was the only one who ate it multiple times per day ( usually 5-6)!!
Okay, so my favorite, favorite instant, in-a-rush breakfast is most definitely a chocolate flavored shake I created on my own:
*The Purple People Eater* ( I used to love that movie and this drink reminds me of it!:) Ha!
*1 cup So Delicious Coconut Kefir in Vanilla flavored
*1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk, 2 tbsp. flaxseed,
*1-1 oz. of Ghiradelli 100% dark cacao
*1 tsp. Hershey’s 100% dark cacao dutch cocoa powder
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 cup of frozen blueberries ( these go great with the chocolate and create a beautiful purple hue:)
*1/2 cup raspberries
OPTIONAL if I have it on hand:
*I also add in a scoop of Nutiva’s Hemp Protein Shake powder in Chocolate because it is literally SO good
* 1 tbsp. of Artisana Raw coconut butter:)
I keep my chocolate squares already chopped and ready to eat in Ziploc bags so I just grab one, toss it in the lovely Vitamix, then the cinnamon, the chocolate, and coconut butter ( these are all in the same cabinet so they’re easily accessible). Then I go to the fridge, grab the flax, the hemp protein powder in chocolate and grab the almond milk and kefir. Pour all of that in, put it back in the fridge. Go to the freezer and grab the berries ( which I keep pre-portioned in freezer bags. Dump in the berries, blend on high and out comes a BEAUTIFUL purple drink that makes me smile:) Takes only about 45 seconds total time:)
I see you’re posting a VitaMix ice cream post on Thursday:) That’s so funny because I just posted on my own food blog this past Sunday!!!:) Check it out at :
http://WWW.MILLIESKITCHEN.BLOGSPOT.COM.
You’re great Katie:) I read your blog every day and its nice to know there’s another chocolate loving girl out there who’s comfortable with her unique style of eating:)
Heather McClees
Moore, SC
overnight oats with a banana! Always filling fuel for a busy day.
Hug a fat! Get out a spoonful of almond butter, yum!
A cashew cookie larabar! (not as good as homemade, but quicker!)
bananas!