A super easy breakfast recipe!
I laugh when people leave angry comments on my blog, complaining my recipes are too simple, like this is a bad thing. In reality, it’s my goal to offer ideas and recipes that don’t require a Ph.D or a bunch of obscure ingredients. I want the recipes to be as simple as possible, and I sometimes even remake ones I think are too complicated, before posting them on the blog.
We grow up in a society that emphasizes the notion: more is more; and the laundry lists of ingredients on our packaged foods grow longer by the minute. With so much being thrown at us, it’s beneficial to work at taking specific steps to simplify our lives as much as possible. For example, why make a recipe with twenty ingredients when something with five can taste just as delicious? Today’s yogurt bowl is one of my favorite healthy breakfast recipes, with just three ingredients.
No expensive protein powders, superfood berries, or wheatgrass… just yogurt, milk, and fresh fruit!
The Yogurt Breakfast Bowl
(serves 1)
- 1 cup frozen raspberries (110g)
- 1/3 to 1/2 cup milk of choice (120g) (depending on desired thickness)
- 6 oz plain or vanilla yogurt of choice (I like Wholesoy.)
- Especially if using an unsweetened milk, you’ll probably wish to add a little sweetener of choice
Blend all ingredients in a blender or magic bullet until smooth. Pour into a bowl. On really hot days, I like to now put the bowl in the freezer for up to an hour. Top with your favorite granola, fresh fruit, etc. (My favorite summer breakfast: this yogurt recipe, extra raspberries on top, and peanut butter slathered on some fresh HSH chia bread from Whole Foods.)
Question of the Day:
Is your life complicated, with people and obligations pulling you in all different directions?
Sometimes when things get really stressful, I fantasize about moving to Hawaii… and not bringing my computer or cell phone. Just me, a beach blanket, and a giant coconut filled with fresh coconut water, lounging under the sun. All day, every day. How amazing does that sound?
Link of the Day:
Who are these crazy people who want complicated recipes? Ha! That’s just crazy. That, my friend, looks delicious to me. And I appreciate any recipe, especially a simple one with few ingredients.
I love my yogurt breakfast bowls, I should try making it this way tomorrow! I usually mix together cooked steel cut oatmeal with plain greek yogurt and berries with a spoonful of peanut butter. I love oatmeal cold, adds such a nice texture!
Katie, have you ever mixed this in oatmeal? I like to put flavored yogurt (essentially what this is!) in my oatmeal. It makes it kind of like lukewarm ice cream!
I actually mixed my fruit and non-fat Greek yogurt with oats and almond milk into a small tupperware container and put into the refrigerator to thicken overnight. It was delish!! (This no-cook oatmeal saved me from having to wash a pan or my rice maker insert).
I love the color of that yogurt! It’s such a bright and beautiful pink, that I’m sure I’ll make it:)
I don’t get why people don’t like easy recipes though! Isn’t everyone always complaining that they don’t have enough time to do anything? If that’s the case, then easier should be better 😀
Ah I definitely get pulled in different directions from family and friends, I always feel stuck in the middle since I hate confrontation or making people feel bad even if I disagree with them.
I love the bright color is this, it looks delicious!
I think people complain because your recipes don’t really seem to be recipes. Like milk, yogurt,and berries that is a smoothie. I have been making smoothies like that since i was 5. Everyone knows that you only need a couple of ingredients to make a tasty meal…… We are not stupid
Ah the trolls emerge! “Julie” I am just curious, if you don’t like Katie’s recipes, why do you continue to read her blog? 😉
fail troll
Maybe the issue is more about people’s expectations of what a recipe post is going to entail. I’d say the majority of Katie’s posts are actual recipes that require a few different ingredients combined in a somewhat novel way. I also agree with Julie in that I wouldn’t call this one a ‘recipe’, but more of a suggestion for a delicious breakfast that Katie particularly enjoys, which is perfectly fine. I think it’s just semantics- this is barely more than combining cereal and milk in a bowl as far as a ‘recipe’ goes, so if you want to be picky go ahead. However I think most readers recognize the intent isn’t to claim ownership to the idea of combining fruit and yogurt. I was quite happy to read this post as an idea for a healthy breakfast, which I just may add to my current breakfast rotation!
I’m not being a troll. I love Katie’s cookie pie and it is always a huge hit at events. I enjoy many of her other recipes as well. I am simply stateing why people would feel her recipes are simple. Maybe the troll is you tinyflorets.
Julie, your first comment did sound very troll-like. I am glad to know that’s not the case.
Yeah, you’re recipes are wayy too simple. I’ve got too little time on my hands for your recipes to be simple. They need to be long and complicated so I can’t make them because I don’t have the time or understanding to do so.
I love yogurt for breakfast, and this sounds perf.
What does “K Version” in the recipe mean?
Sorry, that was a typo (not sure how it got overlooked in my proofreading :-?). Fixed now!
Yes! Life just gets too busy sometimes. Today I saw a living social deal for a trip to Antigua. I forwarded it to my husband and our friends and just wrote “Are we going? Tonight?” Sometimes you just need to hop a plane to Antigua, no?
We aren’t going tonight, though. Just going out for Mexican for dinner 🙂
That yogurt looks great. The color is gorgeous!
Lauren
http://www.brooklynnatural.blogspot.com
Yum! So pretty, I eat this a lot 🙂 I love simple recipes because they’re more like ideas, like I saw this and thought, mmm, carrots and raisins. Also, laundry lists of ingredients turn me off! If a recipe has more than a handful of ingredients, or calls for strange things, I will not give it a second look. The other day I saw a recipe for “simple, yeast free bread” that called for tapioca flour, sorghum flour, sweet white rice flour, and amaranth flour! I don’t have any of those in my pantry, and I’m not about to go out and buy four different flours, plus xanthan gum and everything else, for one loaf of bread! I appreciate your simple recipes, even the ones that are more like ideas. Your pumpkin bread in a bowl is an ever-evolving mainstay in my breakfast arsenal.