I love smoothies and juices as much as the next health-centric vegan gal, but once in a while, my mouth is all, “I’m bored.” Okay, okay, mouth, I hear you. Sometimes you just need a little crunch and a lot of chew. This breakfast was my attempt to provide a little textural variety to my morning meal.
Since I’m still sticking to a mostly low-fat raw vegan diet (upcoming post coming soon on why I’m not doing it 100% anymore), I decided to make this all fruit, no overt fat. Those guidelines made it pretty simple: just throw together the fruit I had in my fridge, then make some “banana milk” by blending a banana with a bit of water, and, because I had this after a pretty intense weight-lifting circuit class, I added some protein powder too.
After blending the banana milk, I chopped up an apple and a banana. I then threw in a little over half a pint of blueberries.
Then I added some dried superfood berries (goji and goldenberry), which really made this bowl pop! And, as I do with most things, I added a bunch of cinnamon to top it off.
Hearty Fruit Cereal
1-2 apples, chopped to bite-size pieces
1-2 bananas
1/2-1 pt of blueberries
dried superfood berries
cinnamon
Chop it all up and put in a bowl! Add cinnamon to top.
Banana Milk
1 banana
water (as much as you need for your desired consistency)
protein powder (optional)
Blend it up! Pour over your “cereal.”
I absolutely loved this bowl. The crunch of the dried berries gives you the semblance of crunchy cereal flakes, so it really felt like I was sitting down to a bowl of my childhood go-to breakfast. Except this version doesn’t leave you crashing from refined sugar and bad food combining!
Pure, delicious, and so easy.
I’m submitting this recipe to Healthy Vegan Friday and Wellness Weekend and Raw Food Thursday!
Do you eat cereal? What was your favorite cereal growing up?
This looks and sounds delicious! I never would have thought about banana milk—freaking brilliant!
I can’t take credit for inventing it. It’s all the rage in the low-fat raw vegan blog world!
Sounds delicious and I love the milk!! I m going to have to try this once I stock up on groceries!
I hate looking at blogs when I’m out of groceries! ; )
Looks delicious, refreshing and so healthy Raechel!
Yes, it’s all those things! : )
YUM! Will definitely give this one a go :)
Yes, it’s great for 80/10/10ers, Lou!
Yes, yes! I love this! The banana milk idea is fantastic too. I was watching my friend eat a bowl of cereal with berries and banana this morning and kind of wishing I could partake but I’d so much rather this bowl! All the crunch plus so much more! And it doesn’t look like it’s all that much more work in the mornings. Nice job!
Yeah, after the apple chopping, it’s totally easy!
I’m really intrigued by the thought of banana milk! Fun :)
it’s good to mix things up a bit, right? : )
Yummers!!
nice! i thought i was the only person to make ‘milk’ out of blending banana water and protein powder! My protein powder is a choc flavour blend of vegan powders, when i pour it over oats it makes an amazing bowl of porridge/oatmeal :-)
Ooo, that sounds delicious! What brand of protein powder do you use?
Banana milk? How intriguing! Definitely going to have to try this! Come link up at Raw Foods Thursdays. This is a perfect recipe!! http://www.glutenfreecat.com/2013/01/raw-foods-thursdays-13113/
Not sure how I stumbled on your blog but the thought of vegan ‘banana milk’ will certainly have me coming back for more! Thanks for sharing! And love the superfood ‘cereal’ too!
So glad you like! : )