Paleo Breakfast!

When you have a lot of dietary restrictions, food prep becomes your best friend. I like to have breakfast ready and waiting for me in the morning because when I get up I have to take my herbal meds and it's very time consuming. I have herbs to take before I can eat. Then, I have other herbs I have to take with food. It's this big ordeal every meal time. And when I first get up in the morning the last thing I want to do is cook. I want to take my meds, eat, then take the rest. Period. So, since we don't eat grains and oatmeal and cereal are both out, I have to prepare ahead of time so I can have healthy breakfasts at my finger tips (or at least in my freezer). I try to spend one day a week in the kitchen preparing foods that can stay in the freezer and be taken out the night before as needed. This is quite difficult when you have an illness because I get fatigued quite easily and standing on my feet is tough. Thankfully my wonderful husband is such a big help to me.
I try my best to have variety and change it up as I go. My toddler asks me each night at bedtime what's for breakfast and again in the morning. It's like a surprise each day. Here's a glimpse of what it takes to feed us breakfast for the week.
We call it "baking day", and typically it's on a Tuesday. This is actually very strategic, as I pick a day of the week with nothing else going on. I have to be very careful not to plan more than one thing on any given day because once I've done one thing, I'm pretty much down for the count. "Baking Day" usually starts off with making coconut milk.

This is because many of my breakfast recipes require it, I need it for smoothies for the week, and it's a great fat! Search my blog for my coconut milk how to!


Once the coconut milk is finished I start the baking process. I try to double recipes a lot to cut down on time...mostly our favourites get doubled.


Here is one of my favourites, banana bread! (this recipe is also on the blog)

We eat this with grass fed butter, yum!

Here is another of our favourites, blueberry muffins! These are lightly sweetened and have lots of that yummy, fatty coconut milk.

Now, even though these are one of our favourites, I don't make a double batch (well, actually I do, but a double batch of these only makes 12 muffins because the original recipe makes only 6). But, I only make the 12 because they have a lot of almond flour in them and I try not to consume too many almonds. It's easy to consume too much when using almond flour. We also do not make them every week but they're a great treat in the morning.

Here is the recipe!

https://livinghealthywithchocolate.com/desserts/paleo-blueberry-muffin-grain-free-gluten-free-low-carb-997/

I tried something new this week... I made this chai coffee cake, but instead of adding the topping from the recipe, I just sprinkled it with blueberries because I felt the topping would be too sweet for a breakfast. I think the topping would be delicious, but I would sub maple syrup or honey instead of the coconut sugar. https://www.theroastedroot.net/chai-spiced-paleo-coffee-cake/

The last thing I made for breakfast this week was a yummy grain free "granola bar". I totally need to do this more! And, I need to make a bigger batch. I love that I didn't have to bake it so I made it while I had something else in the oven and cut down on time. This will also be great for summer when I don't want to be running the oven so much.

We will eat these in the morning with a side of berries. I didn't use a recipe for these, just threw together a little bit of almond flour, sprouted sunflower seeds, tons of shredded coconut, almond butter, ground flax, coconut oil, and raw honey. Mix until it's the consistency you want and add things as needed. Easy peasy. Press into a glass dish greased with coconut oil. So good.

Well, that's what it takes to feed the kiddos and I breakfast for the week. My oldest has been asking for me to make cereal so I plan on mixing up some grain free "granola" soon.

I'm always looking for new ideas; do you have any great paleo breakfast recipes to share?