Breakfast smoothie

Try a smoothie for breakfast!

This is the version I've had for the last couple of days -- see it as a starting guide, and use your imagination!

Makes roughly one big or two small servings:

Base:

• Orange juice (100-200 ml, adjust for desired consistency)

Seeds and spices:

• Sunflower seeds (peeled, 1 tbsp)
• Crushed flaxseed (1 tbsp)
• Hempseed (0.5 tbsp)
• Cacao (1 tbsp)
• Cayenne pepper (0.5 tsp, depending on heat -- make it spicy, but not too hot!)
• Cashew nuts (10 or so)
• Honey (0.5 tbsp, depending on the sweetness of the base and the other ingredients)

Fruits and berries:

• Raisins (1 tbsp)
• Goji berries (dried, 1 tbsp)
• Bananas (1 or 2 small)
• One or more of: blueberries, raspberries, strawberries (2 tbsp each, or more)
• Wakame (a kind of sea-weed) (1 tsp)
• Some fresh herbs, like menthe or lemon balm

This smoothie is a complete meal in itself! As you see, there are three parts to it:

The base is the liquid. In this case it's orange juice, but you might try out tea, coconut water, or even coffee. The main purpose of this is to give flavor and the right consistency.

The seeds, spices and sweeteners gives richness and subtle taste to the smoothie, and lots of healthy fats, vitamins and minerals. Go for natural sweeteners like honey or agave nectar; avoid the highly processed stuff like white sugar. Actually this applies to all ingredients: prefer them raw. That is: prefer ingredients that have not been processed by heating them -- dried and frozen things are perfectly OK!

Fruits and berries are for freshness and color. They also give you lots of vitamins and anti-oxidants.

The great thing about smoothies is that it's so easy to make up new variants. Just think of the three parts: the base, the seeds and spices, and the fruits and berries (vegetables probably work fine, too!). Go for local ingredients that are in season, and try to get all the colors in there -- think rainbow!