Published By: Shreya Ghai

Drink your breakfast - 4 homemade drinks to replace your breakfast

Eating a healthy breakfast is very important. Have you ever tried drinking it up? Confused? Read on.

A nutritious breakfast keeps you full throughout the day promoting an imperative and controlled diet for the rest of the day. Replacing full fledged breakfast with a protein packed or healthy drink will speed up your metabolism and help you reduce weight effectively. Here are 4 breakfast replacement drinks for you to try if you want to skip eating your breakfast and switch to smoothies and protein shakes. These shakes are filling, satiating and a healthy replacement for your breakfast. The best part is you save a lot of time as it is ready in just a few minutes.

Almond butter shake

You will need one ripe banana, prefer a frozen banana. 1 cup of pure almond milk, 1 tbsps almond butter and 1 tsp chia seeds. Combine all the ingredients and blend it in a jar to make a smooth shake out of it. Top it with cinnamon powder, sliced fresh bananas, chia seeds and chopped almonds.

Oats shake

Oats shake is a full fledged yummy and filling replacement drink for your breakfast. It will also help you curb your food cravings. It is packed with protein and fibre and is great for boosting your overall immunity. In a blender add 1 cup of rolled oats, 2 tsp of creamy or crunchy peanut butter, 1 banana peeled, 1 cup of skimmed milk, honey and chopped almonds. Blend the ingredients for about 40 seconds and pour it in a glass, top it with chopped almonds and honey.

Berry smoothie

Berry smoothie is another great power boosting juice. It will keep you full throughout the day and will not tempt you to eat junk. Its delicious and refreshing. You will need, ½ cup of almond milk, 1 cup of mixed frozen berries. 1 small cup of vanilla greek yoghurt, honey or dates for natural sweetener ,1-2 leaves of spinach. Chia seeds for topping. Blend all together with 2-3 cubes of ice. Pour in a glass and top it with chia seeds.

Green goodness

The famous green goodness that is everyone’s favourite and is trending across the globe. You need 1 cup of almond, ½ green apple, frozen pineapple, 2-3 leaves of spinach, 1 ripe banana and some sliced apple for topping. Blend all together to make a fresh glass of green juice.

Some handy healthy fat, toppings, seasonings, seeds and nuts that you must keep in your fridge to replace your breakfast with drinks.

Almond milk

Avocado’

Spinach

Chia seeds

Mixed trail of seeds’

Nuts

Cashews

Cocoa powder

Cinnamon powder

You can make various drinks to replace your breakfast, to begin with you can start with the above recipes and we bet you will love them.