Chia Pudding Breakfast Bowl with Almond Milk and Superfood

If you are looking for an easy breakfast that feels light but will keep you feeling satisfied, check out this chia pudding breakfast bowl. It’s not only delicious but good for you too. Loaded with superfoods, it’s healthy, nutritious, gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, grain-free, and keto-friendly.

How do you start your day? If you are anything like me, you want something that is easy and will keep you filled up until lunchtime. For a while, my breakfast consisted of either a paleo cereal drowning in milk or toasted muesli (granola) with a dollop of yogurt.

Once I became gluten and dairy-free, I switched to my sister’s favorite breakfast at the time, gluten-free banana pancakes. Super easy and delicious, I was hooked for a while.

Now, I moved on to a grain-free breakfast and, after lots of trial and error, created a perfect chia pudding breakfast bowl. Loaded with protein, calcium, and other nutrients, it’s gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free, soy-free, and delicious.

More importantly, it keeps me filled up and feeling energetic until lunchtime.

Our chia pudding breakfast bowl ticks all of the boxes

• Gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, grain-free, vegan
• Keto-friendly if made with unsweetened almond milk
• Low FODMAP (if you watch blueberry quantity)
• Easy to make

What you need to make a chia pudding breakfast bowl

• Chia seeds
• Almond milk
• Blueberries
• All-natural peanut butter
• Optional: Sunflower kernels and/or pumpkin seeds

Health benefits of the main ingredients

Disclaimer: Statements regarding health benefits are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition.

Chia seeds

According to the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), chia seeds are the richest plant source of omega-3 fatty acids. They are a complete protein. They contain the nine essential amino acids that cannot be made by the body.

Almond milk

Almond milk is a dairy-free alternative that is lower in calories than cow’s milk. Many commercial almond milks are fortified with either vitamin D, calcium, or other key nutrients. Source: Medical News Today

Blueberries

I choose blueberries because I love them. Two key bonuses of my choice, according to Health.com are that blueberries improve brain function and aid in muscle recovery.

Peanut butter

Peanut butter packs quite a punch of benefits. It is heart-healthy, promotes strong bones, and helps to prevent gallstones. In addition, it lowers the risk of diabetes as well as some cancers. If that’s not enough, peanut butter also protects against neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s. Source: NDTV Food

Step by step to create our chia pudding breakfast bowl

This is a super easy recipe but does take a bit of planning as the chia seeds need to soak overnight. In fact, we soak chia seeds for at least 2 hours before we use them in any recipe as soaked seeds are easier to digest, and soaking increases the amount of nutrients your body can absorb, according to Dr. Axe (Ancient Nutrition).

1. The night before: Mix the chia seeds and almond milk and store them overnight in the refrigerator.
2. In the morning: Stir in blueberries, peanut butter, and remaining seeds.
3. Enjoy

Optional extras

So far, I haven’t gotten bored with this breakfast, but if I did, there are plenty of options that I can add.

At night:

• Cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, or cloves
• Cocoa (and some sugar if you eat it)
• One of my good friends adds one tablespoon each of psyllium husk (for gut regularity) and collagen powder (for her skin). I have tried them, but find the base gets goopy.

In the morning, there are so many options. These are some of my favorites:

• Fruit – I like blueberries because of their vitamin K, but sometimes I substitute them with apples, bananas, strawberries, cherries, or mango.
• Nutbutter – I often substitute the peanut butter with either almond butter, tahini, or a superfood butter.
• Seeds – Sometimes, I leave out the pumpkin or sunflower seeds or add in LSA.
• Add dried fruits like raisins, cranberries, or goji berries.

Tips for success

This is such a simple recipe, there really isn’t much needed here. Our biggest tip: remember to make it at night.

• If you don’t mind the extra dish to wash, shake rather than stir as the morning result tastes lighter. To do this, add the chia seeds and almond milk in a sealed container and shake them up before pouring them in a bowl and putting them in the fridge.
• We have read and dismissed the suggestion on some recipes that one should stir the mixture about 30 minutes after the initial soaking begins to prevent clumping. We found the opposite to be true. Our mixture comes out smoother if we put it in the refrigerator and then leave it alone until ready to eat.
• Chia seeds soaked in almond milk will keep in the fridge for about three days, so sometimes we double or triple the recipe and then just portion it out each morning.
• Once additional ingredients are added (beyond chia seeds and almond milk), the mixture won’t keep as long. Therefore, adding fruit, nuts, etc, is best done in individually portioned bowls.

Our chia pudding breakfast bowl recipe

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