The school year is in full swing. Every morning we get up, and with our eyes still half-closed, we prepare breakfast for our little ones. Everyone has their own proven and tested arsenal of what will surely get little sleepyheads out of bed, fill them up, and kickstart their day. We offer you tips for delicious breakfast foods and drinks that will diversify your repertoire and allow you to subtly sneak in healthy ingredients for your children's well-being.
Who doesn't love waffles? With fruit or whipped cream, drizzled with maple syrup, or simply dusted with powdered sugar, they are every child's breakfast dream. Sneak some healthy kefir into them and serve them with berries or with cottage cheese and figs. The Orava W-01 waffle maker, which can make up to 5 adorable heart-shaped waffles at once, will help you with their preparation.
Ingredients (for 4 servings): 250 g kefir, 200 g all-purpose flour, 2 tablespoons cane sugar, 50 g ghee butter, 2 eggs, 1 tsp baking powder, ½ tsp baking soda, pinch of salt, 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions:
Let your children taste a classic like toast, but with a twist. You will be surprised how much they like it – they will even ask for it for their school snack. Prepare them in the handy Orava ST-440 toaster for up to 4 toasts, which will make baking quick, even if you have several hungry mouths at home.
You will need (for 4 toasts): 8 slices of toast bread, 1 avocado, roasted or grilled chicken meat, juice from a lemon, a pinch of salt and pepper, a few spinach leaves
Instructions: Mash the avocado with a fork, drizzle with lemon juice, and season with salt and pepper. Spread the mixture on the toast, top with chicken meat and spinach. Cover the prepared toast with a second slice and bake in the toaster. Serve it warm with any vegetables you find in the fridge (tomato, cucumber, bell pepper...).
This creamy smoothie is packed with vitamins! Sneak all sorts of healthy things into it. It tastes so good that your children won't even notice what a vitamin bomb they just received. The extra powerful Orava RM-1001 smoothie blender with three sealable containers for transport will gladly help you with its preparation. You'll appreciate them when your child wants to take this delicious treat to school for a snack.
You will need (for 4 servings): 1 ripe avocado, ½ cup unflavored white tofu, 1 cup pear juice, 2 tablespoons honey, ½ tsp vanilla extract, 2 cups ice
Instructions: Place the scooped-out avocado into the blender along with the tofu, pear juice, honey, and vanilla extract and blend everything until smooth. Then add the ice and blend everything again.
Children love hot dogs – when they add ketchup, it's the greatest delicacy in the world. Try to sneak in some chopped pickles or radishes. For the hot dog, make them a soft-boiled, hard-boiled, or medium-boiled egg – and you can do it conveniently by steaming it in a single appliance, the Orava HM-04 hot dog maker with an egg preparation function. This hearty breakfast combo will fill them up all morning. It also works as a school snack.
Hydration is a must! Juice up a healthy drink full of vitamins from fruit and vegetables for your children for breakfast and for school snack. Throw everything you find at home into the drink – oranges and a little ginger, or apple and carrot... or try recipes that can also be helpful for health problems. Use the Orava Taurus-3 Mini low-speed juicer for juicing. Juicing at low speeds has many advantages over high-speed juicing. With slow juicing, the auger grinder of the juicer grinds the fruit and vegetables like a meat grinder, thus obtaining a larger amount of thicker juice from nature's bounty, which contains up to 10x more biologically active substances compared to regular juice from a high-speed juicer. The juice also has a higher fiber content, is thicker, and richer in aroma. Since low speeds produce less heat during juicing, heat-sensitive substances such as vitamin C, B-complex vitamins, enzymes, and antioxidants are not destroyed in the juice. The juice oxidizes less and stays fresh longer. Compared to juice obtained from a high-speed juicer, which is recommended to be drunk immediately, this one can be stored without a change in taste and quality in the refrigerator for 24 to 72 hours.
Ingredients: 2 oranges, 2 tangerines, 2 carrots, 8 physalis berries
Ingredients: 4 carrots, 2 handfuls of raspberries, 2 cm fresh ginger, 2 cloves fresh garlic, 1 peeled lemon
Ingredients: 2 red apples, ½ pomegranate, a handful of raspberries, 10 strawberries, 10 cranberries
Cheers and bon appétit!
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