My fave hormone balancing & gut-healthy breakfasts 🤤 *easy & quick*

Good morning guys. So today I want to do a week of breakfast because actually incorporating a small warm delicious breakfast has been something I've only recently started doing again after maybe like four or five years of naturally doing intermittent fasting and it wasn't because I was trying to not eat in the morning it was just because every morning you have to get up go out and you just kind of get in the habit of missing breakfast. As you know I've been going through my little health habits and journey and breakfast has been one of the ways that I feel like it's really changed the way my stomach feels my body feels but also my energy levels to balance the glucose levels. So I'm going to share with you guys my favorite recipes. I'm obsessed with these they're delicious they're easy to make. This morning I'm going to start off by sharing the recipe that I've been eating non-stop and it's actually millet porridge. Millet if you guys haven't seen before is this kind of yellow grain but it just makes the most delicious and silky porridge in about 20 minutes. So let's make it. So I use about half a cup of the millet and then just run it under water to rinse it and then drain the water out and then in a saucepan I'm going to put about four cups of water in there and bring that to boil and while that's boiling we prepare the sweet potato. So for the sweet potato I just take off the skin and then cut it into little cubes so the smaller the cubes the easier it will cook through so if you have less time you can make them smaller if you want more you know mouthfuls of sweet potato then you can make them a bit larger but I love somewhere in the middle because it also breaks down and makes the congee like nice and orange. Okay so now our water's boiling I'll add the millet in there with the sweet potato as well and then just keep it kind of boiling but you can reduce the heat to about medium or a low simmer and we just basically leave this and let it cook for about 30 minutes. You do want to stir it occasionally so that the bottom doesn't stick or burn. What I like to do actually is also add a little bit of jujube dates to it because this makes it a little bit sweeter. I like it kind of porridge like and a little bit thicker but if you like it more thin then just add more water but the longer you cook it the thicker it will get so you can just kind of adjust it according to what you like but it's ready and what I like to do at the very end is add a few goji berries and some black sugar just a teeny bit and it really makes it so delicious. Oh my gosh how good does this look? The reason why I like adding black sugar is because black sugar is way less refined than any other sugar and it has this really nice earthy taste and it almost makes it look like a creme brulee on the top. It's so good and then you'll also find that it instantly kind of like just loosens and calms down your stomach. So one thing that I learned is breakfast is best eaten between 7 and 9 a.m and another little thing I learned is TCM swears by warm breakfast. One because it takes your body and your stomach way less energy to digest so if you have digestion problems it will also help with that. It will strengthen your gut bacteria you know with the nutrients but also just the warmth of it because anytime you have something cold it kind of shocks the stomach because the stomach and our body temperature is let's just say like a kettle right like a boiling water and then as soon as you add ice to it it's fizzling out and that's what kind of happens to weak stomach upset stomach so if you have things like issues with digestion and things like that then definitely keep to a warm breakfast like this. Hello again so it is night time and tomorrow I wanted to make congee and soy eggs and I'm actually going to prepare the soft boiled soy eggs right now because they need overnight to marinate so just boil some eggs I have this neat little egg boiler because I love eggs and then while that's boiling I just prepare the marinade and for the marinade I just put chopped or minced garlic, soy sauce, some honey and then some like warm water just so the honey dissolves and then that's your marinade. Normally I would add some green onion and if you have white sesame seeds do that too but I ran out of both so it's just going to be a simple little marinade. Ice bath. Okay now the eggs have cooled I'm just going to peel them and then they go straight into the soy onsen. Ready for tomorrow. Checking out eggs. Oh they look so good. So today we're going to make congee. In Cantonese culture congee is very popular for breakfast just in Asian culture it's called juk and it's basically just broken down rice but there's a special thing that happens to the rice when you cook it which breaks it down into a resistant starch and so congee is actually really good for things like slimming or weight loss and just like general health it's not like a dietary thing it's great. So yesterday night I said I forgot green onion so I just popped over to the store and got some because it's very important. Okay so this is actually bone broth it's chicken soup that we made before and just look at it delicious gelatin texture this is great for blood and collagen and it's delicious and it's the base of our soup. I'm bringing the chicken broth to boil and then adding two slices of ginger for a subtle warmth and kick it's very traditional and then a couple pinches of salt. When it starts to boil we add our leftover rice and the ratio of rice to liquid should be about one to six or one to eight and it really depends on if you like your congee thinner or thicker but you can always add more water. Once it starts boiling I'll turn it down to medium or low to continue simmering it for about 20 minutes you'll start to see it get thicker and thicker as it boils and the rice really absorbs a lot of the broth so occasionally just mix it so it doesn't clump or burn and then when I see the liquid become more like a paste like you can see that texture that's when I know it's ready. Garnishing with the green onion is a must and adding white pepper because that's the way black pepper is completely different so stick to white and our delicious soy eggs oh my god I'm so excited so I got changed because I'm literally about to head out but that just goes to show how quickly this can be done it's about 30 minutes from start to finish so we have the protein with the eggs normally if I have chicken I'll put shredded chicken inside the porridge but I didn't have that today but you can see on our IG that I made a recipe there. Congee is really cool because you can literally just have it as just plain rice and then add whatever like you could even put like scrambled eggs or kind of like whatever protein you have to it there's like a million different ways that you can make it but this is how I always grow up with it it reminds me of home and the older I get the more I really appreciate like what my parents used to make me eat that I would not want to eat like congee was one of them because I thought it was like sick people food but now I've learned so much about like why the body loves it if there was one meal I could have for the rest of my life I guess now it's congee I used to say it was pasta anyway I'm gonna quickly finish this I'm gonna head out but I'll see you tomorrow next up avo and cottage cheese toast good morning okay so this morning I don't have a lot of time so I'm just gonna make a quick avocado and cottage cheese toast I'm Australian Australians love our avo toasts so all I'm gonna use is avocado cottage cheese normally you would use it on like sourdough bread but I don't have any left Thomas made some milk bread so I'm gonna use that and let's make my favorite breakfast so the avocados are great in the morning because they keep you feeling full for a really long time they have a lot of great healthy fat so I love avocados I roughly dice up a whole avocado so that it makes it easier to mash later and one is actually very filling so this could make you two servings or like two toasts then I add some salt to it before mashing it together and then toasting Thomas's famous milk bread oh my gosh this smells so good okay so I use cottage cheese and you could also use ricotta they're quite similar but I just like the little curds in the cottage cheese it's got a subtle flavor that's slightly more savory and I think it goes perfectly with the avo this is giving a boost of protein to just an average avo toast and I love it you're gonna be obsessed adding our avocado and then I love a kick with chili flakes and also some hot honey this stuff is insane and it takes it to like restaurant level status I'm telling you so delicious I'm not even joking this is so good you can still add some salt pepper and adding a boiled egg just adds more protein and the thing about me is like I'm so cheap if I go outside you know to have brunch or breakfast I will never order an avocado toast no because I just know how much better I could make it and it's like so expensive when you order it outside right so like I can just never do that all right anyway I will see you tomorrow caramelized peaches and warm oatmeal okay good morning everyone I woke up today and I felt very inspired to use these peaches so my friend actually went upstate and they gave us some of these fresh farmer's market peaches and I think they look delicious let's make it if you guys don't know what oatmeal is there's all different types this is the one I use it's called rolled oats and that just makes the cooking time way faster like it only takes about three minutes I'm going to use soy because I have soy I'm actually trying to wean off oat milk I don't know if you guys have seen but apparently oat milk is just like a shot of blood sugar into the system it's not that great for you and especially oatly which I love so much for coffee and drinks like there's just a lot of different oils that aren't that great for you and there's a lot of kind of textural fillers to make the the formula taste good and feel good and so let me show you how I make it starting with my beautiful peaches I'm going to use just one and cut them into slices and then cubes peaches are actually great for anyone with stomach problems because it supports the stomach and helps with digestion to caramelize I add some butter to the pan and then throw in the peaches and I also add a tiny bit of maple syrup and just let them cook and slightly brown and while that's going on I add half a cup of oats and one cup of soy milk to another pan bring that to boil and cook that for about two to three minutes and it should look nice and thick just like this and it's ready to serve so we put our peaches on I sprinkle some cinnamon and a little more drizzle of that maple how delicious does this look I love maple on everything maple makes everything good and I know you know we're not supposed to have like too much sugar in the morning but this is just enough peaches are warm for the body so it makes it good for digestion you know the way we caramelized it is also great for the body because once again anything too cold will shock your stomach and it makes it much harder for digestion ever since I discovered that like my body had a lot of imbalances oats was my go-to so I've been having it for years now and it's really helped with everything but my skin because everything's kind of related last up strawberry chia seed pudding we're going to prepare the chia seed for tomorrow morning because that starts the night before as chia seed you can just soak it in like a nut milk or just milk or water if you really want to if you're into that basic chia seed no but like you want to soak it in milk wait really I just soak it in water oh my god Thomas okay my dear I'm sorry I'm so basic for okay so let me teach you the ways okay so normally you would soak the chia seed overnight in some sort of milk oat milk I have soy milk and then the chia blooms right and it becomes this like delicious kind of jelly-like texture which is high in fiber and nutrients and it's just great but there's ways to make it way more interesting which is what I'm going to show you and it looks really good so what we'll need is strawberries yogurt nut milk of choice and if you want to add a little bit of sweetener to the base then a little bit of maple syrup okay so to blend we just put our strawberries in there and then some milk it's almost as though you're just like making a smoothie to be honest normally I'd put in greek yogurt but we only have this like strawberry mousse on one so we're gonna use that it's just got a little bit more like sugar content and because this is flavored yogurt I'm gonna skip the maple that's good because I don't have the lid for these we're just going to saran wrap them leave them overnight in the fridge and then we will see deliciousness in the morning good morning I just took these out of the fridge they're looking good they're a little wetter than normal because I put less chia in there but all the little chia seeds have bloomed inside and they're looking really good I'm actually gonna just put some topping on there with chia pudding it's really up to you what you want to put but I'll add some granola then some almond butter which is so good for balancing blood sugar levels and just keeping you fuller for longer with a bunch of proteins and healthy fats I have blueberries as well so adding those in too it's got all the textures you need crunchy soft fruity it has got more sugar than all the other breakfasts we've made but you know that's fine life isn't about not enjoying what we eat I have to show you this is my favorite almond butter of all time have to get this one Justin's honey almond butter it is so good a tip is if you're on your period or up to your period maybe I would avoid this one because it's cold I have to leave in 10 minutes so anyway guys I hope you enjoyed this almost like basically a week of breakfast with me I loved showing you all my favorite favorite go-to recipes these are the meals that I would happily die eating for breakfast for the rest of my life they're super easy once you get the hang of them and you can really customize it to however you like so I challenge you to try some of them and let me know how they go and yeah we're all on a health journey together and I love that so stay tuned for more recipes drinks food and if you have any ideas of what you want to see more of please leave them below and I'll see you really soon goodbye