PUMPKIN PORRIDGE WITH HOMEMADE "GRANOLA"

Why should you always favour warm breakfast over a cold one?🔥🍛🔥

The age-old saying in TCM philosophy says, “eat like a king at breakfast, like a prince at lunch, and dinner like a pauper”. 👑

As mentioned previously, the most important principle in Chinese medicine to ensure the health of your digestive system is the intake of warm or previously cooked food and drink. But if there is one meal of your day that should definitely be warm, it’s the breakfast.

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Breakfast is not a meal that you eat early in the morning – it is the very first meal of the day which makes you “break the fast” (regardless of the time). This meal's primary purpose is to provide essential fuel for your body, igniting the inner fire that runs all the bodily functions, so you don’t want to hinder this vital process, right? ☯️

Imagine you wake up in a cold house and want to set up the fire…🪵🔥 it slowly starts to radiate comforting warmth… but suddenly, there you go and pour fresh orange juice or yogurt on it 😱 Oooops!😅 Not only that these two examples come straight from your fridge, but they are also cooling in their nature.❄️ If you want to start the system properly, go for a porridge or soup. 🥣

During fall, you may also want to try this pumpkin porridge🍁

Ingredients:

• butternut squash approx. 1/4 (baked)

• 2 tbsp of hemp seeds

• 2 tbsp flaxseed (ground)

• 2 tbsp of dried coconut

• 2 tbsp chia seeds

• (or any other seeds)

• vegetable milk

• 1 tsp cinnamon/gingerbread spice

Remove the skin of the baked pumpkin and mash it with a fork, add seeds, coconut, etc. and cover with milk, add spices and cook briefly.

Serve with a handful of homemade grain-free granola.