Unless its a weekend or you live a charmed life, breakfast is usually a purely functional affair. That doesn’t mean it has to be a tasteless one.

In the winter nothing is quite as good as a bowl of steaming porridge with banana and brown sugar for setting you up all cosy for the day, worth getting up 10 minutes early to make, but in the summer something all together cooler is in order.

This smoothie has no added sugar, 1.5 of you 5 a day and a good dose of your fibre - not to mention slow release energy and the goodness of milk. Plus, I love it because if you use mostly cherries as the berry ingredient it tastes like ice cream. Great for kids big and small.

A hand blender whizzes it up in just a jiffy.

Ingredients
1 handful frozen berries (any you like, cherries and blueberries are a great combo)
1/2 handful oats
1/2 banana (put the other half in the fridge for tomorrow)
250ml milk (or to taste)
2 tablespoons yogurt (optional)

1 Put all ingredients into the tall jug of a hand blender
2 Whizz for about 10 seconds, enjoy the cool drink immediately for top refreshment

Tags: easy breakfast, healthy breakfast

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