Smoothie bowl toppings

Here's just a few ideas to make your smoothie bowls delicious, filling and looking good on your pictures because if you eat healthy and don't share a picture of it does it really count?

Some delicious toppings include: 

• Grapes- add some sweetness and colour to your smoothie bowl
• Banana- a classic topping, it's filling and will give you an energy boost
• Apple- sweet, healthy and easily chopped up
• Melon- with it's high water content it will help fill you up 
• Oats- these are filling and give you prolonged energy, perfect if a smoothie bowl is your breakfast

These are just a few ideas to help make your meal even more amazing. Always add a selection of toppings as it will make the meal tasty and give you a range of vitamins and minerals. Enjoy! 

Smoothie bowl for breakfast

As part of my raw April challenge I have been trying to think of new and different breakfast ideas. I like smoothie bowls and to make it more filling I added oats. Cinnamon was added as it has many good health benefits, it is believed to lower blood sugar and can fight infections plus it added taste to the smoothie. 

For this smoothie bowl I blended Honeydew melon, frozen mixed berries and frozen rhubarb with water, placed it in a bowl and added oats stirring them into the mixture. It is like a healthy cereal alternative. 

One benefit of this breakfast is that it is sweet so you feel like you are eating a dessert in the morning. The frozen fruit makes it cold and the berries add flavour without needing to use a non dairy milk. It is a healthy way to start the day and is making my raw challenge a lot easier. 

Smoothie bowl

A smoothie bowl is the latest craze. It makes a healthy breakfast or a quick snack. It allows you to get nutrients and vitamins easily and helps you eat the recommended five a day portions of fruit and vegetables.  

I wanted to try this craze so using the basic ingredients that I had available I tried making my own version. I blended a banana with frozen mixed berries and rhubarb that I had bought frozen and keep in the freezer for adding to smoothies. Frozen fruit tends to be cheaper and is useful to have in. 

I added in a teaspoon of protein powder that I usually add to smoothies and mixed with water and oat milk. 

This was the result. Using mixed berries means you end up with a rich red coloured smoothie. The thicker the better as instead of drinking this you will be eating it in a bowl. 

The next step is to add extra toppings. The toppings really make the smoothie bowl and can change daily depending on what you feel like eating. Fruit is a great idea, maybe try cutting up a banana or apple, I added oats and sunflower seeds as these are what I had available. This really is something you can adapt seasonally or depending on what foods you have to hand. 

Oat milk makes the smoothie creamy and was a nice addition, I used my favourite brand Oatly, this organic version of the drink is the same price as the regular oat milk that they sell and they are a really ethical company that I like to support.

A smoothie bowl is a really healthy dish, it's sweet enough to seem like you are having dessert for breakfast but you know it's all healthy with natural sugars. I will definitely be trying this again with more toppings!