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What’s a Morning Routine

A morning routine is a series of set actions you do in the morning to set the tone for your day. Morning routines allow your mornings to be structured enough to encourage you to get everything you need done in the way you want. Morning routines set a productive tone for the day and encourage healthy habits.

The Benefits of A Calm Morning

A slow morning, mindful morning, or calm morning is when you intentionally create a routine that is slower and intentional in it’s actions. A calm morning gives you time and space in the morning instead of rushing through a checklist of actions and forgetting things or not doing them correctly.

A mindful morning routine has been shown to set the tone for the day. You tend to be able to handle stresses and chaos with more composure and clearer thinking.

Slow mornings have also shown to increase productivity and allow you to plan your day before it starts, allowing you to focus on the tasks you set at the beginning of the day.

Calm mornings have also been shown to lower overall stress throughout the day and improve sleep.

How To Create A Calm Morning Routine

To create a calm morning routine, set expectations of what you want from your day and then decide what habits you want to encourage those expectations. Such as waking up earlier to give yourself more time, exercising, reading, meditating, or eating a healthy breakfast.

The Importance of Breakfast in A Slow Morning Routine

Eating breakfast in itself has tons of benefits, such as increased energy and more stable blood sugar levels. Slowing that process down for a more mindful morning helps establish mindful eating for the day by allowing you to think about what you’re eating to start your day.

A mindful breakfast has been shown to help with clear thinking and focus. Additionally, having easy-to-prepare or previously prepared meals allows more time and flexibility in the mornings.

Pre-Prepared Breakfast Foods For Calm Mornings

These recipes can be easily prepared days or the night before and will take little effort during your morning, taking away the stress of thinking about cooking first thing in the morning.

1. Muffins and Scones

Muffins and scones are some of the lowest-effort breakfast items you can make. They only need to be bought or prepared around once a week, leaving your breakfast routine to consist of mostly plate + muffin.

Muffins and scones can get unhealthy pretty quickly, which is fine if that’s what you want. However, there are some muffin and scones recipes that include more whole ingredients and nutrients and can serve as a more well-rounded breakfast.

Cottage Cheese Blueberry Muffins

Protein-packed delicious muffins chocked full of fresh blueberries.

Orange Cranberry Scones

Sweet and tangy cranberry scones that provide an easy, accesible breakfast.

2. Overnight Oats

Overnight oats can have a bit of a learning curve, but once you find the right combination of ingredients and processes, you can prepare a few at a time with perfectly-sized, airtight containers and have breakfast ready to go when you wake up.

Overnight oats also allow you to pack in the benefits, chocking them full of whatever you need: protein, fats, or carbs in the ratios you would like.

Strawberry Cheesecake Overnight Oats

These overnight oats are a breakfast spin on a classic dessert, offering up a sweet and tangy morning start.

Pistachio Overnight Oats

A classic combination of pistachio and raspberry meet in these overnight oats for a treat to start the day.

3. Breakfast Bowls

Of all of the pre-prepared options, breakfast bowls will allow for the widest range of variety. What you can put in your breakfast bowl is completely up to you and your appetite.

Be sure to consider how long the ingredients will last together in the bowl. You may need to keep some prepared, but separate and add them in when you eat.

Southwest Breakfast Bowl

All of the southwest fixings combined into a hearty, healthy, sweet potato-based breakfast bowl.

Green Breakfast Bowl

This breakfast bowl lets you start the day off getting in your greens, as it packed with fresh greens and protein.

4. Breakfast Soups

Yes, soup for breakfast! There are no real rules around what you can and cannot eat for breakfast, so why limit yourself to just the usuals.

Soups allow you to pack a ton of nutrients into an easy delivery system and they store really well. You can even create cold soups if you don’t want hot soup first thing in the morning, but be honest, that doesn’t too bad either does it?

Egg & Miso Breakfast Soup

As far as breakfast ideas go, this may be one of the best ways to start a chilly morning. This light miso-based soup is just enough to get you going.

Chilled Peach Soup

An alternative breakfast idea for warmer mornings is to make a small batch of this sweet and herbaceous chilled peach soup.

Easy-To-Make Breakfast Ideas For Calm Mornings

These recipes are low effort, they will combine nutrient-heavy ingredients in ways that take less than 10 minutes to make.

5. Toasts (avocado, cottage cheese, etc)

Toast is underutilized when it comes to breakfast. Your toast can hold much more than butter and jam. There are some rally interesting toast recipes that expand on what you think about toping your bread slice with.

You can create toast recipes of ingredients that are easily gathered or that take little effort and have an easy breakfast at your fingertips in minutes.

Smoked Salmon Cottage Cheese Toast

A calm morning routine doesn’t mean you have to skimp on the ingredients as proven by this lush salmon toast that can easily be made with the right preparation.

Apple and Honey Burrata Toast

This toast will remind you of after-school apple snacks but better tasting and more filling.

6. Cottage Cheese/Yogurt Bowls

If you’re a fan of smoothie bowls or parfaits, you can take that same concept and quickly toss together a cottage cheese or yogurt-based bowl. Depending on the ingredients, you can get them pretty full of protein and essential vitamins, and they are not too heavy on the stomach first thing in the morning.

Pear and Ginger Yogurt Bowl

As far as calm mornings so, yogurt bowls will be some of the easiest options and that includes this delicious pear and ginger combination that is just the right amount of sweet.

Banana Peanut Butter Cottage Cheese Bowl

If you’re looking to expand on your breakfast ideas, consider treating your cottage cheese base like yogurt and topping it with all the goodies like this banana peanut butter delight.

7. Smoothies

A good ole smoothie never fails. You can create them in a variety of flavors, changing up the benefits of the smoothie to your liking. You can even create or purchase smoothie cubes that you only need to combine with a liquid in a lidded cup or shaker bottle, without the blender noise.

Strawberry Matcha Smoothie

Swap out your matcha latte with something just as good but with a but more nutritional value with this strawberry and matcha smoothie.

Coconut Cloud Smoothie

Don’t let the look of this smoothie distract you from the fact that it looks pretty but also secretly packs a protein-filled punch.

Summary

All of these breakfast ideas, whether you follow them or just take inspiration from them, are perfectly crafted to fit into a calm morning routine. They work well with easy mornings that don’t require stress, rushing, or taking up too much of your morning. The key to a successful breakfast in a mindful morning routine is to keep it to things that are easy to make, easy to prep ahead of time, or that are low effort.

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