I love experimenting with the flavours of porridge because there's so much potential and it's always such an indulgent and dessert-like breakfast. I recently bought some deliciously sweet pears, so here's my pear and honey porridge!

Ingredients
3 handfuls porridge oats (I use jumbo oats)
1 handful chia seeds
Any plant milk (almond, oat or coconut are yummy), enough to just cover the oats

To serve
1 spoonful almond butter
1 spoonful honey
1 pear, sliced
Sprinkling of granola ( I use this one, its amazing!)
Optional: Homemade green smoothie

Place all of the ingredients (excluding the ones for serving) in an ovenproof bowl, make sure the oats are just covered with milk, then wrap in cling film and leave in the fridge to soak overnight.
In the morning, pre-heat your oven to 180°c. Get your oats out of the fridge, top up with a bit more milk and stir if it looks dry. Add the pear and honey to the top and place in the oven for about 10 minutes, until the pear begins to brown slightly. Top off with almond butter and granola, maybe yogurt if you like yogurt on porridge, and enjoy with a nice green smoothie!

Porridge is one of my new favourite things, there's so much opportunity for experimentation! I used to think porridge was bland and I could never finish a bowlful, but that's because I didn't know what to do with it. Here's a recipe for my newest porridge combination, it's absolutely divine! Think lemon curd flapjack but totally healthy!

Ingredients
30g porridge oats
15g chia seeds
Juice of half a lemon
Grated zest of half the lemon
A handful of mixed raisins and sultanas
Enough coconut milk to cover the oats in your bowl (use any nut milk)
A drizzle of local honey
1 tbsp of almond butter

Choose an oven proof bowl and add in the oats, chia seeds, and raisins. Pour over coconut milk until it just covers all the ingredients. Now add the lemon juice and zest, honey and almond butter and stir through. Leave to soak for at least 10 minutes (or prepare the night before for a quick breakfast), and add more milk when the levels go down.
Preheat the oven to 180c and oven bake the porridge for 10 minutes.

Optional: serve in a pretty bowl and top with flaked coconut, enjoy with a nice cup of white tea or homemade smoothie! ;)

Pancakes seem like an indulgent, high calorie treat that must be avoided if you want to stay healthy. But in fact, with my healthy version of the recipe, not only do they taste delicious and fill me up until lunch, they're packed with nutrients from the banana, almonds and the sides of blueberries! And their low calorie total barely makes an impact on the day. (Oh and not to mention they're even sugar free!) So basically these are Super-Pancakes.

202 Calories (still only 307 with yogurt and fruit!)
Makes 3 pancakes
From prep to plate: Under 10 minutes

Ingredients

• 2 heaped tbsp Plain Flour
• 1 egg
• 100ml almond milk
• 1/2 banana
• A sprinkle of Flaked Almonds

Sides

• 1 Alpro soya flavoured yogurt or greek yogurt
• 10-20 blueberries, or fruit of your choice

How to make:

Using a blender or electric whisk combine the flour, egg and milk until smooth and lump free, then blend in banana.

Heat a small frying pan with a little sunflower oil, then pour in 1/3 of the mixture, tilting the pan to make the mixture spread into a circle, it should be about 1/2cm thick. Scatter some flaked almonds over the pancake to allow them to sink into the mixture. When the top side starts to look set, ease a spatula under the pancake, and if it seems like it will hold, gently flip it over. Sprinkle some more flaked almonds onto this side, and leave to cook for another 1-2 minutes. Continue to flip every 30 seconds-1 minute until both sides look slightly browned, then serve.

I like to serve my pancakes with yogurt and fruit, my favourite combination being greek yogurt and passionfruit but in this recipe I used blackberry soya yogurt and blueberries. If you have hay fever, try adding a drizzle of local honey on your pancake or yogurt, as the pollen in the honey will help immunise you to the local flowers.

I make and serve each pancake 1 at a time so each one is nice and hot. 

I hope you enjoy them, I certainly do!