We asked several iVillagers how they make their morning routine healthy. Here's what they had to say

Five a day?
If you have trouble getting your five portions of fruit and veg a day, get at least two portions of fruit (or three if you feel like adding a third) from this breakfast:

1 slice gala or honeydew melon, chopped into chunks
1 banana, apple or pear, chopped into chunks
50g Kellogg's 'Just right', Jordan's Original, or another favourite cereal
2 tablespoons natural bio yoghurt

Combine all ingredients and enjoy. You can substitute any combination of fruit for this breakfast.
-iVillager Veronika Jordan

A Brazilian breakfast
We Brazilians stick to a relatively healthy lifestyle. Normally, many Brazilians will have coffee with milk, and bread with butter for breakfast and lots of meat for lunch. When I turned 25, however, I realised my habits were far from healthy so I changed them by becoming a vegetarian.

Instead of having a bread/butter and coffee/milk combination for breakfast, I now have only fruit and black coffee. I sometimes change my morning diet to yoghurt and granola - a magnificent combination. These days, I get most of my protein requirement from dairy products and I eat little but frequently throughout the day. That's the secret to good health. Milk, lentils and beans provide me with enough protein so I can cut out red meat, while brown bread provides me with fibre, vitamins and minerals. Since I made this change I haven't had a cold for five years.
-iVillager Marcio P. Jorge

The sugar and caffeine demons
Stay away from sugar and all those 'prepared' supermarket foods that contain loads of it. Dilute fruit juices with water and sweeten foods with fresh or dried fruit. Sugar is a serious menace to a diet, especially when you start reading the labels and find it in so many products you would not expect to.

The following suggestion is low in sugar and helps contribute to your 'daily five' fruit and veggie requirements. Try mixing a non-dairy milk with sugar-free cereal like muesli (I found that when mixed with something like a cereal, soya and rice dairy substitutes were indistinguishable from the lactose-based products.) Alternatively, try prune juice - it's very tasty, but every morning can be a mistake.

If you have a juicer, you can also make your own fresh juices. This is a great way to get the beneficial vitamins and nutrients in your diet. You can mix juice and veggies but some vegetables are very strong tasting i.e. celery, carrot etc, so you will probably need to experiment in order to find a combination you like. Juices are great for getting the digestion going first thing in the morning, before having a proper breakfast an hour later if time permits. The digestion then wakes up properly and is ready to cope with the first proper meal.

Coffee and tea - the caffeine and sugar fix - is a serious addiction and one which you should try to wean yourself off. If you crave a hot drink in the morning, try peppermint tea or South African RedBush tea or 'Rooibus'. The latter tastes like a good china tea (great with lemon) and without the caffeine. For your main liquid intake, have filtered water to quench your thirst.

Finally, milk is not the only source of calcium. Calcium and magnesium can be found in kale, cabbage and root vegetables in particular, as well as nuts. You can snack on nuts in reasonable quantities and they offer protein and omega oils too (particularly walnuts which have the elusive Omega 3 fats, just like 'oily' fish.) Seeds and nuts can be added into a low-fat or non-dairy yoghurt, as well as fresh berry fruits.
-iVillager Nigel Bentley

Calcium connundrum
Obviously milk is the easiest source of calcium, but if you're lactose intolerant like me, or a vegan (no dairy) there are several alternatives to dairy milk that are acceptable, if you don't want to take calcium supplements. Soya milk, especially the sweetened variety, is close enough to dairy in taste and function that it can be substituted in almost all uses. There are other milk-type drinks with added calcium, including rice milk. Both soya and rice milks are available in larger branches of Sainsbury's and Tesco, and most health food shops, so there's no reason to avoid milk altogether or lose out on calcium intake.
-iVillager Debbie B.

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