We paid a visit to our friends from Mango’s Surf Shop at their Cornwall surf shop. Their café gave us some mouthwatering ideas for yummy breakfast recipes to get your body and mind fuelled ready to rip on any surfing adventure!
Eating healthy is a part of everyone’s life, but whilst on your family surfing holiday or group surfing trip with friends, this can have a huge impact on your surfing as you use up heaps of energy both on and off the water. That’s why in our surf camps we provide scrumptiously delicious and nourishing meals for you to devour to help keep you at your best. But how do we live the healthy surfer’s lifestyle outside of a surfing holiday?
Surfing is a physically demanding sport so fuelling your body efficiently and correctly is key to getting the most out of your surfing, whilst on your surfing holiday. Therefore, great nutrition is essential for both the body and the mind, ensuring you consume the right amounts of carbohydrates, protein and fats keeping everything in balance.
Quinoa & Chia Porridge
A great option to start off your surfing day, warm up your stomach with this nutritional bowl of yumminess. Cook with milk (we recommend almond or cashew milk, but can be cow’s or soy), sprinkle on some cinnamon and mix in your favourite fruits and nuts. We recommend some blueberries and some crushed walnuts. A great alternative to traditional hot breakfasts, which is high in protein and amino acids, essential for tissue growth and repair after any surfing session.
Simply put your Quinoa, Chia and Milk in a pan and bring to boil, simmer for a few minutes to allow the quinoa and chia to expand, regularly stirring and top with your favourite toppings!
Savoury Breakfast Muffins
One of the simplest breakfast recipes for a quick savoury breakfast bite full of yummy goodness to get you going before your surfing sesh. You can even prepare and make them the night before, refrigerate them AND they can last all week!
Blend/whisk eggs with any ingredients you like; we love a bit of spinach, bacon, cherry tomatoes and cheese, hmmmmm, maybe a sprinkling of paprika or oregano. Grease the muffin tins with either coconut oil or salted butter, pour the mixture into muffin tins and bake 15-20 mins at 180 degrees, et voila!
Morning Pre-Surf Berry Smoothie
Short on time? This is the perfect thing to get you amped and ready for any surfing trip. You can use frozen fruit for this smoothie as this not only makes it super refreshing and cool but it gives it a tastier texture, too.
Mix 1 cup of frozen berries (of your choice), 1 banana, a dash of water/nut milk (almond or cashew), 2 tablespoons of natural yoghurt, half a teaspoon of protein powder & Maca Root powder and a handful of spinach. Whizz it up and hey presto!
Surfer’s Granola Bowl
Quick and easy, throw together breakfast with sooo many scrummy topping options. Mix toasted granola (bake the wholegrain oats, seeds and nuts of choice in the oven with a sprinkling of cinnamon, at 160°C until golden), fave fruits of your choice, (these can be dried; berries, bananas, apples, peaches, anything that tickles your fancy/you have in the pantry!) and natural yoghurt/almond nut milk. Sprinkle on half a teaspoon of both Maca Root powder (adds a really yummy nutty flavour to the mix, great for balancing sugar and hormone levels) and a protein powder of your choice (we recommend going natural with either pea or hemp, much easier for your body to absorb and higher protein content).
Mix all this together and there you have it, an energising and nutritious breakfast granola bowl using whatever you already have in the cupboard or fruit bowl!
Poached Eggs and Avo on Sourdough Toast with Grilled Tomatoes & Seeds
If you have a little more time on your hands this is a really great option to fuel yourself ready for your day of surfing. (We recommend eating this a couple of hours before you head to the water to let it settle.)
This breakfast is all about timing to make the perfect plate, so we would stick the cherry toms under the grill first for a couple of minutes whilst you are bringing your pan of water to boil on the hob. Stirring the water and add a dash of white vinegar, break the eggs into the spinning water and let them simmer away for 3 minutes. Toast your sourdough bread, cut up the avocado and smash into the toast, season with salt and pepper (maybe a sprinkling of sunflower and pumpkin seeds and chilli flakes if you want to spice things up!), add the delicious poached eggs and grilled tomatoes and you have yourself one fulfilling and nourishing breakfast setting you up for your surfing day!
Chia Seed Pudding
Easy peasy lemon squeezy surfing breakfast snack you can throw this together in a couple of minutes, but we recommend that you leave this one overnight so it has time to thicken up.
Mix together 2 cups nut milk of your choice (either almond/cashew), ½ chia seeds, 1-3 Tablespoon of Honey/Maple Syrup to taste and ½ a teaspoon of cinnamon. Pour mixture in a jar and place in the fridge overnight. We recommend topping with banana, blueberries and some chopped walnuts and cashews!
We love to make the most out of surfing and whilst on surfing holidays, so eating energising and nutritious foods is all part of the adventure! Keeping hydration levels at their peak is always difficult whilst surfing as it’s pretty tricky to have a bottle of water out with you, so staying hydrated will be one of the main balancing acts whilst on your next surfing holiday, except trying to stand on your board of course!