A Chilled tropical Chia Seed Pod! Mangoes and coconut-almond milk make the flavors perfect for warm mornings and warmer afternoons! I usually always go for my chilled overnight oats for breakfast or a cool summer snack, but I wanted to change things up a bit. Having this cold chia seed “pudding” pod has been great for the warmer days! I really don’t like pudding, at all. The consistency is a bit weird to me, plus, most puddings are not healthy. At all. Just a container full of sugar, dairy and artificial flavors. No. So making a chia seed “pudding” (but not pudding) pod homemade is ideal. Yes, you can buy these at Whole Foods, but those are packaged for commercial sale, and they are healthy alternatives to pudding, they’ve been sitting for a long time, and have such an overly gooey texture! For me, the trick here making a chia pod at home is to only have it chilled for about two hours or so, rather than overnight… or a bunch of days. That way the seeds, and therefore the entire pod, isn’t as an ooey-gooey as store-bought chia seed pods tend to be. What I do love is how the seeds pack a powerful nutritional pod punch!! Chia means “strength” in Mayan, and about two tablespoons contain plenty of Well-Fed healthy strength! Fiber, protein, calcium, manganese, magnesium, phosphorus along with zinc, vitamin B3, potassium, vitamin B1, and vitamin B2! All this in about 130 calories! Infographic below courtesy www.riseorganics.co.uk
And another from rawfection.com Look at all the benefits of chia seeds! Calcium, Vitamin C, Iron, Omega 3!!
For this recipe I like to use a coconut-almond milk mix along with fresh mangoes and the chia seeds as they go into the fridge to be chilled together. That way the mango and the coconut fuses flavorfully!
- Using a steel container, I place the mixture in the fridge early in the morning, around 6 a.m. By 9 or 10, I am ready for my energizing, grain-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, protein Well-Fed flavorful snack!
Eat it right out of the snazzy spiderman to-go container, or make it pretty in a fancy glass! When I’m ready to eat, that’s when I add fresh blueberries for an antioxidant boost (although the chia seeds amazingly already provide plenty!!) along with fresh cut bananas to compliment that tropical summer flavor! Slivered almonds or coconut flakes would be so good too!
Nutritious Well-Fed and ready to get at your Well-Fit activity!
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- 2 tbsp chia seeds perhaps more!
- 8 oz coconut-almond milk I like Califia Toasted Coconut Almondmilk
- 1/2 - 1 fresh cut mango add enough to make for that tropical flavor
- 1/2 cup fresh blueberries
- 1 medium fresh banana cut into pieces
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- Combine Chia Seeds, Coconut-Almond milk and fresh cut mango in stainless steel container to go into fridge to chill
- I take out around 2- 5 hours so the consistency is to my liking. If you don't mind the thickness of chia seed pods, leave in as long as you wish.
- Serve with fresh fruit or raw nuts!