A Delicious Chocolate Hemp Seed Spread to Wake Up Your Boring Toast

A great healthy chocolate spread for breakfast

by: Theresa Albert
How to make a healthy vegan breakfast spread when you have exactly 37 seconds in the morning. And yes, there's chocolate involved!

Perhaps you love the idea of Nutella but the ingredients are off limits. Or maybe you just want to have your chocolate and be able to eat it (and say it's healthy!) too. 

You can’t mess this baby up, just find a ratio that works for you and blend it…thicker, thinner, sweeter, chocolaty-er are all in your hands. One tablespoon is about half the protein that you need for the day, a glass of milk will provide the rest. You can make it thinner to use as a fruit dip, too!

Chocolate Hemp Seed Spread

Ingredients

1/2 cup hulled hemp seeds
1/4 cup cocoa powder (not “Dutch processed”)
1/4 cup maple syrup
¼ cup water
1 tsp cinnamon

Directions

 In a mini food processor or magic bullet, whiz hemp seeds with cocoa powder to combine.

 Add maple syrup, water and cinnamon and blend thoroughly. To make a thinner consistency for a fruit dip, add a little more water.

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chocolate for breakfast
hemp protein
breakfast spread
vegan
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allergy friendly
dairy-free
no refined sugar
Theresa Albert

Theresa Albert, a yummymummyclub alum is a foodie who happens to be a nutritionist and not the other way around. She loves to explore food and the culture of food and all of the human love/hate rituals that surround it. Her new book Ace Your Health: 52 Ways to Stack Your Deck (McClelland & Stewart) is a fun, practical guide to making tasty, changes for improved health using morsels of information and delicious, healthy recipes. Her television show "Just One Bite" aired on the Food Network for over two years in a daily time slot and still appears on BBC kids, it introduced her energetic style to millions. She is also the author of Cook Once a Week, Eat Well Every Day.

Definitely not a finger wagger, as a registered nutritionist, Theresa Albert, DHN, RNCP, has a passion for simple, honest solutions to today's lifestyle choices. In addition to her private practice at the Toronto Clinic, she has provided content and comment for every major Canadian broadcaster and is forever pushing the bologna out of lunchboxes and out of the news media. As an avid social media user, blogger/writer and as a parent, she understands the struggles of balancing priorities in real life. In print newspapers and magazines, you will often see her quoted when an issue needs common sense clarification. 


She prepares a free weekly newsletter to make you laugh, eat well and be inspired. It can be found at myfriendinfood.com.