We just started trying chia pudding recipes. Several people have mentioned 2 minute recipes, but I can’t find any fast ones on the web - my google fu has left me. Everything I read calls for 15-20 minutes of waiting for it to gell. And, sure enough, that’s how long it takes for us after mixing.
How do you make a chia pudding in 2 minutes?
I haven’t found a way, but I’d be interested. The only way I’ve found to make it is the night before (because I don’t want to wait 15-20 minutes in the morning), but that makes it hard to warm up in the morning, so I’d prefer a fast recipe.
The only way I found by googling is blending. But I don’t want to have to clean the blender after breakfast:-)
This, by the way, is how you know 100% for sure that I really am a guy posting.
I found this fast chia pudding by Adam Brown over at diaTribe, if you want to see the original. I add 1/2 cup of hot tap water to 1/4 cup of chia seeds. Then I add a hearty amount of cinnamon and a tsp of vanilla extract. I also pour in about a Tbsp of melted butter. I stir this all together for about one minute and then let set for one minute. It sets to a nice porridge consistency. I then add a handful of walnut halves and about 85 grams of frozen blueberries or raspberries and eat.
I love it so much, I make it for dinner some nights! I could eat this every day for a long time. I never ate chia seeds before this exposure to it and they are an amazing food. Lots of health benefits and high in fiber. I almost always get flat or small bump traces on my cgm after eating this. And I feel full, too.
These are the seeds I use from Amazon:
Yum.
For the record, I totally stole @Terry4’s recipe a month or two ago and then adapted it.
add 1 tablespoon of butter to 1/2 cup of liquid (I use unsweetened Vanilla Cashew Milk, currently).
Heat in microwave on high for 45 seconds (until the butter completely melts into the milk).
Stir in 42g of black chia seeds into the warm milk/butter liquid. Stir for 30 seconds to 1 minute (until there are no dry seeds hanging out in clumps on top).
Wait one minute
Add the good stuff, like pecans, blueberries, brown sugar, etc.
enjoy
Diatribe posted their recipe for a fast chia pudding here
Hi @MarieB, I tried Adam’s recipe twice so far but never got the gelling action until about 15-20 minutes. I think it is because I used a cold liquid. @Terry4 and @David49 use warm liquid or microwave. I am trying both of their recipes this week:-)
I just had this for breakfast this morning and YUM. I omitted the butter and used slivered almonds instead of walnuts. I love how quick this breakfast is and the fact that it’s warm. Those are the two things that were stopping me from eating chia pudding before. I think this will become my everyday breakfast when I don’t feel like making eggs. 
I’ve been eating this almost every day in the last few weeks. I had it twice yesterday. I find it fast, convenient, and healthy. I’m happy to read that you’ve made the same conclusion!
I also LOVE that it would be so easy to bring with me when travelling. I’m going to a week-long conference in March, and food is always a challenge, so if I can take care of one meal by bringing a bag of chia seeds and some slivered almonds and little containers of cinnamon and vanilla extract, those are all so portable and don’t require refrigeration. Knowing for sure that I’ll be able to eat a low-carb breakfast each morning would be one bit of stress off my plate.
If you read the Adam Brown piece over at diaTribe, he makes this same point. He said it’s a great alternative to the bagels and croissants often provided in the morning at conferences. It really is a portable meal. When I told me daughter about this she told me that it’s been her favorite to take camping.
I was thinking more in terms of my food allergies, but yes, the foods they provide at those conference breakfasts also tend to be quite high-carb in general!
@Jen, I see you left out the butter from your chia pudding breakfast. I’m guessing that might be due to allergies. I’ve also used coconut oil instead of butter and it tastes great.
How has your post-meal CGM trace been with this meal?
Yes, dairy is one of my allergies. I love the taste of coconut so will have to try some coconut oil tomorrow morning.
I bolused 10 grams of carbs (I have no idea what it actually was as I didn’t weigh the chia seeds nor the berries), and there’s been virtually no rise. The rise prior to 9 AM was from treating the low. I have bolused about 2 units total in “micro”-corrections over the past hour or two as well. But I think if the low treatment hadn’t boosted me so much, the chia pudding wouldn’t have put me anywhere near my high limit.
Nice trace. I love the taste of chia pudding but I love the post meal lines just as much. If one can add a few ideas like this to their habits each year, it can really add up to an improved life over the years. I’m glad to see you enjoy similar post meal results.
Calculating my recipe: One quarter cup (US) contains 4 tablespoons (US). So 1/4 cup of chia seeds contains 20 grams of carbs with 16 grams of dietary fiber. 85 grams of raspberries contain 10.1 grams of carbs with 5.5 grams of fiber. I use about two ounces of walnuts, that’s 8 grams of carbs with 4 grams of fiber. The butter has no carbs but 11.5 grams of fat. 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract has 0.5 grams of carbs.
I subtract out carb fiber to dose insulin. Here are the net carbs for this recipe:
Chia seeds 1/4 cup: 4 grams
Raspberries 85 grams: 4.6 grams
Walnuts 2 ounces: 4 grams
Vanilla extract 1 tsp: 0.5 grams
Total = 13.1 grams of carbs
Under my old dosing method, I would also count 50% of protein grams and 10% of fat grams as equivalent carbs, but I now let my Loop variable temp basal pick up this dosing.
My morning insulin to carb ratio is 1:4, so for this recipe I should dose 3.275 units of insulin. I’ve been swagging this at 4 units of insulin so I wasn’t that far off. I’ll use this new calculation so that my Loop system doesn’t have to clean up my slight overdose of insulin.
Thanks for the calculations! It seems I wasn’t far off dosing for 10 grams of carbs. My morning ratio is 1:10 at the moment, so I took 1.1 units of insulin.
Here is the result from this morning. I bolused for 15 grams of carbs. For anyone looking for a fast breakfast that requires no cooking, this seems to be a great choice!! 
One word: WOW!
Jen, when did you dose and then eat? In other words, how much pre-bolus time did you use? Great results!
