My Morning Routine

A look at the morning life of Kelly Slater, pro surfer, including vegan smoothies, best practices in digestion, and boosting bananas off fallen trees

By Guest

February 11, 2012

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Welcome to My Morning Routine, where we take a look at how people kick-start their days. In the first few installations, we focused on Bon Appetit staffers. Now we move into the wide world of everyone else (and by that we mean celebrities)

Today's creature of habit is pro-surfer Kelly Slater, who likes his smoothies vegan and his fruits digestively compatible:

I'm not really an early riser. I like to get my eight hours and I like to stay up late at night. If I want to get up and surf, maybe I'll get up at like 7 or 8 and look around for surf.

I generally start my day off with hot water and lemon--to cleanse the body out after sleeping. I read about it and it seemed like a good idea.

I make a lot of smoothies with fresh fruit that I've frozen--I generally stick with fruit in the morning. Last month here in Hawaii, a big banana tree fell across the street and I grabbed a bushel of 50 mini apple bananas off the street and froze them up for smoothies. I do vegan smoothies--it's just fruit and almond milk or a coconut milk. Sometimes it's just the fruit. I do quite a lot of green smoothies and mix in sprouts. Greens will digest with fruits pretty readily.

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