I can't function without food. If you are in a hurry, I can recommend from personal experience the "Nutribullet" (www.nutribullet.com, but I bought mine at Target last Black Friday). If you use it as directed it works as advertised. So, what I do is load up the cup the night before, put the cover on it, and put it in the refrigerator. In the morning, I remove the cover, add the directed amount of water, put on the blade unit, and run it for 30 seconds. Then I drink the result and wash off the cup, cover, and blade unit in soapy water, rinse them, put them in the dish rack, and I am done. If I were so pressed for time that seconds mattered, I could rinse the blade unit in plain water and put the cup and cover in the dishwasher. I haven't actually timed how long this all takes because I have other things that must be done in the morning, but I can't believe my breakfast takes more than a couple minutes. I also carry a second breakfast (packed the night before and staged in the refrigerator) to work, which I eat at my desk while the computers are coming up, email is getting checked, and so on.